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Glad to see she's better. I had good luck with the Mare Magic on my Arab as well, and it sounds like our mares are fairly similar in personality. You can actually just buy dried raspberry leaves in...

A couple of pages ago, it was mentioned that more than one of the OP's horses had bolting issues, and that there was a serious riding accident that required some significant recovery.

As someone...

I have fired a trainer mid-lesson for abusive behavior. He was a BNT in my area and I went to train with him during the summer in college to tune up for my college equestrian team in the fall. His...

So, where's the trainer here?

I'm not trying to be snarky, it's just that this whole situation sounds like something my barn friends and I would have cooked up when we were teenagers, only to have...

Teenager needs to sell the big, young, energetic QH and spend the money on lots of lessons and/or a schoolmaster. Let the big, young, energetic horse flourish in the hands of someone with experience...

Granted--if she were wearing a bright spangly sequined red Western Pleasure show shirt with breeches. But the 6-8 square inches of ratcatcher that show above a coat collar? I don't think that a red...

Depending on how her round compared to other competitors', that's a show I wouldn't patronize again. Someone who can be so dramatically swayed by a colored shirt (assuming all other elements of...

As far as the appearance vs. skill debate, could there be some discrepancy in the levels and locality of the shows? I showed in hunters in the late 90's in local C and B shows in the South, and at...

The Arab mare and I are practicing the highly advanced art of the 20-meter circle, working trot. Sometimes we get REALLY crazy and leg-yield a bit. And you should see our stretchy free walk. It's...

My farrier takes calls during a shoeing or trim, but he steps away from the horse and takes the call near his truck. It doesn't bother me; I've had to call him a couple of times with emergencies and...

Speaking of little girls and ponies, I helped a friend with one of her students at a show a couple of years ago, and took this photo as the girl was riding around between classes. They had matching...

We have several family friends who are college admissions counselors, and the general consensus is that things like NHS no longer really "count" as special extracurricular activities that make an...