CULU Equestrian Training, LLC.

08/18/2024

What a fabulous weekend for CULU!!

🖤Jack and Lilly started Saturday off at a local show getting great ribbons!

Then off to TIP qualifiers at Thoroughbred Heritage Horse Show!

🖤Hanover Chrome and Kathryn rode to a reserve champion on the 2’ TIP division and champion in the junior TIP pleasures.

🖤Forever Darling and Olivia rode to a champion in the 2’3 jumpers!

🖤Wendy Porters Booyakasha and Anna rode for great ribbons in the 2’, and 2’3 divisions, and Wendy rode splendidly in the adult pleasure.

🖤Speed Week and Jaden rode to some fabulous ribbons in both the 2’ and 2’3 divisions.

🖤Assistant coach Denise Coleman’s Kalidoskop and Anna showed in the model geldings and junior models and got first and third!

🖤Quintessential and Rebecca rode to a champion in the non-thoroughbred 2’3.

Super proud of these riders and horses and cannot wait for TIP champs in October!

08/04/2024

What a fabulous Sunday morning at the Hill City Horse Show!

Forever Darling and Olivia rode incredibly well in the hunter ring to get off-farm, preparing for TIP qualifiers in jumpers. Many many obstacles over come and some great progress here! Extremely pleased!

Wendy Williams BooYa and Anna had exceptional ribbons in the Junior pleasure, placing 2,2,3. For this boys second outing I couldn’t be more pleased. This pair will be a force!!

Hanover Chrome and Kathryn rode to a reserve champion in the junior pleasure with a 1,2,3! Extremely pleased with this pairing as well and excited to see their performance for TIP!

07/28/2024

Great day today at the Commonwealth Games. A bunch of new show-goers and some great ribbons and better goals set!

My heart horse still has it at 23! Indy was reserve champion pleasure hunter for the day!

Great rides by all riders and so thrilled with this crew and this great group of horses.

06/16/2024

WEC photo dump from our 5 day getaway! Super proud of all of the horses and my riders. HUGE classes and coming away with great ribbons and great accomplishments.

06/10/2024

Evening lessons end in head hugs 🖤

06/08/2024

Fabulous Saturday morning trail ride!

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas and happy new year- from all of us at CULU, to you!

11/11/2023

The pony Bay Brigade had a nice outing on Saturday! The girls got a nice confidence boost at a low-stress event and the ponies redeemed themselves from their naughty behavior 😂 The bonus? We were home before lunch! 🖤

10/12/2023

How fortunate we are, to care for our horses in such a beautiful place.

📸: Hanover Chrome and Irelyn

09/05/2023

We have a select few lesson spaces open!

Please inquire via message or through our website culueqtraining.com

Horse friends in our area- please share 🙂

08/28/2023

Dearest Riders,

Please let me remind you of something very important. Horse showing, riding and training are insanely difficult. If you have a crappy ride, a less than stellar show ring result (or if you made your trainer want to pull their hair out today), it just means there's more to learn. The people who had good rides today are not exempt from disappointing rides tomorrow. They also have bad days and, if they're very experienced riders, they've had a whole bunch of bad days.

There will always be someone out there on a more talented horse, someone with a bigger bank account, someone who never struggled to learn to sit the trot...life isn't fair. You probably can't win the lottery or grow 5 more inches of leg. You can, however, wake up every morning and be thankful that you're able to ride horses. Work hard at becoming the best rider you can be with the body and the bank account that you have right now. Work at being the rider your horse wants up there on his back. Your horse's opinion of your riding is more valuable than any judge's opinion could ever be.

08/20/2023

Great show day for us at the Thoroughbred Heritage Horse Show!

Here’s the recap:

Hanover and head trainer Caitlin earned a tricolor reserve champion in both green and pleasure divisions

Hanover and Irelyn got great ribbons in the 2’3 Division and also took home a tricolor reserve champion in the junior pleasures.

Lucy and Olivia made great improvements over in jumper land and made their 2’6 hopeful jumper debut.

Jackson and Eva made their debut in the Special 2’6 division and even though we had a major set back (neither Eva or Jackson’s fault- yay schooling rings), she came out with some good ribbons in over fences and the hunter hack.

08/06/2023

Our big (like huge) red dragon is back and we are thrilled!

Hanover has settled in nicely back at home and is ready for the TIP qualifier in august!

He’s also available for lease!

07/29/2023

Great show today at the commonwealth games!

Chelsea and Posie crushed the adult pleasures and came out reserve champ- also having strong ribbons in the 2’3

Elizabeth and Hatton made their comeback to the show ring with great ribbons in the 2’3 and even some awesome flying lead changes!

Catch us in Lexington in august for our next shows!

07/18/2023

We have lesson openings!!!

Message me or text 914-282-5059 to inquire!

Located in FOREST, VA!

Friends, please share 🙂

07/06/2023

Early morning practice before we head off to for their summer show next week!

This boy is a champion thoroughbred for both our vhsa and the TIP circuit!

Available for in-barn lease august-May!

06/05/2023

Fabulous opportunity for an In-Barn lease on this unicorn‼️

Winter Carnival aka Jackson is available for in-barn lease only august’23-may’24 while his human navigates her first year of college.

Showing successfully in the 2’6 and 3’ divisions at both local and national horse shows, including TIP championships.

Affordable in-barn lease in Forest VA.

Please message to inquire!

06/05/2023

One picture cannot simply display my love and passion for coaching the crew of kids I have— but here’s my current favorite 😍

Coaching “Winter Carnival” to Grand Champion Hunter this weekend 😇

06/03/2023

Fabulous show day in Charlottesville for the 34th annual Hilltoppers horse show!

Lillian and Winter Carnival had a clean sweep in the Thoroughbred hunter Division, coming out Champion TB Hunter, Grand Champion Hunter, and Champion Amateur Hunter!

Elise and Jabberwocky made their horse show debut in the Thoroughbred hunters with great ribbons (3,4,4).

⚡️Onto WEC Ohio in July!

04/19/2023

Perry is thrilled with his new clothes

03/28/2023

Happy birthday, Hatton!

This horse has brought so many kids along in the show ring. He was my first true solo project and I couldn’t be more proud.

A hard keeper, hard ride, and a general headache- but I wouldn’t have it any other way 😜

Huge thank you to Anne Justis Lesko for trusting me with her boy- for having faith in me when I had little faith in myself- and for being one of the best mentors I could ever imagine.

Here’s to the the big 1️⃣-5️⃣ for you, Jabberwocky ♥️

02/05/2023

Beautiful sunny ☀️ Sunday for an off farm lesson for these three ❤️

01/28/2023

22 years young and moving like a gem 💎

We pride ourselves in quality care of all breeds and ages of horses alike.

This girl is still show-ready and above all, HAPPY!!!!

The queen bee 🐝 herself, Indy ♥️

01/24/2023

Bad quality photo…

But quality day off farm with these two for our lesson time today ❤️

Thankful for awesome friends who let us use their facilities when we’re under mud ♥️

12/25/2022

Merry Christmas from our family, to yours 🖤

12/21/2022

Don’t forget to floss!!!

11/24/2022

From our family to yours, happy thanksgiving 🍁

Thankful to have such a wonderful barn family and awesome kids to coach.

11/20/2022

Wrapped up our 2022 show season in Lexington over the past 4 days. My riders have worked extremely hard this year to get to where they are. All different reasons, but no less proud of either.

We’ll be changing it up in 2023 with our show selection and I am thrilled to see the progress of our show team. 🖤

11/20/2022

Lillian and Winter Carnival receive reserve champion in the Sweet Briar Medal Finals at Southwest Va Hunter Jumper Assn (SWVHJA) finals‼️(and yes even in all of those layers, I’m still freezing 🥶)

10/31/2022