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Happy US Equestrian Safety Awareness Week! This seemed like the perfect time to finally publish my ARRO helmet review, which I’ve been promising for a while now. Really this is the story of how I went looking for a new XC helmet and ended up with an Every Ride helmet instead. Before we dive into it, let’s back all the way up to why ARRO snagged my attention in the first place.

First confession: my XC skull cap was actually due for replacement last year. It hadn’t taken any bumps, but it was 5 years old, and I’m generally pretty paranoid about replacing my safety equipment when it’s supposed to be replaced. I’d dragged my feet a little bit on this replacement because 1) it’s not cheap 2) I was still kind of waffling on what to get. I was riding previously in a Champion SNELL skull cap, which I liked a lot, but before I ordered another of the same helmet I really really really wanted to try an ARRO.

I was first introduced to ARRO at Kentucky in 2023, at which point they were still waiting for their main supply, but they had some at the trade fair and were there talking about them and fitting people. The owner/developer Rhys was one of the people in the booth, and seemed to have some really interesting insight. However, every time we found ourselves by their booth it was absolutely packed. We elbowed our way in there a couple times to get a closer look, but as someone who feels like they’re being suffocated by crowds, I ended up not really staying for long. Still though, I was very very intrigued by what they had shown us, and made a mental note to check them out more the next time I was helmet shopping.

For those who aren’t familiar with them, there are a few things about ARRO helmets that make them unlike anything else on the market. First and foremost, the Kevlar and carbon fiber shell is very strong… like… as in they legit have videos of them driving cars over the helmet. One hell of a marketing technique, you gotta admit. ARRO also has more protection around the back of the skull, and a liner system with a ton of shim options to customize the fit. And, probably the biggest selling point to me personally: they’re currently the only helmet with MIPS technology that is also SNELL certified.

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SNELL certification has been an absolute non-negotiable for me when it comes to a XC helmet ever since I first learned what SNELL is. If you’re unfamiliar with the different helmet standards and what they test for, here’s a handy dandy chart with some (but not all) of the differences.

As you can see, the SNELL standard tests for a wider range of impacts than any other standard, and also requires more crush protection. I think this is pretty crucial component for a XC helmet, where a horse landing on your head is a real possibility (ok that’s a possibility for anyone and everyone, but probably more so when you’re galloping over solid fences). We’ve seen that happen several times this year to upper level riders alone, so as much crush protection as possible is important to me, as is a helmet that can take secondary impacts (unlike others we know, like KEP, that are designed to fall apart upon impact).

SNELL certification is a rigorous testing process that very few equestrian helmets meet. In addition to the various impact and crush tests, SNELL helmets are also required to have a steel buckle because plastic can break too easily, causing your helmet to come off of your head during a hard or repeated impact (there is video of a jockey whose helmet popped off upon impact due to a broken plastic buckle and then their bare head was stepped on… you DO NOT want to see this video). The SNELL standard requires more skull coverage, particularly over the occipital bone on the back of your head. Their testing also covers a range of conditions – hot, cold, wet, and ambient.

Basically, the TLDR version: the SNELL testing process is far more rigorous than other safety certifications, making SNELL certification the “gold standard” for helmet safety. Currently there are only a handful of equestrian helmets that carry the SNELL certification, and only 3 that meet the latest 2021 standard.

You can see more details about the SNELL certification on their website, including their testing procedures as well as some handy dandy videos and powerpoint presentations. Best of luck finding specific details on any of the other safety standards. The lack of transparency with most of them is laughable at best. You’d be shocked at how little some of them actually test.

Anyway, It’s important to note that anything with a fixed brim (ie Samshield) will never meet SNELL certification either, due to how a fixed brim can modify the trajectory of impact (it’s really not good). Of the SNELL-approved helmets, though, ARRO is the only one with a brim that can be snapped on or off, giving you the option of wearing it as a skull cap without a brim or as a regular brimmed helmet (where the brim easily pops off in case of impact). The ARRO also has two brim styles: regular or wide brim.

So, all of the above info is really just my very long-winded way to explain why I was looking for a SNELL helmet in particular. Now let’s get into the nitty gritty about why I ultimately ended up picking ARRO.

First, before I can get into the features, we have to discuss the price. It’s all well and good to say “safety has no dollar value” and that’s true, but it’s also true that most of us aren’t oozing tons of extra money. Ya girl here majorly included. And let’s just say it: at $650, ARRO is not among the cheapest options on the market. Definitely not the most expensive, either, to be fair, but it’s not cheap. However, it’s also not significantly more than the Champion, which rings in at $520. The Charles Owen 4 Star is among the cheaper SNELL options at around $375, but I used to have one of those before the Champion and my god… it was hot and heavy and not super comfortable, so it was never in the running for me. If I’m going to spend money, I’m going to buy one I don’t hate wearing. Helmets are one of those things I don’t really want to compromise on for the sake of saving a little money.

When I laid it out logically and did a little pros and cons list, ARRO just kept having advantages that the Champion skull cap didn’t. The fact that the ARRO is considerably more attractive than the utilitarian skull cap style of the Champion and can be worn with a brim really changes the whole game entirely. Mostly because it meant that, realistically, I could use it as my all-the-time helmet rather than just for XC. It looks like a “normal” helmet, has sun protection with the wide brim option, a removeable/washable liner, and has more/better ventilation. These features meant that truly I had no excuse to not be riding in a SNELL helmet every single day, and for every phase at a show, rather than just when I’m on XC.

Let’s be real, I’m at the point where I realize that riding is mega dangerous no matter what we’re doing, so the idea of being able to wear a SNELL+MIPS helmet every single day for every single ride and still have it look nice and feel comfortable to wear… to me that was an inarguable selling point. It’s also hard to deny the fact that the materials of the ARRO are just superior. Kevlar and carbon fiber? A quick release magnetized buckle? Yas and yas, please and thank you. The design gives you a lot of options and makes a lot of sense.

And once I actually tried an ARRO helmet on my head, it was a foregone conclusion anyway. I truly expected it to look and feel like a giant mushroom helmet, which I wouldn’t have loved but could have probably come to accept. In reality, it looks a lot nicer than I would expect, and most importantly it felt like a “normal” helmet. Comfortable, nicely padded, and while I could tell that it covered more of my head, it wasn’t in an uncomfortable way. To be honest, it feels more secure having that coverage. ARRO also has a shim system within their liner to allow you to really tweak the fit to the exact shape of your head, which I love, as someone with an oval head that can be a little harder to fit.

I was fitted by Jeanie (who also does their remote fittings, for those of you who aren’t near a retailer!) and my helmet truly fits very very well, has from day 1, and I love knowing that if I do need to play with the fit a little bit for whatever reason, I have that option thanks to the shims.

I was most skeptical about the ventilation factor, because it’s REAL HARD for a helmet to have decent vents and still pass SNELL, due to the nature of their spike test. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the ARRO though, even wearing it all summer in Florida. It’s not super breezy, but I can definitely feel air flowing in and I’m not getting crazy sweaty.

In addition to the high-end materials and superior safety standards, what you’re also getting for your money with ARRO is extensive R&D and continued testing and development. Having gotten a bit of an inside look into the company, I can attest that no one at ARRO is sitting back on their laurels and lining their own pockets. They pay for their own ongoing testing from independent labs and are continually putting funding towards research and an increased range of products. They also publish actual data – REAL NUMBERS – on their website. Transparency, what an incredibly rare treat in this industry.

The owner of ARRO, Rhys, is really fascinating to talk to, incredibly smart and innovative and dedicated to thinking outside the box. It’s a breath of fresh air in a sport where we are often lagging way behind, especially when it comes to safety technology (we got MIPS, what, like a decade after cycling helmets?). ARRO is currently in development for a body protector, which I’m really excited to see.

In case you can’t tell, I’m relatively obsessed with my ARRO. This hunt started out as me looking for a new XC helmet, yes, but I feel like it ended with me getting not just that, but a major helmet upgrade in general. Having worn my ARRO for several months now, I’m a huge fan. Like I’m probably annoying the shit out of everyone, but I’m not sorry.

Overall, the ARRO looks nice, it’s comfortable, I can wear it at home or at shows, I can wash the liner, it’s not hot, and most of all – I feel like I’m wearing the safest possible helmet every single time I swing a leg over a horse. I can’t mitigate every risk, but I can try my best to protect my noggin day in and day out, and with this helmet I feel like I’m doing that to the best of my ability. That truly is worth every penny.

And if you need me to Horse Girl Math it for you, just divide the purchase price by how many times you’re gonna ride in it. For me, riding 6 days a week, 52 weeks a year, for the helmet’s life span of 5 years… that’s like 41 cents a ride. You’re telling me increased safety isn’t worth that amount? People will spend double the cost of an ARRO for a significantly less safe helmet just because it has Swarovski’s on it or whatever. Safety isn’t sparkly, but neither are brain injuries.

Two additional footnotes because I know people will ask:

First – does ARRO have a replacement policy? Yes they do! “If your ARRO helmet has been involved in an accident, you may be eligible for a 50% discount on a new ARRO replacement helmet depending on the helmets age and nature of the fall.” I can also confirm that they follow through on that, because I know someone that just had a bad fall (whacked her head real good but no concussion) and got the 50% off replacement in her hands within days.

Second – the thing I’ve heard most commonly from our Patreon group is that they need the helmet in larger sizes than are currently being offered. According to the ARRO website they’ll have more stock of larger sizes around October, so if you’ve got a big noggin, don’t give up on ARRO yet. It sounds like they’re coming!

For a quick reminder, my last post ended with this

“So much drama from these horses around here though, my goodness. If we could all just… tone it down for a bit… that would be great.”

Narrator: They indeed did NOT tone it down.

Presto was footsore from his torn-off and put-back-on shoe for a couple days. On Friday Rubes had his follow-up gastroscope to check in on his ulcer situation, and while his stomach looks way way better, there are still a couple grade 1 squamous ulcers. Considering he was on antiobiotics and NSAIDs for his cellulitis in the middle of all the ulcer treatment, and the issues he’s been having with the bugs, I wasn’t particularly surprised by that. But the lack of glandular ulcers this time meant we could discontinue the miso, so that’s good, but he gets another month of 1/4 tube of gastrogard to wrap up the few remaining glandular ones.

By Saturday Presto seemed to be feeling better again, so I texted Ellie and made lesson plans for Sunday. In the meantime, I had PLANNED on going over to a friend’s house on Saturday to watch Burghley XC. Naturally though, because these horses can’t give me one day of peace or let me ever leave the farm, they derailed that entire plan.

First I turned Rubes out and he had a meltdown (first turnout meltdown in several days, to be fair) so I had to deal with that (there were bugs, y’all, and he wasn’t having it). And then Florida decided that actually it was going to rain in the morning instead of the afternoon, which it never does except for the day I need it to NOT do that, so instead of waiting until after XC to clean stalls, I had to go ahead and clean them in the morning like usual, in case I had to bring horses back inside. Which also means stuffing hay nets and scrubbing/filling buckets. And then Tilly lost one of her hoof boots in her turnout and I had to go look for that so I could put it back on, lest she tear up her foot. And then it did start raining.

At that point I gave up. I ended up half watching and half listening to Burghley on my phone while I cleaned stalls and did everything else. It was extra annoying because I had gone and gotten all the stuff to make some dope crepes (Kentucky has trained me to want crepes at 5*’s, what can I say) and that got entirely derailed. I mean I did make myself a banana and nutella and almond and honey crepe for a late breakfast, so it was partly salvaged but still.

I love them so much, and I love having them right outside my front door, but if you want to entirely ruin your social life and make it impossible to make plans, just be responsible for a farm full of horses.

On Sunday (after fixing boards that Freya kicked down in her stall) we did make it over to Ellie’s for our lesson and Presto felt good, praise be. Well physically he felt good. He was a bit wild from his very light week of work, and at the beginning he spooked at himself in the mirror, flipped his tail over his back, and tried to passage sideways. Cute. Let’s just say the rideability for this lesson was not as good as it has been.

She had us doing some turning exercises with simple jumps and he was really convinced he knew exactly where he was going and exactly what he was doing, right up until the second he realized he didn’t, which still didn’t faze him in the slightest.

That’s fine though, because it IS one of the things about him that comes into play sometimes. He’s cocky and sometimes needs to remember that he doesn’t know everything. (he finds that statement to be super offensive)

We also made plans for Alex to pop Presto around some XC. I really wanted to get his thoughts on kind of where we’re at, what I need to be doing better, and if there’s a way I could/should be riding him that will put me in a better place when he wants to do the spooking and spinning shit. We penciled that in for Tuesday.

Meanwhile on Monday, Sadie scratched her ass on the fence so hard that she snapped a board in half and sliced her ass open on it. Fun times with the vet calls. And it’s been raining buckets for over a week now, so the mosquitoes have returned in full force, which means Rubes’ marbles have been officially lost again. Poor guy, he really really really hates Florida nature. To be fair, I’m starting to understand where he’s coming from, I’m covered in so many damn mosquito bites.

Anyway, on Tuesday we met Alex over at Majestic.

Presto was annoyingly well-behaved. Like come on, not even one little teeny spook? Nothin? Turd. It was fun to see Alex pop him over stuff though, and he got to see some bigger/more technical things again. He really hasn’t jumped much XC since the 1*. He was a little surprised at the first couple bigger fences and had the teeniest wiggle about it, but it definitely woke him up and tuned him in. That’s the thing with him – he’s better when it’s harder.

Alex had a jolly good time though, and had a lot of really nice things to say about him. He gave me some ideas for how I should be approaching the XC rounds at the moment, and changes I can make to my position and Presto’s galloping style that might help. I’ll need a XC lesson to actually put it all into place, but I really appreciated him taking the time to stand there and talk to me about the theory and the physics of it… my brain really really needs the “why” and the “how” in order for everything to click, so it gave me something to take home and think about.

It was also fun to just watch my horse go. I haven’t seen anyone else ride him around XC in a really long time and it’s cool to see how he’s matured. He does look terribly unchallenged, which Alex also said “all of this is super easy for him”. Yes yes I KNOW he’s not the one holding this particular duo back.

On Wednesday morning Rubes had an entirely epic come apart when I tried to turn him out in the morning, so I had to really re-evaluate my plan and approach for how to help him deal with the mosquitoes. He was already going out in head to toe fly garb and covered in fly spray, but the fly spray really doesn’t do shit for mosquitoes. I have to be careful using OFF since he already had a reaction to it once, but I went and got some Mosquito Halt. This morning I turned him out in fly sheet, fly boots, fly mask, did a light spray of OFF and heavier spray of Mosquito Halt, and waited to put him out until after 8am when the sun was well and truly up. We had the first entirely no drama morning in days, so hopefully we’re maybe on the right track? He just truly has a menty b about the mosquitos.

To top off yesterday’s drama, Rube pulled a shoe in his stall, the golf cart shorted out and died in the middle of my afternoon chores, and the pressure sensor went out on the well pump last night and we had no water. Fun times on the farm.

On an entirely different note, a few people had asked if I was going to weigh in on the Andrew McConnon situation, and I would have except for the fact that the EN team was putting together a piece that was totally kick ass and said everything I had to say. If you haven’t read it, you should. It’s so well done and makes me really proud to be part of the EN team.

Mmmmk I’m a little late on my weekly update post but how frickin cute is Rubes in his new custom halter from Dark Jewel Designs?

The noseband is silver and gray and blue crystals and it really adds a nice little touch of bling. I got the nameplate put on at Tack Shack, because I thought he needed to be officially official. 10/10 love it.

He thanked me by getting bitten/stung by something in his turnout, and having the most epic meltdown about it that could only be stopped with a healthy dose of dex. It took me a while to even figure out what the heck was going on, because at first it started out as frantic pacing that turned into wildly kicking and biting at himself. If I didn’t know him I would have probably thought he was colicking, but he’s had a few bug-related mini-tantrums similar to that before. There wasn’t a mark to be found on him at the time, but he seemed like he was about to jump out of his own skin. Nothing would settle him down until the dex, and then about an hour later this bad boy appeared.

Add it to the list of weird shit that happens to Rubes. My best guess is that during one of his morning naps/rolls (he goes for many between like 7am and 10am) he either rolled on or just got stung by something. This is Florida, it could have been a lot of things. He really reacted to it strongly though, whatever it was. It’s a little weird that it took so long for that giant bump to appear, and then it was totally gone by dinner time.

That was a fun little dramafest, but I did feel really bad for him. He’s already got a major aversion to bugs (even just flies) so for something to get him that good just seems mean. I’ve taken to turning him out in his fly sheet in the morning, no matter how hot it is, so at least he has something covering him when he’s doing all his napping and rolling, and then taking it off mid-late morning so he doesn’t entirely suffocate. Let’s hope he’s a little less high maintenance in the winter? (ha. hahaha. he’s a horse, so probably not.)

Not to be outdone, the next day Presto broke out of his stall in the middle of the night and wreaked absolute havoc in the broodmare barn. Trash can turned over, stuff everywhere, and he got into one of the grain bins. Want to see me have a menty b at 4:30am? That’s the way! I was absolutely terrified he was gonna colic or founder. He got banamine and a bit of starvation (he was SO MAD) and I stared at him like the creepiest helicopter parent all day long, but luckily he seems to have escaped that particular mayhem unscathed. After much sleuthing I think he only ate maximum 12lbs of grain, which is still entirely too much, but not as bad as it certainly could have been. His extra stall reinforcement methods have since been reinforced even more.

I debated not taking him to the POP show the next day at all, but since he seemed fine I figured we’d just go and take one phase at a time and see how it went. It was hot hot and our ride times were in the afternoon, so I decided before I even got on for dressage that he wasn’t gonna run the full XC, no matter what. I didn’t really want to risk overheating him or anything like that.

When I got on for dressage warmup there was a Gypsy Vanner in the ring with the most fabulous feathers that Presto could NOT stop staring at. It did occur to me in that moment that he’s never really seen a spectacularly hairy-legged horse before. It cantered at Presto at one point and Presto spooked big time. To be fair… it was a lot of fluffy flying feather. The rings were running a bit early so I just cut my warmup short and went in the ring, where he proceeded to try to stare at the Gypsy Vanner the entire time. He wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t our best work. A score of 32.5 is about what that test deserved.

After that I had a couple hours til SJ, which was just long and hot enough to regret all my life choices. If I didn’t really need the showjump practice I would have gone home, but… I do need it. Presto doesn’t really, but I do. He was set up in the shade with his bougie-ass battery powered fan and his full hay bag, so he had no complaints about the day. I on the other hand trudged up to the ring to try to watch some rounds, since I hadn’t been able to walk the course. These schooling shows go from the lower divisions to the higher divisions, and they hadn’t yet added all the jumps in that my course would have. I watched the rest of the lines though, just to get an idea for striding. The only one that wasn’t set up yet was the first line of my course, and I was like well… I’ll figure it out. Or I’ll just ask someone how many. Or I’ll just ride it and see what happens. I was too hot to care that much about it. Back to the trailer I went.

SJ ended up running behind, so we had to wait in the shade near the ring for a bit while that wrapped up. I was the first one to go in the Modified, so once the Training people started to dwindle I did an as-abbreviated-as-possible warmup. At this point for him that consists of trotting both ways, doing some haunches in and shoulder in, cantering both ways lengthening and shortening, and doing a lead change. It was maybe 5 minutes. Then I popped him over a smaller oxer, then a vertical, then a bigger oxer, then a bigger vertical. Good enough for me… into the ring we go.

I was happy with how the course went. We did have a rail at a square oxer, he ticked the front rail with a hind foot because I think I just let him get a taaaaaad strung out through the corner. It wasn’t a bad jump by any means though, so… just a bit of a cheap rail. The rest was good though, and I was really happy with how rideable he was. It was… boring, dare I say? We like boring jump rounds.

After that I decided to just throw his boots/my vest on and go jump the first few jumps of the XC, just to get him out of the box. I told the starter that I would pull up and retire after that. Presto felt totally fine, but it was just too hot to run him 5+ minutes around when I was still a little worried about his grain-indulgence the day before. Better safe than sorry.

All in all, it was a fairly unremarkable and boring show. Nothing great. Nothing terrible. Just knocking off some rust, which is exactly what these schooling shows are great for.

I’m not sure what will be next on the docket for him. We were supposed to have another lesson yesterday but on Wednesday he decided to rip a shoe off and took a wee bit too much wall with it, so even after putting the shoe back on yesterday morning he was a touch foot sore. Hopefully he’ll be better in a few days!

So much drama from these horses around here though, my goodness. If we could all just… tone it down for a bit… that would be great.

Happy Friday! Or, alternatively, whatever day you may be reading this.

It feels like it’s been quite a week around here but in reality I guess it’s just the normal things. Presto rides, Rubes groundwork, and – surprise – a couple sessions back behind everyone’s favorite little ears.

Now that Henry’s had shoes back on he’s starting to look better and better, so this week I decided to take him for a couple of walk hacks around the farm to start working on getting him back into shape. And because I am nothing if not an opportunist, I opted to bring Rubes along with us too. One big perk about a racehorse, you know they’re gonna pony.

Henry, true to form, acted entirely uninterested in Rubes, and if Rubes thought about stepping out of line in any way, Henry was quick with the reprimand. I think Henry long ago appointed himself God of Ponying, and no one will ever convince him otherwise. To be fair, he probably did earn that title after dragging Presto all around the state of Texas for a couple years. Truly a veteran.

Rubes was well-behaved aside from thinking that Henry walks too slow (Rubes thinks all of us do everything too slow around here) and occasionally thinking he might want to bite Henry. I think it was a good way for him to get to explore and see the rest of the farm without being as stressful. Henry is a nice emotional support animal for things like that.

Presto went for a gallop last weekend, which this time of year always has to be more on the short and sweet side. I took him to Sweet Dixie because I love to utilize their long hill, both up and down. Up for the extra workout, and down because I think they have to learn how to balance themselves a bit, which hasn’t always been Presto’s best quality. Practice helps though, and he’s definitely smarter about it than he used to be. He only did 7 total minutes of gallop since it was so hot and humid, but that’s all he really needed. We have more time to ramp it up a bit before the shows really come into play, so we can do more when the weather isn’t so gross.

We also had a lesson this week, this time with Alex since Ellie was away at AECs. I really liked this lesson a lot, Alex took the same things that Ellie and I have been working on the past couple lessons and added another layer to it. The way they teach is really complimentary. Our warmup exercise in particular was helpful for letting me iron out the feeling of my aids and getting my timing to be quicker and more concise.

Fairly simple exercise, but not necessarily easy. The idea was to trot the poles, do a few steps of a bit of a leg yield feeling, canter, put the haunches a bit to the inside, go to the jump, and then trot again right after, making sure to keep their shoulders up so they were balanced when you got to the poles again. Everything happens pretty quick, so there wasn’t any time for a late or sloppy transition anywhere. Really there were only about 10 strides of canter total, including the jump. I liked the exercise a lot.

After that we moved on to courses, doing one at a lower height and then raising the jumps up and repeating it again. Alex really wants me to focus on putting him deeper to the jump and keeping him a touch rounder through the turn, while also maintaining a bit of that haunches-in through the turn like we’ve been doing a lot with Ellie. Really what it boils down to is quality… improving the quality of the canter by making sure we don’t lose the hind end and have him go wide behind (his fave), and improving the quality of his jump by insisting that he has to get closer to the base and use more power off the ground.

Even though Presto isn’t always convinced that very much effort is truly required. To be fair, for him it isn’t hard enough to require much effort yet to just get it done, but it will be eventually, and the correct ideas and muscle memory need to already be there by the time he gets to that point.

I’m hoping we can squeeze in some training rides soon because I think a really expert ride from Ellie or Alex could help him understand the idea that much better/more quickly. He’s smart like that, so training rides are always so beneficial for this horse.

There’s video of one of my courses on my Insta with the original sound if you’re interested, or of course Patreon folks you have all the video on your dashboard.

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This weekend we’ll be back in the show ring after a four month hiatus. We’re signed up for the M/T at the FHP schooling show, although I’m not entirely convinced if I’ll run him XC or not. We dressage at like 1:30 with jumping phases around 3:30, so if it’s balls-out hot and humid then I’ll have to decide whether or not he goes XC. Depends on how he feels after SJ I guess. He handles the heat well but I still try to be careful about it when it’s mega gross. It would be nice to get a run in, but we’ll see!

Just popping in today real quick for a couple things while they’re on my mind!

First and foremost, one of the articles on Rubes that I was interviewed for has been published. You can read it here, scroll to page 7.

I also got a call from his previous owner last week to let me know that Rubes is officially being inducted into the PA Racing Hall of Fame, and the ceremony will be in October. I don’t think I’ll be making the trip, but it’s really cool that he’s officially getting his name on the wall!

Entirely unrelated but another good and really important read:

Social License to Operate

This is what I’ve been saying for years. If you don’t think equestrian sports (All of them. Every single one.) has a public perception problem, go to the Olympics facebook page and read through the comments on any of their posts about Equestrian. It’s a whole lot worse than you think. If we don’t get ahead of this and do better, all of us have a lot to lose. Read it, share it… I think we all need to be super real about this, because it affects every single one of us.

And lastly, I’m reopening the BreedRideCompete queue for a limited number of custom pedigree reports, so anyone that’s been waiting, now is the time! You can either go through the Etsy listing or contact me directly, if you prefer.