Concord Equestrian Center

08/13/2024

📝It’s sign up time for the 2024/2025 season! Our team is open to students grades 4-12, no horse ownership required, no experience to get started!

Information meeting THIS SUNDAY August 18 at 3pm, held at JD Show Horses

💻You can find info on our program and yeda by visiting our website-bottom of the home page- www.jdshowhorses.com

🏆come join the highest winning team at Nationals for the 2023/2024 season!!

07/25/2024

Our first show of the season for returning YEDA members will be at Congress! This is a fun show with awesome awards!

🌟 YEDA Show at All American Quarter Horse Congress! 🌟

We're excited to announce that the information for our upcoming YEDA show at the All-American Quarter Horse Congress is now online! Prepare for an incredible event filled with competition, camaraderie, wonderful awards, and fun.

📅 Event Dates: October 9-10

📅 Open Date for Entries: August 12

🔗 Congress Information: https://showyeda.com/2024/07/06/october-9-10-all-american-quarter-horse-congress/

Participants must be YEDA members to enter.
📋 Membership Forms: https://showyeda.com/rules-forms/membership/

📋 Coach/Team Forms: https://showyeda.com/rules-forms/coaches-forms/

Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity to showcase your skills and join the YEDA community at one of the year's most exciting events. We can't wait to see you there!

06/26/2024

🗓️Our 2024/2025 info meeting and sign up will be August 18th at 3pm!!

Come join our awesome team!!

06/24/2024

06/23/2024

The final Senior Sunday 🥹 as we wrap up graduation parties today we reflect on the fantastic group of seniors we have. They have been instrumental in our program and we wish them the BEST of LUCK on their next adventures!

L to R-
Katie-Mac Shively attending Ohio University
Annie Jones attending Albion College
Kelsey Thrush attending Ohio University

06/07/2024

Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard…..every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.

2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to…

3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then your not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to…..

4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in awhile….they improve because they make riding a priority and give themsevles opportunity to practice.

5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what your AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...

6. Riding should be fun. It is work. and work isn't always fun.....but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.

7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important, too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.

8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.

9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others…..but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one.

*thank you to whoever wrote this! Not my words, but certainly a shared sentiment!

👉sign up for riding lesson by following this link👉 https://jdshowhorses.ecpro.us

JD Show Horses

06/02/2024

Amazing is all we have to say! It was a total team effort, all the way down to the minis (younger siblings)!

🏆HIGH POINT HIGH SCHOOL TEAM🏆
🏆HIGH POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAM 🏆

The ONLY team in YEDA - Youth Equestrian Development Association, Inc HISTORY to win BOTH the high school and middle school high points in the same year🙌🙌

06/02/2024

What a week for this kid!

🏆NATIONAL CHAMPION 🏆

Addison Leonard-Team Sr High Ruby Rail

06/02/2024

🏆RESERVE NATIONAL CHAMPION🏆

Unie Brechbuhler- Team Jr High Sapphire Ranch Riding

06/02/2024

Back 2 Back NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!

🏆Abigail Stewart-Team Jr High Opal Rail
🏆Mya Ruff-Team Jr High Emerald Rail

06/02/2024

Final day 🙌🙌 at YEDA - Youth Equestrian Development Association, Inc Nationals!!

06/01/2024

Capping off the day!

🥈RESERVE HIGH POINT Rider! Unie Brechbuhler 👊🏻

🥉Ellie Wiethe-Sr High Sapphire Horsemanship
🥉Brie DeMuzio-Team Sr High Opal Pattern
🤍Kennedy VanHeukelom-Team Jr High Pattern
🩷Abigail Stewart-Jr High Opal Rail
🩷Aubrey Powell-Sr High Opal Rail
💚Kelsey Thrush-Sr High Emerald Rail
💚Katie Mac Shively-Sr High Diamond Pattern
💜Abby Reinemeyer-Sr High Emerald Rail
🤎Adela Christiansen-Sr High Diamond Pattern

🙌Finalists-Marla Chapman, Rylee Jordan, Mya Ruff, Paige Roy, Kelsey Thrush, Ellie Wiethe, Kennedy VanHeukelom

06/01/2024

🏆National Champion🏆

Addison Leonard

Team Sr High Ruby Pattern!

06/01/2024

🏆NATIONAL CHAMPION 🏆

Unie Brechbuhler

Jr High Sapphire Horsemanship

06/01/2024

Another great morning!!

🥉Marla Chapman-Jr High Opal Pattern
🤍Annie Jones-Sr High Ruby Rail
🩷Claire Grubbe-Elementary Pearl Pattern out of 32!!
🩷Ava Sullivan-Sr High Sapphire Ranch Riding
💚Brie DeMuzio-Sr High Opal Pattern
💜Bryn Fazzio-Jr High Opal Pattern

Watch for our 💎 riders in the horsemanship finals later today! Adela Christiansen and Katie Mac Shively!! What a stout group of riders!

06/01/2024

1️⃣9️⃣ riders showing on day 3 of thYEDA - Youth Equestrian Development Association, Incnc NATIONALS!

05/31/2024

🎓Senior Recognition-Katie-Mac Shively, Kelsey Thrush, Annie Jones

🐴Knowledge Test Winners-Ava Sullivan, Ellie Wiethe, Claire Grubbe

👊🏻Moving onto the finals of their classes tomorrow - Annie Jones, Mya Ruff, Abigail Stewart, Paige Roy, Abby Reinemeyer, Kelsey Thrush, Ellie Wiethe

🍭Stall Decoration Complete! Come visit our CANDY LAND!! 🍭

🧘‍♀️YOGA led by alum Hannah Ellinger

05/31/2024

🏆NATIONAL CHAMPION 🏆

Addison Leonard- Sr High Ruby Pattern

05/31/2024

All before lunch!!

🥉Adela Christiansen-Sr High Diamond Reining out of 20!
💜Carly Heiss-Sr High Emerald Pattern out of 24!
🤎Mya Ruff-Jr High Emerald Pattern out of 31!

05/31/2024

Busy Day 2 YEDA - Youth Equestrian Development Association, Inc Nationals!!

05/30/2024

So close but all 3 have more classes this week!

🥉Kennedy Van Huekelom
🥉Aubrey Powell
▫️Brie DeMuzio

05/30/2024

2024/2025 YEDA QUEEN!!

👸🏼 Carly Heiss 🥳

05/30/2024

WAY TO START THE DAY!!!

Moving onto the big dance!!💃

🥇Mya Ruff -jr high emerald pattern
🥈Rylee Jordan-jr high sapphire pattern

05/30/2024

DAY 1 of competition YEDA - Youth Equestrian Development Association, Inc NATIONALS!!

📺 you can watch live here- https://showyeda.com/live/

05/29/2024

We have made it to TENNESSEE!!

Today we will get our horses use to the facility and get them show ready for the rest of the week! We needed a little motivation for today so here it is

***🛑language ALERT🛑*** but it gets the motivation going!!

12.2K likes, 99 comments. “Morning!!”

05/19/2024

What a day!! Our riders had a pre-NATIONALS Scrimmage and it was amazing!🤩

Draw parties, lunch, pattern practicing and FANTASTIC feedback from our guest judge Elizabeth Yoder! She gave each rider feedback on their patterns and rail rides.

BRING ON NATIONALS 💪🏻

05/16/2024

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