WinterSpring Dressage

Team WinterSpring will be participating in relay for Life again this year in honor of my mother, Sue Thome. Please join us if you're able!

Relay For Life | Cancer Walk | Cancer Fundraising Events Relay For Life events are life-changing cancer fundraising events that help communities across the globe fight back against cancer.

Last year, despite everything she was going through, Sue was determined to have an Easter egg hunt for all the farm kids. This year, we thought of her as we did it again ♥️

Please join us tomorrow at the farm between 2pm-4pm to celebrate Sue's life. Memories will be shared and food will be served. The farm address is:

5260 S Mt Hope Rd
Carson City, MI 48811

We hope to see you there

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“The student must make an effort to look friendly at all times, to caress his horse often, and not to correct impatiently. Even if not everything succeeds according to his thoughts occasionally, he should not get upset and choleric, and mistreat his horse, in other words pr******te himself in front of the observers.

For there is nothing more unpleasant than seeing a rider spur and beat his horse, especially when he himself is the cause for the mistake. And it happens quite frequently that the rider causes the horse to make this or that mistake through an imperfect seat or an unsteady hand, for which the horse is not to be punished, but the rider is to blame.

A horse that is trained to subtle aids and who pays attention to the rider’s smallest movement, will inevitably react as soon as the hand, the legs or the seat move incorrectly. However, the horse must not be punished, since he only did what the rider asked for with his careless movement.”

Anonymous ~ 18th century chief rider of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna

A Long Neck Equals a More Rideable Horse When I think of history's great dressage horses, such as Anne-Grethe Jensen's Marzog, Margit Otto-Crepin's Corlandus and Dr. Reiner Klimke's Ahlerich, they had one common quality: They were ridden through the back with a long neck. Even a horse such