It’s simple if you ask Rupert Issaacson originator of the Horse Boy phenomenon – “you just let the children take you on an adventure.” Rupert, with his rockstar hair and his Hollywood smile and upper caste British accent throughly delights with a boyish grin and self described “potty mouth.” He held rapt a group of…
How Do You Mix Classical Dressage, Neuroscience and Fart Humor to Reach Kids on the Autism Spectrum?
Old Friends – New Friends
The NTRA announced that this year’s education seminar at Keenland would be even bigger and better than the inaugural event last year. This year, the seminar would include the chance to tour and have a Kentucky style barbecue at Old Friends Farm. Old Friends is unique. Old Friends gives sanctuary to famous and not so…
Learn to Play Polo! A Two Day Clinic focus on youth in polo October 22 and 23
The Polo Training Foundation, the Horse Park Polo Club and the Stanford Polo Club are all committed to helping Square Peg for the fourth year running, to produce our most successful polo clinic ever. After years of working with the United States Pony Club, the Polo Association has succeeded in convincing the Pony Clubs that…
More Gifts: What I learned this summer – guest blogger, Rachel Bisaillon
Three hours. That’s it. No more. No less. In just three hours, I learned more about myself than I have this entire summer. Last Tuesday night at polo, Joell said she really needed our help the next day because a group of girls were coming to the barn to learn about horses and ride a…
Gifts
I am the friend who will forget your birthday. I hate Christmas shopping. I forget my own wedding anniversary. Thankfully, I married a man with a sense of humor and the same off-kilter understanding of sentiment and ceremony. So in the traditional sense of gift giving I am an almost total failure. However, I have learned…
A favor to ask
As you know, we at Square Peg are always looking to improve the quality of life for the horses here. We have come across a product that really engages the horses and makes for a more healthy eating style as well as to dissuade them from some dangerous and destructive habits like wood chewing and…
Negative Value?
For the horses, it must have seemed like hell week. For as long as they could remember, they lounged in green pastures with safe fencing and quality feed brought twice a day. They each had a paddock to themselves and they knew their neighbors. They grew fine and strong in keeping with their royal pedigrees. …
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Our scheduling system is now fully automated! Check it out! Last Tuesday afternoon, rain (in May?!?!) forced me to my desk to catch up on scheduling; scheduling we’ve done manually for six years, I might add. But this time, it was different. I knew our custom scheduling system would go live later this week and…
Square Peg’s “Run for the Roses” benefit, 4/28/11 A night I’ll not soon forget
It’s been four days now since our event. I still have a stack of thank you notes to get out and, amazingly, donations keep coming in the mail. I knew that I really needed to post something about the event to show how special, how magical it was. But instead, I’m going to let the…
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