Redmond Equine Blog

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Finding the Courage to Get Back On Your Horse

One day I was riding in a lesson with my daughter on her instructors’ horse. My horse decided he didn’t want to be a nice hunt seat horse at that moment and a rodeo horse seemed to be much more fun. We made it around the arena and were halfway round...

What Do You Do Just For The Love of It?

Horses are bigger, faster and stronger than us, their human comrades. We compete with them, relax with them and work them into a sweat. They can unload us at any moment of their choosing. But most of the time, they cooperatively do the great and...

God Made a Horse – For My Family

When my now 10-year-old daughter was five, I had a difficult time finding an activity she loved. Everyone in gymnastics already knew how to cartwheel, cheerleading was too loud and soccer was too competitive. I found a lovely small riding facility...

God Made a Horse – For Us

God made horses to heal wounded hearts. God made horses so kids could pour out their hurt, their loneliness and their rage about abuse, neglect and injustice to the horse, who listens quietly; feeling heard, the child’s bitterness washes away.

God Made a Horse… for Stacey

Horses have always been inside my head. My strongest early “horse memory” – probably at age four or five – is reading the book Casey the Clumsy Colt. It was a horsey take on the bull in the china shop, and I read it over and over. At the time my...

God Made A Horse… for Julie

Julie Goodnight shares with us her two perfect matches. I have been blessed with horses that I know were my perfect match—horses that were in my life, just at the right time, to teach me just what I needed to know and learn at the moment. As the old...

How Do You Know When To Say Goodbye?

When to Euthanize When do we euthanize? The obvious times are easy for us although still as painful – but what about those other times? Let me tell you about my situation.

When You Are Dead Last, Do You Give Up – Or Catch Up?

The 43rd Ride and Tie World Championships ended up as one of those events that gets labeled a learning experience. In spite of being predicted to win a top 3 spot, my teammate and I—while indeed setting a blistering pace—committed the most rookie of...

What Does Your Horse Have in Common with Olympic Speed Skater Maria Lamb?

Did you know Redmond sponsors Olympic athlete Maria Lamb? As one of our many partners, Maria Lamb is training and preparing for the Sochi Olympics in 2014 representing the US in ice speed skating. She spends more time on ice skates than on a horse,...

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