On The Bit Farm

12/16/2024

Farm Christmas Party, so fun! Thank you to all for coming! 😊🙏♥️👏🎉🎄👍

10/21/2023

The illusive 20 meter circle!

The ubiquitous 20-meter circle seems simple, but it’s not easy to execute correctly. In our latest educational piece on , USDF Certified Instructor, USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist, and L Graduate with Distinction Jennifer Grant shares her tips to help you ride more correct, and therefore more effective, circles. Check our the story, as well as useful diagrams, here: https://yourdressage.org/2023/10/10/where-has-your-circle-gone/

07/22/2023

Day of the cowboy celebration at our church this morning! Chuckwagon breakfast tomorrow 9-10 am. All welcome!

03/09/2023

So true..

“How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can't carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babys before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.”

-Written by Sara Huffman

Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/DorotaKudybaArt/photos

Good night, God Bless. 🙏🏻💖

03/04/2023

Ride a test Schedule March 4 2023

9:30 -10:10 Aynsleigh and Ian: Second 3

10:10 - 10:50 Cindy: Training 1

10:50 - 11:30 Jinny: Training 3

11:30 - 12:00 Cindy: Training 3

[Lunch break]

12:30 - 1:10 Cabrina: Western Intro 4

1:10 - 1:50 Jenny: Intro B

1:50 - 2:30 Aynsleigh and Dugan: Third 3

2:30 - 3:00 Jenny and Chip: Training 1

02/08/2023

02/08/2023

One of the most misunderstood things about entering a USEF show (other than intro and opportunity classes) is the difference between the TRAINER and the COACH in the entry form. With the new changes in the “show pass” rules (which I will go over tomorrow), I thought it would be a good chance to review it.

First, the bullet points of the new rule:
The COACH line on the entry can be left blank.
The TRAINER line cannot be left blank and it must be filled in by an adult WHO MUST HAVE A USEF MEMBERSHIP (no show pass), complete with Safe Sport.

Now, the basic difference between the COACH and the TRAINER. The COACH is the instructor who is on the grounds (again, can be left blank). The TRAINER is the person responsible for the care of the horse (if that is a minor, the parent must sign AND be a USEF member).

GR148 Trainer 1. Any adult, or adults who has the responsibility for the care, training, custody, or performance of a horse. 2. Said person must sign the entry blank of any Licensed Competition whether said person be an owner, rider, agent and/or coach as well as trainer. 3. Where a minor exhibitor has no trainer, a parent or guardian must sign and assume responsibility of trainer. 4. The name of the trainer must be designated as such on the entry blank.

GR108 Coach For purposes of these rules, a coach is defined as any adult or adults who receives remuneration for having or sharing the responsibility for instructing, teaching, schooling, or advising a rider, driver, handler, or vaulter in equestrian skills.

01/28/2023

Ride-A-Tests are the perfect opportunity to practice new tests, work on trouble/weak areas, or make progress getting comfortable in the ring!
Donna Meyer is a licensed judge and instructor located in Bryan, TX. Take advantage of one-on-one time with a USDF “r” and “R” in Western Dressage judge to improve your dressage scores this season!
Find more information on our website: https://bachdressage.org/Ride-A-Tests are the perfect opportunity to practice new tests, work on trouble/weak areas, or make progress getting comfortable in the ring!
Donna Meyer is a licensed judge and instructor located in Bryan, TX. Take advantage of one-on-one time with a USDF “r” and “R” in Western Dressage judge to improve your dressage scores this season!
Find more information on our website: https://bachdressage.org/