Ashley Minion - Pinnacle Equestrian

09/12/2024

Ford made it to Tryon! Best of luck everyone!

09/12/2024

Top Flite EV115

08/31/2024

Top Flite at Bromont CCI3*S

08/26/2024

2021, 16.1h and growing, grey, ISH gelding. Exceptional temperament and talent. An actual upper level prospect. World class breeding (Lux Z, Cruising). Going lovely under saddle and hacks anywhere. Ready to show next season!
2️⃣4️⃣k USD, price will increase with training.
Please PM for further information.

08/21/2024

Top Flite through the last water of the Bromont CCI3*S. What a boy 😍

08/16/2024

08/02/2024

We have one stall available for training or consignment. Please PM for further details.

07/23/2024

Top Flite
Glen Oro Farm EV115
July 2024

07/17/2024

⭐One Training or Consignment Spot Available
✅️Pinnacleequestrian.net
✅️Proven program developing sport horses!
✅️Quality references available!
✅️Port Perry.
✅️Please PM for further information.

07/10/2024

Congratulations to Dr. Caro Angus, DVM on the purchase of beautiful Harper.

07/09/2024

💥Due to the sale of a horse we have one spot available immediately for training or consignment! PM if interested. Pinnacleequestrian.net

07/07/2024

Thank you!

If you are in the market for a Thoroughbred definitely check out Final Furlong! They have lovely horses and are absolutely wonderful to deal with! I've sourced multiple horses from them and I'm always impressed.

06/27/2024

A lovely update from a client- our sales boy Hank on the east coast: 🤍

Hi Ashley! I thought it would be fun to send an update on Mr Hank. He is absolutely rocking the derby’s this summer and takes his cross country job very seriously. He’s quiet, brave & bold over fences, and just the most fun horse I’ve ever ridden. I’ve attached a photo from our most recent show, an ICE combined test. Believe it or not, our biggest issue at this time is being too quick 😆 never thought I would say that about Hank!

06/23/2024

Congratulations to Lia and her wonderful connections, on her sale to a fabulous home.

06/21/2024

Training/consignment stall coming available. Please PM for further details.

06/15/2024

Some shots of Top Flite through the LeMieux water complex and the ditch and wall at the Bromont CCI Three Day Event.
Thank you Tetleyphoto.com - Cealy Tetley Equestrian Photographer.

06/15/2024

Some shots of Top Flite through the LeMieux water complex and the ditch and wall at the Bromont CCI Three Day Event.
Thank you Tetleyphoto.com - Cealy Tetley Equestrian Photographer.

06/13/2024

Watch Top Flite through the first water at Bromont CCI Three Day Event!

05/28/2024

Top Flite cruising around his first EV115 Intermediate horse trial! Love this boy 🤎

05/20/2024

Top Flite was 5th in the Open EV110 Preliminary at Glen Oro Farm Horse Trial and Reserve Thoroughbred, adding just some xc time to his score (jockey will remember the xc watch next time)! ⌚️🙈

04/05/2024

*Experienced Eventer *
2011 16.3 tb gelding. Many years of experience at the upper levels. Safe, keen and brave cross country, scopey and careful showjump, reliable dressage. Always wants to please. He would suit a good riding AA or YR looking to gain experience and move up the levels. Can be strong to fences but always takes a joke. Has hunting experience. Sound, no vices.
Located in Ontario 🇨🇦
Motivated to sell - downsizing.
12k usd to a great home.

03/23/2024

The WALK - mother of all gaits

Most riders spend little time at the walk outside of "cooling out" or "warming up".

Not realizing it is the gait that BIRTHS everything you do, and REVEALS everything you may need.

"The FEI rule book once stated that it was at the pace of the walk that imperfections of dressage are most evident"

Every issue can be felt and seen through the magnifying lens of the walk.

"François de Lubersac, a master from the legendary School of Versailles in the 18th century, recognized that in dressage training, the first gait in which to train is always the walk.

Remarkably, de Lubersac, trained his horses only at the walk, and when he decided that they were ready, his horses were able to do everything at all gaits."

The walk is an anchoring gate. To teach and refine the horses balance, collectabilty, lightness, refinement, propreoception, suppleness, relaxation, lateral gymnastics, and understanding of aids... just to name a few.

There is no better gait to school these concepts then the walk. Testing things up the ladder of movement; trot and canter, and then anchoring back to the walk to fix, progress, or prepare.

The walk is the gait you "polish the stone" of all these qualities, more than any other gait.

It is the gait you come back to again and again, where the root of it all lives.

And remember, as with any gait, there is more than "just ONE walk".

Tempo, balance, stride, and frame can change in so many ways within any single gait that it lends itself to many "changes of gait within a gait", based on what that horse needs at any given moment.

In my opinion, a classical rider can easily spend an entire ride at the walk, and the higher up they ride, the more time they may spend at the walk...polishing the stone.

Mindful footfalls live in the walk.

What is your walk telling you?

03/06/2024

Looking for a future top horse?
8 yr 16.2h tb gelding with CCI**S MER results.

This horse exudes quality, excellent movement, scope, and bravery. I really think he has the makings of an advanced horse!
Many wins all along and at EV110 Preliminary and ready to move up and up. Fancy fancy on the flat! Has his changes, half pass, schooling all advanced movements. Lovely ride, beautiful and soft to fences, the kind of horse you look forward to sitting on every day! It all comes so easy to this one!
Sweet personality, no vices, great feet and very sound.

Located in Ontario 🇨🇦
High fives CAD

03/06/2024

Come check out the Can-Am All Breeds Expo in Ancaster! Rox and I have been selected to participate in the Peter Gray clinics throughout the three days.

02/16/2024

2011 16.3 gelding. Extensive experience in eventing up to preliminary and 1.15m jumpers. Brave, honest and loves a job. He could pack a confident, experienced young rider or AA around at any level. Sound, no vices. A nice experienced horse at a good price. 28k cad.
Port Perry ON.