Community Spotlight | Vintage Farm

Community Spotlight | Vintage Farm

A Lasting Gift | Vintage Farm Will Impact Students for Decades to Come by Cynthia McFarland Located in the southern part of Marion County where some of the area’s oldest thoroughbred farms were first established, Vintage Farm is a testament to how land can...
Finding the Perfect Horse Track Property

Finding the Perfect Horse Track Property

If you take a look at Marion County in Florida from the air (seriously, Google Earth it), you’ll find the landscape heavily dotted with curious, sand-colored, oblong loops. Each one is a horse track, and any one of them could be the training ground for the next...
Saddle Fit | Bad Horse? More like “Bad Saddle!”

Saddle Fit | Bad Horse? More like “Bad Saddle!”

By Jochen Schleese, CMS, CSFT,CSE © 2017 Saddlefit 4 Life® Many people agree with the statement that ‘horses do not consciously behave badly’. They react to outside stimuli – either a poorly-fitting saddle or an untrained rider can cause these kinds of behaviours. How...