We did a road trip to Cardston to see the Remington Carriage Museum. Wow! were we impressed. It is a lovely museum with a life size bronze of Seabiscuit because one of his jockey’s, George Woolf was born in Cardston. He had ridden Seabiscuit when Red was hurt. The museum itself would appeal to anyone [...]
A chunk of my heart fell off yesterday when I heard the news of Hickstead’s passing. Thankfully I heard it from my horsey friends, one a vet tech, the other a show jumper, so I felt immediate compassion in my sorrow and shock. My pain still showed up and it hovers today as I search [...]
There is something about seeing a person perched on a horse in a sidesaddle that is very compelling. This summer I saw sidesaddle races at Millarville, two hunter competitors riding sidesaddle at the Didsbury horse show and then one person riding sidesaddle at the dressage show in Red Deer! The precarious position of the sidesaddle [...]
After lessons a few weeks ago, our dressage instructor, Stacy Williams, mentioned that the Alberta Provincial Championships and the Western Regional Championships for dressage were going to be in Red Deer September 15 -18 at the Westerner. The dressage show in Red Deer is called the Parkland Dressage Festival. Stacy suggested we go all go. [...]
This year we got to go to Millarville Horse Races for Canada Day – something I have always wanted to do. I was a bit concerned – was there going to be anyone there? What about the rumours that horse racing was not surviving around Calgary? As we arrived at the track and there was [...]
A clinic at home. How can I refuse? I have only ever done jumping clinics so a “natural horsemanship” clinic based on Ray Hunt’s theories sounds like fun. Wendy is organizing, Lynn is coming down, Kathy and Lu are keen so Jett and I sign up for a 2 day clinic with Marty Gardner of [...]
The horses are home! We are back into a routine and if the weather ever settles we will all be getting into shape. There is a lot to do to keep horses in a mountain town but it doesn’t feel like work! We try to bring Jett and Nacho home on April 1 every year. [...]
My friend Cathy, a horsey mom/helicopter pilot, asked me if I would be interested in helping her high school student daughter Crista and Crista’s friend Carland with the course work for a program they were doing with Olds College. Thinking back, way back to the time studying for Pony Club tests with the Pony Club [...]
Family Day made me think of my friend Kerri. Kerri is the horsey mom to Paige, the youg woman who got to show at The Royal Winter Fair that I blogged about earlier. I sat with Kerri and asked her about being a “Horsey Mom” and running a big stable where I spend lots of [...]
Going to see a movie about wild horses in the Canadian Rockies, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go see a movie that showed horses dying, being chased and basically struggling to survive. I ended up going – thanks to encouragement from my blog boss, and I ended up learning a lot and thinking [...]
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