Jodi Simpson Training Stables LLC

06/07/2024

Over the winter we moved some arena fences, put in a convenient sprinkler system and changed some other things around.

If you need to find Jodi during lesson time, she is teaching from the comfort of our shaded seating area on the north end of the arena. She has a full view of the entire arena from here.

Parents, family and friends of our riders are known to be found relaxing here too.

06/04/2024

The Team had a great time (and a roadside adventure) at Summerfest this weekend. We take a little break before starting up again with The Pink Ribbon 🎀 Benefit as our next stop.

06/03/2024

❗️Position has been filled ❗️

It’s been a great run with our current barn help, but they are ready to move on, so we are searching for someone new.

We need someone to feed/water (10-12 horses) and clean 9 stalls on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, and Saturday as well on show weekends. Saturday is ONLY on show weekends and those dates will be provided up front.

Work can be done anytime between 2-5pm. The barn is set up with ease of functionality, so it only takes about an hour to an hour and a half, once you are familiar with the routine, depending on how efficiently a person works.

Pay will be a flat rate per day and will be based upon experience and performance.

✅ must have own transportation
✅ must have basic equine knowledge and experience such as being able to identify colic
✅ must be reliable
✅ must be able to work unsupervised and follow instructions

For the right person there could be extra work assisting our trainer with saddling and lunging training horses. This would require knowledge of proper tacking, identifying different bits, knowing how to wrap polo wraps and how to lunge both in a round pen and on a line.

Our current help is done in two weeks so we’d like to start training a new person to take over immediately.

Conveniently located in Clarkston WA. Please DM us with references and experience, once we know your qualifications we will talk pay.

05/30/2024

These are the kinds of smiles we love. This kid works so, so, so hard no matter what horse she rides. When we were trying out a new horse she said “ I think I just need to work harder on the horse I have…” Thats a great attitude, but… this kid was working so very hard and her talent had surpassed that of her horse. This smile is the realization of how talented she is and how much wider the door of opportunity just opened for her by giving a new horse a shot.

This right here is why we do what we do.

05/27/2024

We had nine horses and their handlers at the Knights of Santiago show this weekend. The classes were very big and there was something for everyone. Driving, showmanship halter, trail, western pleasure, hunt seat, ranch riding equitation… we had someone from the team in everything.

Prizes were earned and goals were smashed! And laughs and pranks were non stop.

We had one rider who didn’t get to make her classes. Her horse was a little off and what’s best for the horse comes first. Hopefully she’ll get in the fun at the next one.

04/29/2024

After nearly 20 years as valued clients and friends, “The Ladies” are moving away.

While we are sad to see them go and excited to see what new adventures they find, business must go on.

Their absence leaves us with some limited lesson availability on our schedule.

Please DM us to see if these vacancies could be a fit for you!

03/22/2024

Sophie and Gracie hard at work.

Sophie is coming from a laid back lazy horse to a horse that’s a little quicker and more excitable so she’s having to learn some new skills.

They both need to relax a bit, but this is great progress.

Send a message to learn more

02/24/2024

This is Cleo and Marley. This is about their sixth lesson with us and only the third lope lesson. They have loped a few times at 4H and they are doing a great job at helping her at 4-H, it’s just a little harder for her to navigate and steer and keep the horse going with the other kids in the arena so she has asked us to really help her extra at the lope, to get better at the lope to be better prepared for fair. The last video we shared of her, she had a task to lope from one cone to the next, and now, today her task was to get around the arena several times staying on the rail exhibiting control, because this horse likes to dive straight to the middle and hit the brakes. She has come so far!!!!!

Great job Cleo!

02/24/2024

Counter arc was the theme this week. This guy was really distracted during this video clip, but as the last circle gives us a perfect example of a nice square shoulder on a counter arc we decided to go ahead and share it for that example.

02/24/2024

A pictures worth a thousand words, they say.

Photo one takes us back to the first lesson that the horse and rider team of Jessie and Leah had with us. Leah was accomplished in her own right when she came to us, but wanted to broaden her horizons. She had a wonderful, long and low work, but connecting to the bit and collection were a bit elusive to them.

Fast forward just a few rides later, as photo two shows us, and the improvement is amazing. You can see the horse connecting to the bridle, driving through with its hind legs and giving us a lovely elevation in the shoulder.

What a great team Jessie and Leah are !

02/20/2024

Tara and Kiss My Artifacts aka Nya.

Nya was made for Hunter Under Saddle, but, if you’ve been following the journey, you know we had some work to do.

This week, now that Nya is ready, Tara started some new work herself, learning about this English riding business.

We think this is a mighty fine job for only her 3rd English ride. We are so excited for them to make their HUS debut this spring!

02/20/2024

Sophie and Gracie Slick KF are coming together nicely. Just in time for show season!

02/13/2024

Fitch had a visitor all the way from Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 last week.

Renowned opera performer Thomas Hampson was in town visiting family. His grand daughter, Sophie, rides with us so they brought him to meet the horses.

He was greeted with the usual Fitch hospitality.

02/13/2024

Nya and Tara have toughed it out through the hard days and are now moving on to what Nya was made for. Hunter Under Saddle! The day Jodi first saw “Kiss My Artifacts” she knew this was the right job for her. We are finally there!

Today was Taras first day in the English saddle so we took it easy on her and just snapped some pics. Videos will come eventually.

02/13/2024

This counter bend with haunches out around a corner is a tool for developing the body control and balance we need for quality lead changes. Kymn is seen here using it for a lope departure, but as we continue to build strength and timing, lead changes will come.

02/11/2024

We are a team. Our barn is family. Everyone helps us so we can be our best to help them. They try hard for us so that we continue to be inspired to try hard for them. They work hard at learning, we take continuing education to learn enough to grow and gain knowledge to share with them.

The barn client- trainer relationship is sacred.

02/11/2024

Today was a beautiful day for some ranch riding practice.

02/10/2024

The laughter of a first successful lope.

Trainer: great job!!! Wasn’t that fun !?!?!

The student: It wasn’t fun, but it was exciting.

From the mouths of babes, as the saying goes.

02/10/2024

This one is extra special and is an example of a dedicated owner who understands the necessity/value of commitment and staying the course.

It may just look like a horse loping along here, but this was one tough project.

This owner “handed us the keys” and asked us to try and help. We worked hard, and so did the horse. Lots of sweaty saddle blankets and Jodi broke a sweat more than once as well. So to be at a place where this horse can pack its owner around so prettily without drama is a major celebration for us.

We are so thrilled to be looking toward developing the show horse she was meant to be now. We chose this one because she showed so much promise, it just took more than we planned or expected to get there.

But we are ready to move forward to show work now! 🤩

02/10/2024

Winding up the day prepping the arena for tomorrow.

02/10/2024

Showmanship practice for The Nifty Nine.

02/10/2024

When you tell your riding instructor that you have to learn to lope because you won champion walk trot in 4-H last year, so can’t do it anymore, and you tried to lope at 4-H last weekend but it was WILD… so you need help, you get what you asked for.

We are telling her to use her right foot, which is technically the wrong foot for this lead to prevent this horse from running straight into the middle of the arena (her way out of working is to just take the kiddo wherever she wants) It worked and they did their task of loping from cone to cone on the rail.

This is one determined young lady, it’s going to be fun to see what the future holds. Maybe a horse show??

02/09/2024

Meet Leah Cain and her boy Jesse.

Leah is an AERC competitor and has been spotted more than once at the famous rock 🪨 on the Tevis trail. She’s also known to do a fine job trimming a hoof or two.

Already an accomplished rider, She is joining us to work on collection and arena calesthenics. And we are enjoying learning a bit about AERC from Leah. They are certainly different worlds, connected by the passion for horses.

Leahs horse, Jessie, has stolen Jodis heart, which is to be expected with his Varian bloodlines. He is a descendent of Sundance Kid V and he embodies, all of the things that we love about Arabians from the V line.

02/09/2024

We are excited to welcome this new pair to our show team. Meet Kasey Jackson-Way and RC MakeIt A Margarita.

They will be competing in the novice, green and amateur western pleasure divisions this seasons.

02/09/2024

Breanna Daley had a GREAT ranch riding lesson on PWA Satin Mirage today.

02/06/2024

Mostly, around here, we share about the clients and the client horses and their victories, whether they are in the show ring or, more importantly, personal achievements and goals reached. And that’s the way it should be because it is about the clients and their horses.

But today, we celebrate a couple of our very special lesson horses (although they weren’t originally intended to be lesson horses, but life tends to shape itself the way it will).

We are excited to share with you all that Hi Fashion Zipper and Jerrikho JS have earned their first awards as Arabian Horse Association Discovery Horses. As they continue to accrue points they will receive more recognition. They are actually only 1 show away from the next level, so their halters will be coming at the conclusion of next show season.

This achievement is a combination of show ring accomplishments, community outreach as Arabian horse ambassadors, and community service. This includes show achievement awards, meet and greets, lessons and more.

These two boys have stepped in and and stepped up. They had big shoes to fill as lesson horses when we lost our beloved MDA Katrina. They rose up to the challenge as if they were born to be Arabian ambassadors.

They both have very unique personalities and between the two of them we are able to accommodate riders of different experience levels.

When they are turned out together watching them is pure joy. Shenanigans. Thats what they do.

When it comes to work, Jake is silly and has a sense of humor. He thinks everyone came to see him, but puts all his energy into his job.

Fitch diligent and all business. He is quiet and likes peaceful relaxing moments, getting groomed and loved are his priorities.

And they are both heroes in their own right.

Pictured with their plaques are their junior horse years as successful show horses when we didnt know this was their future, and the last photo is their most recent new generation of youth riders.

11/22/2023

Congratulations to Bellamy and Jerrikho JS

Washington state Horseman
1st western pleasure green rider walk jog
1st western pleasure limit rider walk jog
1st western pleasure limit rider walk jog lope
1st western pleasure 13 and under
2nd western pleasure green rider walk jog lope
2nd Arabian and half Arabian western pleasure

North east zone
High Point Arabian/half Arabian and Junior exhibitor
1st western pleasure limit rider walk, jog,lope
2nd Arabian/half Arabian, western pleasure
2nd western pleasure 13 and under
2nd western pleasure Green Rider
6th non-color western pleasure
8th western pleasure horses six and over

11/22/2023

Congratulations to Sophie and Hi Fashion Zipper

Washington state Horseman
1st green rider, western pleasure walk jog lope
2nd green rider, western pleasure walk jog
2nd western pleasure 13 and under
4th Arabian and a half Arabian western pleasure
5th non-color class western
6th western pleasure open

Northeast zone
1st western pleasure green Rider
1st western pleasure limit rider
3rd western pleasure 13 and under
4th Arabian and a half Arabian western
8th non-color western pleasure

Sophie and “Fitch” (Hi Fashion Zipper)

11/22/2023

Congratulations to Joy and Ahnis Sue City

Washington state Horsemen
ROM Trail
1st western pleasure limit horse walk jog
1st paint horse halter
1st pinto horse halter
1st in hand trail
1st showmanship 19 & over
3rd green rider western pleasure walk jog lope
5th green horse western pleasure, walk jog lope
7th western pleasure open

Northeast zone
1st showmanship 19 and over
1st  paint horse halter
1st pinto horse halter
1st in hand trail
1st limit, western pleasure horse walk jog
2nd junior horse, western pleasure
3rd western pleasure green rider
5th limit western pleasure horse walk jog
6th green horse western pleasure walk jog lope

 High Point paint halter horse
High Point in hand trail
Flying G Expression of Beauty Memorial senior exhibitor High Point buckle

11/22/2023

Congratulations to Sherry and LSR Pstrategy

Washington state Horsemen
1st ranch rail 18 and over
2nd ranch riding 18 and over
3rd English pleasure green horse walk trot
4th English pleasure Hunter type
5th English pleasure, green horse walk trot canter
6th trail 18 and over
8th green English pleasure walk trot

North east zone
2nd ranch riding 19 and over
2nd ranch rail, 19 over
4th green horse English pleasure walk trot canter
5th trail limit rider
6th English pleasure 19 and over
6th English pleasure Hunter type
7th ranch horse conformation
8th trail 19 over

Sherry and G