Westphalen Farms

11/17/2024

Yay! Another great day at Lotus Show Stables!

Serafina and Shannon Powell were Champion in the 2’3 hunters in a large competitive group!
Rugged Remixdoesit and Nora Stashefski followed close behind taking reserve champion!

Hannah Gurnius and her pony Cover Girl were champion in the Short Stirrup equitation.

Avery Westphalen made her mini stirrup debut on our precious unicorn Daddy Said Yes, earning good ribbons! Proud mom over here!

Congrats everyone!

10/27/2024

On farm lease opportunities available, as clients have moved up!
Full and partial lease options on horses and ponies! All our leases are in a “care lease” format and are expenses only leases.
-2’3 packer with auto everything, always jumps. Perfect confidence builder.
-2 Short/mini stirrup extraordinaires
-Pleasure/low level dressage types- perfect for adult ammy!
We have the best barn family with a fun and supportive environment. Opportunity to attend local and away shows, but not required!

10/19/2024

Another great day at Lotus Show Stables!

Nora and Rugged RemixDoesIt were reserve champion in the 2’3 hunters!

Carsyn Westphalen was reserve champion in the short stirrup equitation her first time showing Sir Bobbington! She also was awarded series Reserve Champion for the same division!

Hannah and Melissa Girnius had a fantastic first horse show on their new horse Cover Girl!

Abbie Boulton was Champion in mini stirrup and reserve champion in mini stirrup hunters with Never Grow Up!

We ended with a super fun costume class celebrating Christmas just a little early!

10/04/2024

Thank you Someday Stables for this awesome pony! Looking forward to a year of Carsyn and Bobby!

Congratulations to the new lessors of Sir Bobbington! We hope you have a great year with this awesome pony! Thank you for the great match!

09/30/2024

What a fantastic day at The Ridge at Riverview horse show and Breast Cancer Benefit.

Nora and Rugged RemixDoesIt topped the 2’0 hunter derby out of 20+ competitors and got 2nd in the warmup! On top of this, they received the award for “Best Turned Out Horse” at the show.

Carsyn Westphalen and “Daddy Said Yes” made their Hunter Derby debut! This was a great learning experience (especially learning difficult courses), and gave us so much to aspire to!

Katie Brown and Millificent competed at the Ridge yesterday in the teeny tiny jumpers. This was a big milestone for the pair since it was their first show ! Millie had a blast, was super brave, and was up for the challenge!

Congrats to all!

08/12/2024

SOLD

Chaska-
5 yr old registered spotted half draft mare. About 16 hands, big bodied. Very sweet. Owned since a baby and broke by my mom (who is in her 60’s).

She has received more of a formal education this past year with pro rides from both dressage and hunter/jumper trainers.

Recently shown under an amateur in Dressage Intro A and B scoring a 66.563 and 67.5 at her very first show!

Understands basic lateral work, moves well off the leg, and is learning to ride into connection in the hand. Very balanced canter for a horse her size and age.

She jumps a course of fences around 2’3 and willingly has gone over everything put in front of her. She is still figuring out her technique, but is very game. She has a very good/quick simple lead change.

Trail ridden extensively, but can be a bit more excited on the trails.

Low 5’s starting with a 2️⃣

06/30/2024

Another great day at Lotus!

We realized after taking pictures with the reserve champion ribbon that Carsyn and Daddy Said Yes were indeed Champion in the short stirrup equitation. 😂

Hannah Girnius and Never Grow Up also put in solid rounds with some great ribbons and awesome riding in the short stirrup equitation.

Shannon Powell and Second Chances were champion in the 2 foot hopeful hunters! Such a great pair!

Liv Briere made her show ring debut with Daddy Said Yes in the beginner hunters, putting in solid courses as she learned to navigate horse showing!

And last was Nora Stashefski and Rugged Remixdoesit aka Thunder, making their debut in the 2’6, putting in solid rounds in a very competitive group!

As always, the farm family rocked it. Well done team! 👏🏻

06/25/2024

Another fun outing in the books!! Congrats to our riders! Yesterday we had a long but fun horse show day at the Ridge. The horses were fantastic!

Abbie Boulton and Lilah Sawford took on the mini stirrup with their mounts Never Grow Up and Apache. These young ladies rode beautifully !

Nicky Boulton rode to a championship ribbon in the 2’3 modified hunters with Serafina, winning 3 out of 4 classes, including the hack!

Carsyn Westphalen and her pony Daddy Said Yes picked up some great ribbons in the short stirrup equitation.

Nora Stashefski and her horse Thunder won third place in the hunter derby and the derby warm up class. This was a blast and we look forward to attending more derbies in the future !

I huge shoutout to grandpa (my dad), who helped ship horses for me!! Couldn’t have done it without you!

06/15/2024

A bittersweet day indeed. Congratulations to the new owners of Rollingwoods Let’s Pretend. This is such a special pony. I’ve definitely spent the last couple years living all my pony dreams through her. 😂 But now it’s time for her to have her own kid and I couldn’t be more thrilled! Best of luck!

06/06/2024

Congrats to Rollingwoods Let’s Pretend and Jenn!
Another championship ribbon last Saturday for this talented duo in the 2’3 hunters!
This pony is ready for her own kiddo!

04/06/2024

Thank you Lotus Show Stables for having us today!

6 horses showing and 7 riders entered, we welcomed the chaos!

What a day it was showing outside this morning with a real feel of 35, 15 mph winds, and horses that had limited outside time this week due to nasty weather…it was a day of survival lol 😂

So proud of all my horses and riders for hanging in there, working as a team, and riding great!

Looking forward to continuing the spring series with more appropriate spring-like weather . 🌻🌷🌺

03/23/2024

Congrats to Hannah Gurnius, Nicky Boulton, and Nora Stashefski on your series championships!!!!

03/20/2024

Some shots from the CJL at Centenary show.

Rollingwoods Let’s Pretend and Jenn Jones
Daddy Said Yes and Carsyn and Avery Westphalen

Such great ponies! 🥰

03/16/2024

Another fun horse show day- at CJL ! Great students, great horses, great riding, all in great company!

Avery Westphalen and Roxanne Jones had a blast riding together in the leadline, although it seems no photographic evidence currently exists 🤣

Carsyn Westphalen and Hannah Girnius took on their first short stirrup equitation at a new show venue. Carsyn earned grand champion, and Hannah did some excellent riding on her pony.

Rollingwoods Let’s Pretend went beautifully in the 2’3 hunters with Jenn Jones. After a lot of hard work they finally were able to put it all together, earning Champion

Thunder and Nora were close behind, having some beautiful rounds and earning reserve champion.

Shannon Powell and Second Chances did not have any competitors, but came to practice anyway, putting in some great courses and making us proud!

Last up were Melissa Gurnius and Take your time, competing against our friend Jenn Jones in the Pleasure, tying for champion!!!

Congrats to all 🥳

03/02/2024

Another successful day horse showing!

Champion in the 2’3 hunters at CJL @ Centenary. So proud!

02/19/2024

We may be a slightly crazy bunch for heading out to a horse show on this incredibly cold and windy day, but we got it done!

We started the day with the 2’3 hunters, while simultaneously freezing our butts off!!
Nicky and Serafina were reserve champion in this division!
Rollingwoods Let’s Pretend and Jenn worked on putting it all together during their over fences rounds, and continued their winning streak in the hack!
Nora and Thunder had a blast jumping around, and came home with a 2nd place in the hack!

After jetting home to pick up a second group of horses, next up were the kids!

Abbie and Never Grow Up got excellent ribbons in the mini stirrup, including 2 blues !

Avery Westphalen braved the lead line division with Daddy Said Yes, despite being very cold … coming home with reserve champion! 🥶
Harper Barden made her lead line debut with Never Grow Up, and is definitely the next pony pro in the making!

Carsyn Westphalen and Daddy Said Yes rode to champion in the Short Stirrup equitation, including two wins over fences.
Hannah and Never Grow Up rode to reserve champion in the Short Stirrup equitation, achieving wins in both flat classes.

As always, thank you Lotus Show Stables for your hospitality, and dealing with my “ring conflicts” at a one ring horse show. 😂😂😆😆

Shout out to everyone who made this day happen. Nothing can beat the camaraderie of a great barn family! 🥰 (Also props to the horse show dads (still in training) who made an appearance today!!!!)

Sorry, we didn’t get many pics !