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Scissortail Hill Equestrian

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Scissortail Hill Equestrian

Scissortail Hill Equestrian is a riding academy located in Austin, TX. All of this is located conveniently off of 130, 45, & 183.
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Just minutes from Austin this beautiful location offers top notch first timer, Hunter/Jumper, Event, and pleasure instruction along with quality horse training. Scissortail Hill specializes in forming strong capable confident riders in multiple disciplines, focusing on the sports of Eventing and Hunter/Jumpers. The lesson and horse training programs cater to everyone from competition riders to lei

surely weekenders, and everything in between. Our gorgeous facility provides top quality boarding options with varied riding areas, including a large jump pasture, covered arena, Dressage arena, and miles of trails. Just 20 minutes south of downtown Austin, right by the airport.

01/11/2025

Thank you to all of our volunteers, staff, and sponsors for our 2024 show season!

01/11/2025

Thank you for coming out to our 2024 Year End Awards Ceremony!

01/11/2025

We will see everybody in a little over an hour for the awards ceremony!

Come early and sit down to order food if you like.

Awards will start at 3:00 p.m.

La Bonita Mexican restaurant:
For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/Rx4fhk2kATdPmxNx7?g_st=ac

01/09/2025

Congratulations to all of the riders whom attended our 2024 Schooling Show Series!

We can't wait to see everyone at the Awards Ceremony on Saturday at 3pm!

Thank you to our 2024 sponsors:
Dover Saddlery - Austin, TX - a go to for all things horse and rider in Austin!
Fire Light Laser - A local business to check out for awards, custom gifts, dog/blanket/halter tags, and more!
Art of Joi - Her ability to capture each animals soul in her paintings in exemplary!
The Jefferson Family - From running our office to helping us with awards Melissa is always there for us!
La Bonita Mexican Restaurant - Our local stop for amazing Mexican home cooking!

01/08/2025

2024 Scissortail Year End Awards Ceremony
This Saturday, the 11th at 3:00 p.m.
La Bonita Mexican Restaurant
(1 mile south of our main gate)

Everyone is invited to come celebrate all the achievements we had in 2024! Riders who achieved placings will receive their awards and prizes at this event.

In lieu of a charge per person we require everyone to spend at least $15 per person at the restaurant. They have a full bar and we will have a special event menu.

Come early to get seated and order food, as the awards ceremony will start at 3:00 p.m. We usually don't take more than 45 minutes to get through everything.

If you have not given us your RSVP yet, please comment below.

01/06/2025

Had some super brave schoolers out this morning enjoying the course! If you're from Minnesota, today is an absolutely pleasant day 🙂 props to these ladies and their ponies!

01/06/2025

Who else had extra horse power offering up assistance while freeze prepping 😂😜🤣

Hope everybody has a safe and easy next week with no burst pipes or cold ponies.

01/04/2025

Online entries are now open for all of the spring events at Scissortail Hill Equestrian!!

Please spread the word to help us fill the February shows. The extended forecasts are actually calling for a lovely month and we hope to be lucky!

01/03/2025

Announcing our 2025 CTSSA Hunter Jumper show! This year we are proud to host the kick off show of the season on February 22nd. We know the weather can be iffy at this time so our rain date will be set for June.

All website updates will be finished late tonight and all entries will be open tomorrow morning for all of our events! Prize lists and entry forms will be found as usual on our website.

01/02/2025

We can't wait to see everybody next Saturday for our 2024 Year End Awards Ceremony. Located at our favorite local Mexican restaurant La Bonita, just down the road from the barn. Ceremony will start at 3:00 p.m. and typically takes around 45 minutes. Please arrive early to get seated and order food.

PLEASE MESSAGE US OR COMMENT BELOW WITH YOUR INTENDED GUEST NUMBERS, so we can give the restaurant a heads up and have a smooth service.

Thank you to our sponsors Dover Saddlery - Austin, TX LA Bonita Mexican Restaurant, Fire Light Laser and the Jefferson family.

01/01/2025

Throughout the holiday season we like to bring out various holiday themed pole setups. This year we had two different styles of Christmas trees, a wrapped present, and a menorah. Each setup provides endless opportunities for creative pattern and pole work. Here is a fun video of just a few.

12/30/2024

Mark your calendars for all of our 2025 events, and don't forget to attend our 2024 Year End Awards Ceremony On January 11th at 3:00 p.m.

The ceremony will be held as usual at our favorite local Mexican joint La Bonita Mexican, just down the road from the barn.

Let's finish off 2024 with a bang and be prepared for 2025 to be a blast!

12/30/2024

I've said it before and I'll say it again: our group puts together some of the most amazing potlucks around! A perfect blend of healthy and delicious savory items, plus a ridiculously large amount of decadent dessert items 🙂

Our annual holiday potluck also turned into an amateur ghost/ antique hunting episode!

Pleasant group of people to spend time around, whether we're around horses or not.

Thank you to all of our clients for another wonderful year and another great one to come!

12/29/2024

2024 Scissortail Year End Overall High Point Winners!

Overall HP Youth - Ian Darilek (72 pts)
Overall HP Adult - Emily Bennett (64 pts)
Overall HP Master - Fiona Kanemeier (68 pts)

Set aside an hour on January 11th to attend the Awards Ceremony and accept your ribbons and prizes!

12/29/2024

2024 Scissortail Year End Awards:
Lower Level Jumpers

Pile of Pole Division:
CHAMPION: Dawsyn Shimek
RESERVE CHAMPION: Zuri Peterson
3rd: Betsy Price

Crossrail Division:
CHAMPION: Natalia Ramirez
RESERVE CHAMPION: Charlotte Evans
3rd: Morgan Dean (tie)
3rd: Zoe Livingston (tie)

2' Division:
CHAMPION: Elise Herren
RESERVE CHAMPION: Cade Shimek
3rd: Dani Starkey

We are also happy to announce our intended dates for 2025!
S.H.E. Schooling Show Series-
Feb. 8th (make up 15th)
March 22nd (make up 29th)
April 26th
May 24th
September 27th (make up Oct. 4th)
December 6th (make up 20th)

Other competitions at S.H.E.-
TRAIL-A-THLON - November 1st
LOPE Benefit Show - November 22nd (make up Nov. 29th)

12/26/2024

2024 Scissortail Year End Awards:

Classical Dressage High Points:
Intro A - Ashley Johnson
Intro B - Beth Darby
Intro C - Tamarah Cuellar
Upper Levels - Fiona Kanemeier

Highest Scoring Tests of the Season:
Classical Dressage - Tamarah Cuellar (71.7308% Training Level 1)
Western Dressage - Linda Pryor (68.4783% Basic Test 3)

All of these Awards will be receiving ribbons and prizes, so make sure to mark your calendar for the awards ceremony on January 11th!

12/25/2024

Hoping a restful and relaxing holiday for everyone, no matter what you celebrate ❄️

12/24/2024

We've had some amazing riding weather lately. It is much appreciated.

Address

9513 South Highway 183
Austin, TX
78747

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 8pm
Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm
Saturday	8am - 8pm
Sunday	8am - 8pm

Telephone

+15122432323

Website

http://www.scissortailhillequestrian.com/

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Nice lesson last night while the storm brewed in the West. Some great lightning over the barn. It's been a long time since we've seen lightning.

Sometimes it's good to be different. It can end up being pretty fun 🙂 our steeplechase contingency plan is working out quite nicely this morning.

IMPORTANT SHOW INFORMATION! Please read below and watch the video. Please watch the video for clear information about parking, warm up areas, and procedures for tomorrow's event! It's easier to show y'all than to write it in words🙂 We do not have our beloved barbecue trailer tomorrow but we will be selling tacos, snacks and drinks in the office. We are happy to have our photographer Meaghan Carr Photography - Central TX Equine Photographer out tomorrow taking photos! We had no rain today and expect that our footing will happily take up some precipitation overnight if we do get it. Rain chances for tomorrow have significantly dropped in percentage and are expected later in the morning. Please make sure to watch the video and read your ride times in detail to know where and when you have warm up availability.

There's something for every rider at October 12th LOPE Texas ("LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers") fundraiser show at Scissortail Hill Equestrian

LOPE Texas ("LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers") Benefit Show! Check out all the fun to be had!! Sign up today! scissortailhillequestrian.com

A nice fast forward of one of our Novice riders breeze thru the Obstacle Phase of today's competition.

Trail-A-Thlon Phase 3 Technical pattern walkthrough. The Technical pattern is our most challenging pattern for this weekend's event. Here is a virtual walkthrough that you can watch for the next 2 days to feel more familiar with the spacing. Decorations are to come. Schooling will be open prior to the start of ride times. Ride times will be released this evening.

Hope everybody had a safe holiday yesterday and is taking advantage of the long weekend to video virtual patterns for next weekend's Trail-A-Thlon. Here is a great example of where your video should be filmed from and about how much horse and Rider you would like to keep in the frame so that the judge can clearly see what's going on. Make sure to announce your Rider at the beginning of the pattern either with speech or text overlay. Then upload your video to the Google drive file that you have received a link to in the confirmation email. If you have any trouble uploading your videos, please let us know! Tomorrow we will be releasing technical patterns so people can have a heads up of what to expect for their Phase.3. we will also release a basic list of obstacles that will be seen in the Obstacle phase.

Everyone in Texas can relate, especially those on the black clay.

Always thankful for our little covered arena in weather like this. Even though part of it has received a good bit of rain, we are still able to continue our challenging pole exercises and their progression to grid work. Don't let this clip of Sophie and Gambler fool you 🙂 the rest of the arena is filled with poles upon poles upon poles!

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