SawHorse Ranch

📌 Don’t forget about:
Summer Camps🌞🐴🏕️
Spaces are still available!
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Here we go!!!

‼️ 🐴Horse Camps🐴!!

🗓️ 7/13/26-7/15/26 -8:30am-12:00pm

✅ Small Saddles Horse Camp -

🐴 Ages 7-10 - beginner -Intermediate
Snacks/ drinks provided. T-Shirt included
Learn all aspects of horsemanship, progress in tacking, grooming, riding, handling, and general horse knowledge.
- Saddle time (Western games, Obstacles, poles, barrels)
- basic horse anatomy and grooming
- Learning Safety and increased independence
**Horsemanship, games, confidence building, friendship, teamwork and safety are all part of the camp!
$250/ student lesson horses available, may also bring own horse *with current Coggins
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🗓️ 6/15/26-6/16/26 -8:30am-2pm

✅ Blazing Saddles Horse Camp

🐴 Ages 10-13-Intermediate riders
Snacks/ drinks provided. T-Shirt included. Lunch break - bring lunch.

Learn all aspects of horsemanship, progress in independent tacking, grooming, riding, handling, and general horse knowledge.
- Saddle time (Obstacles, patterns, poles, barrels- increasing skills, focus on progressing skills. Work on split reins, riding aids, tricks and ground work, increasing basic training knowledge, problem solving)
- Learning Safety and increased independence
**Horsemanship, confidence building, friendship, teamwork and safety are all part of the camp!
$225/ student lesson horses available, may also bring own horse *with current Coggins
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🗓️ 6/29/26-6/30/26 -8:30am-4pm

✅ Trail Boss Horse Camp

🐴 Ages 13-18 -Intermediate to advanced riders
Snacks/ drinks provided. T-Shirt included. Lunch break, bring lunch.
- Focused Saddle time (Obstacles, trail patterns, poles, barrels, trail rides, increasing skills, focus on progressing skills. Work on more intense riding aids, tricks and more intense ground work, increasing training knowledge, horse/ rider problem solving)
- Safety with independence and autonomy.
**Horsemanship, confidence building, friendship, teamwork and safety are all part of the camp!
$250/ student lesson horses available, may also bring own horse *with current Coggins. Limited overnight pens avail.
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‼️ We are ready again!!
SHR Schooling Summer Show take 2 !
Check in 0700
Show start 0800

Mother Nature is kinda funny, not funny! 😆
If it’s still actively storming at 6 am- late check in at 0800.
🌧️ ☔️ Rain plan- if no lightening will be in the indoor arena if the outdoor is too wet (not perfectly ideal- but it will work)
We sre looking forward to a fun show! See you tomorrow !
We will have drinks and lunch provided by Mr. Doug!
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With the rain still going for a little longer, it’s wet, and a late start will really push us into the high humid heat warned afternoon. For student and horse safety we will reschedule to tomorrow.
Check in 7:00 am
Start Time 8:00
Sorry! Mother Nature pulled a fast one on us!

Show time! 🩷🐴

We are ready for you guys tomorrow!
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Students are allowed to wear a Tshirt tomorrow instead of show attire. Remember your sunscreen, & water bottles, It’s gonna be a hot one!

We will break for lunch at some point.

✅Check in is at 7:00
✅Show starts at 8:00

This is SO true…

GOING IN CIRCLES

When horses roamed the plains, they did exactly that: they roamed. They drifted along, grazing and mostly walking in straight lines. When horses worked for a living, they continued to walk those straight lines, pulling a plow from one end of the field to the other, pulling a milk wagon from one end of town to the other, or pushing cattle from one end of Texas to the other. As they transitioned from work animals to recreation vehicles, they generally continued walking, jogging, or cantering in reasonably straight lines, going from one end of a trail to the other.

Of course, not all work or recreation involved strict, straight line movement. They were asked to cut cattle, which often required them to work laterally, with sudden starts and stops and jolts and jerks. They were asked to perform military/dressage maneuvers, with significant lateral movement and transitions. They were asked to foxhunt, which required them to work over fences and around obstacles. They were asked to participate in sport, such as polo, which again required stops, starts, bursts of speed and lateral work. And, of course, they were asked to race, which required speed, but generally on straight line tracks or long ovals.

As they transitioned into show and competition arenas, however, they shifted away from straight line activity. We changed the game and asked them to become focused athletes and runway models. In doing so, we put them into smaller and smaller spaces and asked them to perform more and more patterned behaviors. Basically, we put them into patterned, repetitive movements—mostly in circles... little, tight circles. And they started to fall apart, experiencing more and more issues with joint problems, soft tissue injuries, and general lameness concerns.

We blamed their failures and breakdowns on bad breeding practices and poor genetics; we blamed their failures on bad farriers and inadequate veterinarians; we blamed their breakdowns on poor training and conditioning, poor horse keeping practices, bad nutritional practices, and any number of other things. And, while none of these should be disallowed, the fact remains that we changed the game and put them into those little, tiny circles and repetitive activities. So, let’s look at equine anatomy, and specifically, let’s look at that in relation to athletic maneuvers and activities.

First and foremost, the horse is designed to be heavy on the forehand. We fight against that concept, asking them to engage their hindquarters, to “collect,” and to give us impulsion. And they’re capable of doing so… but they’re not designed or “programmed” to sustain such activity for any length of time. When they do this in “natural” settings and situations, they’re playing, they’re being startled or frightened, or they’re showing off. None of these are sustained activities.

Likewise, when they do engage, they’re generally bolting forward, jumping sideways, or leaping upwards. And they're typically doing that with a burst of speed and energy, not in slow motion. Ultimately, their design is simply not conducive to circular work. Each joint, from the shoulder to the ground is designed for flexion and extension—for forward motion, not lateral motion. In fact, these joints are designed to minimize and restrict lateral or side-to-side movement.

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