White Horse Equestrian

06/23/2024

FARM DAYS!!
Friday 7/26 has 2 spaces open. Saturday 8/10 has 5 spaces open. Saturday 9/14 had 8 spaces open!! Sign up before you miss your chance!

06/10/2024

Are your kiddos interested in horses but aren’t able to commit to lessons!? FARM DAYS is an excellent opportunity to come have some horse fun!! Don’t delay in contacting me to reserve your space so your kiddos don’t miss out!!

06/02/2024

🌟UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!!!! 🌟
The Farm Day for June 28th is now for AGES 10+!!!!!! I’ve had a lot of people ask for something for this age so I have adjusted! This will also be a Paint Party!! The paint party will include a lesson themed around the breed of paint horses, we will paint & bathe a horse, and we will also be painting for our craft! Plus of course grooming & riding!!! (The paint party for the younger age will follow the same general plan but will not include bathing the horse and activities will be appropriate for the age).
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD and let’s fill this date up!!!

05/31/2024

FARM DAYS are filling up!!!!!! If you’re interested in some horse filled fun for your kiddos get sign up asap! A frequent question is, will we be painting the horse at each farm day the answer is YES! But for our paint party day we will be learning about the paint horse & the craft will also be painting, but each farm day will include painting Miss Journey horse!! Any other questions please let me know! 🎉🐴🤍

05/24/2024

Don’t let your kiddos miss out on summer horse fun!!!! This year WHE is hosting 4 Farm Days!!!! We always get asked to offer more dates so this year we are!!!
See the dates & times below & check out some of the pics from prior years!!
Space is limited and these always fill up within a week of posting!! Don’t delay and miss out!!! Spacing are filling quickly as usual!!
Any questions or to sign up you can message the IG/FB page or contact me (Abby, owner) at the number listed below!!
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Please share this post & tag some friends below!!! Lets make this the best year yet!

05/22/2024

🎉🎉🐴🐴 2024 FARM DAY DATES ARE HERE!!!!! 🐴🐴🎉🎉
Farm Days always fill up within a few days so message on IG or FB, or 724-972-5262 to reserve your spot!! Payment is due to reserve your spot! 🤍🤍🤍

05/21/2024

📣 2024 WHE FARM DAY DATES WILL BE ANNOUNCED THIS WEEK!!! 🎉

02/28/2024

Yes a great reminder!!

“Instead of questioning your trainer why your kid is not excelling as quickly as others in their riding, maybe look at how much your kid practices. If you’re only willing to commit to two lessons a month for example, that’s 2 hours per every 30 days on average. 2 hours out of 720 hours a month. Now let’s look at a year. 24 hours total. On average your kid then practices 1 day out of 365 days per year... let that sink in.

Our sport is much harder than most and takes a lot of practice and skill, but for some reason people do not look at it this way.

For example when I ran track, we practiced minimum 5 days a week for 2 hours a day. I put the sweat and time in to improve. Chorus - practice daily. Cheerleading - daily. Football - daily.

Now, I also understand our sport is expensive. However, I find it imperative that as a parent you look at these numbers... and before you come complaining “my kid isn’t improving fast enough,” truly look at how much she practices. I am good at what I do, but I can’t work miracles.

I constantly get parents comparing their kid to student “X.” However, student X is out at the barn working for extra ride time on anything I will give them and always ready to put in the work. As trainers we always have horses that need to be hacked. “But I want to jump,” I hear so often and the biggest thing is that these riders don’t realize jumping starts with flat work. Come work in exchange for ride time. Drop your stirrups and practice what we do in our lessons. Make yourself stronger and watch how much quicker you excel. All jumping is is flat work with sticks in the way.

I was a barn rat growing up. I worked my butt off just to get on any horse my trainer would let me. The bratty pony needs a schooling? Done. The wild TB needs a hack? Done. The true and seasoned lesson horse needs a light hack! Perfect! I can work on me.

We need to truly change these mindsets in our industry. Let’s be honest with your expectations.

24 hours - 1 day - out of 365 days. Let that sink in.

Now let’s just add once a week lessons. 4 hours a month - 48 hours a year - 2 days out of 365.. “

Credit to author: Megan Nicole Hopkins

Photo of Kennedy our working student who is an excellent example of this. She has worked extremely hard and ridden tons of different ponies in her year with us. The improvement in her riding & all she’s learned is remarkable. Can’t wait to see where this show season takes her.🌟

02/25/2024

A barn lesson due to below freezing weather makes for the perfect opportunity to practice tacking and untacking -especially tying the cinch! Practice makes perfect and having my students be able to do it themselves and know why we do what we do is so important!

02/18/2024

February is full of love… loving our horses!!!
3 years ago Diamond joined the family, 2 years ago Sadie, and one year ago Rambler! All in February! 💖

02/14/2024

Happy Valentine’s Day! Of course Miss Naomi had to dress up Sadie girl! 🥰💖

01/28/2024

A little snowy lesson last week ❄️

01/06/2024

Shout out to Dime for being such a good team player and up for every shenanigan I throw her way 🙌🏻 these two sisters have been embracing winter lessons by always asking for a barn lesson if the weather isn’t suitable for riding and I love it!!!! 🐴

01/04/2024

REMINDER!! Per the latest lesson policy update that was given out at the end of summer last year, I ask for a 30 day notice as a curtesy if you choose to quit lessons for any reason. This also includes “taking a break”. Although I LOVE giving lessons, I do not do this for charity work. This is my job. I have bills to pay and horses are dang expensive. So when you tell me the day of your lesson that that’s your last lesson and that you will be taking a break or quitting lessons, that leaves me in a very hard spot- because I know almost for sure am loosing a month of lesson income because although I have a waiting list, I probably won’t get that spot filled that day. I count on my lessons to commit to their times. Over the last 2 months I’ve had 4 people say they are going to take a break for warmer weather and 3 of the 4 were day of notice, not 30 day. Although yes, lessons in winter can be very hit or Miss, I still depend on adjusted lesson income. My horse expenses don’t just stop because lessons do. I don’t know why and will never understand why horse back riding lessons are so often viewed as a less than sport and none committal because they aren’t a team or school sport. When in reality, horses are probably one of the top sports that your child would have a chance to do for the rest of their lives, as opposed it being only a sport that they do at school…. Of course I may be a bit bias to that opinion but I’m honestly exhausted of hearing that as an excuse!!! So unfortunately I have to protect myself and my business. Going forward all lessons canceled except for weather incidents and lessons canceled by me personally will need paid for, even through the winter now. I will make sure to personally update all lessons during lesson times as well. And reminder that if the high is between 33 & 40° during winter we will then evaluate conditions further and look at “feels like temp”, wind, and sunshine. If the high is under 32° lessons will for sure be canceled unless we agree upon a barn lesson. If anyone has any questions please let me know. Spring schedule will be being made mid February so I will be reaching out soon to confirm lesson times!!!!! ☀️ THANK YOU

12/25/2023

It’s a BLUE Christmas 💙❄️🎄
Baby Blue’s very first Christmas, and Rambler and Moon’s first Christmas as part of the family!! And of course all our other horses too 🎅🏼🥰
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Christ Jesus the Lord is born!!

12/14/2023

Yesterday was National Horse Day…. So even though every day is horse day for us, we sure are blessed with some awesome horses both in the present and in the past. With the addition of Blue & Moon this month, we currently have 7 to enjoy in the present and 6 that we miss very much from the past. Love these horses!!!! ❤️

11/24/2023

We did some Black Friday shopping today!!! Welcome home, Blue!!

11/20/2023

I found some pictures of me 13 years ago running barrels and poles! 🤠
the picture quality of that long ago was awful! 🤣

11/08/2023

The sky was so pretty tonight during lessons!!!

11/02/2023

Tonight we rode through the first little snow flurry of the year!! ❄️

10/23/2023

REMINDER! NO LESSONS THIS WEEK!!! 🐴

10/19/2023

A little costume fun!!!! How cute are they!?!?

10/17/2023

Such beautiful scenery 🍁🍂

10/05/2023

I love getting to ride with my students!!! This ride was extra special because it was with my daughter and one of her best friends and these 6 year olds are becoming quite the little horse girls!!!!