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I love this painting. I've never seen it in person, but some day I hope I do. My curious nature means that, even as I enjoy a painting l

Tonka's 6 years old today! A couple of days ago I posted The Story of GJR Shahanna Kahn aka Tonka! When I originally created that post, I...

While it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a herd to make a horseman.Every rider is a sum of the horses that they have ridden. In t

Netsuke with an equine theme!

Right now, I have 5 (maybe more) unfinished blog posts! Sometimes it's hard to decide which one to finish. Today, Facebook helped me out...

This past Sunday, Mike and I had a chance to meet up with horse friends! Some folks we knew and we made new friends too when Mike was...

Gayle and Destined to Shine My good friend Gayle now has some really impressive National Championship win photos to her credit, but I...

As I'm searching for photos for my blog posts, I come across many, many (MANY) "Mike pictures". Either photos taken by Mike, or photos of...

I've found that the easiest way for me to write my blog is to go with my gut. By that I mean, if I find something interesting, maybe...

As much fun as it would have been to ride Hero today, I stuck with my plan (for now!) of 2 "non mounted" workouts for every mounted one....

Back in Sept of 2014, Mike and I started the under saddle training of a very cool Half Arabian gelding named Storm. A very handsome bay...

A "haul in" session to Colleen's this afternoon! He was spectacular! Photos only for now! Hero and Kathy Troxler. Photo by Mike Troxler...

I’ve been dithering about what to write next on this blog. Lack of posting hasn’t been because of lack of topics, but rather trying to...

What kind of training can you get done when it looks like this? Can you get anything productive done? The answer is yes! Some of us are...

Now that the Christmas holiday is behind us, I find myself under a virtual (and literal!) pile of what I’ve come to call “blog fodder”!...

Some people think that you might have to work on something very, very different in order to accomplish major improvements in a horse's...

For todays post, I was going to just cover horse interactions and I've hunted up some great examples! For my first group, I give you OP,...

One of the "cardinal rules" (yep, look it up) of horse training is that you don't ever want to tell a horse to attempt a move that ends...

While recently chatting with Gavin's mom and grand-mom (that would be Mary Susan and Kea) and telling them (one more time!) how much I...