CA Equestrian LLC

01/25/2024

Land Safe is coming to Flur lain in April!!
HIGHLY recommend for anyone that gets on the back of a horse. Top professionals who have completed the clinic all agree this could save your life one day!

Super fun and educational!

Sign up now to reserve your spot before it’s all filled up!

**anyone who’s completed past clinics that wishes to do level 2, pm me! We will have a night session for anyone wanting to do more advanced things.

https://landsafeequestrian.com/product/april-20-21st-2024-flur-lain-farm-comer-georgia/

https://youtu.be/9uaJCwivbto

Level one Landsafe clinic montage. Learn more about Landsafe's program that teaches you how to fall off a horse the best way: http://landsafeequestrian.com

12/16/2023

8 Top Tips for Equestrians from Dr. Temple Grandin

02/20/2023

Research shows feeding horses alfalfa prior to riding can help buffer stomach acid and offers relief for ulcer-prone horses. But are hay or pellets better?

01/31/2023

It’s official!! CA Equestrian is moving to our newly acquired home base, just 30 min outside of Athens, GA! With 30+ acres and 16 stalls, I have some more spots for training or sales board available.
Very lucky to call this place home😌

11/11/2022

Little Rhett update! He’s started popping over some small fences now, doing his first line and his first grid! He’s not very impressed by the height but he tries nonetheless😂

03/28/2022

Ossian (Arlo) successfully completed his first recognized event ever! Very happy with this cool horse’s aptitude for the sport and his 6th place finish in the Open Novice today. Very bright future for this one! 🤩🌟
{He’s also for sale}

11/20/2021

My most handsome 3 year old is growing up!! Little Rhett is really starting to come into his own, and is even hacking around the property like a big boy🥰

11/19/2021

In an alternate universe in which the USEF had acknowledged the 2021 competition renewal and the new farm owner wanted an event to run in 2021, the OJC Event could have been running this Thursday to Sunday.

It is not that alternative universe, however, so we can just remember many cool memories of OJC Events’ past. With an Event that brought over $1 million annually in economic impact to Ocala, was run for four straight years with a clean safety record for horses and riders, and went from zero to one of the most popular in the country in four short years, we all did good.

We are proud of what we accomplished. Most of all, we are grateful to the riders, sponsors, volunteers, vendors and loyal fans who supported four years of a somewhat crazy dream of a world class eventing competition on a traditional Thoroughbred farm.

All the best to all of us who dare to dream crazy dreams. Whether or not they work out quite to plan, we become more by the dreaming and the doing.

09/28/2021

A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley
Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.
Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.
Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance
like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.
Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.
A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.
We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.
That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.
No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.
Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.
A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!
Take care of your horses and treasure them.

09/15/2021

THIS🙌🏼👏🏼

https://horsenetwork.com/2017/07/heres-deal-tipping-grooms/?fbclid=IwAR0IQiwYa_wSp3WoyxbeNZvFs7pUT5p43sJ8mcW4B2DLVgILd88U0sj8qII

Usually, we tip people who do stuff for us. Bartenders and waitresses are high on the list. But unless you’re flat-broke or unforgivably cheap, your hair stylist, pizza guy and manicurist probably receive a little extra monetary love as well. Many people tip their Uber drivers. And hotel staff oft...

09/05/2021

Athens, GA—A Georgia trainer decided to break with convention when he opted not to mince words or use coded numbers in a recent sales ad for the seasoned Children’s Hunter, In the Mood. “In the Mood, or ‘Madge,’ is a 17-year-old, 16.2-hand Holsteiner mare who’s long past her prime but wi...

08/02/2021

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗸𝘆𝗼 - 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗲

Sometimes you just can't save a horse. That is the medical reality of serious leg injuries such as the ruptured ligament suffered by Swiss Olympic event horse Jet Set in a freak accident at Tokyo on Sunday. However hard you try, however much you might wish the horse better, some injuries are just impossible to overcome with an acceptable quality of life for a horse.

Take Jet Set's ruptured ligament for example. You can't explain to a horse why it has to be tied up standing still for the best part of a year. You can't explain why it can't lie down instead because the weight of its internal organs would crush each other. You can't explain why its other three legs have to support its 500kg weight all on their own and why they're subsequently so sore. You can't explain why they are so full of energy but can't leave the confines of their four walls. And you can't explain (or even guarantee) that at the end of these months of near-torture there is a tiny chance that that horse might be half sound. And if, at the end of all that, the horse can't even walk pain-free it won't be a happy horse and it certainly won't have a happy life.

As hard as it can be to understand on the face of it, sometimes, it really is the kindest thing to let a horse go.

Now back to Jet Set and his heartbroken rider. After heeding the Olympic vets' advice that the only kind option was to let his beloved horse go, Robin Godel shared the news with his followers on Instagram in a grief-sticken tribute to his horse of a lifetime. At that point, the online 'pile-on' began:

'𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒.'

'𝐸𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑚𝑢𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑟'

'𝐴𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟'

'𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦'

'𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢.'

And so the comments went on, hundreds upon hundreds on that post and on almost every other post from Jet Set's devastated 22-year-old rider.

In a world where mental health, kindness and compassion have never been more talked about, it must take a special kind of bitter savagery to trawl through months of posts on someone's social media feed, to target and tarnish every special memory with that wonderful horse with ill-informed hateful comments. It's as if people who ride horses are somehow fair game.

It may not be a beating with sticks and stones, but it is bullying nonetheless.

Those who have been in the awful position of having to make that final call, of putting head and science over heart and letting a beautiful, magnificent and much-loved animal go will know just how hard it is to do. It is not a decision anyone takes lightly and it is one which takes great courage in its own way.

Robin Godel and all of Jet Set's connections did the right thing by him at the end and it is clear that the horse was well-loved and incredibly well cared for in life. That combination is as much as any horse can hope for and Robin Godel deserves support and empathy rather than abuse and hatred at what is undoubtedly a low point in not only his career, but also his young life.

To all those who see fit to abuse a young man at his lowest ebb because you do not understand the complexities and necessities of a human caregiver's obligation to their horse, perhaps educate yourself both on that subject and on decency before you press send on your hateful comments.

To Robin Godel, for acting as any true horseman should and showing compassion and kindess to your horse in the most important decision of all: thank you.

06/15/2021

Amaretto had his 3rd birthday yesterday, so I thought I should update all his followers! Rhett was backed a month or two ago and was an absolute saint! It really pays off to put hands on your babies often and do groundwork!! He’s still moderately confused as to why I am on his back🤣

02/28/2021

The importance of constantly educating horse people on the ever changing science of horse training is paramount, in my opinion. Not only for the well being of our equine partners, but for the futurity of our equestrian sports.

When do horse training methods cross the line from accepted to abusive? Despite significant advances in scientific knowledge about horse welfare and behavior, abusive training still occurs.

01/28/2021

Very excited to follow along on this journey to create Florida’s next new venue👏🏼🙌🏼

A state-of-the-art facility has emerged on the Gulf side of Florida, just to the southeast of Tampa near Sarasota. Designed with no expense spared and horses in mind, TerraNova Equestrian in Myakka City is a

01/27/2021

“Roller rolls on” or “Ollie” had a great first schooling jumper show round at Sweet Dixie South Schooling Days today! After having him for just a month, he’s improved so much! Looking forward to having more steering and some brakes, but I’ll settle for this for now🤩

12/25/2020

Happy to welcome the newest addition the the CAE program, “Roller rolls on”! Excited to see what the future holds for this lovely 5 year old🤩

12/09/2020

Got to catch up an old friend yesterday! So glad to see my old upper level horse “AB Amelie” so happy and healthy in retirement in sunny FL! Amelie is the Dam of my 2 year old “Amaretto” (Contenda x Amelie x Welt Marke), and is fattening up to be bred again this coming spring by my friend Lexi!