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11/17/2025

111 Days until the Spring Forward, gets darker later time change!!🤸‍♀️

11/07/2025

Magna Wave newbies, wild piggies and beautiful sky! 🐷🦄🌊

10/23/2025

Truth!!

10/08/2025

Yes!! This!!

The Human Need for Challenge (and Why Scrolling Won’t Fix Your Horse Problems)

People think humans are reward junkies - carrots, gold stars, likes, dopamine hits.

But here’s the twist: our brains are actually wired for challenge, growth, and connection.

That’s why toddlers fall on their face fifty times trying to walk and still get up for fifty-one. They’re not chasing praise - they’re chasing progress.

But somewhere between learning to walk and learning to “double tap,” we traded struggle for scrolling. Now our phones deliver tiny hits of fake achievement, and our nervous systems are like, “This’ll do, right?”
Fact check: it won’t.

Self-Determination Theory (the less sexy cousin of common sense) says we need three things to feel good about life:
1️⃣ Competence - feeling like we can do the thing.
2️⃣ Autonomy - choosing to do the thing.
3️⃣ Relatedness - doing the thing with others who don’t drive us mad.

This is why real horsemanship works—it’s growth through clarity, skill, and relationship.

When you can actually handle your horse, you feel capable and calm. You stop guessing. You stop grasping. You connect.

When you can’t, you end up wrestling a 600 kg of power and uncertainty that freaks you out.

So yes, challenge is uncomfortable. But that’s where the good stuff lives - confidence, trust, and the kind of partnership you can’t download from the App Store.

This is Collectable Advice Notebook Entry 45 / 365 of my notebook challenge so you can hit SAVE or SHARE to at least spread some good ideas. But please, it is a no-no to copying and pasting ❤

10/06/2025

Great question on the Saddle Fit Questions and Answers page.

Here’s the answer:

1. Even pressure across its width. Gaps are ok as long as it is evenly gapped across the width.

2. Buckles are high enough to avoid costal cartilages, lateral thoracic nerve, and elbows AKA as high as possible, and preferably long so the buckles are over a thick leather sweat flap. Buckles must be padded.

3. Girth must have even pressure across sternum (no gapping at cranial edge), and never place pressure on Xiphoid Cartilage.

4. Well-padded along edges, and firm but soft support along the middle of the girth, so the horse can’t feel the nylon webbing that attaches buckle to buckle.

5. The shape and width of the girth should match the shape and width of the horse’s girth groove, and the first/front billet should hang straight into the girth groove so the saddle stays in place.

I’ve seen exactly zero horses an anatomic girth has benefitted, when these criteria are applied. They are bandaids for improper billet position or saddle fit issues. “Shoulder relief” happens in the saddle, not the girth. But tack sellers can charge 3-4 times more when they market their girths this way.

Contoured girths are helpful when the horse needs a point billet, but should never gap.

A wider pad at the sternum is fine, but that’s just a marketing thing. Pressure runs in a straight line. Anything forward or behind the buckles is not really distributing pressure.

String girths are the #1 go to for horses who have narrow, super forward girth grooves. They’re soft and have the most surface area of any girths on the market.

The Prestige “donut girth” aka sternum relief has been getting good reviews. TBD long term but so far I like the concept — however, it is not a bandaid for a horse with sternal pathologies/injuries.

Neoprene should never be used, and if you use leather, it should not have hard edges, and needs to be cleaned and inspected after every ride for cracks. Same goes for the cheap girths like Wintec sells — those crack and can cause abrasions.

What did I miss?

10/06/2025

When you're the Region 9 PSG Open Champion but identifying aa a Saddlebred today. ❤️❤️❤️

10/04/2025

Successful day at Region 9 Championships!!

10/01/2025

Lance says, "It's all happening!"
Safe travels to Great Southwest today and good luck to all the participants! May your horses be swift, your reins short and your bum be sticky in the saddle.

09/25/2025

If you have ever taken riding lessons at Hearthstone, chances are you have ridden Save Me. At 28 years old, one of the last direct sons of Sandro Hit.

09/24/2025

Body work for young horses too!! They're still trying to balance us riding and balance themselves and those muscles are not quite developed.