Aintree Farm Stables

02/10/2025

THIS PRESIDENTS DAY…..
Learn @ our Boots & Bandages Clinic! 👏
Knowing how to best care for our four-legged partners is essential 🐎
👇See below for details

02/04/2025

💕 THIS VALENTINE’S DAY @ AINTREE💕
Show your favorite pony some love by decorating their stall!!
Friday, February 7 💝START DECORATING
Friday, February 14 🏆STALL JUDGING

Prizes will be awarded!
Sign up near the lesson board 🥳

02/01/2025

Very cool! 🤩🥳🥇

BIG things coming from The Horse Review!

We are humbled to have them as the 2025 TB Stake Sponsor! This has been such a fun class to have in the hunter ring and we are thrilled to have their support!

PLUS, an extra award will be given at judges discretion for a TB Stake participant! This award will go to an extra deserving horse in the class!

Go check out MidSouthHorseReview.com!

01/29/2025

🥇GET TO KNOW LOUISE TURLEY🥇

Our veteran Aintree instructor, lovingly known as “Miss Louise” has been training horses and teaching students the art of riding hunter jumper for nearly 30 years. Her own riding journey began in her youth- at just 4 years old- in the heart of Germantown. She and her friends would ride through town and tie their ponies up to go into the candy store for treats! Sometimes, they would ride to football games to flirt with boys. Doesn’t her childhood sound like a horsey fairytale?!

In her adult years, Louise has taught countless athletes who have gone on to compete at the Grand Prix level. She herself has years of experience horse showing and fox hunting 🦊. During her time living in Wyoming, she often rode through the mountains with her neighbor, Harrison Ford! Her longtime involvement in the equestrian world and dedication to the sport has allowed her to form many professional relationships with top-tier riders and trainers.

It has been 27 years since Louise began her tenure at Aintree Stables and everyone is grateful to have her as a mentor and supporter- students and fellow employees alike. Her breadth of knowledge across the board is undoubtedly an asset to our riding program.

One of Louise’s favorite new roles is being “Juju” (aka: grandma!) to grandsons Willem, age 4, and James, age 1 🥰

01/27/2025

We can’t wait for EXEL 2025 🌟

🐴Flatwork Clinic March 27-28
🐴Show March 28-30
🐴College Combine June 18-22
🐴Show June 20-22

All registration is done through HorseSpot.net

Looking forward to an AWESOME 2025!

01/26/2025

It’s a lazy Sunday for BFFs Emma and Roya! 💤💤💤

01/24/2025

Challenges help us expand our abilities. What are you capable of this year? ✨💫✨

01/24/2025

The Aintree 2025 Calendar is official 🗓️
Don’t forget to schedule a Goal Meeting this month 🛣️🏆

01/18/2025

🌀Opportunity for Aintree riders and families
🐎 Discuss riding goals
❓Get questions answered
🗓️Make a 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ plan

🌟Contact your instructors today to set up a meeting🌟

01/15/2025

🥇GET TO KNOW SUSAN JOHNSON🥇

Susan came to us from Hyattsville, Maryland in 2015 as a working student at both Aintree Stables and Spring Mill Farm. Years later, she has become an integral part of the team and now leads the program at Aintree. Approaching all of her schooling sessions with positivity and patience, she helps students of all levels build confidence in and out of the saddle!

Susan loves the horse showing atmosphere and always accompanies our team to competitions, setting the best example for young equestrian competitors. Her pupils have accumulated numerous championships and year-end awards. Developing young horses is another passion of our Head Trainer, and she currently has two young prospects blossoming under her guidance. This year, Susan will pursue excellence in the 3’3” Hunters on Maren Levy’s “Dream Catcher” and her own “Casillias”. In addition, she hopes to spend more time in the Jumper ring in 2025!

If you know Susan, surely you know her rescue dogs Quinn and Stella too – they are never far from their favorite human! In Fall 2024, Susan became engaged to Wes Kelly. Wes supports her goals and holds the fort down at their farmette when she is away helping her students reach theirs! Outside of the horse world, this long-time vegetarian enjoys gardening and caring for her four chickens, lovingly called “the Golden Girls” after the TV Show.

We asked Susan a couple questions- see the comment section for her answers 🐴♥️🥇

“What is your favorite part of teaching riding? How do you think riding helps us in other areas of our lives?”
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01/07/2025

Revisiting some highlights of 2024 as we look forward to a bright and shiney 2025! 🌟

Our paddock and ring construction is done! Thank you to the Aintree Homeowners and board members for their dilegence in seeing this project through.

We would like to welcome Maddie Flood, instructor extraordinaire and a whiz at horse chores too!

New combos to keep an eye on...

Layken Ellis and Zeus
Kendall Shaw and Cedar’s Gus Glowan
Aura Kumar and Pierrot
Charlotte Taylor and Millenium
Olivia Saunders and Tango Shoes
Sammie Morris and Luna
Cypress Debes and Toni Two Socks
Helen Grace Toohig and Cayman
Clara Farrell and Roya

Stay tuned in the new year as we have some new matches in the making 🤫

Never ending gratitude to Carlos Bustos and his family along with Ishmael Jiminez for making sure the horses are cared for no matter the weather conditions or holidays!

❤️ Dee, Susan, Anna, Louise, and Maddie
AKA: the Aintree Crew

Goal meetings and a 2025 schedule coming soon!

01/02/2025

This has always spoken to me. I first saw it shared by The Plaid Horse. I’ve edited the list slightly and starred 🌟 the ones that hit me hardest 💗🦄 Photo of one of my favorite horses of all time, the chestnut mare, Outspoken, owned by Dave & Dee Pellegrini 💕

🌟1. If a horse says no, you either asked the wrong question or asked the question wrong.

🌟2. An average hunter course has 100 strides. Only 8 of them are jumps. Don’t sacrifice the 92 for the 8.

3. On approaching a fence: good riders wait until it’s time to go. Great riders go until it’s time to wait.

🌟4. It is NEVER the horse’s fault. Yes, sometimes a horse may take advantage of a situation, but there is ALWAYS something the rider could do differently to change the situation.

5. You can only lie to your horse so many times before they call your bluff.

6. Horses do not know what they are worth. They do not know, or care, what they are capable of. They only care about the way you treat them.

7. If you work hard, try your best, and never give up, your efforts will not go unnoticed. And you will be rewarded with opportunities when you least expect it.

🌟8. If you work hard, try your best, and never give up, you will still fail sometimes.

9. Video doesn’t lie – after being told repeatedly that I was lifting my right hand before every fence, and swearing up and down that I was certainly NOT lifting my right hand before every fence… I was—in fact—lifting my right hand before every fence. Sometimes your brain lies to you. Video does not.

10. On being nervous going into the show ring: you’re just not that big a deal. No one at the show is watching you close enough to know every mistake you might make, except for the judge and your trainer, and you are paying them to watch.

11. Be patient – there are no shortcuts. Any shortcut you may try, will actually be the long way.

12. Check your personal issues and emotions at the door. Your horse will know. It usually does not go well.

13. If your horse is in front of your leg, you have options.

🌟14. We never lose. We either win or we learn.

15. Ride like a winner. You cannot act like flip flops and expect to be treated like Louboutins.

🌟16. If you have to pick only two things to think about during a course, pace and track are the two you should choose. The rest cannot happen without pace and track.

17. Give yourself and your horse brain breaks. Go have fun, go hack out in the woods, go swimming ba****ck, read a book in the paddock, whatever. Just allow yourself time to have fun.

🌟18. At home there’s no reason to jump as big as you show every time. The basics are the basics regardless of the jump height. Save your horses legs.

19. The horse world is very small. Remember this; don’t burn your bridges and be mindful of your words.

20. Clean your tack. Polish your boots. Groom your horse. Properly. Every day. If you can control nothing else, you can control your turn out.

21. No matter what the problem is, the solution is almost always add leg.

🌟22. Ride the horse you have today. Not the one you had yesterday. Not the one you want to have. The horse under you at this moment is the only one that matters.

23. You go where you look. The human head weighs 10 pounds. Unless you would like to end up on the ground, do not look down.

🌟24. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

12/28/2024

That’s a wrap ♥️🐴✨

Thanks to all (two and four legged) who made our holiday camps a success!!

12/17/2024

Come have fun at the barn this holiday!

12/11/2024

It’s a beautiful day for a ride🍁
Aintree Farm has availability for new riders of all experience levels and ages. Get in touch today 🍂