Product Review: Ogilvy Jumper Memory Foam Half Pad

This may be one of the products I am most excited to review, the Ogilvy Jumper Memory Foam Half Pad!

I had just heard about Ogilvy Equestrian when I spotted one in the Dover Saddlery basement over a year ago. I had read about the benefits of their memory foam half pads and was skeptical of it really doing all that they claimed (I already had a memory foam half pad that was collecting dust at the bottom of my tack trunk because of my preference to a thicker sheepskin pad). But how could I not snatch it up? Little did I know that it was going to be the beginning of an addiction.Continue reading “Product Review: Ogilvy Jumper Memory Foam Half Pad”

Dilemmas of being an Equestrian: Summer Edition

First off…

Ahhhh! Sweet summertime is finally here! As always, with the change in weather comes more dilemmas of being an equestrian (do they ever really end?).

It is finally the prime time of horse show season.

When the outdoor ring turns into the Sahara Desert…

…and the indoor ring turns into a personal sauna…

…but you look at your horse like…

Sweat.

When your saddle pads are soaked with sweat and your horse is like..

Everything is so dusty, including you, that you might as well just…

You get wetter than your horse on bath day.

The bugs come out.

Sometimes it rains and you have to ride in the indoor again.

When the wind turns the outdoor ring into a sand storm.

Having to ride early in the morning to avoid the heat…

Your riding pants stick to your legs.

The sweaty helmet hair returns.

And so does the “Rider Tan”.

But it is all so worth it because you can ride on the beach…

… and gallop in fields like the cheesy horse movies.

We may complain about it all…

HAPPY EQUESTRIAN!

-TC