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Have you heard of the 2 minute rule?

Some quick pics from our weekend showing at the PES Fall Harvest Horse Show. So proud of all the ladies who competed, it was a great weekend all around!! Loved the new organized way to warm-up (Covid or not), it was fantastic! #pacificequinesport

I was scared today. I was scared to get on, scared to walk out the yard because I had a bad ride the day before. One bad ride, and it made me scared. I didn’t... know why. I’ve had 1000 bad rides. I’ve had 1000 falls. I’ve broken bones and bruised my pride on countless occasions, but today I was scared. Why? Because confidence is fragile. It takes months and years to build and seconds to lose and yet we are so careless with it. When we get on a horse, we wear a hat to protect our head. We wear body protectors, gloves, boots... We pay so much attention to protecting ourselves physically, we forget that our minds are not invincible, and our confidence certainly is not. Your bank of confidence needs regular deposits, not just from others... but from you. Self confidence is the most valuable currency in life. When you go to get on, and you hesitate, you falter and you start to ask yourself can I do this?, chances are, your account is almost empty. Every time you laugh and say oh no, I’m no good or so and so is 10x better than me, you make a withdrawal from that account, and before you know it, your account is empty and you’re scared to get on. But every time you say I’m really pleased with how that went or I think I rode that really well, your balance increases. We need to learn to give ourselves a break, pat ourselves on the back and allow ourselves to feel proud of where we are - after all, most of the time we’ve worked bloody hard to get there! Recognising your strengths is just as important as recognising your weaknesses. Never allow yourself or anyone else to empty that account. Confidence is valuable, don’t bankrupt yourself.

Have you heard of the 2 minute rule?

Some quick pics from our weekend showing at the PES Fall Harvest Horse Show. So proud of all the ladies who competed, it was a great weekend all around!! Loved the new organized way to warm-up (Covid or not), it was fantastic! #pacificequinesport

Hi all, I’m trying out Waveapp for online invoicing. Seems straightforward so hopefully no glitches. Hi all, I’m trying out Waveapp for online invoicing. Seems straightforward so hopefully no glitches.

I was scared today. I was scared to get on, scared to walk out the yard because I had a bad ride the day before. One bad ride, and it made me scared. I didn’t... know why. I’ve had 1000 bad rides. I’ve had 1000 falls. I’ve broken bones and bruised my pride on countless occasions, but today I was scared. Why? Because confidence is fragile. It takes months and years to build and seconds to lose and yet we are so careless with it. When we get on a horse, we wear a hat to protect our head. We wear body protectors, gloves, boots... We pay so much attention to protecting ourselves physically, we forget that our minds are not invincible, and our confidence certainly is not. Your bank of confidence needs regular deposits, not just from others... but from you. Self confidence is the most valuable currency in life. When you go to get on, and you hesitate, you falter and you start to ask yourself can I do this?, chances are, your account is almost empty. Every time you laugh and say oh no, I’m no good or so and so is 10x better than me, you make a withdrawal from that account, and before you know it, your account is empty and you’re scared to get on. But every time you say I’m really pleased with how that went or I think I rode that really well, your balance increases. We need to learn to give ourselves a break, pat ourselves on the back and allow ourselves to feel proud of where we are - after all, most of the time we’ve worked bloody hard to get there! Recognising your strengths is just as important as recognising your weaknesses. Never allow yourself or anyone else to empty that account. Confidence is valuable, don’t bankrupt yourself.

I was scared today. I was scared to get on, scared to walk out the yard because I had a bad ride the day before. One bad ride, and it made me scared. I didn’t... know why. I’ve had 1000 bad rides. I’ve had 1000 falls. I’ve broken bones and bruised my pride on countless occasions, but today I was scared. Why? Because confidence is fragile. It takes months and years to build and seconds to lose and yet we are so careless with it. When we get on a horse, we wear a hat to protect our head. We wear body protectors, gloves, boots... We pay so much attention to protecting ourselves physically, we forget that our minds are not invincible, and our confidence certainly is not. Your bank of confidence needs regular deposits, not just from others... but from you. Self confidence is the most valuable currency in life. When you go to get on, and you hesitate, you falter and you start to ask yourself can I do this?, chances are, your account is almost empty. Every time you laugh and say oh no, I’m no good or so and so is 10x better than me, you make a withdrawal from that account, and before you know it, your account is empty and you’re scared to get on. But every time you say I’m really pleased with how that went or I think I rode that really well, your balance increases. We need to learn to give ourselves a break, pat ourselves on the back and allow ourselves to feel proud of where we are - after all, most of the time we’ve worked bloody hard to get there! Recognising your strengths is just as important as recognising your weaknesses. Never allow yourself or anyone else to empty that account. Confidence is valuable, don’t bankrupt yourself.

From the Plaid Horse.... "If a horse says no, you either asked the wrong question or asked the question wrong. An average hunter course has 100 strides. Only 8 ...of them are jumps. Don’t sacrifice the 92 for the 8. On approaching a fence: good riders wait until it’s time to go. Great riders go until it’s time to wait. Don’t squat with your spurs on. It is NEVER the horse’s fault. Yes, sometimes a horse may take advantage of a situation, but there is ALWAYS something the rider could do differently to change the situation. Pass left hand to left hand. You can only lie to your horse so many times before they call your bluff. Horses do no know what they are worth. They do not know, or care, what they are capable of. They only care about the way you treat them. Injuries and colic happen almost exclusively at 10:00 pm on a Saturday. Shoes get lost almost exclusively when preparing to leave for a show. If you work hard, try your best, and never give up, your efforts will not go unnoticed. And you will be rewarded with opportunities when you least expect it. If you work hard, try your best, and never give up, you will still fail sometimes. Video doesn’t lie after being told repeatedly that I was lifting my right hand before every fence, and swearing up and down that I was certainly NOT lifting my right hand before every fence I wasin factlifting my right hand before every fence. Sometimes your brain lies to you. Video does not. On being nervous going into the show ring: you’re just not that big of a deal. No one at the show is watching you close enough to know every mistake you might make, except for the judge and your trainer, and you are paying them to watch. Be patient there are no shortcuts. Any shortcut you may try, will actually be the long way. Check your personal issues and emotions at the door. Your horse will know. It usually does not go well. If your horse is in front of your leg, you have options. We never lose. We either win or we learn. Ride like a winner. You cannot act like flip flops and expect to be treated like Louboutins. If you have to pick only two things to think about during a course, pace and track are the two you should choose. The rest cannot happen without pace and track. Give yourself and your horse brain breaks. Go have fun, go hack out in the woods, go swimming bareback, read a book in the paddock, whatever. Just allow yourself time to have fun. At home there’s no reason to jump as big as you show every time. The basics are the basics regardless of the jump height. Save your horses legs. The horse world is very small. Remember this and don’t burn your bridges and be mindful of your words. Clean your tack. Groom your horse. Properly. Every day. If you can control nothing else, you can control your turn out. There is no excuse to not do the minimum effort. No matter what the problem is, the solution is almost always add more leg. Ride the horse you have today. Not the one you had yesterday. Not the one you want to have. The horse under you at this moment is the only one that matters. You go where you look. The human head weighs 10 pounds. Unless you would like to end up on the ground, do not look down. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. " - advice excerpts from the Plaid Horse See more

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Generally, we’d all agree that things tend to go better when you’re looking in the direction you want to go rather than looking at the floor or getting distracted by a nearby fence post.

Prize list online for our Rocky Mountain Masters Series Entries opening up later in the week/next week A 1 Million Penny Grand Prix each week ($10,000)

Just this second got off the phone with Bernie Traurig---(photo) I asked him about "eye" and practice, and he told me this story about the hunter pro, John Fren...ch. At Thermal, last winter, John rode 40 hunters, two classes a day, for two days. Bernie said, "OK, so that's ten jumps per round for the first round, 400 jumps, plus 10 warm up jumps, another 400. Plus 400 for the second round, no warm up, so that's 1,200 jumps a day, times two days, 2,400 jumps, one show. Six weeks of showing, that's 1,200 times six, 14,400 jumps in one circuit, and that was just the hunter rounds. He jumps more jumps in ONE DAY than most of us jump in a year. Think about this-------------------------------------

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