Milestone Sport Horses

12/10/2024

Winter clinic series dates are rolling out!

Holly Wilmoth Dressage will be with us this coming Sunday December 15th for 45 min private lessons. Limited space left, please PM me to be added to the schedule. Save the date 1/18 for the next!

Tim Bourke’s first jumping clinic is the following Saturday, December 21st. Sign up is on Strider https://www.striderpro.com/a/n6ewDXHkx0yQ-cJ-vI3GBA He will be back with us again on MLK Day in Jan (1/20).

Milestone Sport Horses is excited to announce another year of our popular winter clinic series with 5* eventer Tim Bourke. We will be hosting Tim for an indoor jumping clinic series to include both gymnastics and coursework on 12/21, 1/20 and a Feb date TBD. Groups will consist of 3-4 riders and be....

11/24/2024

Pony-O and Venti throwing some shapes. I’m coming to a place of acceptance that my kid is better than me these days 🤣 Thanks to for the snaps.

11/22/2024

Trailer inspections available by resident house hippo (in her new pajamas of course). Looks like this one passed the test! 🤣

11/18/2024

This weekend wraps up the 2024 season in a pink bow 🎀 with Eventing for the Cure at huntclubfarms. Always a favorite and this year was no different with gorgeous mild fall weather. We had 8 pairs competing and there were some great results as well as bigger life lessons. Ryleigh and Chance were looking forward to another romp around Training but had an uncharacteristically shaky stadium and decided to withdraw before XC. A tough but very mature decision for a 12 year old to have to make and I’m proud of her for it. Brendi and Muffin and Madilyn and Cricket were brilliant in their BN debuts, placing 2nd and 8th respectively finishing on sub 30 dressage scores. WOW! My Elementary team on their (mostly) small but mighty steeds cleaned up snagging 1st through 5th in their various divisions. There was a shuffle in standings when a scoring error was made and Quinn gracefully went to the organizers to let them know she should not be sitting on top of her division after a blip on XC. That put her in 4th and moved Maddy into 1st and Frankie 2nd. Brooklyn was 3rd in her division and Erin and Lincoln snagged 5th as my lone adult in a sea of pink middle schoolers. She probably deserves an extra ribbon for that stat 🤣. I’m quite sure most of these specific results will be forgotten in time, but the sportsmanship and life lessons will not be. It’s been a long year with plenty of ups and downs for everyone. We will rest (maybe), recharge, and be back better than ever in 2025! Photo credit to the fabulous sdh_photography_ 🫶

11/11/2024

Totally rolled through another weekend without recognizing the excellence of the one before! The last MDHT Highland Series starter was gloriously sunny and my ladies and littles were super. Jen and Zipper were sub 30 in their dressage test, showing so much poise in the ring in this mare’s first season showing under saddle. Talia and Capi were looking like next year is going to involve white numbers instead of yellow, and my juniors Brooklyn, Maddy and Frankie all rode beautifully and finished in the ribbons. Special shoutout to my younger daughter, Frankie, who was second in her elementary division with the perfect Penny Chesney. We’ve got one last event next weekend at Hunt Club before we start making big goals to crush in 2025. Thanks to our favorite show photo team at Erin Gilmore Photography. The kids are still agonizing over their favorites so we get them cell phone style here 😜

11/07/2024

The clock is running down on the 2024 season and I’m honestly ready to slow down a little physically. But my brain doesn’t operate on anything other than overdrive! Winter planning is well underway and I’m scheduling clinic series here at the farm with and to keep us sharp. We will be regularly XC schooling the derby course at and I’ll work on a jump chute date with . I’m happy to teach cavaletti clinics and have always wanted to do a XC lines/skinnies indoor clinic along the lines of Lucinda Green day one for those that have attended her clinics. What else would you like to see happening here over the winter? thank you for a million amazing photos on my camera roll, seems like I’ve one for every scattered thought to post!

10/07/2024

Drive to Kentucky 👎 Snacks in Kentucky 👍

is finally here!

10/07/2024

Exceptionally level headed 2020 16.1 TB gelding - your next eventing superstar that could easily excel in the H/J world. Has been produced in tandem with a 12 year old Junior. Quiet, sweet, easy keeper. Natural steady rhythm to the fences, snaffle ride. Recognized YEH/BN miles and ready for Novice. These types don’t come around often, ammy/junior’s dream with the talent for the FEI levels. Has been to pony club camp and rallies and is the same horse wherever he goes. Super fun personality. Has also just started foxhunting and is fabulous in the field. On the buckle at checks and brave and rateable on the move. This one won’t last long, he’s been a joy to develop and is only leaving us because when horses pay the bills the nice ones have to do just that. 3️⃣5️⃣ 🥕🥕🥕

10/07/2024

Sometimes it’s a circus, and sometimes it’s a one man show! Seeing my kids get out there and give it their all and finding joy in the journey is so special. I’m so proud of Brooklyn for piloting her mom’s green horse beautifully around his first recognized event yesterday. The ribbons don’t define success for me, they’re just the icing on the cake when they come. These two have a bright future, and I’ll be hanging over a lot more fences watching them in the future I think!

Happy National Coaches Day! Seemed like a fitting photo after a fabulous weekend at for #3 and Area II Championships!! Congratulations to everyone who competed. Hope you love your photos, we love finding these special moments for you.

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09/24/2024

Congratulations to the Adkinson family for adding Global to their family. I am absolutely thrilled for him and their lovely daughter and am so grateful he’ll be in such a fabulous barn at Fine Idea Farm. This was my dream for him and he struck gold in every way with these folks. I can’t wait to see them out eventing and at pony club events. Ryleigh and I will definitely miss this awesome horse, but this match was made in heaven and meant to be. And the fact that he got to wear a crown to greet his kid is really the most important part of this happy story! 😂

09/16/2024

The Milestone team had a jam packed Saturday at for their September starter. We had a mother-daughter face off in the Training where Ryleigh and Chance totally creamed Merry and I. I’m so proud of her and Chance wowed us all with his perfect knees and pricked ears. Emily and Dexter moved up to BN and had a great go, in spite of some pony moves in stadium they still snagged 6th. The afternoon was full of great team spirit with my 5 Elementary riders and their awesome parents. They pretty much swept the division and I was so proud of them all.

💙 1st Madilyn and Cricket
❤️ 2nd Brendi and Muffin
🩷 5th Maddy and Quinn
💚 6th Frankie and Penny
💜 7th Quinn and Lumiere

The day was beautifully documented as always by and team. Thank you Samantha!

09/12/2024

We are looking forward to hosting The Frame Sport Horses again on Tuesday September 24th tor one of our ever popular jump chute clinic days. Sign up is on Strider!

Join Martin Douzant & Joe DeSantis for a jump chute clinic at Milestone Sport Horses, focusing on free jumping, in-hand work, and other training skills. This clinic will fill quickly—don't delay. Martin, hailing from Vaucluse in Provence, France, grew up in France's classical equestrian environmen...

09/10/2024

Beautiful weather for the official start of the fall season at Highland Series. Merry kicked the weekend off with his Training level debut and gave me a great feel on what I thought was a fairly impressive track for a starter. His little brother Venti, coming back from his coffin bone bruise in the spring, came to play in the sandbox. He was a bit tense and absolutely furious he didn’t get to jump but I’m just thrilled to have him back in action. .eventing and Chance had a pop around the T stadium course and looked very comfortable. In the latest installment of for RRP we took on another YEH-4 and even though we didn’t get a qualifying score he was a real professional and showed me great progress since the last one we tried in May. On Sunday Ryleigh and Global completed their first full Novice event, complete with a super clear stadium. Just one little peek at the down bank but I’m so impressed with them both. and Dexter had a good go in the BN for 4th and Maddy and Quinn almost ended the weekend with a win in the Elem if it wasn’t for some pesky flower pots that needed a closer look 😉 Off to a great start, and let’s hope the glorious weather stays around for the next installment at on Saturday! Thanks for the gorgeous captures as always Erin Gilmore Photography.

09/02/2024

We had a trio of pretty perfect ponies today at Seneca. Emily and Dexter won the Open Starter with a lovely dressage test and two confident jump rounds in her first ever horse trial. Welcome to the dark side Em! Matilda and Bella finished on their dressage score for 3rd in the JrBN, punching their ticket to Area II Championships next month. And finally Frankie and Penny threw down a 28.7 in dressage and jumped around the Starter like little pros. They would have brought home another blue if it wasn’t for a pesky missed fence on XC. They’re still winners in our eyes! Lots of treats and booped snoots for the good things in small packages!

08/26/2024

A very good weekend in the sandbox for Rigby and I, taking on 4-2 for the first time. We didn’t have any competition in our class to measure ourselves against but I was thrilled to discover we were 4th Level High Point on Saturday! On Sunday we returned and added a couple extra points to our score and came very close to nailing all the new and oh-so-tricky movements this test introduces. Very proud of my little thoroughbred dancer!

I also had the pleasure of piloting Jen Valentine’s lovely Morgan gelding HJA Sundust in 1-1 where he scored a respectable 62.593 in his First level debut. Her other lovely boy Falcon also made his dressage showing debut at Training level bringing home a blue.

Thanks to VADA/NOVA for a lovely and well run show. It’s always a treat to compete at this beautiful venue, though I must say it is such a shame that a resolution can’t be reached about show photography. All these milestones are documented on cell phones for those of us that don’t have friends with big lenses following us around. We miss Aster Equine Photography’s beautiful work!

07/21/2024

2024 are a wrap! The Milestone kids represented in Eventing, Show Jumping and Tetrathlon this year and rode really well on the hallowed ground at . I coached show jump for and was super proud of all of my riders, many of whom were very successful and some that had a tough week and showed a lot of spirit. Ryleigh and Chance were 5th individually and their team were 1st in Modified Junior Novice eventing. Avery stable managed for that team too and helped them to a win in the HM as well! Matilda and Bella 4th individual and 6th team in Modified Junior Beginner Novice, finishing on their brilliant dressage score! Brooklyn and Dexter had only one rail all week to finish 17th out of 78 riders in the 0.75 jumpers, and their team was 5th. Brendi and S’mores took on Tetrathlon and jumped so beautifully together, and S’mores did double duty with Lexi in the irons too! That all team were 4th in their division and such rockstars running, swimming and shooting as well as riding. Everyone is safely home after a very long week of very long days. You often hear the saying “the right way, the wrong way and the pony club way”, I think I’m going to spin that into “there’s tired, rally tired, and champs tired”. We’ll catch up on some sleep and blissfully I have a weekend without showing to close out July.

07/06/2024

Milestone fielded two teams for Beaux Reves July Schooling Show Team Challenge on Wednesday afternoon. Everyone rode really well, and came home with beautiful ribbons, neck sashes and prizes thanks to Triple Crown. The Milestone Bayz4Dayz team made up of myself with Rigby, Talia and Samantha, were 5th, and the Milestone Quarter Honies team of Matilda, Ryleigh and Emily threw down for 2nd. Merry came to play as a wild card individual and made me regret not putting him on a team when he hit 70+ in his First Level debut and took Reserve High Point for the show. Summer dressage is where it’s at and all these event horses are going to be ready to shine come fall! Big thanks to Corinne and Katie for hosting and the wonderful Aster Equine Photography for the beautiful photos.