Flat Iron Farm Equestrian Program

12/07/2024

Come see the fireworks tonight at about 8:40! Pony rides will close early at 8pm before the fireworks display 🐴🎆

🎆 Fireworks Show This Saturday at Bubby’s Christmas Farewell! 🎆

Get ready for an unforgettable evening on Saturday, December 7th, with a spectacular fireworks display lighting up the night sky!

✨ Details:
• Fireworks begin at 8:40 PM—a dazzling way to end a magical evening.
• Pony Rides will close at 8:00 PM to ensure the safety of our animals before the show.
• Fireworks will be visible from the entire farm, including the parking lot, so there’s no bad seat in the house!

A huge thank you to Tim Jameson and Innovative Pyrotechnic Concepts for bringing this breathtaking display to life.

Bring your family, find your favorite viewing spot, and enjoy the magic of the season at Bubby’s Christmas Farewell!

11/29/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from Butterscotch and all of her friends at Flat Iron! 🦃 we can’t wait to see everyone for our opening night tomorrow Bubby's Christmas Farewell

11/20/2024

This week’s “talk of the town Tuesday” is
✨Pumpkin✨
Pumpkin is the smallest member of our lesson program. Contrary to popular belief, Pumpkin is a full grown adult horse. Because of her breed (Miniature horse), this is the biggest she will get. We weren’t sure of Pumpkin’s exact date of birth, but her horse dentist was able to approximate her age to be about 12-16 years old. She came to us as a driving pony, which means she is trained to pull a cart/carriage. Since then, Pumpkin has also been trained for riding. She now enjoys giving riding lessons to young children and doing pony rides. She is small so she only has a 50 lb weight limit (including her saddle) on her back. Pumpkin will be available for pony rides and petting at our Christmas event starting next weekend! 🐴🎄

11/18/2024

IEA show #3 is in the books! Middle school team took home reserve champion & High school team placed 3rd overall! I absolutely love this team and love to see how they support/encourage each other. Thanks En-Tice-Ment Stables for hosting a very well organized show. Can’t wait for show #4 on Sunday!

11/11/2024

Congrats to our middle school IEA team for winning champion at our 2nd IEA Show! The high school team had some great rides as well and we are proud of how everyone did yesterday. Thanks A Moment in Time Farm for hosting. IEA Zone 3

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween! We hope everyone has a fun and safe evening trick or treating 🎃 post your costume photos in the comments! We love to see them 👻

10/28/2024

Flat Iron Farm IEA teams took on their first show today! We are so proud of all of our riders 💛 These kiddos are so supportive of each other and we couldn’t ask for a better team! IEA Zone 3

10/25/2024

Our video submission for WIHS barn night! The theme was kind wins.

Kindness wins.

10/25/2024

Last night our barn attended the Washington International Horse Show for barn night and won reserve champion for best poster! I think our favorite part has to be the costume jumping round where we saw little Bo peep and her sheep, a pilot and “jet blue”, and many other awesome costumes!

10/23/2024

This could be your view in the morning if you’d like to volunteer at the farm 🙌😍 we’ve had some interest in volunteering to help feed/care for the horses and we listened! Introducing our volunteer program with an optional reward system 🤩 record your volunteer hours in exchange for lessons or ride time! This would be great for a college student, someone who works from home or maybe if you work nights and can commit to some morning feedings. Occasional evening feedings are available. You can also volunteer to help with other things such as pony rides, lesson helper, grooming/tacking, barn cleaning/organizing, etc. The possibilities are endless! Send us a message or text/call 240-561-6349 for more info.

10/14/2024

come checkout the tack shop’s new saddle room!

10/10/2024

Winter is coming sooner than you think 🥶 for a small fee, you can schedule a time to use our indoor arena! Trailer in your horse and get out of the weather! If you’re just looking for a nice arena with jumps/obstacles to get your horse off property, we have the outdoor arena as well! We also have a round pen available. Send us a message or call/text 240-561-6349 to set up a time. Individual or group rates available.

10/09/2024

Can’t forget about this guy 😊 Welcome Grainger! Glad to have you join the heard 🐴💛

10/08/2024

Welcome Copper! Copper joined his “sister”Sally a couple weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to make his welcome post 🤩 Happy to have the sibling duo here 🥰

09/23/2024

That’s a wrap on the 2024 St Marys County Fair! Maisie was a hard working girl with jousting on Saturday and had 3 different riders at the horse show on Sunday! Maisie and Tara placed 3rd in the novice and amateur classes for jousting.

Maisie & Mabel started this morning’s show off with lead line classes placing 1st in equitation and 6th in pleasure.
Lucy & Tara placed 3rd in open equitation and 5th in showmanship.
Maisie and Ruby won the English horsemanship award. This award goes to the show participant who goes above and beyond in the care of their horse.

We are so proud of all of our riders for giving it their best. This was Ruby and Mabel’s first show ever and we are so happy FIF got to be apart of it! & can’t forget the horses- very proud of how both horses did in the end considering it was also their first show!

Special thanks to Melanie for staying up very late last night braiding and then helping again today at the show. Thanks to Layla for all your help as well. And of course let’s not forget about the parents who are always willing to help out wherever they can. It truly takes a village 💛