My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
Yesterday I took Zelda to her first XC clinic and she blew me away. What a good girl she was! She got off the trailer and acted like she didn’t have a worry in the world. She wasn’t nervous or concerned. She thought about bucking a bit in the warm up, but wisely decided not […]
Read MoreWhen my daughter first saw Zelda she pronounced her to be “huge” and “enormous.” Zelda is, well, supersized. She’s got to be close to 17 hands and her feet are the size of dinner plates. She’s very nicely proportioned, though, and just because she’s a big horse doesn’t mean she’s slow. In the videos below […]
Read MoreOne of my favorite books as a kid was Winning Your Spurs. I dreamed about the time when I would be old enough — and skilled enough — to earn the privilege of wearing them. Fast forward to the time when I was able to wear spurs. For several years, I wore them proudly. Then […]
Read MoreI’ve taken it easy on Zelda the past few days. She hadn’t been ridden for five or six weeks and she spent 13 hours on the trailer to get here. She has impressed me with her laid back attitude and good humor. Today she gave me a glimpse of how athletic she is. I took […]
Read MoreZelda thinks she might want to be a foxhunter when she grows up so she has come to stay with me for the summer and fall to test the theory. For me, it was like Christmas in June! How lucky am I to get a beautiful horse to ride while Freedom is in recovery? She […]
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