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Nikitas Equine

Nikitas Equine Equine services: Travel/on property lessons, massage therapy, training/competing.

02/09/2025

We had an absolute blast working with JH Horsemanship again!🤩

We introduced Nikki and Daisy to working the cows and they loved it! We took it slow and by the end of it they were both confident and having fun! Jacob was great about coaching us where we were at and helping guide the horses at their pace!

Thanks for a fun day and we will be back again with some more ponies!

02/09/2025

I did not write this but it's 100% accurate in every single way.

What no one tells you about owning a horse boarding facility….

•It’s loving someone else’s animal so much it hurts at times.
•It’s noticing and addressing the slightest change in a horse’s behavior, eating, or drinking habits.
•It’s staying up all night to monitor someone else’s horse when they aren’t feeling well.
•It’s an overwhelming feeling of guilt when a horse gets hurt or sick; even though there was nothing you could have done differently to prevent it.
•It’s facility overhead. There’s ALWAYS something that needs fixed or updated.
•It’s having a camera roll full of cute, silly pictures of horses you don’t own.
•It’s eating Taco Bell 3 nights in a row because it’s the only place still open when you finish chores at 11pm and you’re starving.
•It’s unplugging/plugging in water tank heaters several times throughout the day/night to try and keep the electric bill from quadrupling.
•It’s an overwhelming feeling of anguish for weeks on end when you have to tell boarders that the cost of board must go up.
•It’s working on every holiday, birthday, anniversary, and sick day.
•It’s a constant feeling of guilt for not spending enough time with your own animals.
•It’s wondering if you pay your wonderful help enough, even though they make more per hour than you do most days.
•It’s getting to know horses even better than their owners do, in some ways.
•It’s rearranging family, work, and personal commitments to take care of horses.
•It’s dreaming about that bathroom remodel you’ve always wanted, but getting new fencing installed instead.

Boarding horses is so much more than feeding, watering, and cleaning stalls. It isn’t for the faint of heart and it surely isn’t for anyone looking to get rich. It takes a village of people with a special place in their hearts for equines. To anyone that can relate, just know that you ARE APPRECIATED! 🐴❤️

02/09/2025

One of the biggest misconceptions in the horse world is that “spurs are meant to add speed” or that “spurs are bad/harmful”

Spurs were designed to fine tune your horse, add specific buttons and for lateral movement… not speed . Using them for speed is when you experience the not so great side of spurs.

Like all tools in the horse trainer/ riders tool box it’s the hands they are in that determine the outcome. Hence any tool can be good or bad.

Proper fitment, proper knowledge and proper use allows Spurs to be a great tool for trainers and some riders🔥

02/09/2025

A fun time this morning at the Jackpot!

Getting these guys seasoned and Pedro getting runs in with Karsyn💙💪🏻

02/08/2025

Busy day today! We got some horses massaged this morning starting off with Miss Simone who is at Golden Acres Equine for training with Simone: 2025 Heart of Horse Challenge 🤍🥰 She did amazing for her first massage! I cannot wait to watch their progress!

Then we massaged some of our usual red girls!!

Clover had a boyfriend for the day and tried to leave with him too… gonna have to work on that 😂

Then with the help of our awesome crew we got horses fed, washed and braided for the show tomorrow as well as the trailer all packed!

02/06/2025

It’s a hard life these girls live🤍🥰

02/04/2025

You can now follow us on our tik tok page : lincolncountyhorsemansclub!

02/04/2025

Lincoln County, NC Horseman's Association at the Ponderosa 2024 BANQUET🤩🔥

We had prizes, raffles and good food!!

So thankful to the members who make up this incredible community and the leaders who run it!!

As Google says, LCHA has the best open shows in the Carolina’s 😉

I will attach all the photos of prize and division winners on my page!

02/04/2025

Super excited to share the results of this fun shoot with Justine Wolf and Olivia!!

Gabriella Nikita Smith
Nikitas Equine

02/04/2025

We got to give 5 sweet babies some good releases during their massages yesterday at Patton Ranch Horse Boarding !!

01/30/2025

It’s like a full time job trying to keep all these horses rode and clean😅💪🏻

01/30/2025

Harlie Grace made me wanna do it!

ANYONE WITH MORE THAN ONE HORSE POST YOUR ANSWERS!!! no cheating! 🐴

-How many horses do you have? 6

-Oldest Horse? Dixie - 14

-Youngest Horse? Cash- 2

-Meanest Horse? Depends on the day but usually Willow toward other horses😂

-Shyest Horse? NONE, but Nikki is definitely the most reserved.

-Friendliest horse? DAISY & CASH

-Dirtiest horse? DIXIE

-Smartest horse? Nikki and Willow

-Largest horse? Dixie and that’s in diameter 😂😅

-Smallest horse? Cash because he’s just a baby

-Any Purebreds? Cash, Nikki, Willow, Zoey.

-Who do you use for your non-horsey friends?
Depends on the friend😉

-Who is your escape artist? Dixie and her child Daisy, gollyyy

-Who has the most energy? DIXIE

-Who is your favorite horse to ride? Depends on the day but when I need a feel good ride always Nikki🥰

-Who is your absolute favorite? They are all my favorites in different ways😘

01/29/2025

"There’s two things that are, to me, the most important and that’s butt-in-the-saddle time and getting help from the right people.

There are a lot of people out there who are willing to help. Sometimes you have to pay for it, but I think it’s really important. But, like I said, the ‘right’ help. I always tell people to pick someone you look up to, or maybe someone who is built similar to you, or someone you aspire to ride like or maybe you have a similar style to, because there are a lot of ways to do it and a lot of ways to win.

For me personally, I always ride the hindquarters of a horse and I look back at videos from high school on my good horses and that’s how I rode even then. That’s what’s natural for me. Just like a horse goes back to what’s natural to them, we go back to what’s natural for us. So, if I can pick someone who has a similar style to me and who I look up to and who has good horsemanship or maybe that wins a lot or that I appreciate something about what they do, that’s the kind of people I like to go to. Watch videos, get on YouTube, do whatever, but just get help from the right people.

Then, spend a lot of time in the saddle. Getting help is good, but there’s also trial-and-error and figuring out your own way a little bit and getting a feel for a horse, which requires a lot of butt-in-the-saddle time.” — Ashley Schafer

01/29/2025

Let horses move past their “story”

When you’re in the thick of it, the story is real. The behaviors can be explained by a past, near or far. Some of it may be valid, some may be our interpretation, some may be best guesses. Either way, here we are.

But horses have a strong desire to be balanced. If given half a chance, most of them, I’ve found, adapt. Some need a little more help, some have a missing ingredient that helps them complete the recipe of wellness. But usually, people are in the way.

I’ve been that person too. It’s easy. You tell the story over and over - “she was traumatized.” “You won’t be able to catch her, she hates men.” “She doesn’t trailer.” “She had an accident while tying so she doesn’t tie.” These things may have been true at one time, but without adapting our awareness to the current moment day by day, moment by moment, we so often keep the horses progress stifled.

I can’t tell you how many troubled horses I’ve had that I tip toed around, told the public to watch out, and one day discovered them calmly standing. Before my very eyes they had turned into another horse, and I was so busy talking about them I hadn’t noticed who they were now.

~I read this morning from a Trainer I follow and was immediately convincted. I do this so often thinking the past and understanding it will help me with their training but really it may be better to pretend they are a clean slate and while with grace and understanding treat them like a normal horse.

01/29/2025

Farm projects and evening rides 🐴

01/27/2025

6 months of Hammer Time Forge doing my Barrel mares feet and her angles look beautiful!! She runs better than she ever has and lovesss getting her feet done💅🥰

If you are looking for a farrier you need to check Ben out!! ( even if you aren’t looking you should consider him! 😉)

A good farrier is the most important thing for your athletes!!! 💪🏻🔥

01/27/2025

Check out my farrier!

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LCHA Banquet in a vlog🐴🤩

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Progress with Willow 🤩🔥

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Dixie and I are still building trust and confidence coming in full blast but we are working on balance and straightness through our pockets💪🏻🤩 #barrels #barrelracing

This is what a rain storm sounds like in a tin roof barn… loudddd

The baddest and coolest mare around😍🤩 Thankful to learn from an incredible trainer on some of the most talented horses! #reiner #reining #ranchriding #blueroan

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Just a sneak peak into what lessons and being on the Nikita’s Equine team look like🔥🐴

Who doesn’t love a ranch red gelding 😍🔥 #ranchy #gelding #horses

Her lead changes 😍

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