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🥰Love can be soft, hard, strong, fierce and bold.

Your horse has priorities. These are like rungs on a ladder, and when you skip one, things don’t work well. Many empathetic ...

Episode 273: “From ‘I Don’t See It’ to ‘I See It!’: Breaking Down the Barrier Between Seeing and Understanding”

Stacy shares valuable insights into how riders unintentionally slow their learning. She explains why many less experienced riders skip what she calls ...

Child like wonder is available at any age.

Three photos from over the years, all showing the same thing: child-like wonder. Stacy rearing Misty- Stacy 11, Misty 21 In the ...

Naked Horse November🤭

I went all in on the ‘No Stirrups November’ theme with Willow and decided to to do No Saddle November…which turned into ...

No Stirrup November-with a twist

  Look closely, my toes are up! It is November, which means you are likely to see "No Stirrup November" showing up ...

The ride I knew my horse and I could do at home. 



The thing about living a comeback story is…you don’t know it's a comeback until after its over. When you’re in it, you’re ...

If you move all your cues to your horse into your body, be sure YOU stay present inside your own body.

When emotions are high, logic is low. If I had known that, 20 years ago, before walking into the arena, maybe there ...

Bridle-less riding reveals the level of understanding.

Twenty years ago, I competed bridle-less for the first time. Ten years before that, I made my first attempt at it. Both ...

My mini mare had a foal❤️

A tiny, fuzzy addition to the herd. She weighs less than a 50lb bag of grain but more than my border collie, ...

Video: A Thanksgiving tribute to horses.

A Thanksgiving tribute to horses. (Audio on) Is it possible to summarize what horses mean to you? People called in from around ...

AQHA World Show Champion Open Western Dressage & Dressage

I Can Can I. That is the name that I gave my little 14 hand horse…who keeps proving that she certainly CAN. ...

Welcome Mini Mocha!

AND HIS NAME IS…. First, thanks so much for all the fun name ideas that were posted on Facebook! I’ll share my ...

Words from our Fans

About Stacy

Growing up, I shared a love of horses with my mother but neither of us knew what we were doing. Over the years we dealt with horses that wouldn’t load into trailers, wouldn’t pick up their leads and wouldn’t stand still to be mounted. I fell off more times than I could count and was bitten, stepped on and run away with before I was old enough to drive a car. There were many, many good times too. My favorite childhood memories all involve horses (and one ornery pony.)

It took me years to develop to the point where I became a successful competitor in a male-dominated industry. The beauty of this is that it proved that true strength is a mental game more than a physical one.

I believe in creating win-win-win relationships. I can show you how to reach your goals faster if you’re willing to put in the work. Whether you love trail riding, have goals of showing or would someday love to understand bridleless riding, I can show you the way.

…and yes I still clean stalls."

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