Tag: horses

Tevis Prep: February 2026 Check In

.Reading time 9 minutes.

I didn’t have enough brain power after a work and volunteer drama filled week to come up with a catchy title. So a perfectly descriptive one will have to do! It wouldn’t be a rookie’s Tevis goal without some healthy doubts, so I’ll cover that first before the gritty details of where we are at […]

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Endurance Future Part Two

.Reading time 11 minutes.

Life got a bit lifey and delayed the second installment of musing about the future of the sport of endurance. We left off talking about the culture of endurance, and it affects the growth (or decline) of the sport. One of the thornier issues I didn’t touch on is the heated debate over what constitutes […]

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Response: How much weight can a horse carry?

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Below is the response I wrote up and sent off to Chewy’s marketing team, based on an email article I received a few days ago titled “How much weight can a horse carry?” I use Chewy on the regular, Benny’s kibble is on auto-ship and I buy treats and toys for both Benny and Tarma […]

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Endurance: Where are the ribbons?

.Reading time 20 minutes.

Let’s turn our pens towards the annual signs of autumn: The ponies start getting their soft winter fuzzies on, the sun ditches us before 8pm, you have to return to keeping an extra layer in the truck, and…the AERC page starts to get rambunctious again. All ride season long, most folks are busy clearing trails, […]

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August Round Up

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Summer interrupted just kept on…interrupting. A few weeks ago I was hauling Tarma and Curly up to Timothy Lake, so Kade and I could do our annual trail ride and swim into the lake. Well….this happened instead: “Kade and I woke up, packed lunch, got morning horse chores done in good time, managed to get […]

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