About Me

sunshine and horses, what could be better!

Horses pervade my daily thoughts. They saunter in just as the alarm goes off and they whisk me away on their backs when I lay my head to sleep. During the day snippets of trotting, galloping, and great adventures roll across my mind’s eye.

I count myself fortunate to have an understanding family, the abilty to keep and ride horses, and the opportunities to engage in a lot of clinics and conferences concerning them. I live in New Jersey, a state that has a huge horse population, the USET headquarters and easy driving distance to some of the best medical, training and breeding help in the nation.

I’ve done a bit of dressage, eventing, competitive trail, and pleasure riding. I’ve dealt with mixes, Throughbreds, Quarter horses, Warmbloods and Icelandics. I’ve helped organize 3 star-competitions, taken lessons with FEI competitors, worked in an equine neonatal clinic, gone on treks,

In my youth, I longed to be a natural rider and an exceptional competitor; a horse whisper at the very least. I was kept humble on all accounts. But those loses kept me always searching, how does the animal’s body work, how does my body work on the animal’s back? Soon I was looking at the nutrition, and management. Then I was pulled to look at the environment, and now I’ve succumb to looking at the politics of horses.

Throughout this journey I’ve seen many parallels in other areas and had a thousand questions cross my mind. And now I think its time I wrote down those thoughts and questions. Perhaps someone else is thinking about them too.

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