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Avalon Management, Hillsboro

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Avalon Management, Hillsboro

Avalon Management is owned and operated by Jody and Jessica Phillips specializing in beginning to advanced English Riding disciplines. Boarding available.
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They offer haul in lessons and have some lesson horses. We teach beginners to advanced riders of all ages how to ride English, including dressage, hunter/jumpers, and cross country. We offer lessons on your horse or on one of our lesson horses. We also run shows and provide other services like jump rentals, consulting, and training.

11/11/2024

Adele showing Toby the water isn’t so bad (after Nik helpfully dragged her in)

11/11/2024

Here is Nik giving Kori a little emotional support

11/11/2024

We had a great time working on this mountain trail course today. Our horses and riders got to experience so much!

10/29/2024

Here’s a few more pictures from the Halloween trail event!

10/26/2024

Zameel and his crazy hairdo

10/21/2024

We had a great day at Wildwood Stables Halloween Trail course yesterday. I don’t have a lot of picture because we were having too much fun! Thanks so much for having us!

10/07/2024

Here are some more pictures from the show!

10/07/2024

I didn’t get many photos because I was busy coaching, but here is a few I did get!

10/07/2024

We had a great show today! Congratulations to Sawyer, Caroline, and Jennifer for high point awards. Thank you to all the volunteers, we couldn’t have put this shoe on without you. And a special thanks to High Tail Tack for the gracious donations of the high point dressage pads!

10/05/2024

We are hard at work getting the show ready!

09/22/2024

The dressage arena is coming along!

09/16/2024

Come join our schooling show!

09/09/2024

Address

29555 Nw Scotch Church Road
Hillsboro, OR
97124

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 7pm
Tuesday	9am - 7pm
Wednesday	9am - 7pm
Thursday	9am - 7pm
Friday	9am - 7pm
Saturday	9am - 7pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+15038896758

Website

http://www.avalonmanagement.net/

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Adele showing Toby the water isn’t so bad (after Nik helpfully dragged her in)

Here is Nik giving Kori a little emotional support

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Our Story

We teach beginners to advanced riders of all ages how to ride English, including dressage, hunter/jumpers, and cross country. We strive to create an inclusive and safe space for our clients to grow in their horse knowledge with friends and family. We offer lessons either on your own horse or on one of our lesson horses. We also run small baby shows and summer camps for our own students.

Here is a little history about Avalon:

Avalon Management LLC was first started in 1998 when Jody was hired as the barn manager at Alder Creek stables, (which is now Abbey Creek Stables). She managed 42 horses. This included feeding in the morning, turning the horses out to the pastures, cleaning all their stalls, dragging the arena, turning the horses back in, and feeding them at night. She was also in charge of the smaller things on the property like moving the manure pile, fixing broken fences, stalls, and other small problems, ordering hay, and arena maintenance. Along with all of this and raising two daughters, she also started up her riding instruction program teaching beginning riders. Some of those riders are still with her today.

After a year of working at Alder Creek Stables, the property was foreclosed on and my mom and the owners rented the show barn at McKay Creek farms. Jody and her two children lived in the camp trailer provided by the owners onsite at McKay next to the show barn. After 8 months the owners decided to shut down their business. While at McKay, Jody continued to teach lessons on her lesson pony providimg a living for herself and managing the horses for Alder Creek.

After Alder Creek closed, Jody went in search of a barn to lease and move the boarders of Alder Creek and her own horses. She found a barn called West View Stables on Kaiser road that had 15 stalls. She moved all the horses there and managed the barn while expanding her lesson program. She went from 10 students to 60 students over 4 years. The barn was very stable and happy. The vets and farriers said it was the happiest barn they visit with no gossip or drama which is very prevalent in the horse world. Now that the students were growing up and getting their own horses, Jody started taking her students to local horse shows and coaching them.

After these four years, the owner and his wife decided they wanted to move to California so Jody had to move her boarders and her riding program again. She moved to Rock Creek Stables off of Phillips Road that had 20 stalls and two arenas. This set up was a little better because Jody was now leasing the barn from the owner and the boarders were paying Jody instead of the owner. The riding program stayed at 60 students and they continued to go to local shows and the occasional higher level hunter shows. Jody started hosting her own OHJA certified shows at Rock Creek, breaking into show management. At year four, Jody’s daughter Jessica left for college.

After the fifth year at Rock Creek, the owner decided she wanted to manage the barn herself so Jody moved her program to a barn much further away called Rain Dance. She was no longer managing the horses and instead just paying board. She started renting out the Clark County Fairgrounds to host her OHJA shows, which she did twice a year. After a year the owners changed and the new owners started charging for arena use and inserting other fees. Jody took her horses to a friend’s house where she lives and the clients horses moved to another barn.

This is when the business started failing. The property the lesson horses were at only had an outdoor arena which meant they could not ride in the rain. Jody’s assistant trainer took over the clients at the new barn and Jody’s program dropped down to ten students. With both her daughters graduated and no barn to call her own, Jody looked for opportunity elsewhere.

The vet she had been using for the last fifteen years was injured on the job. With a broken hip and dislocated shoulder, he was in need of an assistant who was capable and horse knowledgeable. Jody offered her help and worked with him for five years. He is still the vet we use today. Jody taught a little on the side from her home and started teaching a few clients at Abbey Creek Stables in 2013. Her friend Shelley Rayhawk had bought the barn in 2004 and was managing and living at the barn with her family. In 2014, Jody brought two lesson horses into Abbey Creek Stables and taught a little bit.

Meanwhile, Jessica went to college as an astrophysics major for three years and then changed majors to Science Education/Physics Option with a Computational Mathematics Minor for the next three. She graduated in 2011. During college she tutored math and science for three years and interned in physics classrooms for two as required by the college.

When she graduated she taught at a high minority, high free and reduced lunch high school. She taught Regular, Honors, AP B and AP C Physics for five years and also managed the largest club on campus, the National Honor Society.

In June 2016 Jessica returned from Florida and breathed new life into the program. It started at fifteen students and by December was near 45 students. By December 2017 the program was at 60 students with five clients with their own horses. In 2017 Avalon Management hosted three baby horse shows, the first one in barn, and the second two had one outside stable join the show.

Avalon Management continues to grow its family. As our clients start to buy their own horses we will start to take them to small shows in dressage and eventing. Eventually moving up to bigger and better shows. We would also like to start growing our own shows to other beginner barns in the area to help get all the beginning riders used to competition in a friendly and easy going event. We have started doing end of the year awards and are hoping to have a yearly summer BBQ too! Hope to see you around!