Dreaming of the spring horse show season? Us too. This week, we’re sharing our favorite DIY tips to make training tools you can easily use in your home arena. Thanks for tuning in.
Click here to stream Episode 133.
Special guests:
Danielle Burgess is a lifelong equestrian, freelance groom, coach, rider, breeder, and entrepreneur. With years of hands-on experience in the equine industry, Danielle saw a need for a platform that makes it easy to find skilled, on-demand horse care professionals. That’s how she founded Instagrooms. Her mission? To empower grooms by helping them increase their income, gain new skills, and expand their opportunities, all while giving horse owners and trainers the flexibility they need to staff their barns and horse shows with ease.
Derek Braun was a grand prix show jumper and is the founder and operator of the Split Rock Jumping Tour. Derek drew from his own experience as a competitor to create a “European style” show circuit in America. Split Rock now runs shows at venues across the country.
More on what we talked about in this episode:
This month, we’re sipping something bubbly and something French! | @dulcet
Are you up to speed on the pony conformation class drama at WEF? | @COTH
Laura Kraut is the latest star inducted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame. | @COTH
The Longines Jumping World Cup Ocala was a night to remember at WEC… if you were Irish. | @WEC
Product review: DIY training tools to use around the arena at home. | @heelsdownmag
Derek Braun from Split Rock Jumping Tour joins ups to get us excited about Kentucky! | @SRJT
Instagrooms aims to be the Rover app of horse care at horse shows. Let us explain. | @Instagrooms
Mail Bag: What is the best barn/muck shoe out there?
More about our hosts:
Jessica Payne is an international event rider who is rarely seen without her long-haired chihuahua under her arm. She was born in London, Ontario, but grew up in Franklin, Tenn., and graduated from Auburn University with a degree in Animal Science. She’s now a coach, a mom and one-half of Payne Equestrian, a full-service eventing, show jumping and dressage operation based in North Carolina with her Olympian husband, Doug. Jess once lost the tip of her pinky finger clipping her 5* horse, and husband Doug says she can “talk to anyone including a wall….and they will like it!”
Ellie Woznica happily lives on a mountain in northern Pennsylvania in her horses’ front yard. She works from home as a graphic designer, manure mucker, and zoo keeper, but only gets paid for one of those gigs. Ellie grew up showing hunter/jumpers (and still does) but in college she learned to ride western and fell in love with reining and reined cow horse. Outside of horses, Ellie loves to knit, whittle, and write! Her boyfriend says she has too many hobbies.
Justine Griffin is an award winning journalist who has written about everything from horses to high-profile CEOs to her ovaries. (She donated her eggs once.) Two things she loves the most? Whippet puppies and cheese. Justine is a lifelong lover of Thoroughbreds and is a native Floridian.
Many thanks to this month’s partner: Traverse City Horse Shows.