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How to maintain order in your barn – keep the horses and the aisle under control!!

5 Easy Rules for Maintaining Order in your Stable Whether it’s for turnout, a hand walk, the treadmill, or a ride, your horses should get out of their stalls multiple times a day.  Even though it’s good for the horses to get out of the stall often, it can be bad for your aisle – ... Read more
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The Basics: Food & Water

When you manage a barn and care for horses, you have to “expect the unexpected”.  You never know when you might have to wait for a farrier, vet, client, or shipper; stay late to monitor a sick horse; or take some time to chat with a staff member or client.  Anything’s possible.  Having good systems ... Read more
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Stop Wasting Time and Resources! 3 Ways to Run your Barn Efficiently

There is always something to do in a barn.   Whether you’re the trainer, the barn manager, the groom, or the rider, you can always keep working…  Between keeping the barn and horses clean, maintaining your property, calling clients, vendors, vets and farriers, organizing day sheets and vet records and receipts – the list is literally ... Read more
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A Sport of Tradition Welcomes Technology

After taking about 6 months off to have a baby, it felt great to get back up on the proverbial horse.  As soon as the doctor said it was okay to ride, I rode a few times at home, and then helped my dear friends at Newbury Farm at the 3rd week of the Vermont ... Read more
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Infant Care or Horse Care – Software Makes It Easier!

Give yourself a break – let StableSecretary keep your equine records organized! As I mentioned in my introductory blog, I had a baby girl, Emma Rose, on May 25th.  To me, the first month of infant care was analogous to caring for four hunters at indoors that all show on the same days and nights.  ... Read more
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Make Barn Management Easier with Stable Secretary!

Why did I create Stable Secretary? I created Stable Secretary because I wanted the best of all worlds: to work in the most elite parts of the Show Horse industry; to have a little bit more free time; and to have a little bit less frustration and stress… It seems like a lot of trainers ... Read more
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Why have a blog?

Why do I have a blog? I am starting this blog for a few reasons. First, I actually enjoy writing and one of my (many) ideas for supporting-myself-while-doing-something-I-love has been to write a book.  I’ve started a few times.  Writing a book proves to be very difficult, so maybe this will be good practice for ... Read more
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Welcome to my blog!

Who is Kate Rice? That’s such a tough question to answer…  But here goes!  I’m a 37 year old woman who has gone down many interesting paths in her life!  I trust that things happen for reasons.  Steve Jobs puts it eloquently in his Stanford speech, “Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you ... Read more
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STABLESECRETARY BRINGS BARN MANAGEMENT TO THE FUTURE

New software solution helps Show Horse trainers and barn managers stay organized Natick, Mass. – May 7, 2013 – Today, StableSecretary announced that its new software is available to horse trainers, barn managers and stable owners worldwide. StableSecretary, the mobile and Internet software application that enables horse trainers, barn managers, and stable owners to manage ... Read more
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