KevyGo Riding

KevyGo Riding Your equestrian adventure awaits! My goal is to create well rounded, compassionate equestrians who put the horses first.

I believe in the animals, the life lessons they can teach us, and want to help anyone who wants any type of relationship with a horse whether it be to build a solid foundation in the basics at the start of their journey towards a successful showing career, or simply to learn to be around them and enjoy their company.

09/23/2025

Cheyenne’s herd mate Keeahi moved in a few weeks ago to continue her education and search for her own family. She already had some training on her before she came to me, but still has some things to learn about being a confident equine member of society.

Last night she proved herself to be up for new tasks by assisting me with an advanced beginner student, who elected to take a break from riding to learn about ground work and horse training for her lesson this week! They did so well together during the ground work warm up, she earned Kiki’s trust enough to go for a quick spin!

Keeahi is 5 gaited, which is new to me but WOW is her rack smooth as glass! She is so brave and mindful about how she approaches “scary” situations, I think she will make a fabulous and versatile horse for someone from the trail to endurance rides, obstacle competitions and even into the show ring!

I have a few horses coming available for onsite partial lease at my Mount Vernon location. Several leasers have stepped ...
09/08/2025

I have a few horses coming available for onsite partial lease at my Mount Vernon location. Several leasers have stepped into horse ownership this year, leaving these awesome ladies open for a new partner!

Facility has an indoor arena with all sorts of toys and games, barrels jumps etc! Use of tack is included, and all horses can be ridden english or western. Leasers also have opportunities to compete in shows, clinics, hunter paces, fox hunting, trail rides, obstacle course play days, etc!

Lease fees start at $125/month for 1 ride per week. Lease/lesson packages are available, and I am open to family shared plans. I could write a book about each one of these horses, but will leave it at these summaries for now and be happy to answer further questions via messenger!

Sophie- 15.3hh 20 yo Appendix QH mare, super confidence builder, as sweet and calm as can be. She does have a big stride so is better suited for dressage and hunter riders, but will slow to a jog to the best of her ability and work off leg/neck rein. She is limited to flat work only, but that’s not much of a limitation for her- she can still do all sorts of obstacles and pop over small logs on trails, just doesn’t need to be jumping courses. She can and does still compete in dressage, ground poles, flats, all of the 4h/open show pattern classes! She has also been ridden in several parades and been to Equine Affaire with students/leasers and as a volunteer demo horse for a veterans therapy program.

Tilly- 16hh 14 yo Saddlebred mare. Currently competing with me aboard in 2’3” jumpers and starter level XC, with plenty of room to move up. Super smart with a fantastic work ethic, yet quiet and sensible enough to go from the jumper ring straight into the ground pole or cross rail hunter classes with students riding. She will pack a kiddo on their first trail ride, or a nervous retiree on their first hunter pace. Any level can ride her in a lesson, but for a leaser I would prefer a more advanced rider as she is still green and sensitive in that a good, sporty way I don’t want to dull down! You don’t have to be an English rider or Eventer, just someone who has a similar work ethic to hers. She loves obstacles and would be a great working equitation, mountain trail, or probably even a decent contesting horse. I do have western tack that fits her, she also drives!

Hanna- 16.1hh 13 yo warmblood mare. More of a push ride, but a very comfy one! She is super smooth and happy to slow it down to a nice little jog, she has shown western dressage intro tests and helps out with lessons for all ages, levels, and tack preferences. She has also shown up to 2’ hunters and starter level eventing (2’3 SJ + 2’3”-2’6” Xc) and makes the jumps feel like nothing!

Molly- 14hh 18 yo pinto pony, stocky little thing who does it all! Jumps, works cattle, drives, chases loose mustangs through corn fields and bogs, fox hunts, swims, she has shown in just about every class at several county fairs, won weekend and year end championships in hunter/jumper show series, carried riders through clinics at equine affaire, done parades, and all of it with countless riders of all ages and levels. This one wants you to think she’s too tired sometimes, but when presented with something interesting she is quite an athletic girl and an absolute blast to ride! I do have some limitations placed on her due to her age and size- her rider weight limit is 150 including tack, less if the rider is not well balanced. As for jump height, as much as she’ll tell you otherwise, she really doesn’t need to be schooling or competing above 18” regularly anymore. She is not the sweetest mare, she’s got her opinions and isn’t shy about sharing them. If you don’t mind a horse who has cuddle-boundaries but is game for anything else you wanna do and a super confidence builder, she’s your girl!

So many congratulations are in order! First up congratulations to our riders Ruby, Paige and Madi for their stellar perf...
08/12/2025

So many congratulations are in order! First up congratulations to our riders Ruby, Paige and Madi for their stellar performances at HEA this past weekend, each of them bringing home several hard earned ribbons with partners Molly, Fox and Tilly!

Madi and Tilly are both new to showing, but took everything in stride. They figured each other out better and better each class, I couldn’t be prouder!

Tilly and I had a lot of fun in the jumper thing as well, bumping up to 2’ for the first time on Sunday and racked up 950 points the gamblers choice for 2nd place!

Ruby and Molly had their best weekend yet, coming home with division champion and reserve champion ribbons!

The biggest congratulations, however, goes to Paige, who not only brought home a reserve champion ribbon of her own, but won it on HER “new” pony Fox! They have proven themselves to be such a dream team, when her parents approached me about buying Fox I really couldn’t say no. I can’t wait to see what adventures these two get up to!

This isn’t something I normally do, but I know this girl and this breaks my heart. She’s had a tougher go in life than m...
07/03/2025

This isn’t something I normally do, but I know this girl and this breaks my heart. She’s had a tougher go in life than many people her age, and I couldn’t believe it when I heard what happened at the show last Friday.

This sport is dangerous. Sarah is a very good rider, who puts in tons and tons of practice time and isn’t reckless.

Please donate if you can. If not, at least take an extra moment to check that your helmet fits properly and is stored correctly (NOT saying Sarah’s helmet was the issue here but want all riders to understand how important helmets are, and that helmets stored in hot cars, helmets that have hit the ground in a fall, or been dropped/tossed around, are subject to not protecting YOUR head as well as it should, and even helmets that have been properly taken care of and not in any crashes should still be replaced every few years!)

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On Friday evening June 27 Sarah sustained a significant brain injury while at a horse show near Columbus and lost consciousness. She was taken by squad to Nationwide Children’s Hospital and within minutes was rushed into emergency brain and skull surgery. We are hopeful for a positive outcome with...

Days 2 and 3 of camp kinda blurred together, and I failed to get pics yesterday, but I made up for it today! We designed...
06/18/2025

Days 2 and 3 of camp kinda blurred together, and I failed to get pics yesterday, but I made up for it today! We designed and painted our own ground poles (and some muck buckets, by default) rode with our own self-made “look up” glasses (which helped immensely!) did lots of ba****ck riding (witsome beautiful canters, even!) made a packing list for taking the horses offsite, and finished the day doing a blindfolded obstacle course (on foot) which was hilarious and harder than they thought it would be! Tomorrow is the last day, we’ll be doing their own dressage tests and utilizing our fancy new pole sets!

Day camp day 1! I only took students for camps this summer due to some personal health issues I was dealing with at the ...
06/16/2025

Day camp day 1! I only took students for camps this summer due to some personal health issues I was dealing with at the time I had to post camp sign ups. Next year I plan to offer the open camps again, but for this year having all regular students has offered a great opportunity to work on more advanced skills and knowledge! Today after a great (but challenging!) ride we learned how to read the feed bag labels and then create a diet based on the weight and work load of each horse. We also made up our own saying to remember the order of the dressage letters, and will be working on making up our own freestyle tests throughout the week! Of course we ended with some ba****ck fun and tons of giggles 🙂

My shy girl left today for her adoptive home! She will be very missed for sure, but I’m so proud of her and the progress...
05/24/2025

My shy girl left today for her adoptive home! She will be very missed for sure, but I’m so proud of her and the progress she made here. Thank you to Embers of Hope Equine Rescue for giving me to opportunity to love and help her. I hope you go on to do so many good things with your life, pretty girl!

We are home and recovered from a FANTASTIC weekend at Equine Affaire! We had 5 horses and 7 riders going in 16 different...
04/16/2025

We are home and recovered from a FANTASTIC weekend at Equine Affaire! We had 5 horses and 7 riders going in 16 different clinics, plus two riders in the first ever Ohio Breed Bonanza.

We all learned so much, solidified things we already knew, grew our confidence, and found inspiration for the upcoming riding season!

Molly and I got to learn how to work cattle, a lifelong dream of mine, which was so much fun I am now going to have to find somewhere to continue that journey closer to home. I also got to ground drive a team of Percherons!

Sherman (on his anniversary of being adopted at Equine Affaire 3 years ago!) carried two riders through Breed Bonanza, which is an equitation style flat class where any breed and discipline can enter and be judged against their own breed standards. Competitors were scored by 3 judges in 3 categories, and points were tallied at the end to determine winners. There was a wide variety of horses, including Quarter Horses, Gaited Breeds, Friesans, Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, Morgans, and other Saddlebreds. Sherman came home with a top 3 finish in the youth class with Paige aboard, and a 6th place in the adult division with Melissa G catch riding him after her lovely mare Coco said I’m too tired to go again today, mom. This was such a cool event to watch, I can’t wait to try it again with more horses and riders next year!

This pretty girl is ready to start looking for her forever home. Her buddy Bubbles found hers, now it’s Cheyenne’s turn!
02/23/2025

This pretty girl is ready to start looking for her forever home. Her buddy Bubbles found hers, now it’s Cheyenne’s turn!

01/03/2025
We were feeling festive last night!
12/18/2024

We were feeling festive last night!

We finally made it to our first Happily Ever After show of the season this past weekend, and we were so glad to be back!...
10/07/2024

We finally made it to our first Happily Ever After show of the season this past weekend, and we were so glad to be back! The 4 horses in our group this time were all thoroughbreds, who each dutifully carried riders of a different age and level. What testament to the versatility of the breed!

Congratulations to Melissa G and her lovely mare Coco, whom she adopted at Equine Affaire just 6 months ago, on their division champion win in the 2’ hunters!

Another big congratulations to Maeve and Zoey on winning reserve champs of the 2’ jumpers in Zoey’s return to the show ring after over a year! Maeve has worked Zoey back into competitive form so diligently and thoughtfully all summer, I couldn’t be more proud of the pair and their resilience and the beautiful bond they have developed.

Maeve and Melissa were on fire all weekend; Saturday evening they showed as a team in the pairs jumping class, bringing home a 3rd in a large and very competitive field!

Little Ruby and Jay made such a stylish debut at the most formal show they’ve done together so far, putting on the best possible performances as a new pair that we could have ever asked for. They really are two peas in a pod and we are all so excited to watch them continue to learn and grow together! One of the most impressive things was the positive, relaxed attitude they both maintained all weekend. Ruby said that one of her favorite parts of the whole show was getting to take care of her own horse and hang out with him all day!

It was a joy to watch my good friend and colleague Kaylie Eaves and her horse Mahina put their bond to the test as well this weekend, braving a lot of firsts for both of them. They accomplished everything they set out to do, learned a lot, and are eager to try again in the future!

So much else has happened in the past month I haven’t had the chance yet to post about, but now that I’m further on the mend from my hand injury and things are starting to wind down for the event season I hope to get back to regular programming soon!

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