MC Performance Horses LLC.

04/11/2024

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Summer break is coming up, get your kiddos signed up for our summer camp while we still have spots available!! All levels of riders are welcome! PM us for more information to get your kids signed up for the best week ever!!

03/31/2024

My boss requested that I picked up this morning, of course I couldn’t say no… Thankfully she has a simple order🐶

03/21/2024

Attention!!
I will be at the Kentucky Horse Park this weekend offering magnawave sessions!! If you’re competing and would like your horse done before or after your show message me to get on my list!! ☺️

$50 for a 30 minute session
$35 for a 20 minute session

03/18/2024

Last week Meghan & I were blessed with the opportunity to participate in a Josh Lyons/Lyons Legacy 5-Day Trainers Clinic!

This has by far been the most thorough, educational & confidence inspiring clinic I have ever experienced! We learned so many new training techniques and exercises. Meg & I have both taken our horsemanship skills to a whole new level!

Thank You Josh, for sharing all of your time & experience with us, we are looking forward to working with you more in the future!
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Thank You to our parents for the BEST Christmas gift, I will never forget this incredible experience & being able to share these amazing memories with my sister 💕

03/12/2024

Josh Lyons/Lyons Legacy Trainers Clinic Day 1 Complete! ✅

After a ‘fresh’ warmup session Meghan and I were both a bit nervous to see how our ponies would handle the remainder of the day. Thankfully Josh did a wonderful job controlling the group energy & after a few minutes of stretching Casanova & Scarlett were both ready to rock and roll!!!

We both learned so much & it’s only day 1! I can’t wait to see what tomorrow has in store, stay tuned!

02/23/2024

Anyone looking for Hay or Compost/Aged Manure?

I have a connection in the Wilmot, WI area that has an abundance of the 2…

Hay is from last season, it’s beautiful quality but was sitting alongside an exterior wall - there is a bit of mold on the first flake or 2 but 75%+ each bale is totally fine. If you’re short on hay and don’t mind sifting through a couple flakes this is the deal for you! $2/bale - must pickup

Compost/Manure is aged over 5 years in some spots - truly black gold! FREE, just come pick it up! DM me and I can use the loader to scoop it into your truck or trailer.

01/18/2024

The Appaloosa is a horse breed associated historically with the Nez Perce (Niimipu) Tribe. The name may originate from “a Palouse,” which referred to the region where the horses were bred. It is likely that these horses originally came from a variety of Spanish horses—so-called spotted horses—that were traded into the Northwest by the mid to late eighteenth century. The horses were then bred by the Nez Perce.

The Appaloosa is also known as the Nez Perce Horse. The first documented reports of horses in Oregon are in the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who noted spotted horses similar to the Appaloosa among the Nez Perce Tribe.

The Nez Perce valued the Appaloosa for its intelligent temperament, sure-footedness, endurance, and speed. They required their horses to negotiate the treacherous trails from their winter quarters in the Wallowa Valley of eastern Oregon through the Rocky Mountains to the summer encampments on the Plains. The horses were fast enough to catch a bison and paso fino—that is, smooth-gaited—enough to allow a hunter to fire with accuracy from a full gallop.

The original Nez Perce Appaloosa nearly died out after the Nez Perce War in 1876, when the U.S. military confiscated the Tribe’s herds. A few of the breed survived into the twentieth century, however, and in the 1930s horsemen in eastern Oregon worked to revive it. As a modern horse breed, the Appaloosa is distinctive for its mottled skin, visible sclera (the white outer layer of the eye), and vertical-striped hooves.

The Appaloosa is one of the most distinctive and valued American horse breeds in the world. The Nez Perce Tribe and other horse ranchers in the region are continuing to develop the desirable traits that were bred into the original breed in the nineteenth century.

By David Lewis (Takelma, Chinook,
Molalla, Santiam Kalapuya)

Photo via Holdyourhorsies

12/11/2023

For anyone in the KY area ❤️🌲

12/08/2023

☀️Beautiful week ahead in Wisconsin!☀️
If anyone is looking to get a couple more hours on their ponies before the cold sets in please send a message! We can meet you at your facility or at any local trail head🌲

Open availability Today - Next Week!

12/06/2023

🚨ITS OFFICIAL!🚨
MC Performance Horses is THRILLED to *officially* welcome Meghan Capra to the team!! Meghan will be expanding MC Performance Horses into the state of KY!

Meghan brings over 18 years of equine experience ranging from daily cares, training, competition & everything in between.

Specializing in western disciplines, Meghan has experience in starting/restarting, natural horsemanship/+R, trail/obstacle, barrel racing & more!

She is currently the farm manager at Brightonwoods Farm located in Stamping Ground, KY.

Services include;

⭐️Riding Lessons
⭐️Guided Trail Rides
⭐️Boarding
⭐️Training
⭐️MagnaWave

Send us a DM to book now!

12/06/2023

MagnaWave sessions by a certified professional! If you or your fur babies need a treatment please reach out to MC MagnaWave

Meghan is a friendly, knowledgeable professional who wants to help you & your pets feel their best!

Send her a message to book now!

12/03/2023

11/22/2023

From a lesson mom… 💗 Inspired by a lesson a few weeks ago.

10/08/2023

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09/20/2023

🚨Open Training Availablity🚨

I can come to you OR meet you at the trail head of your choice!

Thursday September 21st ~ 1PM-5PM

Rates start at $65/HR

08/07/2023

Full Board Isn't Full Service

A friend asked me to write this a while ago..and I have been thinking on it for several months. So here is a go.

Full board Isn't full board. The average boarding farm with anywhere from 5 to 40 boarders is so much work. Just the daily grind of getting up, feeding, haying, checking water takes up a significant amount of time. Stalls, another massive chunk, then repeat pm feed.

Then you want the boarding farm to do blankets ( something I refuse to do. I worked for a QH trainer in the 90s and spent hrs every morning and night reblanketing all the horses under lights ...cured me ) , meds, you want night check. You want their weight and physical appearance monitored through their blankets.

Now all the extras : tackroom swept, aisle perfect, walls hosed down, no rodents, cobwebs , working washrack with drain that never clogs...

Then perfectly manacured fields , mowed, fertilized, weedwacking. Fences repairs etc....

Board or bored...when your horse is in the stall more for inclement weather , you need to get there to exercise it and prevent colic ( motion is lotion for guts and joints ! ). Full board doesnt cover checking every single inch of the horse ( though most of us do take a quick look, i have trained myself to look at all 4 legs both side every day ) for bumps, bruises, shoes with sprung heels , mysterious fungus that appears on its flank. Owners need to be present, take responsibility for their own horse, make coming out to groom that retired horse on a schedule....and always always be accessible for emergencies.

When you see something needs done, just do it instead of complaining about it. We have all seen the posts about the costs of boarding and basically, if you are paying less than $1000/ month, someone is subsidizing your board. So pick up a rake, a broom, be present. Run a hose, scrub the tub. Triple check your horse. Check on the horse whose owner is ill ( with their permission ) . Leave things better than they were.
Many barns have a person or 2 that randomly helps with some stalls....I guarantee you the barn owner appreciates that person. I used to have a students father who would clean many stalls while his daughter rode. I know I'll never forget him.

Holidays....most barns have 1 of 2 ways of thinking. 1. Don't come out at all. 2. If you do come out, plan to help with feeding, haying, watering turnout and stalls. I can speak from personal experience...I havent had a holiday off since pre 2001 except for 1 Christmas, an exceptional student did all the work as my gift. I'll never forget that act of kindness. Nurses get double time for major holidays ( and still get to take off a day for Christmas , heck even the local convenience store pays double or time and half on major holidays) , barn owners get nothing, most of the time not even a thank you... I recall a colleague who boarded horses ( and of course taught lessons, trained horses, sold horses and ran shows because boarding doesnt pay the bills ) saying one day she realized her life was like the movie Ground Hog Day....and that she has done the same thing every morning every night for decades. Her farm went up for sale and she now boards her own horses.

Education. Do you know what horses diseases are, understand deworming, know what ailments to watch out for. When should the vet be called ? Can you wrap legs properly, handle an abscess, recognize fungus, spot a colic ? If not, pick up a book, watch some videos. Horse ownership means you love horses and you want to know everything about them.

Anyway...full care isn't day care you drop your "kid " off too and never pick them up from again. Be present. Your horse will appreciate the attention and the barn owner will feel relief that you are watching out for your horse.

3/27/23 update. 212,000 views. 1400 shares. And I have gotten a few nasty comments. I cannot understand the nastiness . Bringing awareness is a good thing. If it doesnt apply to you , then move on. Every barn has boundaries. Apparently some people are mad that I wont do blankets...not sure why, as none of them board with me ! Boundaries are made out of clarity and self respect. Every barn , I hope , has rules and boundaries ! Best wishes to all . Horses are my first and longest love.

( This post was made to bring awareness. At least in my area, boarding barns are becoming fewer to non existent. If we want them to stay, we must change . I have seen mostly positivity come from this...i particularly loved the person who shared it and wrote " I go a bit the other way . I try to help in some way every day that I am at the barn "
I , of course, want all the horses in my care to have good, healthy lives too. I would like to think we all do. )

07/13/2023

Today is National Eat Your Jell-O Day.

Jell-O powder was used to color the Horse of a Different Color in "The Wizard Of Oz". The scenes had to be filmed as quickly as possible because the horses kept trying to lick the powder off themselves.