Last year I shared a list of my endurance needs and wants just before the Cayuse ride. )You can read it here: All I want… Read More »An endurance rider’s wish list, version 2022 (Road to Tevis # 80)
Bringing a horse back into work after a long break is surprisingly easy! For those of you wondering what’s up with Fantazia… After she failed… Read More »Bringing a horse back into work after a break (Road to Tevis # 79)
As my brother pointed out, being too busy to ride worked out great. Jazz was second place and best condition at his first 50 this… Read More »Second place and Best Condition: Jazz’s first 50 (Road to Tevis 78)
Last Friday I loaded Fantazia and Jazz into the trailer and headed for the desert, near Pearsonville, CA, for the Bill Thornburgh Friends and Family… Read More »Jazz’s first LD at the Bill Thornburgh Ride (Road to Tevis #77)
For the first time since I began this blog, more than a month has gone by between posts. That’s a bad thing; you lose readers… Read More »Planning Jazz’s first ride (Road to Tevis #76)
Last year around this time I shared a post on the Advantages of Ground-tying. In that post I include some suggestions on how to train… Read More »Teaching Jazz to ground-tie (Road to Tevis # 75)
I haven’t been posting much lately, primarily due to non-horse related circumstances. New job, moving, family difficulties; these limit my time, and any extra time… Read More »Bumps on the road to the Tevis Cup (post # 74)
My last post, Results of the 2022 Tevis Cup, had several errors. People pointed them out, and I fixed them to the best of my… Read More »Errata! mea culpa… But this is meant to be fun.
One more Tevis gone by without me. I missed last year’s Tevis due to a series of mishaps; see my post at the time about… Read More »Results of the 2022 Tevis Cup (Road to Tevis #73)
Adapting conditioning and training to fit a specific horse is almost always necessary. There is no true one size fits all when it comes to… Read More »Adapting conditioning and training to fit the horse (Road to Tevis #72)