Terry Golson

It might seem as if training a horse to jump is about teaching them to takeoff in the right place, at the right speed, and to go higher and higher. Those might be the details and the visible results, but training is actually about asking questions of your horse and […]

Upping the Questions

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I woke up early one early morning last week and got to see Po eating acorns under one of the big oak trees in the front field.   I watched her through my binoculars. Steve got this photo with his camera. Total adorableness.   I follow the Instagram accounts of a […]

A Pumpkin for Po

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The outside ring was still setup for the IEA show. We’d finally had rain so the ground wasn’t too hard to jump Tonka out there. (No use pounding on his legs. My goal is longevity with this horse!) So last week’s lesson was given outside. Tonka was delighted to be […]

Our First Oxer

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Loving and caring for an animal that you know ages at a far faster rate than you is both joy and heartache. You go into it with eyes wide open, knowing that a human’s lifespan is longer than that of your animal companion and that you’ll watch as your friend […]

Old Faces

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Some lamenesses have obvious causes and clear resolutions. Your horse is injured by a known trauma. The wound heals. Perhaps a ligament swells, causes pain, and eventually returns to some semblance of its former self. X-rays and ultrasounds can give definitive diagnoses. Sometimes. Unfortunately for the health of the horse […]

Horse Back Health Is Complicated

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As promised, this blogpost will talk about Tonka’s second-place round at the NHHJA Fall Classic. Tonka and I only started jumping this past winter, and really just for a fun change of pace from dressage. Going to hunter/jumper shows wasn’t on my radar, but since the girls at my barn […]

18-inch Hunter Course

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Some of you saw this photo of Tonka in my Instagram feed.   You commented on how regal, confident and happy Tonka looked. He did. At that moment. But lest I let this one photograph misrepresent how Tonka felt all day at the show, here are few pictures that I […]

A Good Photo Of My Horse

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I needed a holder for a hand towel in my bathroom. I had just the thing. I had a shiny stainless steel bit that was sitting unused in my tack trunk. It was unlikely that I’d ever put it in a horse’s mouth again. It’s a good bit, but it […]

Equestrian Decor – Towel Holder

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Scooter asks to go outside to either a) pee and poop or b) sunbathe. Other than that, he’d rather be inside in his bed or on my lap.   Let’s just say that he’s not a farm dog. Which is why the other afternoon, when I let him out to […]

Who’s There, Scooter?

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