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No affiliate dumps, no fluff. Just the sheets, checklists, and reading that have genuinely helped me keep Marshall and Harvey well.
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Everyone will tell you how to ride the horse. Almost nobody tells you what paperwork to chase down before he ships, what to ask a barn manager on day one, or what "full board" actually includes. This isn't a beginner's guide, it's the logistics nobody hands you when a horse goes from someone else's to yours.
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The records your horse's vet, farrier, and future self will wish you'd kept, in one simple, ready-to-use set of sheets. It's the same kit I use for Harvey, and it's free.
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The page I hope you never need. Fill it in, put it in a sheet protector, hang it where anyone would look, so that on the worst night, a stranger holding your horse knows his normal temperature, what he can’t have, and who to call. The second page is how to actually take a horse’s vitals, written for someone whose hands are shaking.
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Harvey came off the track with papers that stop exactly where they got interesting. Marshall’s whole life lives in my memory, which is an equally fragile place to keep something that matters. This is the paper record I built out of both problems, including the page no spreadsheet holds: what I’d want a stranger to know about him.
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Board, shoes, and a lesson is the number people quote you before you buy a horse, and it’s wrong by roughly half, because the expensive part isn’t monthly. It’s the eight-hundred-dollar Tuesday you didn’t see coming. This is the worksheet I fill in every January, unflinching version.
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I board at a flat barn. No hills, no bank, no long uphill trot to build a back with. Everyone said poles, and every article I found told me to set them four feet apart as though every horse arrives with the same legs. So I bought eight poles and worked out the rest. Ten exercises with poles, five more in the round pen, all of them drawn, and the ten-minute method for measuring your own horse's stride so the distances actually fit him.
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Once the Playbook's first four weeks feel easy, this is what comes next. Think Pilates for your horse: small, slow, correct, and often. Every session runs like a class, with a proper warm up, about ten minutes of poles, and a stretchy cool down. Six set-ups, a four-week program with a card for every session, and a way to actually see the topline coming in instead of guessing.
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What I use
A short, slowly-growing list of the things in my tack room, feed room, and notebook that have earned their place. I only list what I'd put on my own horses, and I'll always tell you plainly if something's a partnership.
The thing I keep muttering about building
Keeping Harvey's record by hand taught me how much a horse's life slips away when it lives in a binder, a vet's inbox, and someone's memory. Marshall's whole history lives in my memory, and that's a fragile place to keep something that matters. So I'm slowly building HorseStory: a portable record of a horse's whole life, in one place. It's early, and it grew out of this journal rather than the other way around.
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