Equitate, LLC

08/21/2024

WC Tito Esposito and Sheri Brandl
Junior Park Pleasure Section II Champions 🙌🏆🥇💙
Owned by Kristen Olson

08/17/2024

Team Equitate is set up and ready for the World Championship Horse show. Thank you to all who played a role and best of luck to all our riders. We are proud to represent you !

08/15/2024

ALL NIGHT ON BOURBON
Undulata’s Nutcracker x Intoxicating Conversation
7 yr old Gelding.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to purchase a horse that will be in the top ribbons for years to come. At only 7 years old his future is bright and he is BIG and loads of quality!
He has won in Five-Gaited Pleasure but could also be a star in Show Pleasure or Park. Easy to brace and to have around.

He will be at Louisville and available to try!

Contact us to make an appointment.
Mark 815-378-6665 or Sheri 262-719-4887
Equitate – Oconomowoc Wisconsin

07/25/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to Kimberly and Abigail Blaker on the purchase of CH Cezar’s Palace! We will miss Enzo’s bright personality around the farm! He is simply the best!

Congratulations to receiving trainer Amanda Pierce of Seldom Seen Farm Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.

We wish you all the very best with this special horse 🩷

07/24/2024

07/24/2024

Congratulations to Kristen Olson on the purchase of Tito Esposito (A Rare Temper x Callaway’s Blaire)! We are thrilled about this fancy junior horse who is a full sibling to CH SoCo. Thank you to previous trainers Jim and Faye Lowry of High Spirits Farm. Look for him with Sheri Brandl in the Junior Park Pleasure division at Louisville!

07/19/2024

A little late in posting but Equitate had a great time last week at our first Lexington Junior League!

Thank you Kent Moeller, staff and all of the Junior League volunteers for a well-run show. The weather cooperated and the Rolex Arena was a beautiful back drop for some great rides!

07/02/2024

-As seen in National Horseman-

Congratulations to several of our stars ⭐️ that are headed to either Lexington Junior League or the Worlds championships!

06/30/2024

A perfect afternoon for a well-deserved break for our awesome Equitate crew! Fun to spend time on the water with all of us.
Thank you all for your dedication to our horses and our farm – we love you guys!
*just missing Gil!*

06/20/2024

Congratulations to CH Perfect Elizabeth and her new owner Holly Johnson on her recent wins at Blowing Rock! She won both the Amateur Three-Gaited qualifier and championship under the Ingleside Farm banner with trainer Heather Boodey. We are so happy for your success with this wonderful horse sold by Equitate!

06/07/2024

As seen in Saddle Horse Report and headed to Midwest! 💙♥️💛

06/01/2024

Tom & Sherie Nelson would like to congratulate Catherine Shanafelt on the selection of
Sir William’s Showstopper

Good luck with this special four year old. We know he will continue to be a star in the hunter division!


Catherine Shanafelt
Granby, CT

Receiving Trainer
Wentz Stables
Tara Wentz

04/21/2024

Shopping for your next partner? Check out this beautiful hunter! He just won his 2 first classes as a Hunter and he is just a 4 yr old. He is out of the nice mare Seven Oaks Heir Show and loaded with quality. Contact us for more information!

04/17/2024

Super fancy hunter for sale and he is just 4 years old! Contact us for more information about this rising star 🌟

04/16/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY today to the leader of the school horses at Equitate….the one and only IRS!!!!
He is the very best and loved by all! Born on tax day of course so we always remember his birthday 🥳
Today we celebrated IRS with a cool new body clip to beat the spring heat and a few extra treats too. Happy birthday Ultra’s I’m Real Special - thank you for being the very best school horse anyone can ask for 💕

03/31/2024

Congratuations to Liz Bolton Stables and Demi Bolton on their recent show ring success with CH The King's Watchman!
So fun to see Equitate graduates with blue ribbons! 🙌🏻🏆

Demi Bolton rode CH The King's Watchman to the top honors in their 14-17 Saddleseat Equitation qualifier

03/18/2024

Equitate clients enjoyed a wonderful gathering and kick-off to the 2024 show season last week!

All of us enjoyed listening to Betty Kregor speak on ways to become a stronger competitor and a mentally tough athlete. Betty helped us to incorporate our Equitate mantra for this year to have GRIT - Guts.Resilience.Initiative.Tenacity. to help the way we interact with our horses and the show ring. Betty and her "Process Over Outcome" methods are amazing and we were very fortunate to have her as part of this inspiring day! Thank you Betty!

And special thanks to Todd Whittaker and Coco's - the new space at the restaurant was perfect for all of us to enjoy the day.

NOW ON TO THE 2024 SHOW SEASON!
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02/27/2024

Congratulations to Liz Schultz and Pat Schultz on the purchase of Stonecroft Mystify! Thank you to Emily and Jesse West for everything you did to help with this transaction.
We are so excited to have this beautiful four year old at Equitate! 🤎🤍🖤

02/24/2024

Cuteness overload 💕💕💕💕

02/12/2024

We are so excited to congratulate Nina Henderson on her new horse, Lead The Charge! Congratulations to the entire Henderson/Barey family on the purchase of this horse. He has been a wonderful horse for Lizzy Schultz and we know he will be the same for Nina!

02/05/2024

Get ready for an unforgettable experience in the heart of the Big Easy!

Join us at the UPHA National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2025! Immerse yourself in the magic of Mardi Gras as we gather at the iconic Hotel Monteleone in the vibrant French Quarter.

Mark your calendars and prepare for an adventure filled with captivating workshops, awards, and the soulful spirit of New Orleans. Save the date and get ready to celebrate in style!

02/05/2024

Congratulations to Equitate’s own Mark Bodnar for some pretty awesome awards and recognition given to him last week during the United Professional Horseman Association Conference! 🙌

Mark was voted the UPHA Chapter 3 / 4 Horseperson of the Year for 2023!
Mark is also the UPHA Chapter ¾ Chairperson and a big part of the Madison Classic Horse Show. It was wonderful to see Mark accept the 2023 Chapter Honor Show on behalf of Madison Classic. 🇺🇸
Mark was a part of the inaugural High Performance Team of UPHA called “Reinmaker”. 🏆
And….he is also launching into his first year of being part of the UPHA Executive Board after being named Second Vice President. 🕴️

The icing on the cake was our very own CH Crossfire’s Charmed Life and Mia Provenzano being awarded the Adult Country Pleasure Horse of the Year and the Overall Country Pleasure Horse of the Year! 🌹

Thank you UPHA for an amazing conference and for always moving forward and striving for the best for our industry. Equitate is lucky to be a part of it! 🎉

01/22/2024

CONGRATULATIONS to all of our ASAW Horse of the Year and High Point winners from 2023! We are so proud of these horses and riders and all that they accomplished. Thank you to ASAW for these special awards.
On to 2024! 🌟

01/13/2024

Congratulations Marie Nielson and Rancho Del Rio on the purchase of Aurelie!

01/02/2024

Had a great time bowling last week to thank our entire staff and helpers for all they did for us in 2023! It truly takes a team to make it all work and we are so grateful. On to 2024!

12/24/2023

STORY OF THE DAY:

If you give your child a pony, they will want to ride. You’ll buy them the best pony you can find, followed by a helmet, boots and all the other things pony.

You look for a local barn to ride at where you start to socialize with the equestrian community…………And then life as you know it, will end.

Before you know it, they want to show so you find a circuit …..There will be no more lazy weekends watching tv. You will see more sunrises than you ever thought possible.
Every spare minute of your time will be spent hauling campers, horse trailers and horses and enduring a crazy addiction to practice for the next show.

Your house may be a mess, and your car will be dirty. All because you gave your child a pony. Your weekends will be spent freezing or burning to death on a fold up chair. And their weekends will be spent gaining confidence and friends, learning new skills and having fun and getting dirty!!!!

You will be there the day he or she takes the first few steps of canter, the first taste of a jump, first ribbon, first championship. And they will make you SO proud. Other parents will congratulate you, but you feel weird saying thank you because it's not you on the pony, it’s your child. It's everything that they did, they achieved. And right before your eyes, your little boy/girl will be transformed from the baby who bounced around on their rocking horse into an exceptional young horse enthusiast on the hunt for the next pony finals or maybe even the Olympics!

When you give your child a pony , you give them more than just something to ride. You give them a sport, a talent, hope and dreams. Friends, a new family, a place to learn about life, room to grow as a person where they can push their limits, and bravery, and courage, and memories. And they will have ALL of these things, simply because you gave your child a pony.

Because you gave your child a pony, you too will develop new/lifelong friendships, developed solely from the same passion for the sport. You will have a equestrian family because you gave your child a pony.

Then one day, many years from today…they will be in their room and a certain trophy will catch their eye. And they will pick it up and realize instantly that when you gave your child a pony, you also gave them a childhood that they would never forget, at this point, you realize that everything you gave up along the way and sacrificed was totally worth it…..
All because you gave your child a pony📷 📷📷
Copied from a friend. Powerful

12/24/2023

Great Christmas celebration
at the barn today! 🎄🎄🎄🎄

12/17/2023

As seen in National Horseman and Saddle Horse Report