Picture this. It’s 2017, September time; a nice fall day. You’ve been riding for years and reining for a few, previous coaches have focussed only on what the horse is doing and you are wondering how your riding ability is, thinking to yourself ‘can I actually help develop myself as a rider as well as develop the horse?’
Our feet didn’t touch the ground for the whole time the show was on – we started the prep work on Wednesday August 16, with Colie Florica starting to drag the ground for the way we Reiners need it
At the time of writing this, Jen was in sunny Ontario with the crocuses and daffodils blooming and I was in warm, wet and rainy England. Horses on either side of the Atlantic are shedding their winter fur coats and only then do we remember not to wear lip gloss if we are grooming them standing down wind. All this can mean only one thing - spring is here!
Congratulations to Ali Chernoff of Alberta for placing 7th and 8th yesterday in the AQH Youth World Cup Cutting.
The 2023 American Quarter Horse Youth World Cup Team Heads to Bryan, Texas. Read the first hand reports from team members.
WOW!!!! What can we say except – WOW! Steel City Spin 2023, June 2-4 at Ancaster was our best show yet!
The Ontario Extreme Cowboy Club is excited to be heading into the 2023 season. The addition of new EXCA affiliated clubs means this will be the biggest race season in the 11-year history of Extreme Cowboy Racing in the province of Ontario.
At the time of writing this, Jen was in sunny Ontario with the crocuses and daffodils blooming and I was in warm, wet and rainy England. Horses on either side of the Atlantic are shedding their winter fur coats and only then do we remember not to wear lip gloss if we are grooming them standing down wind. All this can mean only one thing - spring is here!
Gilead Friedman, our friend and the brilliant brain behind Mental Athletics (a worldwide mindset training program to enable equestrians to reach peak ability in the show pen) says, “You the rider are the competitor, the horse is the athlete.”
Any sport that involves people – judges - evaluating other people doing something, if it’s based solely on the judge’s opinion without guidelines, rules and parameters, is open for subjectivity and bias. Even if a judge thinks they are not biased, their unconscious biases will show up in their judging.
