Sue Berrill Eventing/Greylock Farm

04/08/2025

***Jerry Schurink Clinic 4/27/25***

Get ready for the upcoming season!

Semi pvt CAVALETTI or JUMPING sets and semi or pvt flat lessons offered. Semis $125, pvts 45 min/$150. Email or PM if interested [email protected]

03/30/2025

Super fun, intensive and educational event camp at an outstanding facility. Come join us!

Check out our website for more details!
http://www.heartwoodequestriancenter.com/events.html

01/13/2025

Sunday, Jan 26 is coming quickly - sign up now! If the weather doesn’t cooperate, no money lost.

***Jerry Schurink Clinic 1/26/25***

The “homework” season is upon us - get started on all the improvements you’ve been wanting to make or, maybe you’re looking for variety and for something to break up the winter monotony.

Schedule is made the Wed before the clinic, so lots of flexibility for cancelling; no one loses out on money having to cancel due to dangerous winter travel. Sign up early, cancellations accepted until 3 days before clinic. (We don’t want anyone driving on even questionable roads!) Semi pvt CAVALETTI or JUMPING sets and semi or pvt flat lessons offered. Semis $125, pvts 45 min/$150. Email or PM if interested [email protected]

01/01/2025

Some food for thought…

[From 2020]
"Turning a horse out until its third birthday and then beginning race training will adapt the skeleton to turnout for a year, but not to training or racing. The bone modeling system will largely atrophy. The horse is then introduced to training and will have to recreate the vascular supply and cell population devoted to remodeling. By contrast, the horse who trained at two only had to repurpose the vasculature and cells already present for growth.

This can be complicated by the fact that the heart and lungs, which are oft-used indicators of a horse’s fitness, don’t respond to training exactly the same way as bone. Horses have such relatively large heart and lungs that they respond faster than the skeleton to training, especially when a previously sedentary horse begins training. Dr. Larry Bramlage believes the horse who went through a year of turnout and began training at three is at greater risk of skeletal injury down the road because its skeleton may be less able to keep up the pace. Thanks to heart and lung conditioning, the rested horse may appear to be getting fit just as quickly (or even moreso) than his stablemate who trained at two, which could fool a trainer into increasing his workload too quickly for the skeleton.

The data bears this out. Year after year, the Equine Injury Database has shown that 2-year-old runners had a significantly lower fatality rate than 3- and 4-year-olds. Preliminary data released earlier this year showed that older horses who had raced as 2-year-olds had a decreased risk of career-ending injury to those who had not."

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12/22/2024

***Jerry Schurink Clinic 1/26/25***

The “homework” season is upon us - get started on all the improvements you’ve been wanting to make or, maybe you’re looking for variety and for something to break up the winter monotony.

Schedule is made the Wed before the clinic, so lots of flexibility for cancelling; no one loses out on money having to cancel due to dangerous winter travel. Sign up early, cancellations accepted until 3 days before clinic. (We don’t want anyone driving on even questionable roads!) Semi pvt CAVALETTI or JUMPING sets and semi or pvt flat lessons offered. Semis $125, pvts 45 min/$150. Email or PM if interested [email protected]

11/10/2024

ISO-PART TIME BARN HELP

Greylock Farm in Brownsville, VT is looking for part-time barn help. We’re in need of someone for 1-4 afternoons a week (you can choose how many days) for approx 3+/- hrs daily (through PM feed/chores) Duties will include mucking, watering, turning in/out, feeding and blanket changes. We’re a boarding/training stable, focusing primarily on Eventing and Dressage. We offer a low key environment with wonderful clients and well behaved horses. Flexible compensation arrangements available, including money/board/training/lessons. Some experience required. PM or [email protected]

10/25/2024

Fun times riding that horse and jumping with Denny.

10/11/2024

***Jerry Schurink Clinic 10/20/24***

The season is winding down - work on improving from the results of summer or start preparing for winter homework. Semi pvt FLAT, CAVALETTI or JUMPING sets offered. Email or PM if interested [email protected]

04/24/2024

**** CAVALETTI/JUMPING CLINIC ****

Jerry Schurink will be at Greylock Farm on Saturday, May 11, 2024. Get ready for the upcoming season with a clinic offering either cavaletti or jumping. Come join us! Please reach out if interested!!![email protected]