Wild Wind Stables, LLC

08/19/2024

Summer is for horses and friends 🧡

01/22/2024

01/22/2024

Congratulations to this great group of riders on their SNEHA show series year end awards!

12/17/2023

We had 68 tests performed at our Dressage schooling show with Horseshoe Hill! It was a fun day with great weather!

10/22/2023

Some wonderful candid photos by from the last show of the year

04/13/2023

Nice week to spend time outside with horses 💕

04/05/2023

Hairball Challenge 2023

01/24/2023

‘Let your child have a bad ride.
I know you want to protect them from the hardships of this world.
I know you want to give them success and good experiences.
I know you don't want to see them get hurt. To see them fall. To see them fail.
But, hear me out, let your child have a bad ride.
Let them cry the tears of frustration.
Let them shake the sand out from the inside of their riding pants.
Let them face the fear building inside of them.
Let them step back on again.
Yes, let your child have a bad ride.
Let them hate the horse that challenges them.
Let them learn what fight and passion and ambition mean.
Let them realize that when they refuse to quit the horse will take the time to listen.
Grant them the joy of realizing that they are connecting with another living being.
Grant them the joy of realizing that they, although they are small, can be powerful.
Grant them the joy of seeing their hard work pay off, through the days of tears can come a love unspeakable.
Yes, let your child have a bad ride.
Afterall, life will grant us plenty of them.’

By Sarah Crouse

12/01/2022

Wild Wind Stables is thrilled to welcome Holly & Scooter to the farm. They will help begin a series of exciting new "Wild at Heart" programs at the farm!

09/08/2022

Everytime a young rider asks me,
"how long can I ride for?"
Referring to an age or length of time in their life.
I always tell them, you can ride forever. There's no age that says you have to stop.
At this point, they usually tell me they can't ride when they are old and I always tell them, sure you can!! The Queen of England still rides and she is over ninety years old!!
I will still reference the Queen, even after her passing, because the truth is... she will ride forever ♥️

Today, we mourn an equestrian. A woman who just simply loved horses, and was visibly delighted to be in their presence. Who had the world at her fingertips, and chose to find joy on the back of a horse. Who started riding at the age of 3, and continued riding for her entire 96-year long life. Who contributed more to equestrian sport than we could even contain in one post. She was known for having near "encyclopedic" knowledge of horse racing, especially English-bred Thoroughbred racehorses. Today, we mourn the greatest queen, Queen Elizabeth II.

A little-known fact is that she actually used to open Royal Ascot by galloping the track herself (pictured below).

As stated by Vanity Fair, "The Ascot officials were probably horrified from a safety perspective, but it’s the Queen’s course, so she can do what she wants."

We'll never forget Lilibet. 💜

07/21/2022

Join us this Saturday, July 23rd from 11am - 3pm at your local Dover Saddlery to decorate a free saddle pad! Enjoy light refreshments plus, all attendees will receive a $10 Dover Saddlery Gift Card! The perfect opportunity to design a unique saddle pad with your own personal style.

Get Directions: https://bit.ly/3RNlFKO

04/26/2022

Two weeks of spring break camp fun!

01/17/2022

"Let your child have a bad ride.

I know you want to protect them from the hardships of this world.

I know you want to give them success and good experiences.

I know you don't want to see them get hurt. To see them fall. To see them fail.

But, hear me out, let your child have a bad ride.

Let them cry the tears of frustration.

Let them shake the sand out from the inside of their riding pants.

Let them face the fear building inside of them.

Let them step back on again.

Yes, let your child have a bad ride.

Let them hate the horse that challenges them.

Let them learn what fight and passion and ambition mean.

Let them realize that when they refuse to quit the horse will take the time to listen.

Grant them the joy of realizing that they are connecting with another living being.

Grant them the joy of realizing that they, although they are small, can be powerful.

Grant them the joy of seeing their hard work pay off, through the days of tears can come a love unspeakable.

Yes, let your child have a bad ride.

Afterall, life will grant us plenty of them."

By Sarah Crouse

12/23/2021

Somewhere in the world, the 2028 Olympic champion is a foal out in a field. He’s ewe-necked, sickle-hocked, downhill and shaggy, with a club foot and a chunk of mane missing, because his buddy chewed it off.

Somewhere in the world, there’s a young horse that everyone says is too short to make it big. In three years, he’ll be jumping the standards, but right now he’s fat and short and no one is paying him any mind.

Somewhere in the world there’s a 7-year-old who can’t turn right, and a 10-year-old who has not shown the ability to put more than two one-tempis together without losing it, and a 14-year-old who hasn’t yet reached his peak, and all of them will be at the next Olympic Games.

Somewhere else in the world, there’s a rider who is thinking of packing it in. Maybe the bills are getting out of control, or she’s killing herself to get enough help in her own riding development because she’s having to spend all her time riding and teaching to make ends meet and change needs to happen, and she’s wondering if it’s worth it. She’s thinking it’s time to just give up and be a local trainer, to shelve her dreams of international competition. And then she’s going to shake off the doubt, double down, and make a team in the next 15 years.

Somewhere in the world, one of the next great team riders is 9 years old and couldn’t tell if she was on the right posting diagonal if her life depended on it.

Somewhere in the world there’s a future team rider who just got told that she’ll never make it because she’s too chubby, because she’s too short, because she’s too late.

There are horses who will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars that will never amount to anything, and there are horses who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to be never seen or heard from again, and there are horses who will fly under the radar until suddenly they’re setting the world on fire.

There are riders who will win Junior and Young Rider competitions only to quit riding completely, riders who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to get stuck in their comfort zones and never come to fruition, and there are riders who will make their first Olympic team at 50, at 55, at even older than that.

And yes, there are the horses that will be brilliant from day one, and there are the riders for whom success both comes early and stays late. But more often than not, history has shown that the unlikely story, the horse who was passed over in favor of his more expensive stablemate, the rider who no one saw coming, is the more likely path to greatness.

Credit and written by Lauren Sprieser at Chronicle Of The Horse

11/25/2021

If you give a kid a pony, they will need a saddle to go with it...

You’ll buy them the best saddle you can afford and then they will probably want a bridle and a saddle pad and some boots too…

Then they will probably spend hours begging you to go to the barn even though there are other things that you need to do. They will insist and their insistence will win.

And when they get their first show shirt, they’ll need a belt and spurs and a hat… And a TEAM, a Barn Family… And then, life as you know it is over.

No more lazy weekends or holidays for you, my friend. You will see more sunrises than you ever thought possible. Every spare minute will be spent hauling kids and dogs and boots and tack all over tarnation for hours to practice for their sport. The sport that will drive their very passion.

And your house will be a mess. And your car will be dirty. All because you gave a kid a pony…

Your weekends will be spent freezing to death or burning up as you hang out in the barn or arena. And their weekends will be spent gaining confidence and friends and learning new skills that will stick with them for the rest of their lives. They’ll be having fun and getting dirty… So dirty that you will be doing laundry in a whole new way - possibly at times involving a pressure washer.

And you’ll be there the day they learn to lope, the day they win their first ribbon, win their first class, get their first Circuit Championship… And you will be SO proud. The other parents will Congratulate you… But you know, it’s the hardwork and determination that they have invested into this pony that deserves the congratulations. As a team, they have done this…

And right before your eyes, your little one will be transformed from a small fry who be bopped along on that little pony with their little bum bouncing out of the saddle into a little horseman. And you will be proud… So proud.

When you give a kid a pony, you give them more than just a four legged furry friend. You give them a sport, a talent, hopes, dreams, and friends - friends who become family, a place to learn about life, room to grow as a person where they can push themselves to their very limits, and bravery, and courage, and memories… Oh the memories that will last a lifetime. And a LIFE. They will have ALL THESE THINGS simply because you gave a kid a pony…

Because you gave a kid a pony, you too will develop new lifelong friendships, developed solely from the same passion for the sport and the love of your barn family and team. You will root together. And cry together. And laugh together. All because you gave a kid a pony…

Then one day - years from now… They will be in their room and a picture of that pony will catch their eye. When they look at it they at it they will know instantly that when you gave that kid a pony you gave them a childhood that they will never forget. They will realize that everything YOU gave up along the way… was worth it.

All because you gave a kid a pony…

~ Anna Ingram Knowles

11/14/2021

At first, horse riding is just like any other skill you want to learn. You put effort in and eventually become more effective as time goes on. At some point, things begin to change.

09/15/2021

A little late for the announcement but Welcome to the lesson horse herd, Toby. We are so excited to have this kind gentleman join us! He's loved already!

09/11/2021

Anheuser Busch just updated the ad to mark two decades since the attacks

09/01/2021

Posted Sunday... same day we woke up to not a single swallow on the farm!

UPDATE: RiverQuest said it IS tree swallows! Pretty cool!
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Hmmmm....I'm thinking the radar is picking up on the swallows this morning.

Any bird experts in the house??

WTNH News 8

08/05/2021

My little champion 🐎🥇

One proud daddy as my baby learns discipline, respect, focus and hard work…with a smile.

And a big thank you to all the amazing riders who are teaching Jazzy the ropes of the sport - you girls are amazing!



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07/27/2021

    Tokyo—July 27 At the end of her test, instead of an ebullient fist pump or celebratory slap of Sanceo’s neck, Sabine Schut-Kery quietly patted her horse, then walked out of the ring wiping her eyes as her teammates cheered ...

07/27/2021

CLUTCH 💪 SPeters Dressage and Suppenkasper pull out a personal best in the Grand Prix Special to momentarily put to the top of the leaderboard at the !

07/25/2021

06/29/2021

05/24/2021

Aerial shot of the lesson barn!

03/10/2021

Illustration by Sandy Rabinowitz

03/08/2021

Horses bringing families closer together even during these tough times ❤️

02/27/2021