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Hope's Legacy Equestrian

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Hope's Legacy Equestrian

Hi, My name is Mikayla DeFlorian, John and Josh Lyons certified horse trainer, and Equissage certifi If we give patience the horse will give patience.

My love for horses started at the young age of two when my dad put me on a horse for the first time and I didn't like it one bit. With much perserverence on dads part I grew to love horses and the grace and forgiveness they bring. After being a horse trainer for the past 5 years I believe horses match the energy we give. If we give stress the horse will give stress. With this understanding I choose to further my knowledge and become a certified ESMT through Equissage.

07/01/2025

Let's all love and appreciate this beautiful series called My Horses Ignoring Me and making my life impossible when it's time to come off the pasture for the day.

06/24/2025

I often say Sky and I grew up together - this is what I mean. We truly did. We really grew up together.

06/23/2025

My favorite little red-headed problem child has been acting up. She's stopped eating her grain, which isn't the worst since she's a bit chubby. On Saturday, the vet came to give her an IV "Legend" supplement. We also discovered her limp is getting worse due to laminitis. So now, Hope's not getting her supplements through her feed, and we have to give them to her orally. It's likely she'll have to give up grain for good, and I'll need to order a grazing muzzle.

06/19/2025

Hope and Princess have been enjoying nighttime stays in the pasture. I'm testing a theory that less time on hard ground will help Hope's foot, so she's been relaxing in the pasture overnight. She's not a fan, but she's adjusting, which is promising. We're also considering an injection, so if anyone has experience with "Legend", I'd appreciate the pros and cons.

06/17/2025

Last night I walked into the barn and originally Cin was sleeping and then she heard something and then we found her like so with her tongue sticking out. And well it was too cute to not take a picture to share

06/16/2025

Hey friends, just wanted to share a quick update with you all. We're all doing great, and I'm excited to fill you in on what's new. Lesson sessions are underway, and Princess is thriving in her role as a lesson horse.

Hope is loving her new role as an emotional support horse, and I'm keeping her work light due to her foot issues. She's got two lesson kids this year, and they're making great progress with walk-trot exercises.

Princess has taken on most of the lessons this year, and she's doing a fantastic job. She's even helping me develop new teaching techniques, and we're working on teaching proactive vs reactive riding - it's a challenge, but I love it.

05/04/2025

Princess went on her first “out of the arena adventure” yesterday. I unfortunately kept putting that off simply because I knew that I didn’t Cinders emotional support girlfriend aka Hope for that adventure so I kidnapped ._.eq and she rode Hope for me and Princess did relatively good. Some moment she’d tense up but other than that she was good! After I had ._.eq jump on Princess and act like a beginner and I’m happy to say she did pretty good so I’m excited for that as well then of course I had to put Natalie on her and they just stood there happy as a clam.

04/20/2025

Little miss princess got to go for a walk down the other day. And I’m happy to say she actually did much better than I expected without her emotional support girlfriend aka Hope. Our goal for this walk was to try to expose Princess to as many things as possible. Weather scary or not we needed her exposed to them so that when it comes time to ride down the road she doesn’t loose her mind. I’m happy to say that may be sooner than expected.

04/18/2025

I’ve been thinking no joke all day what I wanted our happy and spectacular 8 year “gotcha day” post to be and well. I’ve still come up with nothing. So here we go let’s see what I can come up with.

What has year 8 brought us? The biggest thing I can think of is that Hope has simply just stepped up into Sky’s place. Now I’m not saying she’s a perfect little kids horse by any means she still has her baby moments, she is only 11 after all. It’s also being more learning for both of us the biggest being what works best for her and her bone spur (I should name that guy). We’ve learned that soft ground in the summer is her best friend as is also snow in the winter. And honestly that’s pretty much it. Not much has happened this year and honestly I’m okay with that. Oh and today we learned that she makes a great emotional support friend for Princess when we’re in the arena attempting to be productive.

04/16/2025

All I gotta say is my horse has a nice butt. Saturdays “come to Jesus moment” with Squish was actually the calmest one since we’ve done these with her. Now what is the “come to Jesus moment” I keep mentioning? Well about this time of the year every year since I got Hope she’s just suddenly forgotten that she does in fact know how to be a well behaved equine citizen in the riding world. So this moment consists of essentially just re - starting Hope under saddle. I don’t wanna say “we show no mercy” but in a sense that’s how it is. When she’s asked to move off my leg it’s expected that she dies right now. No waiting until 10-15 seconds after asked. That kind of concept. Usually after this moment that we do every spring for some reason Hope is golden and doesn’t need one again until the following year and listens to the children that ride her. So at this point it’s just come to be a yearly tradition that we do and usually it ends up with me being injured (it was in this moment last year that I threw out my back) but I’m happy to report no injuries this year and a small part of me is also thinking that maybe at 12 (next year) this is something we can maybe skip. Oh and also the commentary that happens in this moment is usually quite hilarious making it even better.

And last but not least thank you for the awesome photos that I am absolutely loving!!!!

03/20/2025

Friends!!! I am super excited to announce that this pretty little lady will be joining the family here soon!!!!!! After much thought and consideration on if I wanted to teach this year or not. I’ve decided that I do and that I don’t want to let my lesson program die with Sky. That I wanted to keep teaching since he loved having youngsters around, but I knew I couldn’t do it with the crew that we have so it was decided to have Cinder aka Princess join the family to fill his place which I’m super excited for. Yes it’s gonna take some time for her to fully take that place as she’ll need time to settle in and chill but I’m excited none the less for her to join the family. I’m super thankful for autumns people and to trust me with Princess and to also just see where this journey takes us.

03/17/2025

Over the weekend came over to meet all the horses. She had previously met Hope a few weeks ago for the first time and oh my Hope has found a new friend which I absolutely love to see. A few other neighbor kids also came over, Hope got pulled out and gave pony rides to some very happy children. It hurts my heart to see but it’s almost as if Hope knows and is ready to take Sky’s place which again as much as it hurts. I love to see.

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Bedford, IN

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm

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