SNS Show Horses

08/27/2024

It’s gonna be a hot one today, please come hydrated and bring extra waters for your child!! ! If you want to RESCHEDULE your lesson please let me know ASAP

08/21/2024

08/08/2024

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08/06/2024

Training Tuesday!
We have 1 spot open for a training horse!
Mgs us today for more details!

08/05/2024

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Make Them Carry Their Saddle

A father of a darling girl and I were talking last week and he said that he wanted his daughter to ride more and not have to do the work part of the catching, grooming, and saddling. I smiled as I explained.

Riding horses is a combination of strength, timing, and balance. Kids in this country are physically weak (unless they are actively involved with weight training and physical conditioning 4+ times a week.)

When you walk out to the field, you are clearing your stress from being under fluorescent lights all day; feeling the sun soak into your bones. As your body moves on uneven surfaces, it strengthens your legs and core.

When you groom your horse (especially currying), you are toning your arms and stabilizing your core.

When you carry your saddle, your arms, chest, and back are doing isolated strengthening work.

Being near horses, calms and makes you tune into the splendor of these empathetic animals.

When you ride at a posting trot, it’s equivalent to a slow jog calorie burn wise.

After a lesson, the riders are physically tired and mentally quiet and balanced.

Horses feel your heart beat and mirror your emotions back.

Riding large and somewhat unpredictable animals makes you resilient and pushes your expectations.

Working with horses is so much more than learning how to ride.

So parents, make your children carry their saddles. Don’t do the hard parts for them, as long term it actually hurts them. To advance with their riding, they must get stronger. You can help by doing the high parts.

I love having you all at the farm, and am so grateful to get to share these fascinating animals with you.

Hannah Campbell Zapletal

08/04/2024

“Too many kids have been taught that the goal of showing is to win. Here’s the truth, the goal of showing is to be a better person, a better horseman, a better communicator, a better worker, and to enjoy being a kid who loves their horse. You’ll never get this time back… so enjoy it win or lose.”

07/25/2024

07/22/2024

LETS RIDE!!!!
WE HAVE LESSON OPENINGS!
Mgs us today to get on our schedule August will be here before you know it!

07/20/2024

Well we are home form a great IQHA Finishline Show! Always a great show and this year did not disappoint! Great rides, great food, and great fun!

🤠Invite The Cowboy 🤠
and Maddy Carsey

Reserve Circuit Champion:
Hunter Under Saddle
Equitation
Western Pleasure
Horsemanship
Also recipient of the $500 Hearts of Fire Scholarship!!

Youth W/T HIGH POINT CHAMPIONS!

🍪One Sweet Chocolate🍪
And Tabby Heath

L1 amateur trail w/t 2nd.
L1 select showmanship 3,4,4,3
L1 amateur select pleasure 4, 2,3,4
L1 amateur select horsemanship 3,3,2,4
Select Horsemanship 4,4,4,4

🍪One Sweet Chocolate 🍪
And Owen Schoenlein
Lead line champions!

🗿The Rockn Hour 🗿
And Harper Heath

Small fry Circuit Champions
SHOWMANSHIP
PLEASURE
HORSEMANSHIP…( even after getting lost in her last pattern)

As always it’s such a privilege to be able to do what I love for a living and have some great clients to do it with !

07/18/2024

Also Ashley Carsey won the groom class today… on her very own unicorn😂🤣😂

07/18/2024

This team… just keeps getting better and better!
IQHA Finishline Show Day 1
🤠InviteTheCowboy🤠
and Maddy Carsey

WT YTH HUS 1,2
WT YTH EQU 2,2

07/13/2024

Congratulations
Kaitlyn Prussord and
💋The Kissing Code. 💋
ARHA non Pro Western Riding CHAMPIONS!
So proud of this young lady and all of the hard work she has put in to our very own home grown Kubota! 🥰

07/01/2024

Home from a great Apple Blossom circuit
It was hot and I feel like this horse show kicked my a**,lol but as always I have a great team! So many laughs and a great time had by all! To many achievements to list. Congratulations to our team on a great horse show!

💡Willy Sudden Wattage💡 and Alexis Begley
First 3 gated show… and 3rd in versatility!

🍪One Sweet Chocolate 🍪 and Tabatha Heath
Personal best ever Horsemanship!
Owen Schoenlein … lead Line winner 😉

🤠Invite The Cowboy🤠 and Madalyn Carsey
Ended 3rd over all for the weekend!

🇫🇷 French Kizzin🇫🇷 and Sarah Damron
First show for Shirley… first time back in the show pen in 20 years for Sarah.

Everyone worked so hard together this weekend and really helped each other out… I know I say it all the time … but I truly am blessed to have such an amazing clientele and horses!

07/01/2024

Any lesson clients needing helmets here is a good deal on a good brand

06/25/2024

A must share:🥰

“Nobody goes back to horse show after horse show after horse show because they “won a trophy” or “a head stall” or “a buckle.” They don’t pay their entries time and time again because they might win a shiny token that validates their efforts. People go back to the show pen because they enjoy the challenge and the people and the camaraderie and the social environment that makes up The Horse Show Experience. . They go back again and again because they love the responsibility of caring for their horses, the process of working with their horses in the pursuit of a personal goal, and the reward that comes when the judges and their peers praise them for a job well done. They hook that trailer up weekend after weekend because they love facing the ever humbling challenge of showing horses with other like minded people who understand their insanity...their strange addiction to the abuse that is the ups and downs of showing horses! When it is all said and done, they go back again and again, year after year because they love that early morning ride, that coffee with friends, the stories recounted, the laughs had, the failures and successes shared with their trainers and barn mates. They go back and pay up over and over because they love all of the parts that make up a horse show or a rodeo or an expo or a clinic. The buckle or trophy alone isn’t enough without the praise or adoration or admiration of fellow riders who understand the hours of hard work, dedication, tears and sweat that go into simply setting foot in the arena.”
Written By:
The late Becky David Hanson
Clements, California

06/25/2024

🎶And the thunder rolls 🎶