Queensway Farm

01/13/2018

For Alicia , driver extraordinaire .....😁😁😁

01/12/2018

What a horse !!!!!

The dictionary defines versatile as: capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc. Bold Minstrel was the poster boy of versatile. Born in 1952 in Camargo, Ohio, Bold Minstrel was by Thoroug...

12/29/2017

Such a tragedy !!!!!

Twenty four horses have died after a fire at Folly Farm in Simsbury on Thursday morning, authorities said.

12/25/2017

Merry Christmas !!!

12/18/2017

When a horse is unhappy , call Robert Van Rhijn , the best dentist around

This photo, taken during necropsy, shows the mouth of a horse who was euthanized for aggressive behavior.
Next time your horse says "NO", remember that he might be trying to tell you he is in pain.
Edited to add: This picture was taken by Juan Pimienta of Escuela Mexicana de Odontologia Equina
https://www.facebook.com/juan.pimienta.77
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Escuela-Mexicana-de-Odontologia-Equina/288780367845474?fref=ts

11/15/2017

The great Totilas , the best ever ????

11/09/2017

So patient.....

11/08/2017

Majestic !!!!!

11/07/2017

HOMEWORK !!!

Lexington, Ky.—Nov. 4 After 177 riders walked in through the in-gate of the ASPCA Maclay Final, just 25 of them were called back to ride again in the flat phase on Nov. 5. You can watch the live-stream on Eqsportsnet and read all about the ac...

10/11/2017

For my horsey friends (2 and 4 legged ones) .... Right Popo ....lol

Puddles are terrifying!!

10/09/2017

Great article !!!!

A letter to my students... You and I are both at the stable for the same basic reason, we love horses. We love riding. Every weekend there are plenty of passionate young horsemen and women at the barn. I spend eight hours each weekend day teaching in the ring, most days I don't leave the ri

09/24/2017

Please, take the time to watch , very enlightening and interesting !!!!!

09/18/2017

Right on point !!!!!

Must ReadThe Sport That Was: A Conversation with Eric Navet September 15, 2013by Noelle Floyd 0Eric Navet at the 2017 World Cup Final in Omaha. Ph: Erin Gilmore for NFEric Navet reached the top levels of the sport in partnership with a homebred stallion from his father’s breeding farm. For the Frenc...

07/27/2017

Close ,close ,finally going in the right direction......

In response to Jennifer Baas, Katie Prudent, and every other person who has responded to Katie's podcast and podcast transcript. From, the amateur who agrees with Katie Prudent. To begin, let’s just get this off the plate; I’m a nobody. I trai...

07/26/2017

Glad to see people trying to get involved , if anything , KMP's article , started the conversation and it is great ! Like everything , only by exchanging can things move forward !!!

Amateur rider Jennifer Baas sent us this letter in response to COTH's transcription of the WiSP Sports podcast about the state of show jumping with Katie Prudent,

07/26/2017

Mind reader ?????

You are sitting at a restaurant. The man at the adjoining table says to you, "Abblat vecru destopous mecrat, nexol drestant wattou."

You sit in blank incomprehension. The man gets up, comes to your table, and smacks you in the face.

He had said, in a language you could not comprehend, "Hand me the salt, or I'll hit your face."

Not very fair, do you think?

But this is what thousands and thousands of riders do to thousands and thousands of horses every single day.

They make a "request" in a "language" that the horse does not understand, and then they punish the horse for "failing to obey" the request.

Unless the horse has been carefully taught that such and such a series of physical stimuli are requesting certain responses from him, and unless the rider applies those stimuli in ways that the horse recognizes, but also applies them carefully enough so as not to create discomfort or anxiety, it will be obvious that the horse has been put into a similar situation as the person at the table, and can not comply with something he does not understand.

And so he gets hit, or kicked, or yanked in the mouth, by a rider who is also often saying things like, '"This stupid horse is being a brat---He won't do what I want.----Stop being a pig."

And so on. And the riders who do these kinds of things wonder why the horses they ride are nervous and unresponsive and being "bad?"

Truly, there is so much idiocy out there in La-La Land, uneducated riders on untrained horses, the first group blaming and punishing the second for not "doing what I want" and concluding from that fact that the horse is "being bad," and therefore worthy of being punished.

If this describes anyone you know, perhaps, tactfully, you might suggest that they get some help from a well educated trainer, because it will be a help to their horses. They may well write you off for being as stupid as the horse to dare suggest that they do not know all there is about riding, but at least you will have tried, for the sake of the horse.

07/24/2017

Very interesting ...

07/23/2017

Beautiful ride from our talented and driven young US rider , if you know her story , you will be impressed !!!!