Vanguard Eventing

Vanguard Eventing We offer training, lessons, sales, and more for everyone from the beginning equestrian to the season We are currently accepting new clients and horses.
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We are located at the beautiful Five Star Stables in Pleasanton, California. Head trainers Joe McKinley and Danielle McKinley offer training, lessons, sales, and more for all levels of horses and riders, from beginning riders and green youngsters, to horses and riders ready to campaign through the upper levels of eventing. Limited school horses available for lessons. Please visit our website for more information! www.vanguardeventing.com

08/27/2024

Good boy Blue! For the lead on a 26!

This beautiful boy got the short end of the stick this weekend. He got to his first event and absolutely stunned the dre...
08/27/2024

This beautiful boy got the short end of the stick this weekend. He got to his first event and absolutely stunned the dressage, winning by several points on a 26.

Unfortunately Joe took a tumble off Morty in the prelim and with some bumps and bruises wasn’t at his best to give Blue the ride to finish the event.

In our eyes, you still won Blue 💙 til the next one.

Manu Forti’s Blue Clover
7 yr old RID class 1 stallion
Owned by Laura and Steve Parker

Will be looking up and forward to Twin in a couple weeks and thanks to his Owners for understanding joes position and letting us fight another day!

Beautiful day for some lessons!
08/17/2024

Beautiful day for some lessons!

Morty had a great run around the 2*L At Rebecca Farms last week. We are super proud of this young horse and this is just...
07/27/2024

Morty had a great run around the 2*L At Rebecca Farms last week. We are super proud of this young horse and this is just the beginning!

Manu Forti’s Blue Clover had his show debut this past weekend at Yarra Yarra dressage. He showed in training level 1&2 a...
04/30/2024

Manu Forti’s Blue Clover had his show debut this past weekend at Yarra Yarra dressage. He showed in training level 1&2 and scored a 65% and nearly 72% on his tests. We are so proud of how grown up he was all day. Such great showing for this young stallion. Looking forward to his eventing debut!

Many thanks to his owners Steve and Laura Parker for trusting us with this process for their special guy! 🤩

Blue is a class 1 RID stallion by Touch of the Blues.

Little sneak peek of Blue’s photo shoot. 📸Thank you .photo for taking the time to get some update photos! Blue was a goo...
02/20/2024

Little sneak peek of Blue’s photo shoot. 📸Thank you .photo for taking the time to get some update photos! Blue was a good sport working alone in the rain on a blustery day! This stallions brain is AMAZING and we can’t wait to get him out showing this year 🌟. Blue is owned by Steve and Laura Parker who have trusted us with developing him! 🍀🐴❤️

If you have it you won’t need it. Getting trained in CPR and how to use our AED machine. We are all educated now and hop...
02/18/2024

If you have it you won’t need it. Getting trained in CPR and how to use our AED machine. We are all educated now and hope to never ever use our training.

Joe and the new stallion Blue looking handsome! Blue will be making his show and eventing debut this spring! Keep an eye...
02/02/2024

Joe and the new stallion Blue looking handsome! Blue will be making his show and eventing debut this spring! Keep an eye out, he is hard to miss! 💚💪🏼

Instagram vs reality 🤣 this lovely lady had a great jump school today and will be available for lease next month!  She i...
02/01/2024

Instagram vs reality 🤣 this lovely lady had a great jump school today and will be available for lease next month! She is a special unicorn ready to teach another lucky rider 💚

The tracks are lovely right now, come play!
11/30/2023

The tracks are lovely right now, come play!

We seriously have the best farrier  . He knelt down to trim our skidding rescue mini and handled our young stallion in t...
11/23/2023

We seriously have the best farrier . He knelt down to trim our skidding rescue mini and handled our young stallion in the same day as well as doing some seriously impressive sport horse shoes. We appreciate him so much! (Please don’t see this post and ask him to do your minis 🤣) thank you Nick for your truly amazing help keeping our horses feet prime! 👠 👟 👞 🦶

Big welcome to Stella Blue who is here on lease for  . Excited to watch this pair this season!
11/07/2023

Big welcome to Stella Blue who is here on lease for . Excited to watch this pair this season!

04/26/2023

We have this lovely mare still available. She is 7, competed in the 1.10’s in Ireland. Recently imported and hasn’t put a foot wrong. Will be a junior or amateur dream horse. Easily could do the jumpers or event. Pm for more info priced in the mid 5’s. Come sit on her and you won’t be sad!

Huge congratulations to Aldona
03/22/2023

Huge congratulations to Aldona

🎉Congratulations, Aldona, on your official ownership of Spyder Man, now known as Big Ben! May the years ahead be filled with much fun and achievement as you venture on with your new Cherished Partner! 🤍✨🏆✨🤍

Spyder is the first CPH-owned and sold horse that has been produced from youngster to an adult. He was obtained as a long 2 year old, and he has just recently turned 7! He will forever hold a special place in my heart. ♥️ Cheers to Aldona and Ben, may the future bring you both an abundance of joy and fulfillment! 🥂

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Some super lessons but his weekend!! A new face in the bunch, we welcome  to the Vanguard Family! Also a sneak preview o...
02/20/2023

Some super lessons but his weekend!! A new face in the bunch, we welcome to the Vanguard Family! Also a sneak preview of our killer new track getting laid out and a nice hill to climb 💪🏼😍. Really enjoying this weather, the team and our property

Some great footwork exercises for today and everyone bundled up to teach!
01/29/2023

Some great footwork exercises for today and everyone bundled up to teach!

Winner winner! We had a fun game of jumping with toilet paper.  won the competition successfully jumping with 4 rolls of...
01/02/2023

Winner winner! We had a fun game of jumping with toilet paper. won the competition successfully jumping with 4 rolls of TP. It was impressive. Videos to come. Had a blast today with

Starting Over ‘Albert’ in the T3D. Two of our favorite sponsors   and  featured here helping keep his back happy! Lookin...
11/19/2022

Starting Over ‘Albert’ in the T3D. Two of our favorite sponsors and featured here helping keep his back happy! Looking forward to running and jumping tomorrow! thanks to for the photos and awesome grooming!

Judges liked Berto today and he received an impressive 8.10 on his confirmation and type. Excited to se what tomorrow br...
10/28/2022

Judges liked Berto today and he received an impressive 8.10 on his confirmation and type. Excited to se what tomorrow brings for this 5 yr old in the West Coast YEH Championships!!

10/08/2022

Morty clear jumping around the prelim this morning! Thanks for the bid and many thanks to our team for being there today when I’m home sick with the kiddos

Ups and downs but we had an AWESOME time at Twin Rivers doing some major team bonding. It was a show of many firsts for ...
09/29/2022

Ups and downs but we had an AWESOME time at Twin Rivers doing some major team bonding. It was a show of many firsts for our riders but everyone stayed supportive and showed their skills off all weekend! So glad we get to do this with such an awesome team!

09/20/2022
Happy Father’s Day to our leader   he was rewarded by a double clear round for Alberts first training level!
06/19/2022

Happy Father’s Day to our leader he was rewarded by a double clear round for Alberts first training level!

My attempts to get all the ribbons in one photo from Fresno a few weeks back! Good luck to all our competitors this week...
05/26/2022

My attempts to get all the ribbons in one photo from Fresno a few weeks back! Good luck to all our competitors this week at Woodside!

05/09/2022

We had a great time at DragonFire with a big group of horses this weekend! Thank you for having us! Highly recommend schooling here- there is something tor every level!!

We almost made it without issue. .eventing
04/28/2022

We almost made it without issue. .eventing

01/12/2022

We had a great time at the Boyd Martin clinic. This is Albert really stepping up to play in the training group yesterday.

Throwback to the big Irish guy schooling. Miss having him in the barn!
12/20/2021

Throwback to the big Irish guy schooling. Miss having him in the barn!

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12902 Tesla Road
Livermore, CA
94550

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Tuesday 10am - 10pm
Wednesday 10am - 10pm
Thursday 10am - 10pm
Friday 10am - 10pm
Saturday 10am - 10pm
Sunday 10am - 10pm

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**NOW OPERATING OUT OF SANDHU STABLES** We are located at a wonderful private facility in Pleasanton, CA. Head trainers Joe and Danielle McKinley offer training, lessons, sales, and more for all levels of horses and riders, from beginning riders and green youngsters, to horses and riders ready to campaign through the upper levels of eventing. We are also happy to have Jordan Good as our riding school manager and teacher, now offering camps, birthday parties and lessons!

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