Articles | Bolender Horse Park

Breyer Horse Checkers visits Coyote Crossing Equestrian Center

by bolenderhorsepark | Jul 21, 2022 | General

Checkers and Bolender waiting to take pictures.Ellowyn Steele, The News & Advance Checkers, three-time national champion Breyer Horse, came all the way from Washington state to visit Coyote Crossing Equestrian Center in Bedford on Tuesday. Checkers was the...

Mountain Trail Course Comes To Flag Is Up Farms

by bolenderhorsepark | May 12, 2022 | General

“It was an honor to meet the Roberts family and to design and build an International Mountain Trail Challenge Association (IMTCA) mountain trail course for them,” shares Lee Bolender, Mark Bolender’s wife and co-founder of IMTCA. “The course is beautiful and we cannot...

Horse Riding, Horse Training, and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

by Maik Zannakis | Mar 29, 2019 | General

The love of horses and horsemanship is deep and enduring. There’s nothing like saddling up to your favorite horse and hitting the trails with family and friends. And a well-trained horse makes all the difference in the world.But as everyone knows, there’s a lot of...

Breaking Ice On The Trail

by jlee | Dec 6, 2018 | General

PREPARE YOUR HORSE TO CROSS FROZEN PUDDLES by Mark Bolender When trail riding in the winter, early spring, and/or late fall, you can expect to find frozen puddles. The crackling sound of breaking ice often catches horses by surprise, putting the rider at risk of being...

Teeter-Totter Demons

by jlee | Dec 6, 2018 | General

HELPING THE FEARFUL HORSE by Mark Bolender Mastering the teeter-totter is, for the most part, a simple task for the horse and will only take a few minutes. However, if it has been improperly taught it can be difficult to correct. I have had three very tough horses to...