Willow Grove Stable Inc.

12/02/2025

Tuesday thoughts 💭

12/02/2025

Hello December 🐴

12/01/2025

The most photogenic (and photographed) member of Team Willow Grove. The keeper of the barn - Miss Almond 😻

12/01/2025

Why are you feeding the horses when you should be feeding me? Oh Almond 🙀

11/29/2025

Details in riding are really just another word for Horsemanship. And the little things? They matter. A lot.

• Run up your stirrups — your future self (and your coach) will thank you
• Use your keepers — they exist for a reason 😉
• Make sure your stirrup leathers aren’t twisted when you ride
• 🧽 Clean your tack after every ride — yes, every ride
• Pick out your horse’s feet before and after, and 🧹 sweep up
• And of course… clean up their 💩 (they’re very consistent about providing it)

Because at Willow Grove, the small habits build great riders. 💜🐴

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. 💜🐴