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Cate Chant

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...

Cate Chant

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...

Cate Chant

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...

Cate Chant

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...

Cate Chant

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...

Cate Chant

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...

Cate Chant

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...

Cate Chant

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...

Cate Chant

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...