Over the past few months I have been visiting farms and getting to know the potential adopters for a wonderful Clydesdale Cross, Prospero. The beginning of his story was dismal, but now, he is ready to move on to the …
Welcome to Edenview, where anything is possible with vision and a sense of humour.
I wrote and posted those words at the entrance of my barn within the first few days of moving my family of one husband, two kids, …
The second key revolves around Ken Ramirez’s definition of an advanced training technique. An advanced training technique is anything that requires experience to use well and which two or more trainers cannot agree on. I have always loved that definition. …
Alberta’s weather sharpened into deepest winter temperatures and powder snow last week, dreadfully character forming when late-night haying – as I do to give the home herd boys a metabolism boost in those colder dark hours last thing around midnight. …
This week I took a break from riding to watch Jen and Luc rock a clinic at their home stable. Trainer Melissandre Lincourt was in town for a two-day session that put their skills to the test. Not surprisingly, they …
The U.S. Coast Guard has not used mounted patrols since WWII but the fact that they chose horses shows that they were better suited for the job.
Opening the First Lock
I always go back to this: I did some of my very best training when I knew the very least. At the time I was surrounded by people who knew how to muscle horses around. They …
Around and around and around we go. Where we’ll stop, only Luc knows! After last week’s unscheduled vet visit, I decided to take it a little slower with Luc this week, just to make sure there were no lingering side …
Often, I am asked about feeding horses with allergies, which tends to confuse me because there are very few documented cases of true food allergies. In fact, most allergens for horses are environmental – mold, pollens, mites and other insects, …
Here is an excerpt from a newspaper article in The Weekly Sentinel by Jake CourtepatteThursday, October 16th about the 2014 Headwaters Stable Tour, which took place October 5th.
King facilities open their doors for annual stable tour
The prestigious facilities …
Our Fundraiser Sunday for Horseplay Sanctuary just might have been our best ever! And, of course, we were so busy doing all the jobs it turned out that we didn’t have anyone to film the show! Bummer!!! I’m going to …
This week I was having a little trouble coming up with something to work on. Not because I’m so super fantastic that there’s no work to be done, although I wish that was the case, but more because I just …
The problem with the overpopulation of horses came to a head in 1898 when New York City hosted a conference on urban planning.
Monday morning was an exquisite late Indian summer day. My neighbours to the south – with two huge hayfields cut incredibly late due to crazy weather this year, and turned once already, so heavy was the crop – were praying. …
Following Jen and Luc’s extremely successful first cross country outing, I decided to take what I learned during their lesson and put it into practice. And guess what – it actually worked!
I shouldn’t really be that surprised, as Sandi …
