Things Change

November 11, 2010

If you follow us on FaceBook, you’ll know that on Oct 29th Remmer had a freak accident.  He severed his superficial flexor tendon and about 80% of his deep digital flexor tendon.  In less than a moment our future together changed because of the severity of the injury. Remmer may not regain full athletic function [...]

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A Learning Experience

October 23, 2010

So Walter Zettl was here right after we returned from WEG. Remmer had been on vacation for 3 weeks while we were at WEG and really only had three days of prep, and West Point was ready to go. I had two days of great lessons and on the third day Westy was the best [...]

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Love Your Problems

October 4, 2010

I’m here at WEG, and West Point is my horse-buddy for the next 16 days. Remmer and Allure are here at WinStar farm enjoying a nice vacation in a lovely pasture. For the first days Westy was really worried about the environment. All that emotional baggage from his competition days was back to haunt him [...]

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Catch Me

September 23, 2010

The last week has been very exciting.  We had our first HSUS horse rescue training camp that went for six days – five days of instruction with the final day at a local horse rescue.  Eight representatives were with us, Melissa, Jo, Carolyn, Stacy, Scott and Jen plus Holly Hazard, Chief Innovations Officer and Keith [...]

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Best Birthday Present

September 16, 2010

In my last blog I wrote about solving contact problems through Zero Brace with Lauren’s magnificent Hanoverian, West Point. Well, during the Performance Summit at our Pagosa Springs campus this past weekend, Lauren offered him to me. She decided that focusing him on an international dressage career was not the right thing for him, that [...]

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Zero Brace

September 9, 2010

Gosh time flies.  There’s so much going on that it’s hard to know what to tell you about!  We have the Performance Summit starting on Friday with an exciting program in store, and right now Walter Zettl is here so I’ve got lessons every day… and this time with two horses.  No, not Allure… yet!  [...]

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Let ‘em know!

August 26, 2010

This is a short one. You know my dogs – Vinny (Left-Brain Extrovert) and Moxie (Right-Brain Extrovert)… well, as I’m sitting here writing bunches of stuff, something interesting happened.  Being about 15 weeks old, Moxie is teething like crazy and when she plays with us those little points are really sharp! So as she was [...]

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Thank You

August 21, 2010

Hello everyone, I really want to thank you for your outpouring of support as a result of my last blog.  I am very moved by reading all your comments, and I used up more than a few tissues!  Your wisdom, perspective, love and thanks are overwhelming, thank you so much. I wish I could have [...]

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How Interesting

August 19, 2010

Hi there, Apologies for the big gap between blogs, lots going on – travel, writing, big things afoot. OK, enough excuses. I feel compelled to write about this given recent “events” and scuttle butt on the internet. Before I write my blog I reacquaint myself with the last thing I wrote to you about and, [...]

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Personal Growth is Rarely Convenient

August 5, 2010

As my great mentor, Glynn Braddy, often used to say to us: “Personal growth is rarely comfortable or convenient.” What a wonderful thing to remember when you’re feeling the growing pains as you try to improve yourself through horsemanship! One time a student asked when he could expect his “problems” to be over so he [...]

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