Susan Glover

Goodbye 2021! Looking Back, Looking Forward.

By Susan Glover. Ok, 2022. Let’s do this. 2021 started badly for me and my horse Steve. Well, it actually started great and then went downhill like a runa...

Goals and Abscesses

I am a very goal-oriented person, as are most competitive riders, I suspect. Even as a child I rode a lot of green horses and ponies (the first horse I owned, w...

“Horsemanship” is a Journey

Horsemanship is a word we all hear as something we are losing. As in: “Kids these days aren’t taught horsemanship. They expect everything to be done for them an...

What Inspires You?

Where do you get inspiration? As I am in the process of trying to finish writing a book (something I would NOT recommend to any thinking person who likes the...

Hope, Pt. 2

Originally I was going to write something about bringing a horse back into work when it has been off due to injury (or surgery, in our case), but, in all honest...

On Horses and Hope

One of best and worst things about horses is hope. Hope that you will put in a good round, that your horse will survive illness or an injury, hope that you will...

How To Make Horse Shows Better

There are a lot of things we could change in the horse show world. I think that if we could change one thing that would make it easier for amateur riders to par...

What is the Amateur Category For?

Susan Glover competing her horse Steve. Photo by Jaime Loichinger. There have been a lot of issues raised recently in the hunter-jumper world over horse showin...