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Friday, September 12, 2025

Going Backwards In Your Horse Training - Not By Design

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Grand Prix trainer Paul Alvin-Smith at home   Training horse and rider takes a lot of time and patience. It can also be a very rewarding exp...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

A Farmer's Life - Weather Woes For Hay Season 2025

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Working with what Mother Nature dishes out comes with the territory in farming life and this summer season has thus far offered a menu of up...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Canadian Hay In Your Barn??

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If you buy hay from Canada to feed your livestock or in particular, horses, then you certainly know that a substantial price increase is hig...
Friday, March 7, 2025

All Around Good Time - Writing and Riding

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  Variety is the spice of life, and for horse people it is no different. Many of us wear multiple hats including the riding helmet, and are ...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Propionic Acid In Your Horse's Hay - Good or Bad?

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Hey - What's in your hay?   Organic Hay Supplies At Willowview Hill Farm   Today, the vast majority of large round and square hay bales ...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Winter Horse Training Tips

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Winter Horse Training Tips    When winter finally arrives - and it will - motivation to keep your horses in full training can often wane.  ...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Professional Horse Trainers Halt Video/Photo Recording

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    There is a new movement afoot in professional horse training circles to restrict videography and photography - to contain the message or...
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Nikki
I am proud to say I am a proven Grand Prix dressage trainer/competitor and am still a work in progress. As a European I am very happy to have competed successfully in Europe and enjoyed GP scores of over 72%. Over the years I have been blessed to train with several dressage Olympians and have sucked up knowledge as any dressage aficionado would do. I read extensively and am also a published writer, photographer and artist. I have been published worldwide including by the much revered The Chronicle of The Horse in the USA. Together with my husband Paul, who is also an accomplished Grand Prix rider and naturally the love of my life,my FEI Swiss coach Greta Kemmer, and long time student and now trainer in her own right, Tina Hammond, I provide clinics and dressage lessons in the USA and Europe. Since 1993 I have operated a small warmblood and baroque breeding program with my husband at our farm in the Hudson Valley and now in Catskill Mountains of New York. Never a dull day here! Look for my latest book Road Map to Grand Prix Dressage release date Spring 2018!
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