Great Oaks Equestrian LLC

09/16/2024

Our dressage team had soo much fun at Rattle Run Dressage show this weekend!❤️
We came home with some lovely scores.
Our homebred TB also had his first debut and brought us home a blue ribbon! Great job team GOE!!

09/12/2024

We LOVEEE a clean barn😍✨

09/12/2024

Paige Forth & Lando have been working very hard the last few months & have had some wonderful progress in the Dressage ring✨❤️ The future is bright for these two🌟

09/12/2024

Aliyah and her gelding Bumble have came soo far in the last month😍 we cannot wait to watch these two work hard this winter for 2025 show season!! Future hunters here they come😍✨✨We love a good OTTB!!

09/11/2024

All I Want To Do Is Jump

I ran a fairly large lesson program for almost 20 years. This is a statement I have heard over and over, both in my lesson barn days and from colleagues today.

All I want to do is jump.

There are a few problems with this. Let's start with the horse. I love the old horseman's saying " horses only have so many jumps in them ". Is that 100, 1000 before it becomes lame.... No one knows....but horses certainly weigh a lot and the concussion landing on those small little legs is significant. Horses also get bored, burned out....and let's face it...sour.
Respect for the horse . The riders job is to do the best thing for the horse. Most horses only need jumped a few days a week. That means if a lesson horse works 5 days a week, only 2 of those are jumping days. 3 of those are purely flatwork or hacking.

Riders : most of jumping well has NOTHING to do with jumping. Riders need to work on pace, transitions, straightness, their position, effectiveness of aids, balance, ability to change positions smoothly ( from 2 point to sitting etc ) and so much more.

So if you are one of those students who Just Wants To Jump , please replace that with "I want to be an effective rider and horseman or woman . I want to do what is best for the horse "

And instructors who cave to this plea from students
Only YOU can set the CULTURE of your barn. Talk frequently about horsemanship and doing right by the animals.

09/10/2024

We took a small group to Rattlewood this past weekend and had a blast!
✨Congratulations to Karen Commarford & Blue Suede Shoes on primary Hunter champion, 7th place finish in the $500 Hunter Classic & 2nd in the 2’3 Medal❤️
✨Congratulations to Daniela Rodriguez and Isla La Palma for being Into Dressage Champions. This was their first debut in the dressage ring❤️
✨Congratulations to Paige Forth and Landino on all their blue ribbons in the dressage ring! This pair has come soo far this season.
✨Congratulations to Chesney Balko and Blue Suede shoes on their first horse show together. These two got two 2nd place ribbons in Eq out of a large competitive division & also had some wonderful hunter placings in the beginner hunters.❤️
✨Congratulations to Mikaela Clearwood and Just Keep Swimming for putting down some great rounds in the Beginner Hunters. This is their first show season together and each show is getting more consistent❤️ the future is bright for this pair.
✨Congratulations to Shelby Zech and Miracle Mocha on getting their feet wet in the dressage ring & 4th place in Intro!

Thank you to everyone who came out to support us this weekend! We had soo much fun! As always thank you Matador Farm, LLC for putting on such a wonderful show as always!

09/03/2024

We have a few stalls available to training/show clients!
Packages start at $900!
We have the BEST barn family ❤️
•fully matted stalls
•large grass paddocks w/ hay put out daily
•mud management around the whole farm
•feed tribute/Kalmbach feeds
•24/7 forage available
•trainers are there everyday over seeing care

Here’s a little tour of our facility!

Message us for more details😍

09/02/2024

Welcome Victoria & Mabel(Bacon as we call her)🥓❤️

09/02/2024

Welcome Talia and Maybel❤️

08/26/2024

We have a few stalls available to a training client or someone looking to join our show team!
Message us or call/text 586-242-2777 for more info and/or to set up a tour🤩🐎

08/26/2024

Medium pony for onsite half care lease! Will be available for full onsite care lease in the next few months.
Belle is a lovely green medium pony looking for a kid who wants to ride/show a very nice pony! She just started showing the medium pony division & has a 10+ jump! Sweet and safe as can be! She is my 2.5 year old daughter’s leadline pony.
Belle is green so needs a kid with a soft hand and quiet leg. She is a forward thinking pony. This pony will jump anything you put in front of her & has no naughty pony vices. Shes simply just green and figuring out her job!❤️

08/26/2024

Congratulations to our hunter/jumper show team on an amazing weekend showing at WEC!❤️✨

Lydia & Stallone- champion 11&u Equitation, 1st out of 20 in the beginner rider Hunter u/s, 3rd in the 2’ medal.
Brooke & Stallone- Reserve champion 15-17 Equitation, winner of the 3’ medal, and great ribbons in the Modified hunters!
Hannah & Southern Belle- champion pony equitation, reserve champion medium pony hunters!
Lily s & Isla la Palma- reserve champion 3’3 WEC hunters, lots of great ribbons in the adult equitation and 1.0m jumpers.
Mikaela & Just Keep Swimming- 3rd & 5th out of 20 in the beginner rider hunters, and some great ribbons in the long stirrup!
Alexis & Luna- great trips in the short stirrup hunters, securing a 3rd,4th & 5th out of a huge class, and being the talk of the town as the littlest rider in the .65 jumpers!
Danielle & Black Tie Affair- 1st & 2nd in the non pros out of 22 riders! Amazing trips all weekend, landing every lead and every distance!
Kensington & WHF Charlie Angel- winning champion WT hunter & Champion WT equitation!
Rebecca & Fancy M- even with a traumatic ride on day one(crashing a jump bc Mona decided to p**p coming out of the corner to a line) Becca and Mona made it back into the ring on the last day for clear rounds in the .75 jumpers!
Sophia & Zandro- double clear in the .65 & .75 jumpers, earning 8th in a huge class!
Marissa & Zandro- double clear rounds in the .85 jumpers earning 5th!

08/19/2024

In Barn Care lease!
Wellington is a lovely green hunter looking for someone to help bring him along while his mama is growing a baby!
Welly is a 17.1hh tb gelding. Super quiet walk trot canter and started over fences! Very sweet personality & thinks he’s a dog. One of our best youngsters in the barn. Such a nice horse for someone on a lease budget!

08/08/2024

Welcome back Averee Berdeski & her beautiful mare Dolce E Piccante “Pepper” 🌶️❤️

08/06/2024

We have 2 lovely TBs looking for leasers!
1. Trot A Latte☕️
Latte is a Younger jumper type gelding. Rides quiet walk trot canter but does have a motor jumping but a quiet jumper type, he doesn’t get hot! Just loves his job!
Auto change, jumps up to 2’3 and is the sweetest boy!! Looking for a quarter or half leaser. This guy loves to work and is a 6 day a week horse.

2. Pick up the tab
Wellington is a 3 yr old 17hh+ tb gelding! He is going to be an amazing hunter type. Very green but has the absolute BEST BRAIN. We have him restarted walk trot canter and jumping small cross rails. Ideally we would like to find a full onsite lease for him but 2 half leasers would work too.

Must be in our training program to lease our horses! Leases start at $350.

08/05/2024

We had a wonderful weekend filled of horse showing with the best horses, clients, barn family & friends!🩷🥇
Congratulations to all our riders this weekend!

07/21/2024

Thank you Motor City Grading, LLC for making our arenas ride soo nice😍😍

07/20/2024

What a beautiful day for a horse show❤️

07/18/2024

3 stalls available to a training client or someone looking to join our show team!
Message us or call/text 586-242-2777 for more info and/or to set up a tour🤩🐎

07/16/2024

We had a wonderful weekend showing at Rattlewood Farms with our Dressage & Hunter/Jumper team 🥇❤️🐎

07/15/2024

Make the first move “Bumble” is a 4 yr old 16.2tb gelding. Bumble is the sweetest gelding and soooooo quiet! His big beautiful chrome markings and kind eye will melt your heart! He is the TB everyone wants in their barn.
Bumble has been re started walk trot canter and started over fences, hasn’t batted an eye at anything we have put in front of him! He has a lead change both ways. He has been an absolute pleasure to work with & everything about him is easy. I think a kid working with a trainer could finish him no problem.
We took him to his first show to school around and put him in a few flat classes and he was a rockstar.
Don’t miss out on this guy! He’s a real life unicorn!

For more information contact Trainer Ashley LeDuc 586/242/2777

Located in Casco, Michigan.

$8,000

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07/12/2024

07/09/2024

We have available lesson spots open on Thursdays!
5pm, 6pm & 7pm😊
Our lesson package is $200 for 4 lessons.
Come join our amazing barn family!! We have the BEST lesson horses to teach everything from leadline- 2’3 hunters/jumpers/ Dressage.

We also have a few horses for in barn
Quarter & Half lease!🐴🤩

Contact Trainer/Owner Ashley LeDuc for more information! 586/242/2777

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July🎆❤️🤍💙