C & S Stables, 2361 Hancock Highway, Equinunk, PA (2024)

06/10/2024

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!

12/13/2023

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!

11/26/2023

🌟Blue Redford Ivy
2023 Aqha sorrel filly

If your looking for an athletic, balanced laid back all-around prospect here she is. Good minded filly, sweet and smart, stalls inside and has been pastured outside with other horses, minis, cows and donkeys. No vices

Currently ties, bathes, ponies, exposed to clippers, stands for ferrier, very willing to learn.

Her maternal sister excels in Trail, Hus, Showmanship, Ranch, Horsemanship, Eq, & pleasure.

Equinunk, Pa
Pm for more info

11/03/2023

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A memorial service will be held on Friday, November 3, 2023 at 12:00 p.m. at C&S Stables, 2361 Hancock Highway, Equinunk, PA 18417.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. at the Cyril F. Mullins Funeral Home, 399 White Plains Rd. Trumbull CT. Inurment to follow in Tabor Cemetery, 36 Tabor Drive, Branford, CT 06405. Friends may pay their respects on Saturday from 9 a.m. until the time of service.

https://www.mullinsfh.com/obituary/Arlene-Ericson?fbclid=IwAR2_xRlZIStVAO8r1kJZWTLwJq2PdZZ2c07ajDDsUeB1hmz8w6dHguExMGM_aem_AYZCybMJOUZCyOuh-9pkQaK5fK9QA0wfEhO5HQUI_q9OGC9hciF8IB_3Lu-Qxr6DyNQ

09/30/2023

Happiest of Birthdays to wonder woman herself!! Wishing you nothing but the best day, we love you so very much💖

05/19/2023

💫SOLD💫

🌟All-around Delux🌟
What A Ruckus
Double registered Aqha appendix & Pinto
2007 model 16.2 hands
🤜Rides BAREFOOT and SOUND 🤜
💥Clips with no twitch
Show him in the hunter ring one day and western the next. Soft mouth, soft sided, spur broke, spurs optional.
First show of the year and he crushed it. Picked up AQHA points in showmanship, horsemanship, and hunt seat equitation. Came home with high point of not just one but two divisions showing against 10+ horses.
Super personality, is great around kids, NO SPOOK! Most comfortable in the show pen. Green on trail pattern but holds potential to learn.

04/12/2023

⭐️ Super cute all arounder
💫double registered
💥AQHA Appendix & Pinto
🔸16 years old
🔹16.2 hands
🔸showmanship
🔹HUS
🔸equitation
🔹horsemanship
Has a list of show experience, very sweet, rides sound and barefoot, pm for details.

11/12/2022

Happy Veterans Day ❤️🤍💙 thank you and all who have served 🇺🇸

06/15/2022

✅14 day pregnancy
✅28 day heartbeat
💥next April can’t come soon enough

Also not enough thanks to Dr. Emily Bold @ DeNaples Equine Services for all your hard work helping make this happen along with all our other tiny dancers you’ve helped with. 🤗🥰

Blue Redford Violet “Violet” confirmed in foal with a heartbeat 🖤🤍.

Thanks Amy for working with us 🎉

06/02/2022

The yearlings are getting so big!

11/29/2021

****sold******
Posting for a friend**
Blazing Hitman(Macey)
Super cute AQHA sorrel mare for sale
Ranch, western or English prospect.
Stands at 14.2 hands **large pony**
Just started this summer jumping and has been jumped all summer at 2’3”
Will ride quiet or forward for any level
Trail rides, clips, bathes, braids/bands, ties, trailers quietly
Barefoot and sound
No vices and very neat in stall
Lives well inside or outside
Handled and shown this summer in both English and western events by youth.
She will be ridden in a lesson program with youth until sold
Owner is only selling due to moving and expecting a new baby.

08/22/2021

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07/22/2021

So great to work with!

07/19/2021

It was a great week showing at the Liberty Circuit!

06/24/2021

Thank you Jen Rutledge Materials and Rutledge Excavating, Inc. for the high quality arena footing and delivery.

05/30/2021

Meet baby Cash 💰😎

05/29/2021

Cupids yearling vrs baby nap time picture 📸

05/11/2021

Garden compost. $20 a bucket. To load call 1-570-224-4842

04/10/2021

So excited to watch this one grow! This filly is just a month old and only gets better by the day.

12/25/2020

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year from our family to yours🎄

03/03/2020

Celebrating spring weather by bringing the pony out to play for the day☀️💖

02/15/2020

Best Valentine’s Day gift💖 **t

12/10/2019

Christmas special 🎅🏻 🌲 looking for a cute pony for under the tree? Look at this guy. Perfect 4-h prospect cute as a button. Grey miniature pony gelding. Started over jumping and with mini trail. Pm if interested.

08/24/2019

“It’s absolutely mind boggling if you think about it.

Your horse gets absolutely nothing out of being competitive for you. Not a darn thing. Of course horses are bred for specific jobs, or they’re bred to be athletic to a certain degree. However, horses don’t wake up thinking about chasing cans, or cows, or flying over jumps.

They have no idea how much money is added to the pot. They have no idea that this is a qualifier. They have no idea that this is the short go.

And DESPITE us... DESPITE our nerves, our flaws, our incorrect ques, our huge emotions, they get the job done to their very best ability. Even when we fail them by letting our emotions get in the way, they come back and they try again. For US. Whoa. Let that sink in. If only we could all be so understanding.

To think of an animal that is forgiving and flexible enough to put up with the repetition of practice, the intense nerves of the rider, the stress of hauling and still meet you at the gate for scratches is MIND. BLOWING.

If you haven’t done so lately. Thank your horse.

If you’re successful, thank the horses that put you there and made you. Thank the horses that gave everything they had for you simply because you ASKED them to.

If you’re still on the journey to success, thank the horses that made you fall in love with your sport and who have helped give you the confidence to want to learn more and be better.

We can never stop learning as horsemen and horsewomen, and by continuing our education every horse in our future will be better off.

Next time you head to the arena leave your ego at the door and thank your horse!”
~Samantha Roffers

Pic of my ISH 5 year old, Kearney ❤️

07/29/2019

Let’s talk about LIGHT HANDS.

This photo is Macee McAllister, the 2019 NHSRA World Champion. Look at how she’s holding her reins and then look at her face. Her face is pure grit and try, yet her hand is soft as butter. Barely even touching the reins with just her tippy ends of her fingers.
Why is this so great? Because light hands allow your horse to stay more balanced. Light hands allow your horse to work off the training that he has had and perform more fluidly. Lightness is just the absence of resistance. Think about it, the more resistance present in a relationship the more unproductive it is. ANY relationship. People, jobs, animals; all relationships. A barrel horse needs to be able to use its body and balance itself at many times during a run. If you are pulling on his face, he is unable to get his body into the position he needs to do his job.
Less is more. Stay light.
Be like Macee. 💙

07/22/2019

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07/22/2019

Sunday Funday!!

07/05/2019

Happy birthday to the best dad, husband, brother, grandpa, and great grandpa there is💖

06/14/2019

Young horse, old horse, sweet horse, bold horse…oh what each one can teach you. Out of all the different life-stages, young and inexperienced horses may sometimes be the best partners and teachers. With a green horse, you’re able to add your personal touch. You get to teach that horse whatever y...