Tag: Rerider

Annie and I are still writing our story, one canter stride at a time. Because our story isn't just about Kissing Spines, or cancer, or ribbons.

You don’t have to feel fearless to begin. Sometimes all it takes to find your way home is the courage to start.

In this love-at-first-sight story, an adult amateur gets back in the show ring after a two decade hiatus from the saddle with her barrel-bred Quarter Horse!

I have always loved animals, particularly horses, and at the age of eight my grandmother Sheena decided to pay for me to take horseback riding lessons. This began a lifelong dressage passion that would follow me into adulthood. As I began college, I took ten years off riding to get married, begin my career, and have my own children: two boys, Kade and Kyson, and a girl named Aubrey.

By Dawn Bruneau My adventures with horses began 40 years ago as a working student at Ironstone Farm in Andover, MA.  I mucked stalls, groomed,...

Moose came into my life when, truthfully, I couldn’t have needed him more. I found myself mid-pandemic unemployed, at my heaviest weight, and depressed. My friend recommended I start riding again, something I hadn’t done in over three years and did very much miss. However, there was no way I was getting on any average sized horse, with my then weight being well over 250lbs. So she told me to find something big enough that I would feel comfortable.