Vintage Valley Sporthorses LLC

04/22/2024

03/24/2024

🐎 Call your friends! It is Hunter Pace Season. 🐎

We are proud to be apart of the *official* hunter pace series. Join us and/or one of our fellow hunts for a day of horsey fun. 🐴

Each event consist of both Over Fence and Flat Divisions competing for optimum time. Over fences fastest time division as well! All of these hunts offer pre-registration through Central Entry to compete for series points. Many hunts, including Rappahannock, offer day of entry as well for day of placing only. 🏆🏆

📓 Dates and information per the 2024 Virginia Conditions Book: http://www.centralentryoffice.com/ConditionBook/Virginia/VAConditionBook.pdf?v=3/8/2024%2010:18:31%20AM

‼️Contact each hunt directly for more specifics on their event time, location and other details! ‼️

▪️Piedmont Fox Hounds - *This Weekend*
▪️Orange County Hounds
▪️Old Dominion Hounds
▪️Rappahannock Hunt - RH Spring Hunter Pace
▪️Blue Ridge Hunt
▪️The Warrenton Hunt

📸 Riley DeBorde

Masters of Foxhounds Association of North America

03/08/2024

❗️USEA Area II Adult Riders!!! Commonwealth Dressage and Combined Training Association: CDCTA is hosting an Area II Team Challenge! 🙌

CDCTA Spring Horse Trials are on April 7th…See details below!

03/06/2024

Join us for a day of Equine Education! The Virginia Horse Council will be hosting their 2024 Educational Seminar & Annual Meeting on Saturday, March 23rd at Piedmont Virginia Community College. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about a variety of equine-related subjects, including equine healthcare, Virginia trails, and equine welfare & law. Our Equestrian Recruitment Specialist, Odessa Thacker, will be speaking about all that Virginia offers in Horses & Higher Education- you don’t want to miss this! Registration is open now at virginiahorsecouncil.org! 🐴

03/03/2024

Equestrian farm help needed
Love Horses, Motivated, Reliable, Willing to learn? We can train you.

12/10/2023

Great fun at our 1st Winter Fun Show series. Thank. you to Judge: Joanna Gray-Randle and to all the volunteers... Renee Threlfall (Scribe), Anna Cochran (Scoring), Lynn Stewart (RIng steward), Courtney Bordelon, Maria Batres, Juliette Calvin, Brad Green & Mike Beckett (Ring Crew), Keeley Schrader, Harper Morgan, McKenna Morgan (Prep Crew) and all the parents and riders who make this possible.

11/11/2023

What better way to honor our Veterans this weekend than to spending a few hours at the farm connecting with community members and our team learning all about equine therapy and working with the horses? We are looking forward to seeing old and new faces tomorrow afternoon - the sun will be shining and the cider will be hot! See you tomorrow at 1pm!

11/05/2023

Mark your calendars for VVS upcoming events...
Annual Christmas Event Dec 16th, 2023
Winter Fun shows (Dressage Leadline-3rd level, CT (Poles on the ground - Training), Equitation and fun classes) December 9th, Jan 13th, Feb 3rd, and March 16th: Closing date the Wednesday before each show. Late entries are subject to a late fee.
Stay tuned for more information...

09/29/2023

09/29/2023

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09/20/2023

To help move your horse sideways in leg-yield, imagine you are an ice skater …

You push off with one leg toward your other foot, stepping and putting your weight to the side, like an inside foot to an ice skater. Also, you cannot collapse at the waist, or you would fall.

Ruth Hogan-Poulsen has earned her USDF Bronze, Silver and Gold medals as well as her Freestyle Gold Bar. All of these awards are with top Honors of Distinction. Her students have won top honors in the USDF Year-End, Horse of the Year and All Breed awards. She has been designing competitive musical freestyles for decades, which have been performed in all levels all over the world. She splits her time between Vermont and Florida.

🎨: Sandy Rabinowitz

08/23/2023

Come join us for our 9th Anniversary Celebration for the HEAL Foundation! If you would like to interact and meet the horses please come at the beginning. don’t forget to RSVP!

06/24/2023

Out for a relaxing trail ride!!

06/15/2023

She is something else…

05/29/2023

We at Vintage Valley Sporthorses LLC would like to honor our amazing team member Jax on her high school Administrative Assistant award.

Jax we appreciate all you do. All the accolades you were given are truly expressed in your overall performance at VVS.
We appreciate you and will miss you as you embark on the next chapter of life’s journey. We are excited about your future. Congratulations!!

05/25/2023

It’s a filly!!!

05/17/2023

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05/14/2023

Happy Mother’s Day to all the VVS moms!
Have a wonderful day!

05/13/2023

https://dressagetoday.com/instruction/opening-the-hip-and-lengthening-the-leg/

Susanne von Dietze evaluates a Second Level pair.

05/12/2023

https://www.usef.org/media/equestrian-weekly/heat-stress-know-signs-how-to-help

Do you know the symptoms of heat stress in your horse or pony and how to help if he gets overheated? Hagyard Equine Medical Institute's Dr. Laura Werner gives expert advice on preventing, recognizing, and treating heat stress, including the recommended "water on, water off" cooling method.

05/08/2023

This picture has a thousand meanings to me and as I stare at it with memories flowing through my mind, I’m overwhelmed with the emotion that fills me up.

From the fear I had as a little girl afraid to fall off, to heartbreak of losing my heart horse. The lonely times when the only one who seemed to understand were my horses, to the struggles of how would I possibly be able to pay my electric bill let alone afford to ride. From painting my first saddle with hoof black, because I wanted a dressage saddle so badly, but could only have an all purpose saddle, to not knowing how I would ever learn to properly sit the trot.

It’s been a journey, a very long battle of struggles throughout the years. My story can’t really be summed up in a social media post but for those of you who can relate to wondering if it will ever happen to you, if all the hard work and the good deeds will come back around, if you ever feel like why is it so very difficult sometimes, or why can’t I just catch a break. Maybe you’re not even close to achieving what you hope and it feels impossible? You have a lot of nay sayers that said you didn’t have what it takes, or you were too old, or you don’t have enough money to play the game, or maybe you live in the wrong part of the country, maybe you have all the odds stacked against you. DON’T BELIEVE THEM.

It only takes one person to give you a chance. One scrappy thoroughbred who loves you more than his talent can bare. It only takes one person to see you working, grinding, and recognizing you have something. It only takes one girl with an incredible horse give you a chance. Just one moment of happenstance and the rest is history.

Believe…..work hard……enjoy and love your horses……be a student…….and dream. Then repeat. It really will happen, I promise!!

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05/02/2023

Equestrian camp 2023

04/29/2023

VVS will be having summer camp June 27, 28th and 29th (three days).
Stay tuned for more information.