Champagne Performance Horses

10/10/2024

Due to the anticipated impact of Hurricane Milton, World Equestrian Center – Ocala will observe adjusted hours and property closures on Wednesday, October 9 and Thursday, October 10. Normal hours of operation are expected to resume Friday, October 11.

The following restaurants will be closed Wednesday and Thursday:
Ralph’s Burger & Sandwich Shop
Filo’s Mexican Cantina
Viola & Dot’s Italian Kitchen & Pizzeria
Miss Tilly’s Lollipops

The Equestrian Hotel and The Riding Academy Hotel will remain open for guests, including select hotel restaurants: Emma’s Patisserie, Yellow Pony Pub & Garden and The Tack Room.
Stirrups will serve breakfast on Wednesday but will be closed for dinner and all-day Thursday.

Hurricane Stall Recipients: Please ensure you have enough feed and bedding to last through Friday, October 11. The Feed Store will close at 12pm on Wednesday, orders received by 12pm will be delivered. It will remain closed all day Thursday and reopen on Friday. You can purchase feed and bedding here: bit.ly/3Ml4COP

New golf cart rentals will not be available on Thursday.

The General Store will close at 3pm on Wednesday and reopen on Thursday.

Please view the event calendar at wec.net/events for event cancellations. Ticketed attendees will be notified.

We will continue to monitor the storm and will announce additional updates. Thank you for understanding and please stay safe.

09/10/2024

09/10/2024

Congratulations Deanna Lanter on your purchase of Ima Rockin Red Gem! Gemma is one we have really enjoyed and thought she’d make a great team with you from the beginning! We are super excited to continue to work with you and watch all you accomplish together!

08/06/2024

07/03/2024

07/03/2024

15” Trophy Tack saddle available! Freshly cleaned and treads to go show! Asking $1,250. Will consider reasonable offers.

06/08/2024

Ima Rockin Red Gem, 3 yr old filly by Kissin The Girls and out of a Zippos Mr Good Bar/Zee Zee Zip bred mare. “Gemma” is a full double, AQHA, APHA NSBA registered. She is sound, healthy, and no bad habits. She is quiet with excellent barn, manners, and hauling manners. She has not been Marish at all. Gemma is very well started and although Green has been to several open shows and has placed or won her classes, including Halter, Showmanship, Pleasure, Horsemanship and Trail. Gemma is breed show quality. She is athletic and easy to sit and takes work and training well. She will be a pretty lead changer, and it will be easy for her. Gemma has a good future as a youth and or amateur horse and she could go into ranch riding or performance classes. 

10/07/2023

Check out this fancy girl’s photo shoot.

05/09/2023

So yesterday morning Chief Correia was passing by Decas school when he noticed one of our cruisers in the area. He couldn't help but notice a large object on the roof of the cruiser. It seems that a local turkey really wanted to go for a ride-a- long. The turkey was asked several times to get off the roof of the cruiser but he seemed unwilling. The officer explained to the turkey that we are short staffed but we are unable to accept applications from birds. He was upset as he left but no fowl language was used.

02/12/2023

02/10/2023

We are sooo anticipating show season and warmer days!

02/10/2023

More Gemma

02/09/2023

Sunshine and a prospect we think will be something special.

12/05/2022

Old Fashioned Fudge - Don't Lose This😍
2 cups sugar
4 Tablespoons Hershey’s cocoa
1 stick of salted butter
5 ounce can of Carnation Evaporated Milk
1 teaspoon of vanilla
Full Recipe https://lifewithjanet.com/2020/11/24/how-to-make-toll-house-famous-fudge-super-easy-recipe/

11/25/2022

Why soak feeds? 💧

The natural diet of horses is grazing. Fresh forage is 70 – 80% water, so horses actually eat a lot of water. Even on very wet grazing, they still need to drink as well, as the food needs to be mixed with plenty of fluid to get through the small intestine’s 20 metres or so and numerous curves. In this part of the gut, the food (now called ingestate) is around 90% fluid. When a horse eats hay for instance, which is only 10 – 13% water, the horse has to chew a lot and this releases saliva which helps to add fluid to the mix. Water for the saliva comes from the blood, which in turn will draw on reserves in the large intestine, which needs to be replaced by drinking. Many horses dunk their hay in the water container, which is actually very sensible of them, albeit annoying for us as it will need cleaning out every day.

Dried, pelleted feeds are 10% water. Different feeds absorb different amounts of water – forages will take up 2.5 times their volume of water and beet pulp, 5 times. Straw is not very absorbent, taking up a lot less water and is one reason why it is not a favoured feed and has a reputation for causing impaction colic.

We always suggest pelleted feeds are offered soaked. This restores their natural hydration, increases bulk and slows eating rate. It aids digestion and can help reduce the chance of choke. Horses choke because they did not chew the food sufficiently. If a horse chokes, we need to look at what went wrong for the horse. Hungry and greedy horses may bolt their food and fail to chew it sufficiently. Young horses who are teething may fail to chew properly and horses with dental issues just cannot chew well. Even with good dental care, the teeth will start to let the horse down at some point from the late teens on and by the time they are 30 it is inevitable that the molars are worn out and will start to fall out if this hasn’t already happened.

We are accustomed to soaking beet pulp and rightly so. It is not difficult to soak feeds and enables very valuable and nutritious forage feeds to be offered safely to all horses, good chewers or not.

Soaked feeds are very palatable but need to be fresh. Feed within 12 hours of adding the water. Use an amount of water that suits your horse. Some love a soup, others prefer more of a crumble texture. You can use warm water to speed the process along and offering a warm feed is appreciated by many horses in the winter. Don’t let the requirement for soaking put you off feeding the very best forages to your horses.

11/12/2022

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11/01/2022

We currently have one spot available to take a horse for training and/or sale preparation. It is important to us to make a good match with horses and owners. We want our customers to enjoy their horses and be successful and we want the horses we represent to have good lives and careers. We represent and sell a wide variety of price ranges as well as types and levels of training. If you are looking, we may have one for you or can help find one.

10/07/2022

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10/02/2022

Working some gates with Chigger. He sure makes it nice to get around.

10/02/2022

The only thing we can do about awful people is not be one of them.

07/13/2022

New kid in the barn this week and he is sure going to be fun in Trail.

07/10/2022

We all want to congratulate Clarissa on a great County Fair Horse Show with her young mare! Clarissa has done a lot of hard work and spent time prepping both herself and her mare Gidget and just started showing her this summer by taking Gidget to her first ever shows. We are so very proud of all they’ve accomplished in such a short time and look forward to all the future holds for them. Way to go!!! Julie Ellerman Jamvold