Tag: Overcoming Injury

A Region 1 adult amatur won’t let her rural location stop her from continuing to climb the levels with her Connemara pony and earn her Bronze Medal!

A rider from Region 6 tells us about the special mare she saved from a feedlot, and the many challenges they’ve overcome together.

A Region 8 rider shares her journey with an OTTB mare, as medical issues changed their goals, and made their bond that much stronger.

Three horses were braided and waiting for us in the crossties.  All three were white.  Goodness gracious!  I specifically didn’t want a white horse!

Region 7 rider, Shannon L., shares about suffering a TBI and how her love of horses helped her overcome the physical and mental impacts of it.

By Sharielle Lawrence HS Wrosaletti, aka Rossi, is my 2010 Hungarian gelding that was gifted to me in 2017 as a complicated rehab case. His...

The powerful Lusitano! We are celebrating them as our February Breed of the Month on #YourDressage! Dressage riders who choose Lusitanos as their mounts...

The powerful Lusitano! We are celebrating them as our February Breed of the Month on #YourDressage! Dressage riders who choose Lusitanos as their mounts...

Silver Wend (aka Neala) is a 2008 Irish Draught Sport Horse. I got her as my first horse seven years ago. She couldn’t have been a more perfect first horse for 11 year-old me. She loves to be around people, she's goofy and playful, and she is always willing to try everything I ask of her. Overall, she just has a heart of gold.

At the time, I must have been crazy as I contacted her owner to get more information and x-rays. She had fractured her left hock, and although it was not a well-placed break, it was a clean break.