Silhouette arrived at Winsong Farm early one morning, just before a huge rainstorm. One friend saw the photo of Silhouette on the flatbed truck and said, “I thought it was a photo of a horse with a blanket on and …

This spring I turned on the air-conditioning in the van and although the blower was working, the cool air was not. This is the third van that we’ve owned and we’ve never had any problem with the air-conditioning. The days …

The wrens started it all, during a photo shoot capturing their quick-as-a-flash movements in and around the old farmhouse here.

This year unusually there are two pairs – unusual as they’re supremely territorial, even although in this case one tiny …

So this week it was wet at the barn. Really wet. I was lucky enough that the torrential downpours we’d had for the past several days subsided and it was nice and sunny, but unfortunately nearly everything – including Luc’s …

While training for the Mongol Derby I’ve continuously tried to find the balance between pushing myself and keeping my body intact so I arrive at the start line as healthy and fit as can be. All that went to hell …

If riding is the sport of kings then horse shows could be construed as their kingdom, and the show levels a class system designed to keep order within the kingdom. As riders work their way up or down the show …

So this week I opted to ride in the sand ring instead of the grass field. Given how distracted and spooky Luc was in there last week I thought it was the wiser choice, especially since this week there was …

I’ve been riding every day for almost three weeks in Moab. Surely, I thought, I’m now fit enough to attempt two 50 mile (80 kilometre) endurance races in one weekend.

So we packed up the trailer and drove nearly five …

That was the theme of this week’s ride. It was a beautiful day, albeit a bit windy, and I had been planning on another day of no stirrups work. Luc, however, had other plans. After mounting up I headed down …

Well as they say, the best laid plans of mice and men…

I had great intentions to get out several blogs, but as they also say…life happens. My two-year-old, Valor, managed to get a hind leg hung up in the …

This article appeared in the Toronto Star in June, about the Canadian Horse. It features Ron Marino and Pax.

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These photos were taken by Ellen Cameron. Kye is 25 years old. Bill is 65.

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Recently I watched an informal workshop to the local ‘Geezers’ (an unofficial riding club that mentors, educates, and shares knowledge over nice lunches and nibbles, wine, coffee and cookies too). Ethelle Patrick was talking to this informal gathering about her …

We’re having a Working Equitation Clinic this weekend. Some of the riders and horses have never seen the Working Equitation obstacles, others have. Two of our riders will have their session in the front paddock, the rest are in the …

Some weeks I feel like the woman in the classic poem There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Owning and caring for a multitude of horses can be an exhausting, expensive process and that feeling becomes super …