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Monday 12pm - 8pm Tuesday 12pm - 8pm Wednesday 12pm - 8pm Thursday 12pm - 8pm Friday 12pm - 8pm Saturday 12pm - 8pm

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Cloverleaf Farm Equestrian Center

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Cloverleaf Farm Equestrian Center

We’re a no pressure to show facility with a “back yard barn” feel, welcoming all students of any age.

10/25/2024

Did you know we offer ship-in lessons?

Joanne and her mare Sedona came for a trail ride for more off property exposure. They both did absolutely fantastic.

As always, our lesson horse Little provided support with his calm and nonchalant attitude.

10/24/2024

Horses* 💁🏼‍♀️

10/23/2024

Who doesn’t love it when you unintentionally match your outfit to your tack and your dad shows up in the same color hoodie? 🤣

10/16/2024

Welcome home, Carmen 🖤

10/10/2024

The cutest ponies 🥰

10/10/2024

Guess who learned how to ground drive today?

**hint** it wasn’t the horse

10/08/2024

I’m going to have to go with purple.

09/20/2024

The girls learned how to braid today and Andy was on his best behavior for his spa day 🥰

09/12/2024

Taylors been helping us get more miles on Big as he has only had a few dozen rides since being saddle trained.

Today was their first ba****ck ride 🥹🎉

09/11/2024

A horse perceives your weight aids first-

They weren’t born with legs around their sides or hands attached to their mouth. They have to learn how to understand and respond to those. But they were born inherently tuned in to the sensory world. A rider’s weight is the first thing they feel, before the leg and the rein, and the first thing they adapt to.

As riders, we must take great care that the weight aid, intentional or not, is not countering the hand or leg. If we aren’t aware of our bodies, our hands and legs will be forever in opposition to our weight. A horse has to make sense of this confusing cacophony of signaling, and decide which to ignore. Ultimately, a hand or leg become stronger, and the horse is forced to ignore the seat. It’s then that riders begin describing a horse as dull, not forward, or disobedient- when they are obeying exactly what we told them- which was a load of nothing.

09/09/2024

Pure bliss

09/06/2024

Happy Feral Girl Friday from everyone’s favorite feral mule 🤎

09/04/2024

SWITCHBACKS SEPTEMBER!

One of my Top 10 most asked questions from students is “when can we do switchbacks again?”

Switchbacks are a wonderful way to work on balance, bending, and core strength for both horse and rider.

This exercise teaches students to create a bend with the correct leg position and can be done at all gates to help establish lead changes. Students learn to have a quiete seat and maintain rhythm in the process. Plus it’s fun!

09/02/2024

Happy Labor Day!

Take a moment today to remember all the working animals who have helped throughout history. There are fewer working animals in the world than there once was, but they still play an important role in many people’s lives.

They assist people with disabilities, help with agricultural work, are used in law enforcement, and more! These animals are an essential part of communities and make the world a better place.

Also a big “happy day of labor” to all our people in the horse industry that laugh at the idea of taking today off. We love and appreciate you, as do the horse!

08/29/2024

Landscaping crew hard at work

08/22/2024

Free lunging is a great communication builder to be able to direct your horse at all gaits without any physical contact. You see how quiet and soft you can be with your aids as you direct them to change gaits and direction. Three horses at once makes for a challenging experience, especially with more than one person in the arena. It was a bit chaotic at first, but everyone got the hang of it quickly. Twix enjoyed himself so much he didn’t want to leave the arena 😅

08/21/2024

Confidence building is SO important for equestrians. It’s also extremely important for all equestrians to spend time out of the saddle with horses to learn from the ground. Ground work isn’t something that all barns teach, but it should be.

A year ago you could find Emily shedding frustration tears almost weekly. In recent months she had her big “ah-ha” moment and she’s been progressing quickly and gaining more confidence.

Yesterday, her dad and I were putting back another horse and she yelled to me across the farm “Morgan, I’m going to free lunge him!”. You would not believe how shocked I was, I’m sure my face showed it as she had only done it once before with me 🤣

Laughing about the situation on our way over to the arena, I realized how confident she had become. She did get to free lunge Patches by herself (with supervision of course), and made a good call to lunge him. He was feeling good in the cooler weather and definitely needed to get his crazies out.

Reading horses isn’t an easy feat. I’m so proud of her for knowing by his attitude and body language, that he needed a lunge prior to riding. I’m beyond proud of not only the confident rider she’s become, but how much knowledge she’s acquired through her determination. Knowledge is the key to confidence 👏🏼

08/14/2024

Special K made himself a new buddy today 🧡

08/07/2024

In honor of our first day under 70° this summer we’d like to take the time to thank our staff for all their continued hard work. We all look forward to summer days all winter long, but horse people know that summer brings along its own set of challenges.

This summer has been absolutely brutal with high humidity, frequent heatwaves, and constant pop up rain storms.

Thank you all for not only taking great care of the horses, but taking care of each other. We couldn’t do it without you!

08/07/2024

We love that for us. Thanks, Luna 🤦🏼‍♀️

Video credit: Brianna

08/01/2024

Tell him he’s pretty 💁🏼‍♀️

06/13/2024

We’d like to congratulate our girls Taylor and Payton on their high school graduation today!

We’re so proud of you both and can’t wait to see what the future holds for you guys! Congratulations! 🎓🥳🎉

06/06/2024

Grizzy made a friend 🐴🐰

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132 River Road
Colchester, CT
06415

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Monday	12pm - 8pm
Tuesday	12pm - 8pm
Wednesday	12pm - 8pm
Thursday	12pm - 8pm
Friday	12pm - 8pm
Saturday	12pm - 8pm

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The cutest ponies 🥰

Have a blissful Monday 🧘🏼‍♀️ 📸: Max

Pure bliss

Golden hour liberty work 💛🧡

We love that for us. Thanks, Luna 🤦🏼‍♀️ Video credit: Brianna

Can’t say I ever expected to see a plane flying by with a marriage proposal during lessons 🤣💍

Water tastes better from the bottle 🤣

I think it’s safe to say K is happy to be home 🥰

Our master stylist took on a walk-in client today. Personally, we think Big did a wonderful job with Maggi’s hair.

2023 free lesson winner

We’re a few days late picking our Holiday free lesson giveaway winner, but our new boy Colt helped us out! Congratulations Lindsey Gionfriddo! Send us a PM for details. 🎁🐴

The turkeys came to visit this afternoon 🥰🦃

Peas please 🫛

It’s those goooooood scratches 😮‍💨

The oranges are a hit 🍊 Thank you, Candi!

Apparently the hay in the middle tastes the best 🤣 Big and Little have created what we are calling the “hay hole”. Big works on one side of the hole, while Little works on the other. Creating the perfect tunnel in their round bale. They’ve very clearly been hard at work creating this masterpiece. We can only assume the hay on the outside of the bale is the equivalent to the crust on a Pop-Tart, and they are saving the crust for last….or so we hope…hay is expensive these days 🥴