Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Episode 84 Confident Horsemanship Revisited
Anne Gage's original interview was one of the favorites from the Spring of 2015 on Straight From the Horse's Mouth. Anne's advice and tips about confident riding are always timely.
Saturday, 16 April 2016
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
083- For the Love of Endurance Riding
When Ashley Tomaszewski heard that there was such a thing as endurance, riding, and it was in Ontario, she was intrigued. After lots of research and asking questions, she was prepared to start training for her first ride. It seems like it all paid off as Ashley and her mare Splash finished their first ride at 25 miles in second place! She was hooked! Ashley’s next goal was to complete a couple more 25-mile rides in 2015 to gauge how ready they were to attempt a 50-mile ride, which they completed as their the last ride in 2015 and she beat a number of personal goals as well. Ashley’s goals for 2016 include improving her time on the 50s and doing some rides in the U.S. Listen to Ashley as she shares her love of endurance riding!
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
82- Go Horse Camping
Finally, a how-to book on horse camping. Tania Millen is the author of her latest book - Go Horse Camping. Her mission this year is to publish it her third book through a Kickstarter project. Tania Millen is an avid outdoors person from Terrace, British Columbia. She has ridden horses for over thirty years in Canada, the USA and England, has competed at a national level and was a groom for a member of the Canadian Equestrian Three Day Event Team. Since 2010, Tania has ridden over three thousand kilometers of wilderness trails. Tania's Pack 'Em Up Ride Em Out is the real out back horse camping book, but Go Horse Camping is for the average rider.
In between horses, Tania Millen learned to fly planes and paragliders, climbed rocks and ice, won bodybuilding competitions, skied mountains, designed and built a house after renovating too many, lived in England and Australia, became a scientist and spent 14 years remediating contaminated sites, trained as a professional chocolatier, got trained by her dog, unintentionally retired at 42, and wrote a bunch of words that people seem to like reading. Listen to Tania's interview and support her Kickstarter campaign.
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
81- How to Keep Your Saddle Dry
Leslie Hanes is an entrepreneur and inventor. She owns Discovery Trekking, a company that carries innovative clothing for active outdoors people. Leslie responds to her customers and created what they need. One of her inventions is the saddle skirt that protects the rider, the saddle and the horse. Listen to Leslie as she shares her amazing products aand inventions.
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
080- How to Prevent the Spread of Equine Disease
Kelsey Spence is a PhD Student, Epidemiology in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph. She is currently working with a research team to help prevent the spread of equine disease within Ontario, Canada. Listen to Kelsey as she outlines her research and the wonderful work that Equine Guelph is doing to help horses healthy.