Victoria Dye Equestrian LLC

08/17/2024

Fun morning of lessons!! 🦄

08/05/2024

Our favorite event of the year!!

🌾🍂 Saddle up, Los Altos Hills! 🍂🌾
Get ready for some good ol’ fashioned fun at our Hoedown! 🤠🎉 Join us on September 7th from 4-7pm for an evening of dancing, delicious food, and festive activities. Don’t miss out on the bbq, live music, and more! 🎶🚜
Grab your boots and come celebrate the season with us. Y’all better be there! 🍁

Date: Saturday, September 7th
Location: Westwind Community Barn, 27210 Altamont Rd
Time: 4pm - 7pm

08/04/2024

Camp 2024 is a wrap!!! Thanks to the most amazing Cam Trepanier and Katelyn Richardson for making this camp such a success!! You know it’s a good camp when kids cry that they have to go home. 🏕️ 🐴 ❤️

07/30/2024

Good info! I hope everyone is enjoying the Olympics! 🌟

07/30/2024

Group 2 advanced camp clinic!! 🌟🦄🌟

07/30/2024

Team VDE went to the SFP CDS Dressage show this weekend! Torie competed Dart at second level and Sophia competed Poncho at training level. All of our scores were above 60% with Sophia receiving a 66%. It was such a fun show and we are so proud of Poncho for behaving so well at his first dressage show. Thanks to HCM Dressage for adopting Poncho for the show!! 🌟🦄🪄

07/29/2024

We are so excited for a fun filled week. Today is a clinic with dressage trainer Skylar! 🦄🌟🪄

07/23/2024

This is the happy face of a kid doing her 20th week of VDE horse camp!!! It makes me proud to have a camp kids want to come back to year after year!!! I think Izzie holds the record for most camps though. 😜😎🦄🥰

07/21/2024

Emerson got a haircut! 💇🏽‍♂️ 💕

07/18/2024

Morning lessons and then intermediate campers working hard practicing for their show tomorrow!!!

07/11/2024

Morning lessons to beat the heat!! 🐴❤️☀️

07/09/2024

07/09/2024

Summer camp spam!!! The summer seems to be flying by and we are already done with beginner camp!! We have had so much fun introducing the magic of horses to so many kids this summer - four weeks to go!!

07/04/2024

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Words matter. Deragotory self talk is not helpful. Generalizations don’t help you make changes.
Instead of “I’m sloppy” say “I lean forward and slip to the outside”.
Instead of “my horse is blocking me” say “his neck is bracey, we need to do a few flexions”
Instead of “I’m terrible at X” try saying “I’m currently working on X.”

Get specific!!!! Word things in a way that you can fix. If you are not sure, search…. Take inventory of your parts and figure out what the ACTUAL issue is. If something isn’t working, don’t get frustrated- get curious!

06/28/2024

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The tuneup…

Honestly, I cringe when someone says “I sent my horse to a trainer for a tuneup.”

Usually, they’re implying that the trainer will fix the broken parts the horse has and it’ll come home good as new. As if it was a car needing its spark plugs replaced or something. That’s not how it works. A sentient being isn’t fixed, they’re managed.

So I thought of a new way to describe the “tuneup”.

Think of it like detailing a car… If you send your car to the detailer, they will pull it all apart, clean it, scrub it, polish it and then put it back together. It’ll be as beautiful and clean again but it won’t last very long. The bigger the job, the more expensive it is because the labor takes time and skill.

If you send a brand new car that’s just a little dusty, you’ll get back a car that is damn near close to new looking again. If you send an old, beat up, paint chipping, ripped seats car, you’ll get back something better but it won’t be anything like the new car.

Horses are no different.

A “tuneup” on a well trained, well cared for horse is easy.

A tuneup on a sorry broke, pushy, spoiled horse, is going to be rough. And mostly rough on the horse because he has no good foundation to even clean up.

Do your horse a favor and get them educated. Spend time learning how to make them a nice “car” to drive. Keep the paint clean and waxed, keep the floors vacuumed, throw the trash away. Horses need their boundaries consistent. They need to have work that challenges them but also reinforces solid basics and mostly they need to be kept up, so they don’t fall apart.

“Bootcamp” for horses is rough on the animal and it can be avoided with consistency. Nothing wrong with an overhaul to get you going, but if they need regular “tuneups” perhaps you need to spend more time in the trainers barn. 😉

Yes, I said what I said 😆

06/18/2024

Dart and I had a great time at golden state dressage this past weekend. All of our scores were above 60%! I’m so proud of him and so thankful to get the chance to show!!! Thanks to the team at home that make it possible Katelyn Richardson Cam Trepanier and thanks to HCM Dressage for such a great experience!! 🎯❤️👏🏽🎉

06/18/2024

I made a Timelapse video of Darts braids! Such a handsome boy!! 🎯❤️🤗

06/17/2024

Sally is the real star of camp. We all just work here. 🤪🐈‍⬛🐾🌟

06/16/2024

Happy Father’s Day to all the supportive dads who are there from the first horse camp!!! Kick on!

06/16/2024

Good boy today Dart!! Thanks to the best friends Abby Thurm and Farris Scott for coming to watch me ride! And thanks HCM Dressage for the great coaching and support!

06/12/2024

Summer camp week 1 is completed! Camp is full except for two spots in week 5 of begginer camp and 2 spots in the second week of intermediate 2!! Don’t miss out on our fun filled summer camps!!!

06/07/2024

05/03/2024

We are excited to cheer on two VDE alumni’s who are competing in the novice flat at IHSA Nationals! Good luck Mila and Kristen! 🥳🦄🏆