HIGH TAIL ACRES, LLC

03/23/2025

Team High Tail had a great morning at the UPHA-14 Winter Tournament @ Pineland hosted by Society Hill. So proud of all our riders, thankful for 2 of the best lesson horses, and excited for the 2025 show season! 💙🩵

03/13/2025

Queen’s Newport Storm “Stormy”
6/5/03-3/11/25

What words describe him best? Feisty, fresh, small but mighty…Stormy had that larger than life personality! He had such a mighty big heart and brought along some great riders. He was so darn cute that other horses could whip past him in the show ring but the judges always had a soft spot for this mighty little Morgan and his astute jockeys. My advice to most of his riders was to stay along the rail, not just because he was slow and marchy but because that’s where he behaved the best. When he was a leadline mount he had the best little trot for the kids. Always the appropriate speed and not lazy. And he would set up in the line up like he was in some big time in hand class showing off his rider to the best of his ability.
His biggest challenge came when Abi needed a mount for her last junior equitation year. She took over Stormy and started equitating him. He already had the ideal gaits especially a canter that any equitation rider would dream about, but patterns and being patient well that was another story. He was a bit spicy off the rail and thought he knew best when it came to executing certain patterns. We will never forget the class she qualified for the finals in at Summer Classic! It was out to Northampton and there were about 6 riders in the ring. Stormy broke his gait just about every chance he could. Abi did a great job trying to make the ride look seemingly easy. At the end of the railwork I figured, given the amount of corrections Abi had to make that they were not going to make the cut to do the pattern! But the judge worked them all! And wouldn’t you know it Stormy was finally all warmed up and they had a near perfect pattern! Low and behold they were called out the winners!!!From August to October Abi had him zeroed in on all of the elements (so she thought) by the time the New England Medal rolled around. She had flawless railwork on this show horse, turned lesson horse and now equitation mount! She came back in to do the pattern and although most elements they nailed the one that gave them the biggest issue was backing 3 steps in the center of the ring… she tried yet Stormy literally put his foot down and refused. She finished that finals in the top ten learning some hard lessons but I’ll tell you what…all her horses back very well now! Just a couple years after that Stormy earned himself a good retirement and spent his days torturing mostly Deana and well the rest of us too! He was always eager to go out but somehow thought the step out of the doorway was lava and could not always go through it! Once he did he would find the wettest part of the turnout to roll in ten times and then he wanted to be brought in quickly…except catching him and getting him back in sometimes took some effort. Abi would sometimes hop on him ba****ck early in his retirement and I was sure that that was going to be the day he dumped her but she somehow stuck to him like glue! Handwalks out in the field were just as challenging! He was always playful at feeding time wanting attention but always a little fresh with a playful grab at you or his signature move was he would strike at you with his right front as you closed his door. We will miss Stormy and all of his antics, but most of all we say Thank You to Stormy for all that he taught with his small stature and his mighty big heart.❤️💙
Written by: Darla Parro

03/11/2025

So excited to finally be able to end group lessons with a walk outside again!!! These ladies had a fun end to their awesome lesson tonight. 🤩☀️🌅

02/24/2025

2025 Prize List AVAILABLE 🏆

The official Prize List for the 2025 Devon Horse Show and Country Fair is now available online!

Join us May 21 - June 1, 2025 “Where Champions Meet” for THE 129th edition of Devon. Entries coming soon 💙

https://www.devonhorseshow.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/2025-Devon-Prize-List.pdf

02/24/2025

Morning Stall cleaner needed
Days needed: Monday - Thursday and one weekend morning.
Duties include mucking and rebedding 10-13 stalls, scrubbing, dumping and refilling waters, throwing down and stacking hay and cleaning up aisleway. www.hightailacres.com. Please PM for more information.

We are a training and riding lesson facility on the North Shore of Massachusetts. We specialize in the training and teaching of Saddle Seat riding and Driving.

02/22/2025

Looking for a show groom!! HIGH TAIL ACRES, LLC is hiring for UPHA-14 Spring Premiere Horse Show and the rest of show season. MUST have decent amount of horse experience, be dependable, motivated, conscientious, drug free, able to lift 50lbs. If you are a good fit and you are interested, we would hire you for the entire season. Please PM me with any questions that you might have. Thank you!!
Our show schedule is on our website

We are a training and riding lesson facility on the North Shore of Massachusetts. We specialize in the training and teaching of Saddle Seat riding and Driving.

02/18/2025

🐴 𝙋𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩, 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧! 🐴💙

Horses thrive when 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 come together, and this testimonial is proof! 💙 Helping horses move, feel, and perform at their best. 💪✨

From identifying subtle imbalances to using red light therapy and adjusting training methods, this team is 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩. The dedication and expertise make a 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚—and we’re all better because of it! 🙌

Thank you Abigail! 🥰 The pleasure is ours to be a part of your program and the impact you have on so many horses! 🐎 💫

02/14/2025

We hope you are feeling the love 💕 on this Valentine’s 💘 Day!

01/12/2025

This pony is ready for his next teammate!

01/11/2025

Thank you to Kim and Nina for the wonderful flower arrangements, prosecco and cupcakes. Greatly appreciated! We wish we could have been in NOLA to accept our UPHA-14 award, but this was great to walk in to this afternoon and have a great day of show horse lessons!!

01/05/2025

12/20/2024

The foundation to HTA, Skip Deltorchio, receives a Holiday message 🎄from his delivery driver 🎄💙🩵

12/20/2024

Congratulations to "The sisters of HIGH TAIL ACRES, LLC " for being named the 2024 UPHA Chapter 14 Horse Persons of The Year!