I'm new to the Vancouver Washington area and could really use some help locating a boarding stable. One that can take a stallion . Then I would really love some new friends to ride with .

To the untrained eye, it was a nondescript  farm road.  Straight half mile of gravel, bordered by woods and farm fields, a preamble to the woods and trails that lay beyond.

 

On a normal day, it was a corridor of quiet, a place where the rider warmed up her horse before tackling the trails.  A transition…

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Hi Everybody,

I'm new here & new to endurance riding. I need some advice.. Please take a look at the bay KY Mtn/Arab X mare on my page & let me hear your two cents on whether or not you think she is put together properly for endurance riding. Hoping to do 50 mile rides eventually. Trying to decide what direction to go with her.. Also, is 16 too old to train a sound, healthy horse to do LD Rides? She loves to go & can go for HOURS, I think she'd love it.. Thank you all so…

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At age 69, I finally got the rig, most of the gear, and a horse (ok, so technically "The Accidental Tourist" is a pony)  together for my foray into trail and distance riding. Our initiation ride was 14 miles of muddy mucky trail on the "purple" loop at Salt Fork Lake State Park (ohio) with the Guernsey county chapter of OHC. I see that there are still equipment adjustments to make as the saddle slipped backwards on the uphill portions. Bonnies hoofboots made it, even of the hinds were a bit…

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