Open Water Farms Horse Kindergarten and Training

03/14/2024

In Barn Lease of the very best gentle giant available in Petaluma!

Gentle Giant Best Boi Available for In-Barn Lease!
18.2 hand hunk of love is looking for a partner that wants to do jump 3’ and below. Barn Favorite with nice natural rhythm excels in all three rings and also does dressage! Loves to trail ride and hack out. Four white socks and very flashy! Horsemanship centered program focuses on clear communication between horse and rider. Must be in full training. Petaluma, CA. If this sounds like it’s just what you’re looking for or you want to know more, text (nine2five) three3zero-four6zerotwo.

03/14/2024

Gentle Giant Best Boi Available for In-Barn Lease!
18.2 hand hunk of love is looking for a partner that wants to do jump 3’ and below. Barn Favorite with nice natural rhythm excels in all three rings and also does dressage! Loves to trail ride and hack out. Four white socks and very flashy! Horsemanship centered program focuses on clear communication between horse and rider. Must be in full training. Petaluma, CA. If this sounds like it’s just what you’re looking for or you want to know more, text (nine2five) three3zero-four6zerotwo.

11/05/2023

So excited for you both to have a saddle that feels good!

Hawkwood Hill Farms with the amazing Open Water Farms Horse Kindergarten and Training lovely Shawna & Lucia are all🦄smiles😋in their new Kontrol by Albion Saddlemakers Co. Ltd

10/17/2023

Happy Graduation Bravo!
What did Bravo learn at Kindergarten?!

✅ Comes happily to get caught out of the pasture
✅Leads like a pro
✅ Gives to pressure
✅ Stands Tied
✅Enjoys standing to get groomed and saddled
✅Picks up all four feet
✅Puts head down to Bridle
✅Stands for bathing
✅Ground Drives
✅Long Lines
✅Yields front end/hind end
✅ Backed!

Excited for what is next for you, buddy! Cheers to a long and successful career for you!🥂

02/03/2022

Those of you who know me, know that I place a high value on setting young horses up for success. This is a shout-out to River City Equestrian Events for a really well-executed schooling show! The little details like inviting courses in the smaller divisions are some of the things that help us set up our young horses for success in the rest of their careers. Nancy Gannon, Lauren Wasserman and Emma Hainze— thank you for this great show experience! THIS is how we develop young horses affordably in the US!

01/31/2022

Thank you to Ellen Eckstein, master of young horse development, for hosting Open Water Farms Horse Kindergarten and Training at your beautiful farm for a weekend of dressage lessons, life lessons, horsemanship and stories about Tom Dorrance. You are truly a gift to our sport. Thank you for the big movements and soft feels 🧡 So grateful for your patience and coaching. All the horses feel so good after riding with you!

08/23/2021

This is a great way to look at it…

"You've got to be fair to the horse, but it has to be a mutual respect. And sometimes people they'll be like, 'Well I love him, and he's my friend. I write poems about him and stuff. I just don't want to.... oh, gosh.... I just don't want to....'

You don't want to what? Do your job?

Horses that are disrespectful are not happy horses. You're not giving them a good life. It's a hateful, violent life. So by not stepping up and doing your job, you are being cruel. Because somewhere along the line, if he's ever going to be worth a damn for anything, someone is going to have to line him out, and then put him through 9 kinds of hell to get to where you change the behavior pattern he's been living his whole life. Well that's not very fair either. So you're better off to just have him behave."

~Buck Brannaman