Dawn Gilbert Show Horses, LLC

there may be more than 1 of my "kids" that have traumatized a bit ... #showmanshipraces #holdmycrutches

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Taking some time to myself to rest, read, and recover... not from Covid, thank heavens (I'm negative. "My mother had me tested"), but from the general malaise that comes from horse training, running a farm, the holidays and burning the candle at both ends AND the middle. From IN THE MIDDLE ARE THE HORSEMEN, this quote (and many others) resonated- "The hardest part of horse training might be, knowing when to quit. If I drive three hours to school my horse cross country, and... my horse is too anxious when I get there for it to be a positive experience, I want to have the discipline to not jump a single jump. And the same should apply in its own way to starting a horse or deciding when to begin competing a dressage horse at Grand Prix." I knew this once. I knew it very well. However, I won't lie. I also lost sight of this for a little while. Part of that "burning the candle" means rushing through the day and rushing to achieve goals. The problem with rushing is you're not going to do a very good job.... at anything. Other than screwing up, or getting frustrated that is. Last winter I was getting VERY frustrated... with myself, the horses, life.. This summer, events forced me to slow down, pay exquisite attention to detail, and while not everything had a successful outcome, the training horses benefited. I enjoyed training again. It made me think to the last time I felt that way... which, no small irony, was with my own horse- how many times Jeter and I went to a show, and even if the thought was to maybe enter a class, or at least ride around the schooling pen confidently, we often had to modify our initial goal for the day to just standing in the schooling ring without his heart threatening to beat it's way out of his ribs or feeling like 17h of alternating dynamite or shrinking violet. My goal in 2021... to not forget those lessons again. Sometimes less can be more, and the human agenda is only fit for humans- it's best left out of the saddle entirely. #gettingthembroke #feel

Coming to NYS Fairgrounds April 3&4th 2021, two exciting days of nothing but NY Equine!! Demos, Presentations, and Equine Vendors. Current Demos by; NRHA Six M...illion Dollar Rider Shawn Flairda Lisa Eklund - The Mindful Equestrian Jeff Wilson- Western Dressage and Safe Trails Para Equestrian AQHA Judge Mike Bednarek- Reined Cow Horse More Demos coming - check back for updates Vendors will include; Equine Tack, Equine Equipment for barn and farm, NY Equine Service industries, NY Equine Associations, NY Riding Stables and a "NY College and High School Team Zone" Check back here for updates to come. Do you have a NY Equine based business or service and would like to be part of this exciting event? Contact Jennifer at [email protected] for more information.

Happy Birthday!!!

ISO helper: M,T, Th, and/or F mornings. Help doing morning chores- potentially including but not limited to: turn out/in, cleaning stalls, watering, sweeping, feeding lunch hay and filling hay bags. 2-3 hrs in the mornings. PM for details.

Busy day... aren't they all? ;-) (Plus a few I didnt get pics of)

Putting together a dac order. Let me know- PM- if there is something you need.

NOTHING we do with horses is "natural" from the moment we domesticated them.

**Part-time stall cleaner position** Looking for part time stall cleaner. 1-2 days week/weekend. 12-15 stalls with a sifting machine. Turnout & turn-in. Dump, clean, refill water buckets, fill hay bags, feed lunch hay, and sweep aisles. Must be an experienced horse person as the equine population here changes regularly and is often mostly youngsters and problem horses. Must be reliable as this is a primarily unsupervised position and will be responsible for secondary care on those days (beneath pro-tem barn manager) when I am gone to shows etc.. PM for more information or to apply. Immediate opening.

I can tell you already the other horses are too close... too visible. If the pen she is in had a solid wall for "security", she would be totally fine with it. Even so, I think this will work. #babysteps #trainingamy

My favorite breed, my "adopted breed"... not only did I fall in love with their coat color and history, the fact that many choose to dismiss them without even getting to know them has long driven me to champion the Appaloosa to others.

Are you missing the missing link in your horses hind end issues? Negative Plantar Angles (NPA) are the most common hind hoof conformation! and yet there are so... often missed. Why? Because horses with this conformation most often have a concurrent compensatory posture which disguises how broken back the hoof pastern axis is. NPA has been linked to pathology all the way up the hind limb and into the trunk of the horse, very often these pathologies are being treated without resolution of the disguised NPA and concurrent postural abnormality. Sticky plasters on symptoms! Research at the moment is questioning whether the NPA or the other pathologies are primary at all! Non the less, with NPA and the higher pathologies, the feet cant get better because of the posture and the pathologies cycle, because of the posture. This posture initiates locomotive musculature in stabilisation and causes joints to bare load as they are not intended to do so. Breaking the cycle is a multi-professional effort with resolution of the posture as a focus and farriery can have a direct effect on this. Further reading in the captions. Stay tuned for my upcoming Videocast looking in depth at the causes of abnormal compensatory posture.

The thing about sitting behind a steering wheel for thousands of miles? You have a lot of time to think. The thing about a lot of time to think? You form opinions- some of them quite strong. When strong opinions get shared on social media? Someone is bound to get offended. The trick is to share your opinion in such a way that only the people that *should* be offended are, and the ones that shouldn't be, just get to appreciate the viewpoint. In this day and age, that c...Continue reading

Who had contacted me about needing a very AQHA competitive youth/Amateur horse, novice friendly (maintain 90% at home), horsemanship/ranch riding mare?

Going to miss this guy off to West Palm Beach in the morning!

For your consideration- https://youtu.be/Ryk0CuvoddI

We may not be set up to socialize her with other horses here.... but she's already less feral than she was. Smart girl, this one. #trainingamy