Lydia Scott Equine Services

Lydia Scott Equine Services I have 20+ years experience with a variety of horses. I offer services in Foundation Training, Mentorships, Trail and in barn lessons.

Switching these ponies over to the Bosal has been really helpful.A trainer I follow talked awhile back about how the sid...
08/21/2026

Switching these ponies over to the Bosal has been really helpful.
A trainer I follow talked awhile back about how the side pull can affect the poll and AO joint. Especially with these breeds that can have a tendency to lean into pressure. I decided to give the Bosal a try and I’m so glad I did!! The difference is amazing! I’m starting to feel the ponies I work with respond to my leg and seat in a different way and they don’t lean on the bridle like I was finding some of them do with the side pull.
Good reminder to always stay open to evolving our horsemanship and staying curious! One of the beautiful things about working with horses is that the learning can go on our whole lifetime if we stay open and so choose.
Teaching people to educate themselves and trust their own knowing about their horses as the people who should know their horse the best is part of my job in teaching humans to work with horses.
We are the advocates for the horses in our care and the horses feedback is there for us to listen to if we choose.

08/19/2026

Amazing watching this mare develop as a lead horse.
I have found that often horses that are naturally predisposed to leading on the trail ( yes still a skill that needs to be developed), tend to be really good solo adventures!
This girl seems like she loves getting out sometimes ♥️

08/19/2026

Little Moose muffin trying his legs out free jumping!
This little pony is about as cute as it gets.
4 yrs old now and such a delight to have around 💗
It’s like having a puppy and a horse combined 😆

It always feels like a good sign when the horses in your care meet you at the gate for training sessions and dip their n...
08/17/2026

It always feels like a good sign when the horses in your care meet you at the gate for training sessions and dip their nose right into the halter to get started 😊
This mare is doing so incredibly well! I’m amazed with her! When she first came in about 6 weeks ago to be started under saddle I wasn’t even sure if I was going to be able to ride her. Now she is walk trot and will
Likely be cantering before she goes home, as well as be ridden on the trail. She is one who needs consistent diet, hoof and bodywork care for optimal health and well being but the changes it has made in her and helping her learn about her balance, it has been profound! Her reactivity is pretty much gone and the lightness coming along with her is fabulous!
Plus she is so very sweet and snuggly.
I just adore this sweet mare!

Well I’ve been on another break from posting on here. It’s weird we live in a world where that makes us feel irrelevant ...
08/12/2026

Well I’ve been on another break from posting on here. It’s weird we live in a world where that makes us feel irrelevant or anxious or like we are not doing anything..
I’m still out here doing horse stuff, training, teaching, helping horses with their humans and all that.
Lots of changes, at times questioning what I’m doing but then I come back to this…
This moment, this weekend, this time spent with my horses and I am reminded why I do what I do.
I work for horses. I work for these moments for horses and their humans, those moments of connection, of pure joy, of shared experience beyond any words I could try to use to describe it… for flow state between horse and human 💗

07/27/2026

This video is of the 1/2 Fell pony I currently have in training and who is doing so very well! I am so impressed with how far she has come not only in her training but in her mental and relational skills in the past month!

This post is actually a seed for something that has been turning in me for a minute.
I’m not sure I totally have the words yet but I’m going to try…

Recently I have started working with a couple incredible mustang mares. They both came out of the wild, one at age 9 (!!!)and 6 months pregnant when she was rounded up and being shipped off to the kill pens 💔 more on her later as she will be coming in for some training in a few months.
The other mare was wild until she was 6 yrs old and then rounded up and put through one of the Mustang Challenges where they show case everything the horse has learned how to do in 30 days or maybe 90 days.
These two mares have the kind of presence that when they come into a space their spirit is immediately humbling to be in the presence of.
Now this is the part I’m not quite sure I have words for …
These horses are different than domestic bred horses. I don’t have any photos or videos of them yet because I have to be so incredibly present every moment with them.
We were out on the trail hiking yesterday and I decided I needed to try and write about this…
The Mustang challenges have been quite valuable in popularizing the Mustang and showing their incredible versatility and ability to live in the human world but the part that often gets left out is what working in that kind of high pressure environment can do to them. The mare who went through the challenge is exquisite and luckily ended up with an amazing human. She will pretty much do whatever you ask her to do but how she does it is heartbreaking. This beautiful horse who survived in the wild for 6 yrs and likely raised multiple babies out there, has been reduced to an anxious, fidgety, pushy ball of stress. Very likely on her way to being a dangerous horse if something does not change.
When we put high levels of pressure on horses to “ preform” for us,even if it looks real pretty from the outside, the damage that can be done is extreme. This highly intelligent, capable mare had those qualities stripped from her in her foundation training and the result is fear doing something as simple as walking through an open gate. Luckily her human is doing right by her and I think all it is going to take for her is to slow everything down and give her back some agency over her experience and learning how to work with humans. Learning that not all humans will make her and take her and fry her nervous system.
When we were out on the trail yesterday I was almost dropped to my knees watching this incredible spirit show us how beautiful and capable she is out there. Her bubble of awareness was bigger than any horse I have ever seen. The way she smelled the air and mapped the space and moved with a wild confidence made me stop in my tracks of what I think I know. It was so clear to me the insult it would be to approach her in a way that told her I knew best and to follow my lead ( be a strong leader). Instead we approached her by asking if she would be willing to work with us. Asking her.. what would it take of us to be worthy of your connection out here?
Of course we need her to be safe with us but how we do that feels so different than many of the horses I work with.
She is the one in this case who knows best how to navigate the wild.. it is our job as the humans to figure out how to be worthy of her attention 💗
I am honored and humbled beyond believe to get to work with these majestic creatures and their very kind special humans.

Was looking through pictures the other day and came across this old one of when I use to show on the circuit this time o...
07/19/2026

Was looking through pictures the other day and came across this old one of when I use to show on the circuit this time of year.
Most people in my horse world don’t know me this way anymore and although I am grateful to be working with horses in a way that feels much more aligned with me, its fun to look back and be reminded I have done alot of different work with horses over many many years.

07/16/2026

This horse loves to run!! You can tell it’s in his blood. He has been sitting for awhile as I’m busy with other horses and things and although he is such a good boy about just chillin these days, he nickers at me daily to do something with him. At first I thought it was just about food but when he nickers at me even when he has alfalfa, I realized he is asking to get out and engage ♥️
It’s a good problem to have when all your horses want to do stuff with you 🥰

This mare definitely has some disfunction showing up through her feet. These are photos of her back feet. Many people ...
07/15/2026

This mare definitely has some disfunction showing up through her feet.
These are photos of her back feet.
Many people are familiar with high/low syndrome but it’s not as often you see it in the back feet.
You can see the scoop in her anterior hoof making her overweight her heels and putting a heavy strain on the back chain of her body.
She is only 5 and getting her pelvis lock addressed, building strength in her balance and continuing to work with her nervous system, I am hopeful we will see big changes.
It’s been less than a month and I am already seeing shifts. Not only physically but in her emotional state as well.

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