How to Use Hills to Your Riding Advantage
Thursday, July 24 2014
Hills on your property can be a great training and conditioning tool, and there are various ways to use hills to your advantage when riding and conditioning your horse . Here are a few tips so that you can put hills to work for you. Keep Safety First Hills help to condition your horse and develop his muscles in strength, but they are only safe if approached correctly.
- Published in The Classic Insider, Z-Blogs
Lyme Disease: Is Your Horse at Risk?
Wednesday, July 23 2014
Nobody likes finding ticks on their horses, but if you live in the Northeast part of the country, ticks carry with them an added risk: Lyme disease. If you’ve ever had to treat your horse for Lyme disease you know how difficult it can be. Is your horse at risk for Lyme disease and if so, what can you do to prevent it?
- Published in The Classic Insider, Z-Blogs
WOW – Catch the EXCITEMENT! GREAT MEADOW WEG PREP EVENT TRAILER!!!
Tuesday, July 22 2014
This is so cool!!! We are tickled red, white and blue for the USA 3-Day WEG team and alternates and their magnificient horses who will be showcased July 26 & 27 at Great Meadow, The Plains, VA, in the mandatory final outing before they go to Normandy, France to compete in the 2014 FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games.
- Published in Lauren Gallops, Z-Blogs
Equine History: Misty of Chincoteague Was Born July 20, 1946
Monday, July 21 2014
If you were a horse-loving child, chances are that at some point you read Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague . Maybe you went on to read Stormy, Misty’s Foal , and even Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague . Misty of Chincoteague became a classic in the literary canon of horse stories, but do you know that it was inspired by an actual Chincoteague pony named Misty
- Published in The Classic Insider, Z-Blogs
GREAT MEADOW WEG PREP TRIAL July 26-27
Sunday, July 20 2014
Great Meadow Foundation in The Plains, VA will host the WEG PREP TRIAL , a mandatory outing for the USA 3-Day Team and the alternates, plus a couple of Canada’s WEG-team members, July 26-27.
- Published in Lauren Gallops, Z-Blogs
Is Your Horse Telling You That He’s Too Hot?
Friday, July 18 2014
Heat can be a major factor when riding during the summer. And while you’ll know if the heat is getting to be too much for you, do you know the signs to be able to recognize when the heat is too much for your horse? Here are some things you’ll want to be looking out for this summer.
- Published in The Classic Insider, Z-Blogs
What You Can Learn from Watching Young Riders
Thursday, July 17 2014
When you were young did your riding instructor encourage you to watch the lessons of older, more experienced riders? Watching experienced riders is a popular way to learn about desirable riding techniques. But have you ever considered that you can learn from younger, less experienced riders too?
- Published in The Classic Insider, Z-Blogs
FEI World Cup TM Finals All-Session Tickets Now Available to the Public!
Thursday, July 17 2014
Las Vegas, Nevada – July 16, 2014 - Tickets for the 2015 FEI World CupTM Finals in Las Vegas are now on sale to the general public. The FEI World CupTM Finals return to Las Vegas, April 15-19, 2015, marking the Finals’ first time in the U.S.
- Published in Show World, Z-Blogs
Should You Take on Boarders?
Wednesday, July 16 2014
If you have your own barn and a few empty stalls , it might be tempting to open your facility up to boarders. Bringing in boarders has some advantages, in that it can bring in some money and will create more activity at your barn. But should you take on boarders?
- Published in The Classic Insider, Z-Blogs
The Amazing Kim Walnes
Tuesday, July 15 2014
I remember in the 1980′s (yes, I’m giving away my age…) when my friends and I watched Kim during the retirement ceremony of her horse, The Gray Goose at the Kentucky Horse Park. There was a jump course set up for them so that Gray could do his final public performance. I looked over the course and very carefully focussed the long lens of my camera (you HAD to carefully focus in those days before digital cameras – you had a limited number of pictures you could take with a roll of film) on an impressive oxer that surely they would jump, and they would be coming right toward me so it should be an impressive photo
- Published in Notes from the Field, Z-Blogs