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Short Fuse

On February 11, 2025 by Erika Eckstrom

“I don’t have a short fuse, you just don’t know when you lit it.”

Sometimes a movie quote hits in a different way and this one stuck with me (from “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”).

I think we often blame our horses for “exploding” or “overreacting” without realizing how long they’ve been simmering on the issue… that we started.

Horses don’t plot or hold grudges.

But they can sit on tension and anxiety.

And each horses has a different capacity for the amount of energy they absorb.

  • Some can take in a lot of stress, transform it and let it right back out safely so that we never know it even happened. Godbless the lesson horse.
  • Some can’t hold onto much and it comes out in little bursts.
  • and some have an endless storage capacity for stress and they take it and take it – awaiting release like a ticking timebombs.

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Erika Eckstrom

Erika Eckstrom

As the owner of Painted Bar Stables, the premier public riding facility in the N.Y. Finger Lakes Region, Erika hosts over 5,000 trail riders and lesson students per year on her herd of 30+ horses. An avid horsewoman and traveler, Erika has spent the past decade combining those passions and repackaging them into adventurers for all levels. From walk only trail rides to EquiTreks through the Finger Lakes National Forest to endurance races with seasoned riders across the Biltmore Estate, her goal is to craft personal experiences and memories for the riders sharing her love of the trails and the adventures to be found out there Erika has received numerous honors for her work, including the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2014 by the U.S. Small Business Administration for the Syracuse N.Y. District. Erika is the organizer of the annual Schuyler Equine Conference and serves on the marketing advisory board for the Finger Lakes Tourism Association as well as the Schuyler County Cornell Cooperative Extension Pro-Ed Committee.

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