If I were asked to name two things I’ve loved for as long as I can remember, it would be horses and books. The two are so intertwined at...

Last summer, I was invited to participate in a focus group in which Equestrian Canada requested feedback about their coach status...

Saddle fitting is a mystery to a lot of riders and for a long time I didn’t have a very good understanding of saddle fit myself. I...

There are specific qualities I appreciate most in a rider: empathy, coachability, and work ethic chief among them. A rider with these...

There’s a post that's been widely circulated on Facebook featuring a diatribe that opens with “Dear Young Rider” and concludes with "Ride...

I was doing a photo shoot recently for a tack store when the director asked me to put my hair up in my helmet. I’ve been wearing my hair...

One morning last fall I was riding a young thoroughbred in the open schooling at a horse show when she began to get increasingly wound up...

After months of feeling ready to go with nowhere to show, we finally got the opportunity to get in the ring at the Manitoba Hunter Jumper...

Me aboard my jumper Molly Brown in a classic at WEF circa 2008 I wear a lot of hats at the farm: rider, coach, trainer, groom, stall...

Posing for a photo with Opie and Happy the night I brought them home Let me preface this post by saying that I am by no means an expert...

I think at some point, every rider has heard some version of the same story from an inexperienced horse person. It goes something along...

Hello! My name is Cate and I am a rider and trainer based in Kenora, Ontario. I decided to start this blog as a space to share knowledge...