Riding Free Blog: Saddle Up!

Horse Tips

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We have done everything from staying at a hotel nearby to camping in the back of our truck at rodeos, so I feel pretty confident answering the question of ‘what to bring to a rodeo.’ Here’s an older post with 3 tips for starting rodeo. I’ll start by explaining a little about how they work […]

Riding Free Tack Rodeo Weekend Checklist

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Horse Tips

We have done everything from staying at a hotel nearby to camping in the back of our truck at rodeos, so I feel pretty confident answering the question of ‘what to bring to a rodeo.’ Here’s an older post with 3 tips for starting rodeo. I’ll start by explaining a little about how they work […]

Riding Free Tack Rodeo Weekend Checklist

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Mama Stuff

We are in the thick of it, friend, as you might be too. Abby has done middle school volleyball and basketball, 4-H, all in conjunction with rodeo. Now, while rodeo is a few weekends out of the year for our district (CHSRA D7), it requires a ton of preparation just to be competitive, and sometimes even preparation doesn’t land you in the top 10. Here are some tips for how we juggle it!

Fitting in Riding Time and juggling team sports.

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Mama Stuff

When we pulled up to our first rodeo, rusted bumper pull and our truck with nearly 250K miles on it, to say I was insecure was an understatement. I saw lines of beautiful LQ trailers (living quarters horse trailers), brand new trucks and groups of people who looked like they’d known each other for ages gathering in between them.

3 Tips for your First Rodeo: Plus some first rodeo hacks.

Mama Stuff

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So news flash, my kids are not placing in the top of their events, if at all, in rodeo and we are certainly not running a saddle empire. We don’t have a big, beautiful ranch with thousands of head of cattle like I would love, we have ONE dairy cow. The squares on our feed […]

Why we share our journey on the gram

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Mama Stuff

So news flash, my kids are not placing in the top of their events, if at all, in rodeo and we are certainly not running a saddle empire. We don’t have a big, beautiful ranch with thousands of head of cattle like I would love, we have ONE dairy cow. The squares on our feed […]

Why we share our journey on the gram

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Mama Stuff

Own your journey and make sure it’s yours…we’ve all heard the saying, “comparison is the thief of joy.”

It’s all About the Personal Best