There is a saddle specifically fitted to each and every horse at Cypress Trails. Yes, that means that Darolyn has 50+ saddles in her enormous tack room, each was tagged with the horse’s name. As Jill and I wandered around …

At around 12:24 a.m. I heard a knock at my hotel room door. Normally, I wouldn’t be answering my door at that hour, but my roommate for the next two weeks, Jill Sivo, had just arrived from Connecticut, after a …

Packing for a trip to go endurance training in Humble, Texas as well as running (on my own two feet, which haven’t been running in four years) a 25km half marathon in Hitchcock requires more than my usual one piece …

This week we had a brief blast of winter. I woke up Saturday morning to snow, the first of the season that’s actually stayed on the ground. While it was only a centimeter or two, it was enough for me …

Ellen Cameron created the attached photo of Zelador and Zeloso. Her website is at www.ellencameron.com

I decided to try to teach the horses to do flying changes at liberty, travelling beside me. They already do them changing from circle to circle.

I’ve done two sessions with Zelador. One key element is establishing a safe distance …