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Congratulations to Lily Vilacky on the lease of Hosanna! Thank you Caitlin Sittler for trusting us with this special mar...
12/18/2024

Congratulations to Lily Vilacky on the lease of Hosanna! Thank you Caitlin Sittler for trusting us with this special mare🦄

12/17/2024

Annual CHA Year End Awards Banquet! Dinner, dancing, awards and loads of fun!! Saturday, January 18th. RSVP BY December 31st.

The Annual Taylortown Equine Christmas Party was a HUGE it!! I think everyone had an absolute BLAST!! We love our TTE Fa...
12/16/2024

The Annual Taylortown Equine Christmas Party was a HUGE it!! I think everyone had an absolute BLAST!! We love our TTE Family! So blessed to have each and every adult, kid, parent, and critter that make up TTE!!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! 🦃♥️Especially thankful and grateful for my barn family and team!!
11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! 🦃♥️
Especially thankful and grateful for my barn family and team!!

A rare opportunity: One stall available for training board starting December 1st! - Attending local and USEF rated shows...
11/23/2024

A rare opportunity: One stall available for training board starting December 1st!
- Attending local and USEF rated shows
- We love the greenies!
PM for pricing and more info🌟

Beyond proud of this awesome team!! They have made significant improvements! These smiles say it all!! ♥️ Congratulati...
11/09/2024

Beyond proud of this awesome team!! They have made significant improvements! These smiles say it all!! ♥️ Congratulations!!

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.

Priceless! I get this question all the time!
10/17/2024

Priceless! I get this question all the time!

Enjoying the field while we can 🤗🦄
10/08/2024

Enjoying the field while we can 🤗🦄

Best time of year🍂🍁
10/03/2024

Best time of year🍂🍁

The last CHA show of the season was a great one! Some highlights include:🌟Bailey and Snow open equitation champion🌟Lily ...
09/23/2024

The last CHA show of the season was a great one!
Some highlights include:
🌟Bailey and Snow open equitation champion
🌟Lily and Chili open equitation reserve champion
🌟Jill and Littlefoot, reserve champion
🌟Izzy and Angel conquered the w/t placing in the top 3 in each class out of 6
🌟Abby and Sugar, 2nd in the derby
🌟Ella and Sugar, reserve champion
🌟Brooke and Biscuit, champion
🌟Lily and Angel- leadline🦄

09/23/2024

All I Want To Do Is Jump

I ran a fairly large lesson program for almost 20 years. This is a statement I have heard over and over, both in my lesson barn days and from colleagues today.

All I want to do is jump.

There are a few problems with this. Let's start with the horse. I love the old horseman's saying " horses only have so many jumps in them ". Is that 100, 1000 before it becomes lame.... No one knows....but horses certainly weigh a lot and the concussion landing on those small little legs is significant. Horses also get bored, burned out....and let's face it...sour.
Respect for the horse . The riders job is to do the best thing for the horse. Most horses only need jumped a few days a week. That means if a lesson horse works 5 days a week, only 2 of those are jumping days. 3 of those are purely flatwork or hacking.

Riders : most of jumping well has NOTHING to do with jumping. Riders need to work on pace, transitions, straightness, their position, effectiveness of aids, balance, ability to change positions smoothly ( from 2 point to sitting etc ) and so much more.

So if you are one of those students who Just Wants To Jump , please replace that with "I want to be an effective rider and horseman or woman . I want to do what is best for the horse "

And instructors who cave to this plea from students
Only YOU can set the CULTURE of your barn. Talk frequently about horsemanship and doing right by the animals.

Always the most spectacular sunsets!!
09/18/2024

Always the most spectacular sunsets!!

Our ponies played so well today at Hunter’s Rein IEA Show! Huge thank you to Addie and Charlotte for all the show preppi...
09/15/2024

Our ponies played so well today at Hunter’s Rein IEA Show! Huge thank you to Addie and Charlotte for all the show prepping and schooling today!! Thank you Lizzy for letting us use your wonderful 🦄!!

One stall open for training board starting September 1st! We attend both local and USEF shows. PM for more info and pric...
08/28/2024

One stall open for training board starting September 1st! We attend both local and USEF shows. PM for more info and pricing!

Important change to note for tomorrows show schedule:We will be moving the WT and Beginners to the end of the day. We wi...
08/17/2024

Important change to note for tomorrows show schedule:
We will be moving the WT and Beginners to the end of the day. We will go from 2’6 run a schooling break for 2’ & 2’3 then run pleasure division, 2’ and 2’3 then WT and Beginners. We are only using the outdoor arena for the show it will run more efficiently this way. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!!
Bring your appetite for Tickled Pink BBQ!!

Entries are open until midnight for the reduced class price! Tickled Pink will be the vendor!! Never a disappointment! L...
08/17/2024

Entries are open until midnight for the reduced class price! Tickled Pink will be the vendor!! Never a disappointment! Let’s all do the rain dance!

08/15/2024

"No Thoroughbreds, Please."

I once had a discussion with a *very* reputable trainer that helps me out whenever I can find the opportunity. Her resume is way longer than mine. She has done many impressive things in her career, and if I can be half of that, I'd be complete. The majority of her clientele probably falls within a different tax bracket than my own, though I am speculating -- and that's OKAY.

Discussing my future plans with her at one point, she suggested I should strive for some derbies with my thoroughbred, a warhorse with a very heavy and long racing career that I have brought along to the 3' Thoroughbred division with success. I am ashamed to say that my insecurities set in, because I've read it, what feels like a million times in the sales ads: No Thoroughbreds, please.

My response to her was something like, "Even though I'm on a thoroughbred?"

I think she was disgusted with my question in that moment, returning with, and I will never forget it, "a good horse is a good horse."

Stop bullying the thoroughbreds. Stop giving them a bad rep. Stop overlooking what could be the horse of a lifetime. It's infuriating, but then again, I am not the one missing out.

Are there thoroughbreds to avoid? Absolutely. Are there warmbloods to avoid? Imports? Ponies? You better believe it. But a good horse is a good horse.

My ISO ad would look something like this:

Show me something that has heart and try.

Show me something that has seen the world.

Show me something that will be tuned in to every aid I ask.

Show me something with stamina and athleticism.

Show me something that enjoys to work.

Show me something with smarts, a thinker, a tryer, a pleaser -- a careful horse.

Bonus if it's a thoroughbred.
.....

Do we avoid them because they have "baggage?" Do we avoid them so as not to be associated with a different tax bracket? I'm just not sure.

Now, let's talk a good thoroughbred... like... a really good thoroughbred. Because they are out there, well built and good minded, and there are many, and I have a handful.

I'm not sure what thoroughbreds you have seen, but my thoroughbred can jump amongst the warmbloods, and then take Champion with my 7 year old in the Walk/Trot division at HITS, and that's just one of them. I thank God every day for all of my thoroughbreds.

Learn to ride the thoroughbred, and you can ride anything at all. It's time to find the value in a good horse. It doesn't matter the gender. It doesn't matter the color. It doesn't even matter if it's a thoroughbred. A good horse is a good horse.

-KL

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