Saybrook Farms

12/21/2024

12/13/2024

Now Hiring :

Looking for a new team member. Ideal candidate works 4 or more shifts a week. Job has flexibility in shift availability. An opportunity for a stall is also available to the right employee.

Duties include general husbandry and caretaking for a 28 stall facility in Union, KY

Potential for grooming and training assistant duties also available seasonally for the right candidate.

Please DM if interested in applying.

11/20/2024

Congratulations to Jessy Selm on the purchase of her first horse Red Miracle, aka Ruby. Jessy is the perfect person to give this mare the TLC she needs to reach her Hunter princess potential. Exciting things ahead for these two 👏

Thank you S.E.Carr Equestrian for referring us to this lovely mare.

11/15/2024

New faces arriving today

11/08/2024

Still ISO for first horse for teenager. Help me find this deserving student her heart horse.

Student has been riding for several years and leasing a push ride crosspole mount. Looking for something she can progress with at local schooling shows and trail ride at home. Both horse and rider will remain in professional program. Best home on 400 acres of bluegrass!

Safety is top priority. Ability to school 2ft with simple changes. Under 15yo. Over 15’3h. Quarter horse, appendix, draft cross preferable. We love our thoroughbreds but not interested for this client.

High four-low five figure budget. Must be local to Northern Kentucky. Two week trial would be best case scenario.

Picture of deserving student and her lease mount below

11/05/2024

Teller to Sing
7yo 16’1h Irish bred Thoroughbred Mare

Tella has been sufficiently let down and assessed undersaddle after a successful racing career. She’s being offered as a prospect for an advanced rider or broodmare home. She offers both leads, a natural change, a gorgeous flat kneed floaty trot and an uphill build. She’s relatively straightforward undersaddle but can get hot and works up. She requires a rider with an educated hand and light seat. She has not been started over fences and has less than 10 rides post track. She has been treated and cleared after a EPM diagnosis, up to date on vaccination, teeth, and chiropractic work. Located in Union, KY asking 4 ooo. Potential buyers will need to provide vet reference and video footage to ensure most suitable home.

Free Movement:

https://youtu.be/PiTJlUz6TBI?feature=shared

Outdoor flat school:

https://youtu.be/FRkek21cMuE?feature=shared

Indoor flat school:

https://youtu.be/vji3Wklqowg?feature=share

11/03/2024

Congratulations to Christ Klien on his lovely pony’s horse show debut with a Champ and Resrve in green horse poles. Thank you Lakeside Arena

11/03/2024

Huge congratulations to Ashley DeJonckheere on the purchase of Madame Claude aka Winnie! Ashley is the most deserving owner and Winnie is a very lucky mare. This pair is going to do great things!

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween!!! Thank you to the horses for humoring us 🎃 👻 🐴

10/17/2024

Stalls available just in time for indoor season. Full service boarding at $650 per month in Union, KY. Amenities include indoor and outdoor arenas, trails, significant turnout and climate controlled common areas. Lesson and training services also available on site. DM to schedule a tour.

10/15/2024

ISO 3 horses. Must be able to try locally will not ship. Union, KY. Please send video and conformation photos to DM vs commenting.

1- Adult Amateur first horse. Client rode on collegiate level. Capable advanced beginner rider who looks forward to bringing something of her own along. Quiet throughbreds ok, but prefer appendix type. High 4 budget

2- First horse for a teen that enjoys schooling shows and trail rides. She needs something comfortable that can get noticed in a flat class. Very low 5 budget

3- Family horse. Something everyone can learn to ride. Good citizen in the barn and on the ground. Bonus if it has show miles. Very Low 5 budget

10/04/2024

I find that in our Hunter and Jumper disciplines we are striving for many of the same ingredients and goals in training our horses as in the Dressage discipline. The Dressage training pyramid states in this order: Rhythm, Suppleness, Contact, Impulsion, Straightness, and finally, Collection.

The first four are, of course, staples of my training with jumping horses—although the order may be mixed. Yes, I like straightness, but does my horse have to be as straight to jump a course as a horse being judged in a dressage arena? I need a connected horse, leg to hand, but do I need a collected horse to jump a hunter round? How much and when does my jumper need collected gaits to do his job rather than just being connected. Our jumpers are galloping and jumping in a forward balance in large arenas compared to the dressage horse performing semi or collected gaits in central balance in a small arena. I find that adding a bit of collection at times with an advanced jumper in the canter gait beneficial to his/her training.

I once heard a famous rider, Meredith Michaels Beerbaum, say to a group she was teaching, “I can jump any course in the world if my horse does four things well: Instantly forward from my leg, instantly back from my hand, turns left, and turns right.”
What she means is that in our jumping disciplines we have to concentrate on the basics. Getting our horses in front of our leg to respond to the lightest of leg aids. Having them come back and shorten their stride so well that our aids are nearly invisible. That solves the issues of stride control in the lines. Turning right and left pertains to track control. Indoor arenas often ask horses to be able to shape out deep into the corners. A jump-off or the handy round of a hunter derby asks the horse to be able to follow the rider’s aids instantly and manage tight turns. Bending lines in equitation championships often ask many questions in not only stride length but in the track you choose. The goal of our training is to produce a horse that lightly and instantly reacts to our aids in order to successfully ride the demands of a course.

We can obtain most of Meredith’s four staples through transitions and lateral exercises. However, how we obtain them with our aids is quite different from how the dressage horse is trained. The dressage horse is trained through a sophisticated coordination of driving and restraining aids. As Christilot Boylen, a Canadian Olympian, once said, “Collection is impulsion redirected upward.” A rider’s balance is mainly in their seat.
This system is complicated and takes years to achieve. The jumping horse is in a forward balance with riders balanced in their stirrups. It’s a simple system of training based on non-clashing aids. Therefore, horses can be trained for their job in a much shorter time as can the riders.
I encourage top riders to be educated in some of the dressage methods, but take great care with their students that they don’t mix and match their training aids from one system to the other and confuse the horse.

Video recommendations on the blog https://equestriancoach.com/dressage-pyramid-of-training/

10/03/2024

Thank you paint ponies 😇