“For coaching to create a horseman instead of just a rider, instruction has to be centered on caring for horses first.” Collegiate blogger Haley Ruffner shares her thoughts in this editorial on what she sees as a necessary change in catch riding competitions.
“Coming home is humbling, moving from the comparative grandeur of a large, heated arena to a little old cow barn held together with generations of odds and ends, filled with well-loved but not necessarily high-priced or fancy-bred horses.”
Riding as your school’s living mascot is one of the more unique and exciting (if bizarre) things you can do with a horse — and Haley Ruffner has taken up the mantle for Alfred University.
