The Grassroots Eventer

11/09/2025

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11/09/2025

How fun!

11/04/2025

Quick Tip Tuesday ⭐️

Some of you have already started your Christmas shopping, others are waiting for Black Friday, and still others will be racking their brains on Christmas Eve... 🎄

This is a reminder to remember your trainer, barn manager, stable hands!

Below are some simple, but perfect gift ideas for your barn crew... 🎁

Some things to think about when choosing your gifts...

💰Cash is always a great gift, gift cards not so much
🛍Unless they specifically ask for it, don't give them a gift card to your favorite tack store... the money will only be spent on the horses or the business and not the receiver!
🎟 Think experience gifts! A night out to the movies, a spa day, a new restaurant... give them the reminder that there is life beyond the barn
🍲 A hot, home-cooked meal on a cold day goes a LONG way! Let them know that you realize how hard their job can be, and that you appreciate them going above and beyond!

I have received some really thoughtful gifts over the years, and I remember them fondly 💜

What are some of your favorites gifts that you ha e given or received? Comment below 👇👇

10/28/2025

10/28/2025

Quick Tip Tuesday⭐️

Heading into winter with tails that drag on the ground, and long feathers?

This draft cross has a beautiful, thick tail that grows like a w**d and needs trimming several times a year. He also gets feathers and they do a great job of protecting him from all manner.of insult and injury.

Last winter was full of mud and ice... the result were these muddy ice balls! He didn't complain at all, and it sounded like wind chimes walking into the barn 😂

Some people will wrap their horse's tails in a tail bag... this is a great idea for a horse who will not try to rub it out!

This guy lives by the motto of "less is more" and would decide his tail being up for 14 hours every night is not good.

Next month, ahead of winter storms, he will get a trim to avoid this. 😉

10/22/2025

🥶 Baby it's COLD outside! 🥶

Ok, maybe I am being a bit dramatic... It IS late October, and it is supposed to be cold ❄️

Let's face it, though, we all dread the big, bulky layers that make us look and feel like Ralphie's little brother, Randy!

Equestrians need lightweight, low-profile warm layers so we can do our chores with freedom of movement and not go from sweating 🥵to freezing🥶 because our layers aren't quite right.

I was gifted these base layers for Christmas a few years ago and LOVE them 😍

Light weight, breathable, and super stretchy for freedom of movement, and let's throw in that they are super affordable!

Check them out on Amazon today!

Amazon.com: base layer 32 degrees

10/22/2025

10/21/2025

Lots to think about here!

This year’s Mars Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill CCI5*-L started dressage with 22 entries—the smallest group of horses the competition has fielded in its five-year history. Spectators are coming; organizers note that attendance is up 11% year over year. The problem is that riders, by and large, are not.

Link in comments 👇

10/21/2025

Quick Tip Tuesday! ⭐️

10/18/2025

The Thoroughbred is intelligent, athletic, powerful, adjustable... all that and more!

10/18/2025

Good luck to all of the riders at Midsouth today!

10/18/2025