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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Horsing with Laura Waitt

August 5, 2020April 1, 2016 by Laura Schonberg

by Laura Schonberg When Laura Waitt isn’t at work vetting large animals, she is on the back of one of her three horses training for an endurance ride. A resident of Skagit Valley, she challenges herself as a rider to “get smarter” about listening to her horses in order …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Horsing with Beth Pruiett: A Good Problem to Have

August 5, 2020March 1, 2016 by Laura Schonberg

by Laura Schonberg This month I spoke with Beth Pruiett about her horse-centered soul; when she’s not wrangling her three young girls, she’s rounding up middle schoolers in her resource room. With three horses at home, a full-time teaching job, and a husband that works crazy shifts, her story …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Horsing with Catherine Madera

August 5, 2020February 1, 2016 by Laura Schonberg

By Laura Schonberg Over the next year I’ll be introducing you to many friends who, like me, are passionate about horsing around. The first is Northwest Horse Source editor, Catherine Madera. My First Horse: I started riding lessons at around eight years old and would look wistfully at the …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – The Equine Minded Person

August 5, 2020January 1, 2016 by Laura Schonberg

by Laura Schonberg Why do I do horses? It’s a question I often ask myself. In the wet dark depths of winter, when water floods the pen, or mud is up to their pasterns, or the trails are too icy to maneuver, it does make me wonder. Then there …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Four Ways to Improve Connection

August 5, 2020December 1, 2015 by Laura Schonberg

by Laura Schonberg As I go galloping in to the more mature years of my life, I have become much more reflective about my horsemanship. My action-oriented nature is often in conflict with my horses’ natural state that seeks quiet. I easily miss what my horse is telling me and …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Train Your Horse to Load

June 30, 2020November 1, 2015 by Laura Schonberg

Train Your Horse to Load Quickly, Confidently and Consistently by Laura Schonberg If you have ever spent any time at a trailhead, busy arena, or show day parking lot, you have likely witnessed this intense scenario: horse(s) refusing to load in a trailer. If you’re anything like me, I …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Three Ways to Train Your Horse’s Mind

August 5, 2020October 1, 2015 by Laura Schonberg

by Laura Schonberg When I first started riding at six years old, I went to the barn because I wanted to ride. It didn’t matter how inclement the weather, how the tack fit, which horse I had to ride, or how that horse felt about it all. We simply …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Bridling Basics

August 5, 2020September 1, 2015 by Laura Schonberg

by Laura Schonberg When my mare Poema first came home she had not been bridled, saddled, or ridden. I wanted to build on what I learned from developing working relationships with my first two horses and, in particular, avoid the mistake of going too far too fast. I naturally operate …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Haltering Basics

August 5, 2020August 1, 2015 by Laura Schonberg

A Good Ride Starts with the Halter by Laura Schonberg There is nothing more frustrating than looking forward to horse time after a busy day and discovering it’s difficult to get your horse. Haltering is a basic exercise that is easy to rush through yet critical to establishing the …

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Over 40 and Horse Crazy – Desensitize Your Horse to Basic Home Health Care

August 5, 2020July 1, 2015 by Laura Schonberg

by Laura Schonberg One of the challenges in bringing home a young and inexperienced horse (Poema) has been conditioning her mind, body and hooves for riding on the trail. We have had several setbacks, one of them being an abscess that not only took its sweet time rupturing, it …

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