Sunfox Dressage

01/01/2025

11/29/2024

I have an opening for a training horse to develop toward a dressage career and an opening for a horse and rider combination that is looking to further their knowledge and progress to the next level. The training program aims at guiding you and your horse to become a better team and helping you achieve your goals, both as a competitive or recreational rider.

11/22/2024

07/21/2024

How much weight can a horse carry?

In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount.

They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can’t carry it anymore.

They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babies before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations.

They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs.

If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all.

06/30/2024

Congratulations Kelsi and Griffin on your 4th level championship Well done!
PC Ashleigh Elstone

06/30/2024

Impressions from the Touch of Class dressage competition . So much fun taking this young horse to her first gold show. Thank you .r for the ride!
A big thank you to Ali Buchanan, Sarah Dunn, Nancy Olson and all the volunteers for another great show at Thunderbird Park.
A big thank you for the photos to my daughter Ashleigh

03/17/2024

Save the date for this great youth and young rider competition!!

We are excited to announce our second annual Rising Stars Youth Dressage Festival! August 16-18 2024.
Prizelist is coming soon! ✨️
If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]

02/11/2024

ISO of leaser for 9yr old Andalusian gelding. 2 days a week including one lesson. He is trained to second level dressage and is suitable for an intermediate level rider. He is located in South Langley at an indoor facility. Pm/Dm for more information.

01/29/2024

Tbird is well know for its hunter/jumper show circuit but did you know they also host 2 gold dressage shows each year? The Touch of Class Show in June and the Pacific Regional Dressage Championships at the end of September draw all levels of riders from BC, Alberta and the states.

01/20/2024

Finally the mystery about the dressage letters is solved. Thank you Cesar Torrente.

The Mystery Behind the Dressage Letters by Eitan of Cowboy Dressage - Markings found on the walls of the Royal Manstall (Stables) of the Imperial German Court in Berlin (prior to 1918) suggest that they indicated where each courtier or rider’s horse was to stand awaiting their riders. The Manstallstabled 300 of the Kaiser’s horses. The ‘Hof’ ( stable yard) was large enough for the horses and their riders to parade for ‘morning exercise’ or assemble for ceremonial parades. The ‘Hof’ was three times longer than the width, namely: 20m x 60m.

The markings on the walls of the Manstall were:A Ausgang (Exit).K Kaiser (Emperor).F Fürst (Prince).P Pferknecht (Ostler or Groom).V Vassal (Servant/Squire/Equerry).E Edeling/ Ehrengast (Chieftain or Honoured Guest).B Bannertrager (Standard Bearer).S Schzkanzler (Chancellor of the Exchequer).R Ritter (Knight).M Meier (Steward).H Hofsmarshall (Lord Chancellor).

01/16/2024

988 is a new phone number that recently went live to help people get help in a mental health crisis. Similar to 911, this line is dedicated for anyone in need of mental health assistance of any kind. Its 988.
May I please get 2 friends or family members to copy and re-post? I am trying to demonstrate that someone is always listening.
call 988
Just two. Any two.

01/16/2024

Congratulations to Julia Thul riding Falko at 4th Level and Kelsey Padula riding Sinclairs Miracle at 3rd Level for earning the silver medal of the Equestrian Canada National Dressage Recognition and Achievement Program.

Congratulations also to Gemma Vrijmoet riding Maromak Look at me at 2nd Level for being awarded a medal in the WCDD PROGRAM for juniors.