Cate Chant
A Young Professional's Perspective on Equestrian Canada's Coach Status Program
Last summer, I was invited to participate in a focus group in which Equestrian Canada requested feedback about their coach status...
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Cate Chant
- Dec 5, 2023
- 7 min
Saddle Fitting 101
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...
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Cate Chant
- Mar 29, 2023
- 4 min
On Ambition, Finances and Accepting our Limitations
There are specific qualities I appreciate most in a rider: empathy, coachability, and work ethic chief among them. A rider with these...
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Cate Chant
- Feb 16, 2022
- 4 min
We need to talk about the "Ride Better" post
There’s a post that's been widely circulated on Facebook featuring a diatribe that opens with “Dear Young Rider” and concludes with "Ride...
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Cate Chant
- Feb 9, 2022
- 4 min
It's time to break up with Hunter Hair
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...
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Cate Chant
- Feb 9, 2022
- 6 min
So you're worried about going Off Course...
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...
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Cate Chant
- Aug 4, 2021
- 5 min
The Golden Rules of Horse Shows
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...
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Cate Chant
- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
Continuing Education
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...
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Cate Chant
- May 18, 2021
- 10 min
The Auction that Started it All
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...
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Cate Chant
- May 12, 2021
- 4 min
It's not the Horse's Fault
I think at some point, every rider has heard some version of the same story from an inexperienced horse person. It goes something along...
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Cate Chant
- May 10, 2021
- 12 min
Musings of a Professional Horse Girl
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...
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