Soaring Dreams Ranch LLC

05/30/2026

The timing of this memory is PERFECT!
Alex was just out here at a lesson showcasing her
🔹confidence to trust her horse
🔹confidence to communicate as a teammate with her horse
🔹confidence to memorize courses instantly
🔹confidence to jump around making decisions on course
🔹🔷🔹Calmly, quietly, humbly, confidently leading by example in the group lesson this evening.🔹🔷🔹


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⤵️Take a read from this post 5 years ago!⤵️

Student Alex & SDR’s Tommy confidently going around their jumping course 🤩🤩

This week’s Lesson Theme:
🔸🔶🔸Confidence🔸🔶🔸

It’s a mindset, yes.

An attitude, absolutely!

It’s something that needs to be practiced day-in & day-out in order to gain EVEN MORE confidence and GROW.

Sometimes that means focusing on your weakest spots ...actually, more often than not, that means focusing on your weakest spots. And it can truly be a very fun process as your learn to gain confidence in areas that once seemed overwhelming or even out of reach.

And then one day you’ll confidently look at your accomplishments —those things that have become so easy— which used to be those weak spots.

This week in lessons we are intentionally working through very specific things that are personalized to each individual student.

But what each individual student brings to the lesson— their mindset, their openness to grow, listen, learn, observe, be shaped, and put in the hard work themselves is what enables ✨ YOUR DREAMS COMING TRUE! ✨






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05/29/2026

🎶 it’s a good kind of day 🎶
gentle breeze
clear blue skies
82° 😍
The horses all got in great exercise rides.
Now they’re out meandering the pastures
with their buddies
chewing on trees just because they can
Back & forth between the shade and perfect sunshine ☀️


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05/27/2026

Starting the day off
filling your soul ☀️


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05/26/2026

GOOD M☀️RNING

Our horses are out at dawn
💛 soaking up the red light
💛 in tune with their natural biology
💛 socializing in a herd
💛 grazing: slowly chewing each bite, peacefully✨

Did you know here at SDR,
everything {and I mean EVERYTHING}
is designed by our trainer
with the horses’ well-being at the center.

Here’s a little glimpse into the horses’ routine & feeding schedule… look at how it regulates their nervous system (and the human body reacts to that too!) 💞

✨living the dream; horses being horses!✨



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05/23/2026

🌼Barn Day shenanigans
We have a whole lot of fun out here with our horse loving community of friends 💖

05/23/2026

🎯 That last sentence.

Let’s Talk About…

Have Expectations in the Horse World Become Unrealistic?

Everyone wants the perfect horse. Safe, forgiving, uncomplicated, brave. Doesn’t spook, doesn’t buck, doesn’t react, doesn’t look at anything! I could go on and on.

But at what point did we stop expecting horses to behave like animals and start expecting them to behave like robots?

Somewhere along the way, the standard for what people consider “safe” has become almost impossible. A horse flicks an ear at something, he’s labeled as distracted. Has one playful buck, he’s dangerous. Spooks at a flower box? Well that’s unacceptable!

The reality is, horses are prey animals. They are living, breathing creatures with feelings. They have insecurities and they get nervous just like we do. Some days they are fresh and others lazy. Yet more and more, it feels like people expect horses to absorb every ounce of nerves, inconsistency, poor timing, lack of confidence and lack of bravery without ever putting a foot wrong themselves. And if the horse does react? Suddenly the horse is the problem.

The truth is, truly “safe” horses are incredibly rare. The horses that quietly tolerate mistakes and pack people around courses whilst forgiving bad distances and still show up every day trying their hearts out are worth their weight in gold. But even those horses are still horses. Horses are not machines. We shouldn’t be expecting them to be emotionless schoolmasters programmed to never look at anything or have an opinion.

And maybe the bigger conversation is this: Have riders lost some of their own responsibility to become braver, better, more understanding horsemen? Because to me, good riding has never been about finding a horse that never reacts. It’s about learning how to ride through the moments when they do. Not every horse is suitable for every rider and not every rider is suitable for every horse. And there’s nothing wrong with admitting that.

Because sometimes the best amateur horse isn’t the quietest one in the barn, it’s the one that teaches the rider to improve instead of expecting the horse to be an emotionless robot and do all the work.

05/23/2026

Do you ever stop to think how awesome it is?💖

05/22/2026

🌼 BARN DAY! 🌼
Productive morning out at the barn
This hardworking team of girls
got an entirely new course set up
of 10 yellow jumps for the summer!

We had so much fun with friends out here! ☀️



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05/22/2026

See ya tomorrow morning!