My Online Showing Adventures with Better Dressage Scores

So you had big plans to move up a level this year. Or you were prepared to step into the ring for the first time. Then Covid. All those plans went to shit. All these online horse shows popped up and you thought hmmm, how in the brown dressage tack do these work? I looked…

How to get brave and stay brave

I am 85% brave. I still have my moments when I’m super scared in the saddle, and many times when I revert to my bad habit of leaning forward and becoming a passenger instead of a rider. See exhibit A from a hunter pace last year. I was trying to brave but going into my…

New Year New Start

Well, there has been a big change here since my last post. Everyone says the new year is a chance to make a new start and we sure did!! Cisco moved barns and I found a new trainer. Unfortunately Cisco’s old mom and my previous coach decided to step back from the equestrian world for…

2019 in a Nutshell

Where to start! Last January I started riding Cisco in weekly lessons at Krystal Point Equestrian. The year ended with Cisco belonging to me and looking forward 2020 with a new coach and a new home for her in a few weeks. There were a few health scares with my little Maverick and two surgeries…

Prednisone and Push Ups

This isn’t something I talk about much. It’s not that I’m overly concerned about my privacy, in fact I’m all for sharing and educating people about my disease. It’s one of those “Oh but you look fine!” diseases. Hi I’m Laura and I have lupus. I was diagnosed with SLE lupus in 2002 after several…

Officially an Eventer

This weekend Cisco and I braved a very soggy day to make my it around a challenging Tapole horse trial. No big deal. Cisco had Phoenix and Nico for company who both crushed their pre-training and entry levels respectively. My ride times started and finished before either Nico or Phoenix started so the day seemed…

Fall Adventures

Fall is always a busy time. We think summer is busy, but I think we fail to realize that we’re always busy, it never really slows down. Summer with horse shows and outdoor plans every weekend rolls into fall clinics and awards banquets and more things packed into less daylight. Back to school and halloween…

Hunter Pace 2.0

I ran 44km between Thursday and Saturday. Then I took a train to Toronto that landed just after midnight. About 5 hours of sleep later I got myself out of bed and got to the barn as fast as I could. I hadn’t seen Cisco is almost a week! And today was hunter pace day….

A day with horses and hounds

After the hunter pace a few weeks ago I sat down to read the magazine of the Eglinton and Caledon Hounds, Stirrup Cup. I was fascinated at the professionalism and uniqueness of the hunt club that had hosted the hunter pace, and I wanted to know more. I reached out to the secretary and found…

Big girl (riding) problems part 1

I hate how I look in photos. Who reeeaaally likes it, let’s be honest. It’s human nature to be critical of ourselves and low self esteem and poor body image that I think most of us here would say we have, takes a magnifying glass to the parts we hate most. For me, my back…