ATC Equine, LLC

15/09/2024

Enjoying our last sunrise at The Kentucky Horse Park today and feeling very grateful for this horse. We placed top 25 at the first ever Mustang Classic. is going to enjoy her much deserved break out in the pasture but I look forward to building on this foundation and coming out next year with a bang!

A huge shout out to everyone that has supported me through this journey. It’s probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done and a lot of things in life pushed back against me this year. But we did it! And we did it with style. So to my coaches, friends and family- THANK YOU.

Videos to come later 🤠🐎❤️

13/09/2024

13/09/2024

We made it to KHP!!!! is ready to show Kentucky how amazing she is 🥰🐎

21/08/2024

For your consideration! Faiola EMS aka “Fay” is a 10 YO registered Haflinger mare and she is looking for her new home!

Fay is a trail machine! I have hauled her all over SE Ohio and have done rides from 1 mile- 7 miles. She also participated in a Hunter Pace this summer and absolutely loved it! Fay is happy to go out for a nice, slow and relaxing trail ride or pick up the speed and cruise around the trails at a trot or canter. She will lead, follow or ride out alone. I’ve also used her many times to pony c**ts and she seemed to enjoy that job as well! Fay has been ridden in just about every piece of tack you could name; English or western saddles, ba****ck, bitless bridles or a snaffle. She seems happiest in the bitless bridle so that’s what I’ve used the most. Fay also has a solid groundwork/horsemanship foundation in addition to her trail miles.

She stands quietly for the vet and farrier, hauls/loads like a champ and will stand for clippers. Fay did have a puncture wound to her left eye a few years ago that healed nicely but did cause her to lose the majority of her vision in that left eye. However, that doesn’t slow her down or affect her confidence, as she remains a confident and sure footed trail companion!

Please call or text for more information and to set up a ride with Miss Fay!
(740)513-7802

15/08/2024

Took a quick trip down to Kentucky for some schooling this week. It was the first big trip for and she was excellent! My favorite was perfect too, as usual 🐎🫶

06/08/2024

Forgot to share the most majestic picture ever taken 🤣

Good girl, Fay!!

15/07/2024

I have 1 opening for training, starting October 1st at Stepping Stone Stables! I offer Natural Horsemanship based c**t starting, restarting, trail training. I will help your horse become confident, supple and relaxed working in all 3 gaits and through basic trail and arena obstacles. I also take horses with behavioral problems and use my horsemanship foundation to help them deal with their trauma and rebuild confidence in themselves and their riders.

As a trainer I am actively competing at the BN level of Eventing. I completed the Retired Racehorse Project in 2023, in the team challenge. This year I am preparing my feral Mustang for the Mustang Classic in September. I have 8 years of experience showing in the western disciplines as well, where I competed around the state in Ranch Riding and Hunt Seat. Training horses is my passion and every horse that I get the pleasure of working with receives my undivided attention not only in riding, but also in day to day barn life. I strive to create great riding partners but also solid citizens for turn out, stalling, leading, bathing, tying, etc. I am still and always will be a student of the horse and am actively working with other trainers and clinicians to continue building my individual skills and program.

At Stepping Stone Stables we offer top notch care in a beautiful facility which is fully equipped with an indoor and outdoor arena, trails and an obstacle course.

Contact me to snag this opportunity!

13/07/2024

Had a great time at “The Pace at the Park” today with Maddi Karlovec! and were both perfect little ponies!

04/07/2024

Its party time

30/06/2024

That’s a wrap! 3 day, horsemanship boot camp was amazing. I learned so much with both of my horses; and . But clearly most of my pictures are of me and Jyn 😅

I also submitted my entry form and progress report for the in September. Here’s to hoping we are accepted and make it to the in September!!!

28/06/2024

Day 1 in the books for my 3 day horsemanship clinic with Debra Lewis! I am so exited to see how much my relationship blossoms with .

26/05/2024

Forever grateful that I get to have breakfast with horses and not people 😂🤠❤️

16/05/2024

Pull Rank AKA Curly and me at our first outing of the year! We brought home a big 2nd place Ribbon 🏆 Not too shabby for our first beginner novice mini trial! I sure to love my

Can’t wait to see what we accomplish this year!

04/05/2024

This week was field trip week for

She was a real trooper! She now self loads like a champ, travels well, settles in quickly and is very curious of her surroundings (including the obstacle course!) I hope to take her to many events this summer!

29/04/2024

People ask me all the time, “what is your favorite thing about training horses?”

The answer is simple. It’s this moment right here. The first ride.

It’s when I get to find out if I made all the right connections. Did I fill all of the holes? Did my horse believe me when I asked her to trust me? Did I move slow enough? But also fast enough to keep her involved. Did I have a security net? Just in case things didn’t go as planned. Could I help calm her down? Even while sitting above her.

It’s no easy task, but if you listen to your horse it should be just as harmonious as Grand Prix dressage test. It is why I do what I do. For this very moment.

did not disappoint! Keep up with my page for the full video 🐎❤️

20/04/2024

Had a great morning ride at Lake Snowden! Fay is really turning into a NICE horse. She hauled well, went down the trail like a champ and we were able to practice some trot and canter. She still has some horsemanship quirks to sort out but I am thrilled with how far she has come. 🥰

This gem will be up for your consideration mid summer! So keep following my page for regular training updates!

Huge thanks to Maddi Karlovec for going with me today! Can’t wait for the next adventure.

20/04/2024

Trailer loading day! was a super star for her first trailer session ⭐️ she self loaded within about 15 minutes. We hung out for another 5-10 minutes while I waited for her to relax then calmly backed out. Good girl, Jyn!

14/04/2024

How adorable is this little gal?!

07/04/2024

Perfect end to a perfect weekend!

Miss Fay is a 10 YO haflinger mare. She lost most of her vision in her left eye due to an injury so she’s definitely given me a run for my money! But after a month of training, we went off property today and had a lovely solo trail ride. Stay tuned for more updates on this lovely gal!

07/04/2024

I took one picture today because I always forget to get my phone out. BUT I had such a great time giving horsemanship lessons in Columbus area today! Can’t wait to go back!

30/03/2024

Thanks for trusting me with your awesome little filly Tami Harter! She’s been so much fun to work with and had a stellar first ride out!

17/03/2024

After integrating into the herd, I decided to give her 2 solid months off to be a horse. I realized that she probably hadn’t been free in pasture with friends since she was round up. And BOY am I happy I did that.

After about 5 weeks she really started seeking out interactions with me. She would follow me around the pasture, reach out for a touch while I was working on various projects and even got protective if other horses came around. She was begging for attention. So today I decided to start working her back into a program.

We did everything at liberty in the round pen. Basic send and draw, yielding hind quarters, a good grooming session and picking up feet. My goal in the next week is to get her feet trimmed. My goal in the next month is to get her saddled 🤩

She has the best work ethic and her desire to be my partner surpasses any other horse I’ve worked with. I’m so excited for our summer together.

04/03/2024

It’s almost done 🤩 more pictures coming soon!!!

28/02/2024

I got to ride this handsome ginger yesterday 🤩 thanks Kathleen Bertuna for letting Harry teach me a thing or two! (Or 20🤷‍♀️)

23/02/2024

I’ve ghosted FB for a few weeks but am excited to start sharing more of my journey!

Today I took Big Rizzo out to the Rail Trail for his first “off site” trail ride. And I couldn’t be more proud of him!

Huge thanks to Maddi Karlovec for tagging along for solid emotional support and even better company! ❤️🐎

14/01/2024

My pictures finally came in- so for today I will reminisce that amazing journey.
Before we got Pull Rank AKA Curly I had only jumped 2 times and I knew nothing about OTTB’s or eventing. In 10 short, but very busy months, we were competing with 100 other eventers and a total of close to 400 OTTB’s of various disciplines. We came in 33rd place in our discipline, 2nd in the team challenge and I got an 81.5/95 on my SJ round. #2023 will always be one for the books in my journey as a horsewoman. Let’s see what we can get done in #2024

10/01/2024

You honestly don’t know your true strength until your in 8 inches of water, lifting 80 pound steel panels out of the mud, in the pouring down rain, all by yourself.

03/01/2024

What a great read! It’s can be hard to find the perfect balance and some days you don’t but other days you walk the line like a complete boss. But at the end of every day we all just want what’s best for our horse, to stay safe with our horse and to never stop learning about our horse!

A controversial topic, sure to unleash all sorts of opinions, is the difference between reward based training and pressure and release based training.

And whether it is possible, perhaps desirable, to use some sort of combination of both approaches.

So it is 1952 and I am 11, sitting on Saturday afternoon at the Garden Theater in Greenfield, Massachusetts, watching a Western. The outlaws are being chased by the posse. “Hold up, “yells the sheriff. Every cowboy leans back and takes a reef on the reins. Every horse’s head shoots up, mouths wide open from the pressure. And no one gave it much thought, not 60 years ago, because that was simply how it was done.

Fast forward to 2023. I posted a photo of one of the world’s most accomplished and most quietly classical riders asking her horse to stretch, and out came the attackers. “There is a wrinkle in the horse’s side from her leg pressure.” “ The horse is behind the vertical.” Yada, yada, yada, a litany of complaints from the peanut gallery.

So I would ask this simple question---“My horse is galloping along out in the open, and I want him to slow down. Do I throw him a peppermint? So that is one ridiculous scenario, But tearing his head off with some bit designed to stop a charging bull rhino would be equally bad horsemanship.

Isn’t the truth balanced somewhere between using sheer force and using reward? When my kids were little, I took them to King Brother’s Circus in Hanover, NH, and there was a guy there who was the handler of the elephants. Someone asked him about how he trained, and he said, “It depends on the animal. I use pressure and release with big cats, bears, most animals, but with dogs and seals, when they do it right I flip them a biscuit or a fish.”

And not only are there different schools of belief about training, there are huge degrees of pressure, from the old movie cowboy method to the soft and gentle repetition of walk, halt, walk, halt teaching a young horse to yield to mild pressure until the horse learns to associate what these mild pressures are requesting.

But later, if that young horse, now older, is out fox hunting in a group, and its blood is up, using, say, a Tom Thumb Pelham might be the difference between getting tanked off with and having control.

So what I think is pretty simple, and I may be convinced otherwise if I see a better way---Try as much as possible to create a conditioned response using gentle repetition and staying below the horse’s anxiety threshold in basic schooling, but when the horse gets strong with excitement and starts to take over, do what it takes to be safe.

The real riders, the ones who are more than theoretical experts sitting safely somewhere NOT on a galloping horse, will know that there is theory and there is reality. And they will be as soft as possible most of the time they train, but they will also not become passive victims when the horse starts to get too aggressive.