Sher Gillespie Equestrian Inc.

03/28/2025

I miss my best friend and loyal ring side companion!!!!! I did everything I could for him!!!

03/20/2025

Suited up for the Ocala Longines League of Nations™️. 🇺🇸

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03/05/2025

02/03/2025

Join us for the fourth annual Induction Gala, March 2, this year at the Wellington National Golf Club. We'll know in the coming days who will join the ranks of the current Hall of Famers.

Get your tickets here to a festive night and a chance to meet the legends of our sport:
www.ShowJumpingHallofFame.net

Check out last year's Hall of Fame attendees: David Distler, Michael Matz, Peter Doubleday, Robert Ridland, Anthony D'Ambrosio, Katie Monahan Prudent, Linda Allen, Dr. Dan Marks

Leslie Burr Howard, Margie Engle, Beezie Madden, Anne Kursinski, Mary Mairs Chapot, Melanie Smith Taylor, Jane Forbes Clark

01/27/2025

01/07/2025

01/06/2025

Mclain Ward of the US on Sapphire jumps in the equestrian jumping individual final round competition in Hong Kong during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

12/07/2024

11/30/2024

Gem Twist with Frank, Gem’s owner Michael Golden, and Greg Best in the saddle at Tampa after Gem’s very first win.

11/14/2024

It is vitally important NOT to be suckered by those magazines that feature “Life Styles Of Your Typical Billionaire Equestrian” into thinking that anything short of over-the-top opulence is somehow deficient.

Sure, if you go on a tour of some of the Lexington, Kentucky stud farms you will see palatial stone barns, groomed landscapes, splashing fountains and chandeliers, but those are designed to woo investors into the racing industry.

Or if some private farm looks like the Taj Mahal, goody for them. It’s possible, often even probable, that extremely lavish trappings disguise average or even mediocre riding abilities. Neatness, though, is different from opulence. As is having a clean or clean-ish barn and tack room. Attention to detail in one area of horse management can often reflect an overall attitude that spills over into the way someone rides and trains.

Neatness begins by picking up a broom. Or a rake. Try not, perhaps, to become one of those people who thinks that manual labor is for “other” people. The word for that attitude is “pretentious.”

11/06/2024

Aachen parade of nations. Steinkraus & Ksar, Kushner & High Noon, Chapot & Tomboy, Wiley & Nautical, Frank & San Lucas, Robertson & Trail Guide. The international elite of show jumping gathers in this location, competing for triumph in the prestigious events of the CHIO Aachen. Vast crowds of spectators have the opportunity to witness both national and international jumping competitions within the Main Stadium, where the schedule offers a hugeley diverse range of activities for all to witness.

10/23/2024

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.