Eqcel Equine LLC

09/13/2023

Willow’s first time over the bridge. Took her a couple of tries but she eventually got it❤️

08/09/2023

We have one training spot open for the month of August and September. PM for more info.

08/09/2023

We would like to welcome Ember to training! Ember is a 4 yr old grade gray mare who is learning the basics.

07/11/2023

‼️FOR SALE‼️
Black Jack (aka Jack) is a 10 year old draft cross. Jack is currently schooling BN level jumps, and he has lovely up hill movement in the dressage. He has potential for novice level eventing with the right person. He has AMAZING ground manners and stall manners around all adults and most kids.
Don’t want to do English, he has also done well in the ranch and working cow horse arena. Jack has potential to go in any direction his owner wants. Please take note that Jack is not for a beginner rider and does require an experienced hand in most phases of riding. He is currently being shown by an advanced, confident, youth rider who has been riding him for several months.

Videos available at buyers request. PM for more info.
Will be in Ocala at the Florida Horse Park show July 16th!

07/04/2023

So proud of this girl! She’s been having some confidence issues that we’ve been working through, she went to a barrel race this weekend and had several lovely controlled and confident runs!
This cowgirl is working hard and it’s clearly paying off!

Happy 4th of July!

06/25/2023

Eqcel Equine has two openings for training starting in July. Contact for details.

06/25/2023

Final state 4-H horse show Aly went out with a bang. Her gaited horse Pal won high point gaited and now will be looking for a new show home so I guess he went out with a bang too.

06/01/2023

Sometimes the best lessons are days like this. So proud of Sara and I hope this helps her better her riding in and out of the saddle in everything she does!

06/01/2023

Proudly offered for your consideration:
Black Jack (aka Jack) is a 10 year old draft cross. Jack is currently schooling BN level jumps and preparing to move up to bullfrog, he has lovely up hill movement in the dressage. He has potential for novice level eventing. He has AMAZING ground manners and stall manners around all adults and most kids.
Don’t want to do English, he has also done well in the ranch and working cow horse arena. Jack has potential to go in any direction his owner wants. Please take note that Jack is not for a beginner rider and does require an experienced hand in some phases of riding.

Videos available at buyers request. PM for more info.

05/20/2023

Aly and Kaatje had some lovely dressage tests today.

05/20/2023

Aly and Gigi had a lovely dressage test today.

05/14/2023

Had a great time at the Rebel Hearts Open Horse Show Series this weekend. Sassy was a fire breathing dragon for English but had some lovely ranch rides. She was fabulous in speed events with beautiful runs.

Strider was a good boy for Lexi. They had some lovely English and western rides. We need to work on some lateral control for pattern classes for them.

The Eqcel Equine LLC team had a good day.

05/06/2023

Useful insight into horse show nerves.

Dealing with nerves is an often talked about topic. I find the majority of show nerves come from our desire to be competitive. We show because we like to win.

But when we compete, the only person we truly compete against is ourselves. Our goal with competing is to be better than the time before. When we make the competition about ourselves and not other people it can to relax the nerves.

Our goal with showing is to do the best by ourselves and the best by our horses, as tempting as that blue ribbon is. The majority of nerves comes from fear. Each rider fears different things but we can manage our fears, and therefore manage our nerves, if we stop making it about perfection and make it about improvement.

05/05/2023

Whiskey has a nice, ground covering walk.

05/05/2023

Welcome Whiskey to Eqcel Equine. He is a 10 yr old TWH, here for conditioning and some desensitization.

05/04/2023

Eqcel Equine had a prospective new student come out today. Welcome Brianna.

05/03/2023

I’m staying busy here at Eqcel equine this week, from a new training horse, to a Hilda clinic, then senior pictures! This weekend I have another clinic with the wonderful Mrs. Hilda, a very exciting week indeed!

04/29/2023

Gigi's first stadium round away from home since the makeover. She has regained some confidence.

04/29/2023

Welcome Mattie...a 6 year old TWH here for 30 days introducing to the bit, some desensitization, and maybe some canter work.

04/29/2023

Speed pony turned dressage diva.

04/29/2023

We are supporting a local barn at their schooling show. Time for Gigi to get back into work and Sassy the speed event pony has to switch to dressage mode.

04/26/2023

A busy day with visitors today. Who says OTTBs are high strung? Percy aka The Lightning Thief - tolerates Aly proofing.

04/26/2023

Hanna made the decision to do more than just barrels with her barrel horse. This made me super proud as I encourage my students to do more than just one discipline with their horses. Doing more with your horse makes the horse and yourself better rounded and more capable of even a simple trail ride.
This mare is not an easy horse to ride so Hanna has to work harder sometimes but her hard work is paying off nicely!

04/25/2023

Lexi taking Strider for a spin today!

04/25/2023

We had a special little cowboy come visit his favorite horse - Pal, who was still sporting his Eqcel Equine logo from Glittermarx Ponies.

04/23/2023

Had a fun night at Jackson County Horseman's Association - HURLEY, MS speed event show. Lots of friends - Kate, Lani, & Daylin - played on Percy. Lexi played on Sassy while Aly competed on Sassy.

04/23/2023

Lexi and Sassy in easy rider stakes.

04/22/2023

Kate and Percy in easy rider poles.

04/22/2023

Lexi on Sassy in easy rider poles.

04/22/2023

Aly and Sassy ran a 9.3 to win 13-17.
Sassy’s sporting our Glittermarx Ponies logo and the fire breathing dragon!

04/22/2023

So proud of my student Sara! A little over a year ago she was having to start from scratch and a couple months ago she was nervous about cantering and now she’s comfortable cantering and she’s started doing small jumps on a multitude of horses! Sara has worked so hard to get here and it shows! We still have a lot to improve on but small steps forward is still moving forward. I can’t wait to see where the future takes her!

04/11/2023

Always pat your pony❤️

No matter if they did their best or their worst always reward the try. Horses are like people, they’re not perfect but they try. They have good and bad days like us and they’re going to mess up eventually.

Pat your pony and reward them because every days a learning experience. We seem to have this expectation that animals are perfect and don’t make mistakes, but this isn’t true. Horses have emotions too. They sense when we’re sad, having a bad day, and even when we’re happy.

Always pat your pony. You may be having a bad day which causes your horse to have a bad day. It’s not always the horse that’s having a bad day. Horses feed off of riders and if you’re having a good day than they horse will give you a better ride than if you’re having a bad day.

Always pat your pony.

You see so many riders now that blame the horse and don’t praise them for even the smallest things. Some people only praise their horses if they win something, others praise theirs only on the good days. Almost everyone’s guilty of this at some point and time and that’s the truth. I’m guilty of it and work to improve.

A couple years ago I would come out of the show ring and if I felt like my horse gave me a bad ride I wasn’t happy at all, now I come out and look for what did go well and what we could work to improve on for the next show. We all want to win in the ring but the only way to get there is to work for progress not perfection.
If you’re horse is trying to run away with you in the warm up, when you go in the show ring just work for a controlled round and don’t worry about everything else. Then next time work to improve on the other stuff.

Always pat your pony.

04/09/2023

Aly rode BlackJack for a client at the Amazing Gaits Equestrian Center show. They won the tadpole CT division.

04/09/2023

So happy with how this logo turned out from Glittermarx Ponies! I got so many compliments on it and was told it was super smart looking! So excited to see this business grow with time!
PC: Stacy Upshaw

04/09/2023

The Pink Lady sporting her pink Eqcel Equine Glittermarx Ponies logo.

04/09/2023

Our team did great today! Six firsts, two seconds, two thirds, a fourth, and a fifth. Especially proud of Anne Kascoutas Wright on her very first show with Strider, and Lexi riding Pepper in their first dressage show.

04/08/2023

Aly's second ride Jack is sporting an Eqcel Equine logo.

04/08/2023

Percy is ready for cross country.