Talbot Run Equestrian Center

No Guts Glory Farm teamed up with the Talbot Run RRP team to judge best turned out at Timonium today for the Maryland State Fair. We had a great day judging and presenting awards in each race to the grooms and horses with the best turn out!

Good luck Grizzly and Gretchen at the American Eventing Championships in Lexington Kentucky!

Last day of camp! So many thanks to all our fabulous staff and working students it was an awesome summer!

12 years ago and today-a great kid and the best lesson pony! Eleanor and Wave!

Another typical weekend at TREC Tetrathalon rally with pony club-two days of running shooting swimming and riding, dressage show at By Chance farm, JEL team try outs for our equitation team , all day lessons Sat, and our annual pool party for pony club. Ending the summer with a bang!

Thank you Gina and Angelina for hosting another great pony club pool party! Everyone had a fantastic time! Also many thanks to our barn community for celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary! Where else would we be but with you! Here’s to 40 more!

Barn family and all the love and support helping our riders grow into caring horse lovers is the best! Anyone have some photos to add?

Our riders at TREC exemplify team spirit and support for each other as well! Enjoying our passion and the ups and downs of our sport with our horses!

"Aw, look how they hold hands when they go to the other side of the net?" my teenage daughter said. "I'm loving the women supporting women vibe of this Olympics!"

And as I watched Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng, the United States' best beach volleyball pair, interlock their fingers as they walked to their bench, I totally got what my daughter was saying because beautiful moments like these are happening like rapid fire right now.

It's Allyson Felix launching a first-of-its-kind nursery for athlete mothers at the Olympics, and marathon runner Aliphine Tuliamuk and judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou advocating for breastfeeding space.

It's watching U.S. women's soccer coach Emma Hayes walking with her arm around Japan's Maika after a hard-fought loss.

It's Suni Lee and Simone Biles cheering on Brazil's Rebeca Andrade during the all-around, knowing what the three of them have overcome in the last few years.

It's rugby player Ilona Maher inspiring young girls to love their bodies no matter what the size.

It’s Katie Ledecky sharing the podium with her teammate Paige Madden.

It's South Korea's shooting Silver medalist and maybe the coolest person at the Olympics Ye-ji Kim carrying around a stuffed elephant that her daughter gave her.

It's Sha'Carri Richardson walking over to Julien Alfred after losing the 100m race and giving her a hug, then gleefully celebrating her Silver medal along with her teammate who won Bronze..

Millions of women seeing women supporting women. It is so powerful. It spreads like wildfire.

It's Adele stopping a concert to watch the women's 100m race last night.

It's Shannon Miller jumping for joy when Simone Biles broke her medal record.

It's Michele Kang contributing to lesser-known sports and women's teams, and the first stadium built for women’s sports in KC. (And shout out to Flavor Flav for helping out the women's water polo team because he's a "girl dad.")

When we see women supporting women instead of cutting them down, it's when the game changes, it's when we can meet our potential, and it's when we become unstoppable forces in this world.

Sports has always had a direct effect on society on multiple levels, from supporting vulnerable and marginal groups and rallying a nation in transition to building confidence and creating opportunities for youth.

We are living change right now, and dang, girls! You are killing it!

Even if you are not a sports fan, there is something electric about what's happening right now. Use it as a spark to engage with your daughters and with your sons.

And when you have an opportunity to lift a girl up, take it. There is enough success for all of us.

So, when I saw those two teammates walking hand in hand back onto that sandy court, I felt the vibe that my daughter was talking about.

And I want to see more of it, too.

Love hard. It's the only thing that matters.

Whitney Fleming Writes

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Hey everyone-take advantage of some great offers as our Pony Club offers its annual Pampered Chef Fundraiser! Take a look! Thanks Erin!

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Talbot Run and No Guts No Glory farm is sending a team! Gretchen and Wednesday Chloe and Scintillio Angelina and Belfour Addie and Pickles Info soon on how you can help support their journey!

Woohoo pony club riders!

US Equestrian Announces Changes for U.S. Olympic Eventing Team Before Start of Paris 2024 US Equestrian has announced a team substitution to the U.S. Olympic Eventing Team prior to the start of competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Traveling reserve combination Liz Halliday and Nutcracker will move into the three-member team, replacing Will Coleman and Diabolo.

Something to share with younger riders and think about!

A small stab in the heart is what you feel when you put up the day's riding list and you see riders sinking heavily in their shoulders when reading which horse they are assigned for the lesson. A small stab in the heart for that horse that for an hour will carry around a rider who has already decided that he does not like his horse. A small stab in the heart for the horse that did not choose the rider himself but still does his best, lesson after lesson.

Riding is a privilege and something you have chosen to do. If you chose to ride at a riding school, your instructor assumes that you actually want to learn how to ride. The instructor's highest wish is that you get good at it.

Often there is a plan and a thought as to why you are assigned to that exact horse. Before you mount up next time, ask yourself "what can this horse teach me today?" All horses have something to give, a feeling or a new tool in the box.

The art is actually in being able to get a lazy horse to move forward, to get an uncertain horse to gain confidence, a naughty horse to focus or a tense horse to be released. It takes work. If you think a horse is boring, it's more likely that you don't ride the horse as well as you think! It's not easy to be confronted with your own shortcomings, but it is in that very situation that you get the chance to truly grow as a rider.

The excuse that "it's not my kind of horse" is actually a really bad excuse. A good rider can ride any kind of horse. A good rider has trained many hours on different types of horses to become a good rider. A good rider can find and manage the gold nuggets in every horse.

If we absolutely want to ride, it is our duty to strive to do it as best as possible, even if it's only for fun. We owe it to every horse that carries us upon it's back.

Copied and shared with love for all of our horses, ponies and riders 🐎❤🐎

Teamwork

Uspc champs 2024 is a wrap! Great work-lots of riding ribbons -really impressive horse management and teamwork! The horses arrived home early this am and are looking forward to a couple of days off:) Also made a bunch of new friends from all over the country! Many thanks to Coach Robin and our incredible support team of parents who cheered us on!

Day 2-some great rides and some challenges…

Team Talbot Run

Proud of our riders and stable managers-so many perfect turnouts and great first rides! We are rocking it! And fun team building at night!

Amelia and Baloo Rocking their first clear round at TET