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Hybrid Horsemanship, LLC

Owned/operated by Shelby Piovoso: Professional horse trainer and riding instructor.
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10/30/2024

Florida horse people! Is there a good lesson barn in The Villages area that you could recommend? I have a client/friend who just moved there and would like to find a good barn to learn at! Thank you in advance!!

10/14/2024

So proud of our group at Country Hill yesterday! Classes were pretty big, between 7 and 13 in each division!

Ella took reserve champion of the beginner rider at only her second show ever! Katie only missed reserve champion by a point or two in short stirrup which was her move up from beginner rider last year! Lexi took big girl, Gini, who she has only jumped once before, so we were expecting much, but they also took reserve champion of a huge long stirrup division!

Then Rudy just went for the mileage and came home with a first over fences and third on the flat ending in reserve champion of a huge cross rail hunter division of 13!

Lastly, little Olaf came along to school for his first show and handled the environment beautifully! He’ll be taking kids in no time 🥰

Everyone blew me away! Great work, team!!

02/16/2024

It’s announcement time!! I am SO excited to share that Lady and Letty are staying with Hybrid Horsemanship, LLC!

One of my newer working students, Kamryn, fell in love with Letty and has officially adopted her! I could not be happier for the two of them, and I know they are going to have so many wonderful adventures together! They are literally the perfect pair ❤️

A little over a month ago, Lady’s owner came to me to ask if I knew anyone who might want to take Lady on. She and Lady have been through so much. Amanda had done so much to try to gain Lady’s trust and build her up slowly, but they had some bad experiences along the way. Amanda was worried that she would not be able to let go of these and wanted Lady to have the best chance she could at a bright future. Her decision was so selfless and truly puts Lady’s needs above her own love for her. Luckily the timing was impeccable as my good friend Kaitlyn had been making plans to bring on a wild mustang for us to start together sometime this year. While Lady is a bit different than our original plan, Kaitlyn took a liking to her and has been working hard with me to bring her along. A wild mustang would have been a fun adventure and would certainly come with less baggage, but there is nothing quite like working through trauma with a troubled horse. The lessons they teach you, and the joy they bring you when their walls finally come down is something that I am so excited for Kaitlyn to continue to experience. We still have a long road ahead of us, but I have no doubt that Lady and Kaitlyn will do great things together!

Thanks to everyone who has been following both of these mare’s journeys! You’ll still be seeing updates from time to time on them and their new people 🥰

02/04/2024

So proud of my two students today! Kate did the beginner rider division and won everything! Lexi had a super competitive long stirrup division where she took 5th in the walk/trot class, 1st in the walk/trot/canter, and then 3rd over fences! This was a class of at least 10 horses! Very successful day with perfect ponies 🥰

12/24/2023

“Confidence is knowing that youre prepared for the unthinkable.”

Confidence. It’s something that only comes through experience which takes years to build and seconds to break. These last two or so months have been a true test to that. Somehow I managed to have six fairly troubled horses in for training all at once. Two or three had been with me for quite some time and took a while to come around. They had been in a good place, but it still felt like we were sneaking rides and not yet to that next level. When I’d push for more, we would back track. I had even overestimatetsted one that I’d been working with over a year, and he managed to get me off. The other few were newer and just not really following my normal routine of problem solving. I was feeling pretty discouraged and my confidence was depleating by the day. I was really wondering If I was truly cut out for this and just in over my head. I was putting everything into these horses but still feeling so lost.

I got dinner a few weeks ago with a trainer friend who also happens to attend the same church as me. She helped remind me that confidence is a lifelong development and that we are where we are in life to serve a purpose. There will always be tough horses, and we wont always have the answers. While it’s important to keep learning from those more experienced than ourselves, sometimes the best lessons are taught through perseverance.

So after that, I decided to let go of my doubts and keep pushing forward. It can be hard to tell sometimes when a horse needs “more of the same stuff” or a different perspective altogether. How long do you keep on more of the same before deciding that something needs to be different? It’s hard to say, but in this small portion of my life, keeping on the path and doing more of the same until I got better results has really paid off. Patience and waiting. What seem like small victories for a horse like Dancer, are actually really huge. Spending several months on just mounting without anxiety has turned him into a completely different horse.

And for a horse like Lady, who cares that it took over a month to saddle her confidently? Because of the trust built over the past month and a half, she just had her first canter circle under saddle after years of extreme fear. It was truly a Christmas miracle.

The past few weeks have really got me counting all the blessings in my life. Times with horses can be so very trying, but seeing ones who were once so broken and scarred come out the other end will never get old. I am so proud of Lady, myself, and all the incredible horses who are building my confidence every day. These times can be emotionally draining, but days like yesterday remind me why I’m here living this life. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

12/18/2023

The fanciest Flerb! (Turbo Drive) was incredible yesterday at his first show! He only placed in one of his courses as others had errors, but he got multiple flying changes which we’ve never asked for! I’m extremely proud considering that he can barely pick up his right lead on a straight away 😅 5th place out of 15 is pretty cool to me though! He also placed 4th in the flat out of 11 and got his right lead *almost* from the walk. What a perfect boy ❤️

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