Santacruz Dressage

09/26/2024

Sally Fish's Frasera (Farrell-Ramiro's Bube) earned a great score of 82%+ and was 4th in the highly competitive Hanoverian class. Statesman (Sternlicht-For Romance) finished 8th and Georgia HTF (George Clooney-Negro) was 10th. It was also fun to see Draft Pick (Don Principe-Bennetton Dream) earn 8th place for breeder Michelle Ryan-Schwartz.

09/26/2024

09/26/2024

Day 2 of Devon! No pics due to the rain, but it really was a great day to show. The horses have been a really fun group to bring and we're happy with all their performances today. The foals continue to be rockstar's and both again scored over 80%. Frasera (owner/breeder Sally Fish) was 3rd in Fillies of 2024 and Glamouhall d'Avallon (owner/breeder Valesco Sporthorses) was 3rd in the Colts of 2024 class. Brittany Stanley rode Teresa Simmons' Royal Prinzess SCF to a 9th in the USDF East Coast Materiale Championship and King handled her for a 4th in the 4yr old Mare Prospect class. Statesman HTF put in a super run for a 3rd in the Yearling Colts class and Georgia HTF was 10th for the Three-Year Old Fillies. Jennifer Hoffman's Liberated was 2nd in the Two-Year old Colts and her Royalty in Me was 7th in the Three-Year Old Fillies. All the horses qualified for their respective USDF East Coast Finals, but Devon's a long week and we've decided a couple of them are getting tired but there are a couple we're really excited to show one more time at DAD.

The performance horses have also arrived with Michael! Denmark and Louisville settled right in and we're excited for Part 2 of Devon for us to start tomorrow ;-)

09/24/2024

Devon Day 1!!

We are thrilled to be back another year handling for 🐴💚

09/17/2024

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09/01/2024

04/30/2024

King had a surprise birthday celebration from our wonderful clients!! Thank you all so much for making his day so special!! ❤️🖤

01/22/2024

Team Santacruz had a great first show of the season at the Gold Coast Opener! 🌴☀️

King took Corner Stone Stables Lambro, or “Nugget,” to his very first competition! Nugget is an 8yo Dutch Harness gelding owned by Jenny Bonilla & Sofia Gannotta. King competed Nugget in First Level Test 1 and placed 2nd with a 66%! 🥈

We are so proud of Nugget & are so thankful many of our clients joined us to support them this weekend! It is going to be such a wonderful season with you all! ❤️🖤

12/31/2023

We are so excited to have everyone back at Bolinvar South for the start of an amazing 2024!! 🙌🏼✨

Happy New Year from all of us at Santacruz Dressage!! ❤️🖤

Sofia & Nugget
Colleen & Legend
Suzie & Oreo
Alana & Caju

11/08/2023

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11/02/2023

Sunset photo shoot with Legend & King for Free Ride Equestrian last night ❤️

We had the most amazing time shooting at tonight 😍🌞

11/01/2023

Good morning from Santacruz Dressage & Pippa! ☀️🌺

10/04/2023

King is extremely honored that our clients, Kim Rogers & Suzie Carlsgaard, nominated him for this award! We just submitted his video entry ❤️🖤 Please wish him luck!! 🙏🏻

Thank you to everyone who nominated a trainer to be Practical Horseman's Trainer of the Year! We received many amazing nominations, and it was tough to narrow it down to the top picks.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟏𝟎 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬! (in no particular order)
▪️ Laura Ann Smith
▪️ Kris Di Carlo
▪️ Liz Reader
▪️ Karen Catov-Goodell
▪️ Ali Barros
▪️ Brittney Maguire-Hunter
▪️ Brett Glass
▪️ Shaunna Dunlap
▪️ King Santacruz
▪️ Nikki Peterson

The Top 10 will move into Phase 2 of our selection process and will have a chance to make a video to explain why they deserve to be named Practical Horseman's Trainer of the Year. The winner will be announced October 16th!

10/01/2023

Devon Day 3!!

A little delayed after our journey home and catching up with our Wellington clients 🌴

We had such a wonderful time at Dressage at Devon this year. We are so grateful to Hilltop Farm, Inc. for having us back & we also got to help Jovee Farm another year!

We love handling the horses at Devon, but being with this group of people is what makes Devon so special to us. We can’t wait to see them all again soon ❤️

09/28/2023

We were so excited to get to see our wonderful clients, Jenny & Sofia ❤️🖤 They got to come enjoy their first Dressage at Devon. We had so much fun!!

09/28/2023

One of our favorite photos from Devon so far! This is Royalty In Me (Rubinero x Feiner Stern), owned by Jennifer Hoffman, a lovely 2 year old filly that King had the pleasure of handling ❤️🖤

Dressage at Devon Day 1!

09/27/2023

Devon Day 2!!

King had an incredible run today with ’s Finley HTF (Foundation x Royal Prince). He received an 80.1% and won 🥇 the Yearling Colts & Geldings Class!

Finley is also available for sale! 🙌🏼

09/26/2023

Devon Day 1!! We are so happy to be back with for another great show!! ❤️🖤