Lightning T3 Horsemanship - Training & Lessons

07/03/2023

Happy to announce Melanie will now be available to offer lessons at the Hunt Club on post! Please reach out to her on her page for inquiries No Bull Equine

06/13/2023

05/12/2023

Pricing 🤠

04/14/2023

Thanks you everyone for your understanding and prayers for our beloved Grady, he is now feeling much better and was discharged from the vet hospital this afternoon. For anyone pending a rescheduled lesson please reach out to get back on the books ⚡️🤠

03/27/2023

Lessons are cancelled today, arenas are flooded⛈️

03/27/2023

Missing these shows this Spring💐

03/12/2023

Don’t listen to the Bleacher Teachers…

“It is not the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs,
who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who neither know victory nor defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

03/08/2023

Check this event out!

By: UGA Extension

03/07/2023

A wonderful previous client tagged me in this and I just am so grateful for these types of opportunities and relationships💖

At a lesson I was teaching, the student’s mare had worked beautifully. She’d tried so hard to do our bidding—which included stretching and rebuilding her body through her way of going, her long-held thought processes and reactions—that I was moved to blink away tears and hold her head in a silent embrace. We stood there for quite some time, just giving and receiving gratitude. It was then that the owner spoke up.

“Thank you for loving my horse,” she said.

I didn’t know quite how to respond, for as a teacher and horse lover, it seemed only natural to do this. It occurred to me, though, that it is easier for each of us to stay guarded. If we have a procession of training horses and people coming and going through our lives, it is less trouble—and less of a gamble—to keep our shields up.

This, I have decided, is not how I choose to live my life.

My goal, when schooling the last-chance horses and ponies who come through my hands, as well as the gifted ones with all the hope in the world, is to instill love and pride in correct work. Their so-called market value has zero bearing on my hopes and dreams for their skills and/or wellness. This “living well, riding better” has become a mantra for all that I do and write. It has somehow become my horses’ and my own trademark, too. Simple and to the point, it continues to surprise people.

Schooling an eighteen-year-old to move better? Showing pride in the accomplishments of an unregistered and once-laminitic pony? Encouraging and body-building an awkward and ageing, very ordinary—read uncompetitive—horse?

“Why waste your time?” is so often inferred. The answer, of course, is that they teach me every bit as much as I teach them. Yes, every single one. There’s a reason we’ve crossed paths.

📷 Iain McLean.

02/12/2023

Lessons are postponed until this afternoon. Please contact me if you need to reschedule.

02/06/2023

The Unofficial 2023 PHC LAE Open Rider Chart has been updated to include the results from The Ike Derby & Classic! After showing at just two LAE this year, Adan Banuelos has taken an early lead with well over $100k won already in 2023! To follow along and see the full chart, visit https://performancehorsecentral.com/stats/?i=LAE+Open+Rider+Stats+2023