Oct 16, 2017 | Patti's Blog
[Warning: This blog is full of smarm and stereotypes. I won’t apologize for that because, as those who know me in real life would likely confess, I am a wee bit cheeky that way.] A week or so ago I found myself with a day with no client meetings and a forecast...
Sep 3, 2017 | Patti's Blog
[Photos by Dawn Hilliard. Thanks, girl! For everything … ] Iggy has been my test pony for all sorts of theories I’ve accumulated over the years we’ve competed and the horses we’ve brought along. How it is easier to start a horse who is mature...
Sep 3, 2017 | Patti's Blog
[Photo by Spectrum Photography. GMHA, 2015] I believe that I shall always miss David Letterman’s Top Ten lists. After teaching so many clinics, meeting new riders or prospective riders or riders who have an inkling that they might love our sport “if only...
Jun 22, 2017 | Patti's Blog
Three months ago, we bought Iggy, an 11 year old Arabian who had done a couple of 25 mile rides and a moderately paced 50 miler at age 6 or so. He’d been purchased, but life got in the way with his new owner, and he didn’t have a full time (or even...
May 28, 2017 | Patti's Blog
It’s just another one of those “do as I say, not as I do” moments … Countless times I’ve told other people with new horses, fretting over this or that, that it takes a year to get to know a horse. It’s been two months since we...
Apr 24, 2017 | Patti's Blog
Damn. This one is tough to write. Ned has been a huge part of my life for nearly twenty years. And tomorrow we will be letting him go. Some creatures — human or equine or canine — just have more personality than others. Ned has been mammoth in more than...
