Marshall Performance Horses

08/10/2024

PWR Lookatme

Sire: Hertog Jan v.d. Paddensteeg

Link to sire:
http://www.thebenestarranch.net/hertog-jan-vd-paddensteeg.html

Dam: Zans Cricket Gal (AQHA PERLINO)

https://youtu.be/rwU5y0LVZLQ

08/09/2024

Outstanding gelding for Working Equitation & Western Dressage.

PWR Lookatme - 2020 half Friesian gelding, available.

08/05/2024

Available - PWR Lookatme
2020 half Friesian Gelding
16.1 - Smoky black
Has lifetime horse recording with USAWE

Working equitation and western dressage horse in the making. This young and talented gelding has now competed in 6 Recognized working equitation shows earning dressage scores in the 70’s at his first show. He has traveled well and took everything in stride from the first competition. While not for a timid rider to due to his young age and big movement, he will suit an amateur in a program just fine. He in kind and inquisitive. Goes barefoot, sound, and has always been kept up to date on farrier and veterinary care.

Note: the photos of him with a darker coat were taken in April at his first show. He does fade if he is out in the sun, the other photos are from July.

Contact for more info.

08/01/2024

Excited to be back in Topeka! It is always such a pleasure to see progress with clinic participants. 🤠

07/23/2024

Huge thank you to HLJ Images! Just purchased our photos and they are great! (The cutie pictured below is one of our training horses 🤠)

We really appreciate having a good photographer at horse shows.

Doing double duty in Topeka this weekend; Teryn and I had a blast photographing the Working Equitation of Kansas show at R and D Ranch LLC. yesterday, and today we're splitting up for twice the fun! I'll be holding down the sandbox at The Topeka Round-Up Club today covering dressage while Teryn tackles day 2 of working equitation. We're excited for some gorgeous weather, pretty ponies, and all the pats! 🥰🐴📸

05/11/2024

No filter or editing. Wow!!

05/07/2024

We are excited to announce the addition of Vozarrón AR to our program. Watch for this guy in the show ring. He’ll also be standing at stud in 2025!

Thank you to José Andrés Benito for trusting us to continue with this talented stallion and for the wonderful hospitality. I also want to thank Leandro Araujo for the training and work he has put into this horse. He is so well schooled, it can be hard to remember he is only 5yrs old.

Specials thanks to Brenda Moore. Michele and I are grateful to everyone who helped make this happen.

05/05/2024

Derby was feeling a bit skeptical of the big green pasture at first. Then, he realized his long legs had more room and……🐎🐎

Seth just had to 🫣

05/04/2024

The newest addition arrived this morning, just in time for Derby Day! Healthy c**t with 4 high whites and a blaze. 💕

04/12/2024

As someone who rides a diverse (I’m not sure that’s a strong enough word..🤔) selection of horses, I can attest to this. Huge differences in Pleasure horses, Jumpers, trail horses and Cutters. I’ve ridden all of these plus some in the last week. As a trainer, I have to work diligently to be able to work with each in a way they will understand. I often see horses and their owners frustrated because they are each trying to respond on a different set of standardized cues. Set a jumper rider on a cutter and set back to watch the show. 😅 they won’t be speaking the same language. As advocates for the horse, we have to be aware of the variety of methods used across disciplines and even WITHIN disciplines.

SHARED FROM BOB WOODS HORSES FOR LIFE….: The top images are of correct military seat jumps. The left is a US Fort Riley Seat jump and the right a British Horse Society type jump. Both are expressions of Capt. Caprilli's Forward Seat that he developed for the Italian Cavalry in 1904. By 1920, this jumping method was the standard for most advanced nations' cavalry and in most countries civilian riders strived to ride in the correct military manner.

The advantage of having a standard of horsemanship for a nation's military was that soldiers could change horses without changing their riding. Likewise, horses easily accepted new riders, who all were trained to the same standard. Without the need for horses to adjust to different riders' styles it was easier on the riders, horses and the armies.

The middle set of images shows our contemporary range of different jumping methods. These images show the lack of any universal horsemanship standard for jumping. The far left image is of the famous John French, HJ Hall of Fame rider, and the third from the left is Lucy Matz, daughter of Michael Matz, jumping using the traditional military seat method. All the different center images are of successful competitors. One might ask, "What is the problem with having different rider jumping methods or styles?" The answer is that while it might not matter to the riders, it matters to horses.

The problem is that horse trainers today, who do not train a horse to any uniform standard. They produce horses that many, if not most, riders cannot easily ride because today's riders also have diverse riding methods, just as the horses do, as a result of the lack of any standards.

People are buying horses today that they do not know how to "operate". We live in a horse world where it is as if every car manufacturer produced cars with different methods of steering, turning and stopping. That sounds absurd, but it is how we produce trained horses in America today. Horses in America are discipline and/or individual trainer specific with no universal standard whatsoever.

The bottom images show a round auto headlight that was the universal standard up until the 1970s. The bottom right image shows many current auto headlights with each one being very different. There Is no headlight standardization today. Ironically, America changed from a standard of auto headlights to no standard for headlight design at the same time that universal horsemanship standards were being abandoned. But there is a huge difference in the consequences of shifting to no standard for headlights compared to moving to no standards of horsemanship.

With no standard for horsemanship, horses must adapt to every different rider. This is a problem for the average rider who, to be comfortable, must purchase a horse that was trained in the same way that they were trained as a rider or retrain the horse. Competition horses must adapt to the many different freelance competition riders that catch a ride at various competitions. Lesson horses must adapt to new students who learned a different standard at a previous lesson barn.

In other words, the consequences of having no standardization of horsemanship in teaching riding or training horses, is that the horses are forced to bear the burden of the differences in the riders. Horses must continually adapt to the many methods and styles because human entitlement demands that the horses always must adapt to the riders because riders are now the main focus, not the horses.

03/23/2024

The obstacles for EOH are just amazing. Sandhaven Performance Horses does a great job making sure the course looks wonderful AND will photograph well! 🤠

Also, Litri was a superstar for his very first EOH round. He has not been shown WE, dressage, or anything else until today. I could not have been more pleased with him.

I owe many thanks to Angela for being spectacular help. She thinks of all things and makes it possible for Litri and me to do our best. I am fortunate to have her support and call her a friend. (I did cry in front of her already so… that makes us friends, right?)

I can’t wait for more adventures!

03/23/2024

Beautiful morning to be at a show! We just got started here in Taylor TX at the first show in the Hot Shot Series. Sandhaven is producing this show and doing a wonderful job. 🤠

Big thanks to the show sponsors-
Sandhaven Performance Horses
& Perucci Dressage!

03/15/2024

It's time for our first Oklahoma clinic! Bring a chair, bring a friend! come join us for WE learning and fun. If you plan to audit, please use the signup form below.

https://forms.gle/kGoDTts9YzFsGLK7A

03/12/2024

Sign up before it is too late! A great opportunity to introduce you and your horse to Working Equitation! 🤠

We finally have a WE clinic scheduled in Oklahoma! 2024 has turned out to be busier than expected. 😅 This clinic will be taught by Seth Marshall of Marshall Performance Horses.

If you are interested in WE, this is a great place to start. We expect to host more schooling shows later in the year so the time to prepare is now. Join us for one or both days. Sign up is below. 👇

https://forms.gle/9vz46ta396Y8wQF7A

03/08/2024

One of my students spent the weekend in San Antonio, TX for the IEA Zone Finals where the top 12 riders and top 12 teams from 6 states competed for a ticket to Nationals. She placed 4th overall and her team was 2nd place!

I don’t brag on my students often (don’t want them getting ahead of themselves 😅😉), but her performance was truly noteworthy. Not only did she ride well, afterward she was able to describe the horses and what methods she used to get the best ride out of them. Spoken as a trainer. She is developing her skills as a catch rider and competent young horsewoman.

She has been committed to improving her fundamentals over the last year and a half. I won’t let my students jump until they are solid in the basics. For someone young and already jumping, this is a big ask. Her progress has been nothing short of exceptional. She has taken the tough lessons in stride and come back seeking more. The photo below is her with her new partner- Muskoka. They have great things ahead of them and I look forward to being there to cheer them on. 🤠

03/08/2024

We will be offering dressage and EOH (obstacles) lessons next weekend, March 16&17 at Three Strand Ranch in Inola. Click on the google form to sign up as a rider or auditor. Bring a chair, bring your lunch. Guaranteed to be a fun time with lots of learning! 🤠

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fEYwbeeXTGo3MiCf6ht63_5qmIEQfETlVFa2wgjfwnc/viewform?edit_requested=true

Equestrian center specializing in classical training and common sense horsemanship.

03/05/2024

When the arena is being re-roofed and the unfamiliar horse has been out of work for a year, of course we just get on him out in an open field. After just a couple of ground sessions, he was a very good boy.

03/05/2024

More pictures from across the border. 🤠🇨🇦

03/05/2024

Kit Kat was terrified of the liverpool when we started. He was not able to focus when ridden if the liverpool was out. Maybe thirty minutes in to his work and he had already “worn” the liverpool. Then, he made the brave choice to jump it and maintain relative relaxation. He is a truly smart and willing horse, beautiful too!