Rare opportunity for an on site lease with me!
🐴 Confident and eager thoroughbred mare available for 1-year lease🐴
Meet Nugget, a 15.2 hand 7 year old OTTB looking for a new partner. She has had a year of training with an experienced amateur, and is currently being ridden at the Beginner Novice level. She is brave and willing to go. She will gladly hack around fields alone or with a partner, or zoom around a cross country course. She would do well with a rider who is able to set boundaries, as she is very intelligent and likes to push buttons. She stands for the farrier, baths, loads, and crossties. She stands for body clipping, but takes some encouragement when around her head. Currently, Nugget is located at Pletch Equestrian Center in Dayton, IN. Looking for an on site lease.
I wish this post was about @abby_heap buying her first horse, but her and Annie’s most recent partnership is the next best thing! Annie’s plan for 2023/24 was supposed to be a “mom” again as a recip for Lottie’s baby. Unfortunately none of that went to plan, and that is incredibly disappointing. While we wait for spring to make more breeding attempts, Abby is learning to ride this powerful pumpkin spice. The joy I have watching Abby and Annie together is one of those reminders we all need of why we do this.
Emily and NeNi
2023 is the year of baby TB’s. Second of 4 is congrats to Emily on the purchase of New Horse Nichols or NeNi as I call her. After months, She actually still doesn’t have a name. Emily is doing a fantastic job bringing along this lovely lady. I’m so proud of her figuring out how to ride something completely different than her Rory.
Emma and Nugget
To say we have had a nonstop summer would be an understatement, and I know I have dropped the ball on my girls when it comes to social media. The next several posts will be all about barn updates! First up and congrats on a new horse is @emma.sloan7. Nugget, formerly Coffee, is a Friends of Ferdinand mare who quickly won us all over with her typical mare stare. She is Emma in horse form. She has spent the last couple months gaining strength, body work, PEMF, and it’s really paying off 😍. Emma deserves whatever her heart desires and I am so proud of the relationship she has already formed with this girl🤩
SADDLE APPT REQUESTS💫💫💫 If you have submitted an online appointment request from my website, and I have not replied, PLEASE SEND AGAIN. There has been a short period where I haven’t received the requests from my website. I apologize, and Glenna will give you a laugh.
IT IS HERE!!!!!! Ya’ll requested it, and Bliss Of-london delivered (I had no doubt). CANTLE CONFIGURATOR can be found on upper right side of www.bliss-of-London.com. You better believe I just used it for Lottie’s dressage saddle.
JBH Eventing & Sporthorses will be back for one last time in 2023. December 8-10. This is the last weekend of lessons until April 2024, so I wouldn’t sleep on it. Prime spots do fill fast, and clinic is normally full. I just emailed the signup form to my email list. If you would like added to that list, please email me at [email protected].
JBH Eventing & Sporthorses is back August 11-13 for lessons. I run these weekends as an ala carte situation. Pick as little or as many times as you would like to ride. She offers: Private ($130) Biomechanics , Private Flat/Dressage, Private XC or SJ, and Group ($105, 3 riders) XC or SJ. Google docs signup form is at bottom for registration! VERY LIMITED STABLING-FCFS
Jessica has been coming here multiple times a year for a couple of years. I personally have been working to unlock my low back and hips and gain strength in separating my body parts so I can communicate better with my horse. In the process, I have learned so much about correct riding, aids that I am misusing or overusing, and learning to feel just how much my body affects my horses. Every horse in my program; personal, lesson, and client horses are happier and sounder with the changes and growth we have made. If you are on the fence, it should also be a testament that I usually over fill (add days) these clinics and have a core group of 10+ riders who attend EVERY TIME SHE COMES.
My facility is 99.9% kind. There is a 600lb pig who may upset your horse a bit. But he is the rudest of my bunch. I have a 20x40m indoor and a very large outdoor groomed sand arenas. XC field with small logs up through Training fences. Baby ditches, banks, mound, trahkeners. I always am up for suggestions on anything you would like set in the XC or SJ to work on!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcb1GEM7Q56liV6Zrj8mJ2okXa0CiHGoUm6bTq_kBSFFUPyw/viewform
@jbheventing is back for her final time this year, so don’t miss the opportunity! Heading into the off season is the perfect time to start the journey of learning about your body in the saddle!
December 2-4 with limited private spaces available, and group jump lessons for any level!
Buenas Suerte “Zu”
2009 OTTB Gelding, Chestnut with all the Chrome
Zu is your textbook kick ride. He gives you more warmblood vibes than TB, and very much wants to be ridden in a quiet rhythm. More introvert than reactive. He is balanced, supple through the body, and athletic. Things come pretty easy to him, and he is really simple to teach and train. Super easy in the bridle, comfortable gaits, and well trained in seat and leg aids. His young rider has brought him along herself over the past 7 years. He has evented mostly at the BN and N level but had a 3rd place finish at his first training. Rider is now headed into early admission to vet school, and must sell. I do believe he would happily be an eventer, hunter, or dressage horse. He doesn’t mind what job he does. Never fussy about work, good work ethic. He has a great hind leg, does the lateral work, has changes. He is so easy to have around. Goes out in a herd of geldings, lives on a ration balancer and a bit of Pro Force Fuel for some energy plus grass hay/pasture. He is not disgusting in a stall. Currently no maintenance. Lafayette, IN 💵mid teens 💵
SOLD Congratulations to Cadi Bien on her purchase of Zu! Bonus that I get to keep him in the barn!
Buenas Suerte “Zu”
2009 OTTB Gelding, Chestnut with all the Chrome
Zu is your textbook kick ride. He gives you more warmblood vibes than TB, and very much wants to be ridden in a quiet rhythm. More introvert than reactive. He is balanced, supple through the body, and athletic. Things come pretty easy to him, and he is really simple to teach and train. Super easy in the bridle, comfortable gaits, and well trained in seat and leg aids. His young rider has brought him along herself over the past 7 years. He has evented mostly at the BN and N level but had a 3rd place finish at his first training. Rider is now headed into early admission to vet school, and must sell. I do believe he would happily be an eventer, hunter, or dressage horse. He doesn’t mind what job he does. Never fussy about work, good work ethic. He has a great hind leg, does the lateral work, has changes. He is so easy to have around. Goes out in a herd of geldings, lives on a ration balancer and a bit of Pro Force Fuel for some energy plus grass hay/pasture. He is not disgusting in a stall. Currently no maintenance. Lafayette, IN 💵mid teens 💵
August 19-21
Private $130
Group $90 (2-3 riders)
Biomechanics Clinic Availability. Private Flat Lesson Slots, Group SJ, or XC. Jessica proves herself time and time again with riders/horses of all ages and levels.
One HUGE thing I have learned as a rider and coach is that we really dont know our bodies. Especially kids and teenagers.
A common misconception is that the bands fix you. Nope. Jessica Bortner-Harris’s instruction gives you the tools to fix yourself. She has a keen eye for each rider’s twists, weaknesses, and where and how you’re blocking your horse. She helps you read your horse, learn your body, and work through those. The bands engage your muscles and make you WORK. That is why your horse always goes better with them on. Because you are engaged! Without the correct instruction, you will just become stronger in your crookedness.
Another misconception is “Tell me how it should feel”. You unfortunately cannot use this tool then correcting rider crookedness. In your mind, you think it should feel amazing in your body. NOPE. It will feel so wrong and so twisted because of your muscle memory. But guess what does feel amazing? YOUR HORSE! Jessica, if given enough time, will teach you how to ride to read your horse’s body.
If you are interested in more info, please PM me! I have her in about every month. Here is what’s remaining for this clinic!
I have had an amazing influx in saddle appointment requests. With that being said, I needed a new system to stay organized. Here is a screen recording from my website on how to request an appointment and where you can find saddle pricing!
I have been to Louisville and Evansville saddle fitting the last two days. I holed up @btowndorrance house where she always feeds me delightful meals and coffee. We headed to the horse park where she schooled all the training stuff her first time out this year. Watching and helping her today brought me so much joy, we both needed that! But PSA for IEA HT: the gnats are already out and appear to be rivaling last years cicada counts. Now I’m headed home to take students and more saddles to Come Again Farm for the show tomorrow.
Jessica Bortner Jessica Bortner-Harris is back Memorial Day weekend (May 27-30), and I have a few spaces left! Sunday Morning May 29 and Monday morning/early afternoon May 30. Please email me at [email protected] for the signup form!
Our irreplaceable, cherished Murphy taking his 4th generation into their first show season. God bless him. ♥️
It held off for as long as it could, but winter has hit!
Lesson Clients! Don’t forget 6pm TODAY stretching and muscle health class! Bring a yoga mat. I have some great stuff to go hand in hand with Jessica’s Teaching!
Also, if you want a lesson this week but it’s been too cold, please get on my schedule for this Saturday or Sunday before more frigid temps on Monday and Tuesday!!!
After such a long time coming, Emma moves up to and completes her first training!!! After the last however many years, she deserves to do anything and everything she wants. My heart just bursts for you Emma!
Taking todays lunch to catch up some social media from the last couple months! Bear with me, FB business pages doesn’t seem to be up on times and only allows one video per post?!!
River Glen Nov Finale for 2021
Emily and Rory stomping around Novice. Emilys patience and horsemanship with this little mare is going to pay off the next few years!
