Classical Dressage Art in Motion

  For those of us that are horse owners who call Upstate New York home for 12 months a year, 2025/2026 winter has been full of challenges.  Despite the best of preparations farms have been waist deep in snow or ice since mid-November. Just getting from A to B has required fortitude. High winds, white out conditions and no real break from bitter cold down to -35 degrees F for days on end has made this winter seem eternal and we can't wait for sun and warmth. It has been decidedly not fun. And yet, the horses don't seem to mind this weather much at all.     Eventually the sun has come out, and the temperatures have warmed to almost freezing on the occasional day during February. Roll on March! Thankfully the weather pattern is supposed to go to a more 'normal' program in the next few weeks. But of course as its March, that means more snow. Here at our farm at Willowview Hill Farm, we are fortunate to enjoy the benefit of a sturdy Morton built indoor arena. We put it up...