Willow Grove Stable Inc.

11/22/2025

There comes a point in every rider’s life when he wonders if it’s all worth it. Then one look at the horse, and he realizes – it!

11/22/2025

Fridays at Willow Grove are a reminder that riding is more than lessons:

It’s horses teaching patience 🐴
Ponies teaching humility 🦄
Friends teaching confidence 🤩
Murphy teaching… well… Judging 😜

And jumps teaching us that courage grows one stride at a time. 💜

11/20/2025

Some days you teach the horse… and other days, they turn around and teach you.

That’s the magic of our barn family — every ride is a conversation, not a command. Horses have a beautiful way of reminding us to stay humble, stay curious, and stay open to learning.

Because at Willow Grove, progress doesn’t come from perfection… it comes from listening just as much as we lead.

Here’s to showing up, growing together, and letting our horses be the best teachers we’ll ever have. 🌿🐴

11/19/2025

Almond was chilly today. 🥶 So she found Danielle’s gloves and heater in the feed room to get warm. 😻

11/16/2025

Just a typical Saturday at the barn 🐴😍

11/16/2025

Congratulations 💖

It’s not every day you get to watch one of your homebred ponies compete at The Royal in Toronto. Thanks to his owner Shanti and her family I have been apart of his journey. Congratulations Two Willows Cadbury on a second place finish in the in hand portion and a win in the undersaddle class of the 2025 Pony Cup.

Two Willows Cadbury is sired by The Key out of Tiny Dancer II.

11/13/2025

Building a Barn Family: The Power of Kindness

Horses have a magical way of bringing us together — strangers turn into friends, and friends turn into barn family.

On World Kindness Day, let’s lean into what makes our community so special. Offer a hand, share a smile, cheer someone on, or simply give yourself a little grace. Those small moments of kindness make the barn feel like home for all of us — two-legged and four-legged alike.

A little kindness in the barn truly goes a long way. 💜🐴

11/13/2025

A great chance to work with the accomplished April Clay. Check it out!! 🐴 🧠

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11/13/2025

What horse dreams are made of! 🍎 🍏

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11/12/2025

When the Skies Blushed 11/11/11 💖
📷 Kaya and Zara

11/11/2025

Murphy: “You missed a spot.”

Also Murphy: “Fine, I’ll supervise.” 🐶🧹

Huge thanks to Angela and Barb for joining the clean-up crew with Trish this morning. Many hands (and paws) make light work—especially when someone’s barking out orders! 💜

11/11/2025

...and amongst the men lay the horses, eight million involuntary souls...Stunning and poignant sculpture by Tavernor Art

“I’m so very proud of this sculpture and l’ll never shy away from placing it outside of the gallery, at this time of the year, while I still have the strength to do so. I feel incredibly moved by the reaction it always gets each year from passers by in the street to people coming into the gallery to shake my hand and tell me stories of how it effects them.
It often brings people to tears when they see what it represents. Thank you to all those who feel as I do about the sacrifice not just of the men but also the animals who have no voice of there own.”