Oldfield Equestrian Center

11/11/2024

11/04/2024

Another great show at with the ladies! Doing well in a great set of competitive riders. With consistent scores in the 60%. So proud of these ladies for their hard work.

10/27/2024

The quiet moments.

10/25/2024

10/01/2024

Looking for a part time person to join the team, duties include daily care of horses, set schedule, programming, shows, and lower level instructor to the right person. Pay starts at $16.50/hr with the possiblity to go full time. Must have slid drivers license, a team player, and be able to work in all weather conditions. Please PM or apply below.

09/22/2024

What a great show yesterday with CEDA! Great rides, with a lot of new levels for the oldfield show team and great scores in the 60’s. I’m so proud of them all and big congratulations to all the riders, volunteers, and support from the local community. It truly does take a village.

09/21/2024

A happy day with lots of great people and smiles! We were happy to have Coastal Empire Dressage Association back!

09/13/2024

Looking for the right individual to join the team here at Oldfield for a part time position. Three days a week on a set schedule ( about 30 hours a week) There is a lot of room for growth with clinics, shows, and to the right person instruction for our lesson program with commission.

Valid driver's license, be able to work outside in all conditions, positive attitude and team player. Pay starting at $16+/hr.

Please email [email protected] with a resume.

09/03/2024

“Daddies Pennies” We have a rare opportunity for an onsite half lease for a safe, sane OTTB mare, 15.2hh. Currently schooling through 2’6”, training level dressage and cross country experience through beginner novice. this sweet girl is not complicated, not marish at all! Looking for an intermediate rider to continue her training while her owner is currently pregnant. This lease has the potential to be extended. This lease includes 1 lesson per week in her current program at Oldfield Equestrian Center in Okatie SC, as well as also opportunities to show.
Please PM for more details.

08/20/2024

Pictures do not even come close to the true beauty, peace, and fun time 27 members and guests from Oldfield Club had at Shoshone Lodge. Sitting on the boundary of Yellowstone, we ate like kings, rode through unbelievably wild and untouched mountains, rivers and forests, trips to the beautiful Yellowstone National Park, rafting down crystal clear mountain water, campfires, dancing and the Cody Nite Rodeo left an everlasting experience for everyone. The cabins nestled in the mountain were the perfect way to sit on the front porch and watch the sunset settle in the pines. I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect retreat! We are already booking for August of 2025!!! Please PM for more details!

07/25/2024

What a fun night with and a custom hat burning workshop! These hats turned out beautiful!

07/10/2024

As much as this breaks my heart to post this, after six years we are beginning the hunt for a new Assistant Manager for Oldfield Equestrian Center.
The Ideal candidate would be responsible for all aspects of daily care of horses and maintaining the stable premises. General assistance to the Equestrian Director, office and administrative duties as needed, light veterinary work, programming from clinics, shows, summer camps, off site-and on-site excursions, handling a variety of horses in a daily matter in all weather conditions, managing equestrian retail store, able to instruct lower-level English style lessons.

This is a salary position with a set schedule of Sunday-Wednesday ( yes this position has 3 days off per week), full package benefits, PTO and lots of options to learn all aspects of the equine industry. Must have a valid US driver's license, mandatory minimum of 5 years working in a professional equine facility with management experience , great people skills, extreme attention to detail, and a positive attitude.

Please send resume with references to [email protected]

07/25/2022

06/23/2022

A “Serious” Rider can be so without competing. There are plenty of highly skilled riders who take lessons, study, hone their craft, but do not feel the need to have to prove it by competing.

In horse sports there is plenty of pressure applied to persuade people to compete.

All the big organizations are competition based, and they derive their incomes and their power from regulating competition. So THEY push.

All the horse magazines push, because they have a vested interest in stirring up interest in who did what, who beat whom.

The equipment and apparel companies push riders and drivers to have the latest and most “in” styles.

Some parents push kids, to acquire reflected glory.

Many riders and drivers self-push to have their own sense of glory.

What happens, so often, as a result of this consistent pressure, is that a Kool-Aid mentality is created that winning is what counts and that the higher the level of the win, the more glory is attached, and that the most worthy riders and drivers, under that presumption, are “better” than all the “lesser” non-winners.

Now here’s the deal---You may or may not be persuaded to imbibe that Kool-Aid those others are trying to get you to drink. You can also say “$ #@&* you” and go do your own thing, and you can do that at any level that you choose, including being highly competent without needing to compete to somehow prove it to others.

And, in reality, those others are so busy trying to prove THEIR worth to other others that they don’t notice or care what you are doing---It is pretty weird!! When you really look at it.

05/05/2022

We owe a responsibility to these animals that put their well-being first and foremost. Thank you mouse for everything you taught your riders. Thank you Shadowfax Farm II, LLC for taking such amazing care of these animals who can live as a horse should!!

Not just any horse wants to live with a special group of donkeys, but those that decide it’s ok reap the rewards in great pasture and loads of entertainment.
Welcome to Beamer and Mouse, and thank you to my boy Scooter for showing them the long ears are special friends too!

04/29/2022

So this was just a normal kid jumping in California, in 1972. By "normal," I am talking about the way hunt seat equitation was "normally" taught back in those days, heavily influenced, I supect, by Bert DeNemethy's USET riders.

Her entire position demonstrates security, balance, lightness and harmony. Her heels are down, her eyes and chin are up, her lower leg is beneath her, her hip and knee angles are closed, and her hands and arms are allowing.

Clean, clear, precise and simple.

Unless you can't do it. Unless you hurl your upper body, throw your hands up the neck, look down, plant your face in the mane, let your legs swing back toward the horse's hips, and barf your way from fence to fence.

When did it go from this to what is now such a common "look" for so many American jumping riders?

And what will it take to regain this style, so that it is normal, rather than exceptional?