Blue Gate Farm

Blue Gate Farm Blue Gate Farm offers
Riding and Vaulting Lessons
Horse care is part of the lesson

02/06/2025
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Everybody know that one of my favorite mares in the peaks is the glamor girl herself, Tigress! It was pretty cool that when I went to visit them, and I was knelt down behind some sage, didn't take Tigress love to come up and say hello. lol Tigress, who turns 16 this year, is about as stunning as they come, and she is the lead mare in Jicarilla's band. For as long as I have photographed her, I always get awestruck by her long amazing mane! Just gets me every time. Also, she's one of Tuff's kiddos. 😉❤️

McCullough Peaks Wild Horses

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02/06/2025

1991. Spendthrift farm. Sham. What a talent he was.

02/06/2025

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02/06/2025

Nick Skelton on Everest Dollar Girl, Calgary, Canada. DuMaurier International Grand Prix 1993

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The great Marion Coakes and the Pony Stroller coming down the famous Hickstead back, Marion won the Hickstead derby at just 20 years of age. An incredible feat.

02/06/2025

Indio 1969 Crocodile 6' jump
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a remarkable Appaloosa gelding named Crocodile captured attention on the West Coast show jumping circuit. However, for his rider, the late Tw***ie Nissen, some of her most significant achievements were not related to jumping colored poles.

Originally named Dorothy Watson, Nissen exhibited her strong-willed and determined character from a young age, famously telling her father, William Harris Watson, that she would not respond to her given name. She adopted the nickname Tw***ie, bestowed upon her by her father, and carried it throughout her life.
Her introduction to horseback riding occurred during her childhood at an all-girls school, where six enthusiastic students shared a single horse, fostering her passion for the sport.

As an adult, she wed veterinarian William “Bill” Nissen, who became her staunchest supporter and a regular groom as they navigated the West Coast show circuit together.

02/06/2025

The Victoria Native Friendship Centre seeks to attract younger people to the craft, to help them understand the importance of the Cowichan sweater’s complex history and legacy. The aim is not only to provide living wages to knitters, but also to elevate the sweater from utilitarian to sacred statu...

02/05/2025

Man o’ War, July 21, 1945.

02/05/2025

Great words 😅
credits: Manna Pro Horse

02/05/2025

One thing about visiting is that you’re never quite sure what’s on the other side… 🐎 🚀

02/05/2025

Bob Alexander driving a pair of his Gelderlanders, not a foot on the ground

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9425 Cheryl Road, Ness Lake
Prince George, BC
V2K5L9

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Diamond
Diamond

Dave
Dave

Training to become a vaulting horse. Ten minutes for this session

Dave stretching
Dave stretching

Cantering and stretching is not easy

Handstand practice
Handstand practice

Loose schooling 2
Loose schooling 2

Loose schooling
Loose schooling

Marigold self exercising
Marigold self exercising

Erick trotting blowing his nose
Erick trotting blowing his nose

Earlier in session.

Trick canter, trot
Trick canter, trot

Very windy day. Bringing Erick into work so short session today

Erick walking
Erick walking

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Lessons and training

Barbara has always wanted to be a riding instructor. So she did the best thing: went to England and trained at Crabbet Park Equitation Centre, Sussex. It was the best training she could have got.

The 40th year Reunion at Crabbet Park confirmed this feeling as other former students, clients and staff felt the same way. Crabbet Park was exceptional in its training of students in riding, horsemanship, and theory lessons. She learned excellent basics that have carried ther through to present time ( and what more could a person new to riding ask for?)

After attaining the BHSAI she worked in London at Alderbrooke Stables in East London where she looked after all the horses, rode and taught lessons. This was excellent experience for someone new to working with horses. After returning to Canada, Barbara got a call from Peter Poole at Windfields Farm offering her a job working with the horses. At Windfields Farm Barbara got to work with a variety of Thoroughbreds: yearlings: grooming for the Sales, riding the yearlings (interesting and valuable experience), breeding and foaling the mares. The horses were well bred and some would go on to become famous. Windfields Farm, at the time Barbara worked there, was one of the top breeding farms of Thoroughbreds in the world.

Eventually Barbara came back to Prince George, with her husband, bought the current farm and over the years has improved it with fencing, loafing sheds, paddocks, lunge arenas, outdoor arena and finally the indoor arena. Garth Everall has been great to have come do the cat work to improve drainage, put in a driveway to the barn and in 2016 change the footing in the arena (which the horses love).