Sandie Mercer Stable

12/01/2024

This is a good win for LEC! I spoke with Cindy last nite and she a very excited about the cities new decision, she was at the barn visualizing more things again

11/25/2024

11/18/2024

One of the greatest high jumping horses of all times—Great Heart—made an appearance at Fort Sheridan in the 1920s.

One of the greatest high jumping horses of all times—Great Heart—made an appearance at Fort Sheridan in the 1920s.

This champion horse has escaped the local history books, but fortunately this photograph survived to document the event.

The snapshot came with a collection of photographs donated to the museum in 1992 by the U.S. Center for Military History out of the former Fort Sheridan museum. The 5 3/4" x 3 3/4" photo has pieces of black photo corners adhered to it from when it was stored in someone's photo album.

11/11/2024

10/06/2024

Happy Sunday everyone! Sorry there hasn’t been a whole lot of updates, but there’s no news of who the city is going to choose since the last post. The city did send an email saying that while their search for a long term lessee continues, the city is prepared to provide continuity in services and maintain operations at LEC at least through the end of the current year, which gets us through the holidays in November & December.
Again, we want to thank everyone for all their amazing support! We still have the petition to sign if you haven’t and we still have our go fund me! Please keep spreading the word about LEC! This equestrian center is invaluable to Lakewood and our surrounding cities! Our facility is still open, lessons are still going on, and our pony rides & petting zoo is open Wednesday through Sunday ()
We hope we find out who the city will choose so we can see what the future of LEC will be and look like! Again, thank you to everyone! We wouldn’t be here right now without you guys ♥️🙏🏼

09/09/2024

An ideal bunk bed For a couple of horse loving kids....

09/09/2024

In 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor’s advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow.
Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn’t even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.
Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Between 1954 and 1956, the three travelers pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds. Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America’s big cities and small towns.
Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher. In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when television’s influence was expanding fast, when homeowners began locking their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world.

09/09/2024

Just had to share this What do you all think ?

09/06/2024

Yay they are working on the front gate now😊

09/05/2024

Lessons are canceled for today and fri afternoon 100 degrees now!

09/04/2024

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08/30/2024

Charm was a blue ribbon winner a teacher and a tiny butt head at times but we all loved him! He has moved to greener pastures ❤️