Picadilly Equestrian

02/03/2025

01/23/2025

Please, please, please teach your students this!!!

01/10/2025

The Picadilly Team had a wonderful 2024 show year!!!
I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what a great year we had! We are not a big, fancy facility. We ARE a wonderful, small barn family full of dedicated riders and wonderful horses on a humble property and with that dedication we managed to get it done!

I am so very proud of all of the riders that show up every week and do their best! We had a wonderful show season because of your hard work!
Here are the year end results for CTSSA and CTHJA

CTSSA Year End Results
GG Ontiveros-on Orchard Hills Trade Secret
-Junior High Point Champion
-Cross Rails Equitation year end Champion

Christina Mitchell-on Orchard Hills Trade Secret
-Adult High Point Champion
-2ft Equitation Champion

Orchard Hills Trade Secret-
-Year End Champion Cross Rails Division
-Year End Champion 2 Ft division

Maddy Sterns-and Polaris
Junior High Point Reserve Champion

Ellen Wilson-on GlitterTime
Third Adult High Point

Katie Miculcik
-Reserve Champion in Cross Rails Eq for the year
-third for she and her horse Tucker in Cross rails for the year
-4th in Adult High Point for Year End

CTHJA Final Results
Ellen Wilson-
-2nd in the 18-35 High Point
Ellen and Glittertime
-6th Low/Low Hunters
-5th High/Low Hunters
-6th YNP Hunters
-4th Green Hunters

Abby Norwood
-6th 18-35 High Point
Abby and Mannheim
-3rd in High/Low Hunters

Mannheim
-Beginner Hunter Champion
Both Rylin Armand and Maddy Sterns showed him to accrue the points to make him the Year End Champion for the division.

Congratulations to you all!!!

12/13/2024

Very true!

A small stab in the heart is what you feel when you put up the day's riding list and you see riders sinking heavily in their shoulders when reading which horse they are assigned for the lesson. A small stab in the heart for that horse that for an hour will carry around a rider who has already decided that he does not like his horse. A small stab in the heart for the horse that did not choose the rider himself but still does his best, lesson after lesson.

Riding is a privilege and something you have chosen to do. If you chose to ride at a riding school, your instructor assumes that you actually want to learn how to ride. The instructor's highest wish is that you get good at it.

Often there is a plan and a thought as to why you are assigned to that exact horse. Before you mount up next time, ask yourself "what can this horse teach me today?" All horses have something to give, a feeling or a new tool in the box.

The art is actually in being able to get a lazy horse to move forward, to get an uncertain horse to gain confidence, a naughty horse to focus or a tense horse to be released. It takes work. If you think a horse is boring, it's more likely that you don't ride the horse as well as you think! It's not easy to be confronted with your own shortcomings, but it is in that very situation that you get the chance to truly grow as a rider.

The excuse that "it's not my kind of horse" is actually a really bad excuse. A good rider can ride any kind of horse. A good rider has trained many hours on different types of horses to become a good rider. A good rider can find and manage the gold nuggets in every horse.

If we absolutely want to ride, it is our duty to strive to do it as best as possible, even if it's only for fun. We owe it to every horse that carries us upon it's back.

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11/20/2024

Big congratulations to Katie Miculcik for getting Reserve Champion in Cross Rails Eq for the year, Reserve Champion for the final show in CR Eq, third for Cross rails for the year and 4 th in adult high point!!!
She and Tucker have made such amazing steps forward and I am so very proud of both of them!!!😊🐎🏆

11/18/2024

So happy for Christina Mitchell! She took on the challenge of working with my challenging pony Joey back in February. We spent hours working on getting him to slow down at the trot! Seriously, every time he would speed up, I would tell Christina to circle and slow her post😩 About a month into this he was going well so we took him to a CTSSA show to see how he would act. We entered the poles division and he was SO good we put him in the cross rails that same show. He was amazing! He came home with two championships! Well, we build on from there and he kept improving. He even got to where he could do the 2’3” division. These two were amazing and Joey ended up year end champion in the cross rails and 2 ft Hunter and 2ft eq divisions and to top it off she was the Year End Adult High Point Champion!!! Way to go Christina!!!

Also…
A huge congratations to Ellen Wilson on being 3rd in Adult High Point and Katie Miculcik for being 4th in the Adult High Point. Way to go ladies!!!! You all work so hard! I am so proud of all of you!!!!

CTSSA 2024 Adult Overall Highpoint

Champion - Christina Mitchell
Reserve - Beth Darby
3rd - Ellen Wilson
4th - Katie Mikulcik

Being an adult rider and balancing life deserves a ribbon on its own. These ladies have worked hard all year on various horses to accumulate skills as well as points. Congrats!

11/18/2024

Way to go Christina Mitchell and Joey! Y’all worked so hard this year and came so far!!! I’m so proud of you both!!!
Christina was also the Adult High Point Champion!!!😊🐎🏆

More Year End Points for 2024!!

2’ Hunter - Orchard Hill’s Trade Secret (Christina Mitchell
2’ Equitation - Christina Mitchell

11/17/2024

Couldn’t be more proud of GG! She was year end champion in the Cross Rails Equitation, helped bring home the year end champion in the cross rails on “Joey” Orchard Hill’s Trade Secret AND was the Junior High Point Champion!!! Way to go GG!!!!!😊🐎🏆

Overall 2024 CTSSA Junior Highpoint

Champion - GG Ontiveros
Reserve - Preece Pajestka

Congratulations to these hard working kids and their support teams!

Look at that swag! Central Texas Schooling Show Association - CTSSA is an association arriving to provide and reward riders at lower levels and lower incomes for the same amount of talent and work that goes into the fancy A Shows, and look at the rewards!!

Start thinking about making us a goal series next year to see yourself with all this swag!

11/10/2024

We have a board opening beginning December 1. Full care pasture boards includes:
- Grain twice a day
- Hay three times a day
- 4 Group lessons a month
- Blanketing
- Holding for farrier/vet once a month

*on site leases and half leases available

10/30/2024

This past weekend we competed at the Rallywould Halloween Show. Katie and Tucker had some of there best rides together in the crossrails. Maddy and Mannheim were champion in the Beginner Hunter at their first show together. We are so proud of both of our riders!

10/20/2024

Please consider donating to our IEA Team, everything helps. Here are the links. Check out our website for more information.

Donation Page: http://spot.fund/6b27t8cs

Sponsorship Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeK-O0uG8XDiFymGsltFYC7IZDlLBBfo16GETUNkATI_IFndQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

10/15/2024

We launched a merchandise website for our barn. There are tons of options so go check it out using the QR code or the link https://teamlocker.squadlocker.com/ #/lockers/picadilly-equestrian-2155741

10/12/2024

Can’t wait to see my childhood trainer, Betsie, tomorrow!!! She is coming to town so we put together an impromptu mini-clinic for my students. I am so excited for everyone to get to meet each other! It’s going to be so much fun!!!

10/11/2024

It was 61 degrees this morning, betcha can’t choose which rider is from Canada and which is from Texas?🤣🥶🤣

10/06/2024

Our riders had a very successful show at Idylwood yesterday.

Ellen and Glitter Time were second in the Derby and had successful trips in the Open.

Ellen and My Alibi won their hack and had successful trips in their classes.

GG and Orchard Hill's Trade Secret were Champion in the Crossrails in both the hunters and equitation.

Kathryn and Orchard Hill's Trade Secret were Reserve Champion in the verticals.

Ava and Sweet Dreams were champion in the poles.

Caroline and Sweet Dreams were reserve champion in the crossrails.

10/04/2024

Check out our IEA Team

09/24/2024

We also competed at rallywould_equine this past weekend. Rylin and Manny were Reserve Champion in the 2'. Katie and Tucker were champion and reserve in the crossrails. Ellen and Glitter were 2nd in the 2'6" medal. We are so proud of all of our riders! Looking forward to the next show.

09/24/2024

Our team's first practice is this Sunday, we are so excited to practice for the upcoming season.

We hope to see you there!