Hollow Hills Equestrian Centre

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas from our family to yours♥️

12/16/2024

12/16/2024

Christmas Holiday day camps. We have availability

Hollow Hills prides itself on offering safe and friendly opportunities for riders of all ages to learn and grow their knowledge and skills. One way to foster this is by offering equestrian camps for young riders. These camps include: learning about stable management, horse care and horsemanship, gam...

12/09/2024

We have a few day camps available. See link provided for more details

Hollow Hills prides itself on offering safe and friendly opportunities for riders of all ages to learn and grow their knowledge and skills. One way to foster this is by offering equestrian camps for young riders. These camps include: learning about stable management, horse care and horsemanship, gam...

12/09/2024

More on the German phrase that says “riding is only learned by sweeping.”

I remember an example of this one night, about 40 years ago, when I was spending a month at Walter Christensen’s dressage training stable, Stal Tasdorf, in Tasdorf, Germany. (photo of Walter teaching)

Walter’s main barn had a cobblestone type of floor, hard to keep clean because of all the indentations, and in various corners were funny little Hansel and Gretel type brooms, straight handles with what looked like a bunch of twigs wired to one end.

Everyone had left, all the working students, all the riders, and here was the master, then coach of the Swedish Olympic dressage team, vigorously giving the aisle one last cleanup before turning out the lights.

In the great scheme of things, why would it matter one iota whether the aisle was immaculate? Early next morning, when all the horses were being fed, hay and straw would get spilled all around, and who was going to see that floor in the middle of the night?

But that’s not the point, is it? And for those who do see the point, they probably would have been at one end of the broom. And for those who can’t grasp why it mattered to Walter, they’d have left it as it was.

To what extent can pride in a way of doing things be taught? Because that’s what’s at play here, I think.

And pride in one detail spills over into pride about other details, until it creates a mindset, a way of being. Or not---And in that way, sweeping teaches riding, tenuous as the connection might seem.

11/14/2024

Some of the kids today….
Black beauties
Whispering Breeze
Sistas!

11/04/2024

11/01/2024

Happy Halloween!🎃

10/30/2024

We have some nice horses and ponies available for part board.

Cover Boy available for part board has a silver pass. Large palomino pony

Mickey available for part board. Large paint pony. Available to show shoreline or silver. Up to 2’3

Vicar available for part board. 16.3 Clyde thb cross. Great all around horse also available to compete up to 2’3

Dash available for part board as walk trot/leadline/trail. Chestnut medium pony.

Bronze is available for part board to an experienced rider and wants to trail ride/obstacle work.

Breeze is available for part board to an experienced kid. She is available to show silver and welsh shows.

10/29/2024

Congratulations to Natalie and Link on a successful week at stableview for the T.I.P championships in Aiken, South Carolina

10/27/2024

Congratulations team, On your over all year end accomplishments!

Cora-2nd C equitation division, 4th C equitation flat

Ella - 2nd B equitation division, 6th B equitation flat, 7th children’s pony

Bryce- 1st medium pony division, 3rd B equitation division, 4th B equitation flat

Tucker- 3rd C equitation flat, 1st cross rail hunter division, 1st puddle hunter division

Jen- 7th adult equitation

10/23/2024

10/11/2024

Fall evenings are the best!!!

10/10/2024

Nominations for our Special Awards must be in no later than October 31st. Please send your nominations for these awards to [email protected]. A short write up of why your nomination is deserving of the award should be included.

SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
The Sportsmanship Award is given to a member that has demonstrated good sportsmanship throughout the year.

MENTORSHIP AWARD
The Mentor Award is given to someone that is nominated by a junior member. The junior must write a small essay on why this person is their mentor.

CHELSEA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Chelsea Award is presented to either a Welsh Pony or Cob, or member who has shown a lifetime of devotion to promoting the breed. Nominations for the Chelsea Award stay active for 3 years. Any nominations that expire after 3 years can be resubmitted.