Stars 'N Stripes Eventing

07/11/2024

We've gotten some awesome new jumps lately, thank you Alejandro Lara!!

03/14/2024

Five star mount Cooley One Too Many came for some training with Christy Zweig Niehues of Always August Farm for the next couple weeks.

02/23/2024

Dorothy Crowell came by to teach a lesson the other day 😁

02/01/2024

My favorite Arkansas people, Always August Farm, have arrived safe and sound. Everyone is settled in and enjoying the weather. So happy to have you guys back!!

09/26/2023

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09/26/2023

06/25/2023

Always adopt!!

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06/25/2023

Welcome to the horse world 😆
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06/25/2023

Yes❤

06/25/2023

Pure serenity at Stars 'N Stripes Eventing

12/13/2022

If it scares you and sets your senses to tingling, that's a good sign that you should go for it! Don't settle for mediocre.

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12/13/2022

Hahaha TRUE 😂
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12/13/2022

Galloping Thoroughbreds that were bred and looked like this one used to be custom made for long format three day eventing, when speed and stamina were two qualities highly prized, and tested for.

Today you can examine the pedigrees of the top ten in most of the five star short format "three day" events and you will be hard pressed to find a single full Thoroughbred.

From a Thoroughbred sport to a far more technical and dangerous warmblood sport in less than 20 years, thanks to the short sightedness of the FEI who pressed for the changes.

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12/03/2022

This! So 😢

There’s a saying that goes something like this---“The way for bad to prevail is for good people to say nothing.” Or something along those lines.

There are some horse sports which by their very requirements injure horses. Not all horses, but too many for the excuse, “It was just an accident” to hold any validity. When the same sorts of accidents happen again and again, year in and year out, they are no longer accidents. They are a price of doing business.

There are riders in those sports who could, if they were willing to stand up for their horses, make a difference. After some fatality, or after several fatalities in some short period, the top riders could get involved in trying to change the basic requirements which led to the destruction.

But they don’t. They tend to huddle down and wait for the hub-bub to quiet down so they can get back to business as usual. They know they have a problem, but they are too “whatever” to rock the boat. Whether too scared of being thought chicken, too scared of taking a stand, too scared of losing sponsors, too scared of something---Or maybe they just don’t care.

But whatever the reasons, those who could force true change remain silent, just as the saying suggests.

And they know who they are, but will not get involved.

12/03/2022

🐴 VILLAGE GOSSIP 🐴

"I couldn't ride one side of him. You couldn't regulate him at all; everything was on his own terms. If you tried to collect him, to jump a coffin or something, he just stopped. I remember being in tears hacking at home, thinking 'I've just been bought this wonderful horse and I can't find the brilliance that was there for all to see last year at Burghley with Katie O'Hara."

"I decided that if he wanted to go fast, I'd let him. We won our next event. In that moment I had learnt how to ride him - you had to let him go flat out into everything. He'd go storming into fences, shorten himself up and ping over."

"I learnt to be 'actively passive'. You didn't just sit there and close your eyes; you used your body in the best way to balance him. You were ready for anything, but you could do nothing. It was a huge lesson because I'd always thought you had to do something."

12/03/2022

😍 facts.
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10/24/2022

Welcome to the horse shows 😂
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10/24/2022

😅😅😂😂 but, really...
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08/15/2022

Check out our updated website!!

Our 40 Acre Ocala facility, at the epicenter of the biggest show grounds in the USA, has every amenity for your performance, training & conditioning needs

06/30/2022

Finished ring

06/10/2022

We are looking for full time barn help. Can provide housing, stall, lessons and small salary.

04/28/2022

Be the change!!

You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society that you grew up in.

Let that sink in for a moment.

YOU, alone, are responsible for becoming more ethical than the very environment you grew up in, in all areas of your life.
Kindness breeds kindness, ethical actions and treatment of our horses breeds the same as well.

That means taking the time to learn more about the sport you love, and the various facets of equine care that mean the difference between a happy, comfortable life or one of pain, learned helplessness and misery.

We live in an age where the information of the world is at your fingertips, and while nonsensical BS floats around in the mix, critical thinking is really all you need to help w**d through the misinformation. Ask the RIGHT questions of anything you read.

Who does this benefit - financially or otherwise?
Does this make logical sense?
Who funded the research?

Also asking yourself not what you can do to immediately "fix" a behavior, but why that behavior is present to begin with.
Why does your horse shy away?
Why does he "like" or "dislike" a certain direction?
Why does the horse NEED a flash?
Why does the horse NEED to be ridden in spurs?
Why do you need to lunge your horse for 20 min before you get on?
Why do you feel you need to "teach the horse who is boss"?

Once you start taking an active role in the wellbeing of your horse, and really being present you will start to have actual 2-way communication and a true partnership.

Ethical doesn't mean having the reins hang loose and never nudging your horse forward, it means LISTENING.

Listen.
Understand.
Communicate.

That is ethical riding, training, saddle fitting, and more.

04/20/2022

These two were hanging out in the barn this evening

04/18/2022

New cross country and dressage pics!

12/25/2021

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone from Stars N Stripes Eventing