Fairbanks Riding

10/30/2024

Libby & Xander at WEC Ohio two weeks ago jumping in the adult equitation. 🎉 This versatile and talented gelding is available for sale!

10/23/2024

Libby has been working hard to develop her partnership with Mila… very proud of her growth as a rider, and their consistency together this past week in the 1.10m is proof! 😎

10/07/2024

We’re so fortunate to get to work with this incredible team! Rood & Riddle Equine Podiatry & SoundHorse

No matter how many advancements have been made in equine science and medicine, the adage holds- No hoof, no horse.Developed by equine podiatrist, Dr. Scott M...

10/07/2024

Lausbub 458 & La Belle SCF in yesterday’s $100,000 CSI3* Grand Prix. It was Bubs’ debut round in a class like this… so proud of him! 🥹

10/06/2024

Looking for a ride for 1 horse from Barrington, IL to Plymouth, MI. Ready to go now!

10/06/2024

Winner winner!! Scott & In Hindsight take the blue in the $1,000 Jr/Am 1m Classic! 🏆🕺

10/05/2024

Two clear rounds today - Libby & Mila in the 1.10m Jr/Am and Scott & Kobe in the 1m Jr/Am! Ready for classic day tomorrow. 😎👏🏼

10/05/2024

La Belle SCF & Lausbub 458 in the welcome today… who jumped it better?! 👑💗👌🏻

10/04/2024

Wroyal Jester earns 🥈 in the $2,500 USHJA National Hunter Derby! Scoring 80 & 87 in his very first derby, we’re so proud of this 6 year old! 🧇👌🏻

10/04/2024

Krissy’s “Corlognia PS” won both of her Baby Green classes yesterday, too! 💗👍🏻

10/03/2024

Wroyal Jester wins 3 of 4 classes to earn Champion in the combined Young Hunters! Fun to hunt around the Walnut ring this week! 🧇👌🏻🏆

09/27/2024

La Belle SCF wins and Lausbub 458 finished 4th (and stands in for the victory gallop) in today’s 1.30m! Nice to be showing in the Alltech during this crazy weather! ☔️😎

09/23/2024

Fairbanks goes Black Tie🕴️🩶 What a beautiful weekend celebrating Summer & Tate, here’s to a wonderful future as Mr. & Mrs. Justus!

09/08/2024

Scott & In Hindsight got to know each other in the show ring at the KHJA Fall Show this weekend! 💪🏼🩶

09/08/2024

Libby & Mila jumped two nice, smooth rounds 1.10m today! Fun watching this partnership develop. 🦄✨👌🏻

09/07/2024

Catalina Cove jumped three great 3’3” Green trips, too! 🩵🌊 Offered for sale, and suitable for a Jr/Am rider.

09/06/2024

FE Clapton jumping great in the Green 3’3” Hunters yesterday! 🐴🌻 This versatile gelding is proudly offered for sale!

08/26/2024

Talking about whisker clipping is a really great litmus test to get an idea of how much of competition is human centred.

It’s a far more controversial topic than it should be.

In FEI classes, whisker clipping was banned recently and this caused a major uproar.

But in lower level classes and many other show organizations, it’s perfectly legal.

Regardless of anyone’s personal preferences, a simple fact remains — whiskers are a sensory organ for horses.

Each individual whisker even has its own blood supply.

The debate of how much they help with sensation is still ongoing but what is fact is that we know they’re used for sensory input by the horse.

It really isn’t up to us to argue to what extent they are used when that argument is only being used to justify us clipping them off for totally shallow reasons.

The only “benefit” humans get from whisker clipping is a “cleaner look” that they’ve been conditioned to like better.

There’s no other incentive, it’s all aesthetic based.

So, the fact that this is still as controversial of a debate as it is when it’s rooted in shallow human preferences really speaks for how much competition centres around human desires.

Because WHY are we enabling ourselves in promoting mindsets that flippantly take away protection and sensory output from the horse, with no care of the impact, just because we like they look better?

Whiskers are cute, for one.

For two, you can’t even see them in the show ring, only close up.

And then third, and most obviously, THEY ARE A SENSORY ORGAN.

Competiton can be done ethically, in my opinion.

But we will struggle to get to the destination of ethical competition so long as human desires are centred to the extent they currently are.

08/23/2024

New set up for some of our favorite products - Relyne GI & Reflex! 🤩 We love the results we’ve seen in the horses using these trusted and well researched products. Thanks & !! 🐴

08/19/2024

Libby & Mila capped off their week with a nice, smooth trip around the Walnut yesterday! Proud of this new partnership!🐴🤗

08/15/2024

Waffles finished his 6 year old hunter division with another score in the 80’s today… grateful to Tom for the opportunity to develop him! 🧇🫶

08/14/2024

Wroyal Jester scores an 83 to win the second round of 6 Year Old Young Hunters, finishing 4th in the first round too! 🧇❤️

08/06/2024

A young rider finds her first jumper partner… huge congratulations to Elektra Trujillo on the purchase of VDL Glitter VD Kalevalei! We look forward to following your success together under the guidance of ! ✨😃

08/05/2024

Competitive, kind, and all quality! Fun and simple for a junior/amateur through 1.25m. Great flatwork and beautiful style, could walk right into the jumper medals. Wonderful personality and stunning! Suitable for a kid coming off a pony, or a rider already on horses. Available to be tried in Lexington, KY, our farm is just 15 minutes from KHP! Contact Andrea for more information.