Evergreen Stables

12/10/2023

😊🎄❤️ Beautiful Sunrise at Evergreen this am❤️😊🐴🎄

10/30/2023

🎉 Horse friends looking for a worthwhile project to bring along this winter and start in the baby greens this spring/ summer check out #110!! Professionally and correctly started!…… our focus is on kids/ ponies so we need to make room for ponies coming in!

Victoria R is a 15.3H. dark bay, 3yr. Oldenburg filly. By the sensational stallion, Vallado. Vallado proved to be successful in both the hunter and jumper rings, qualifying for the 6yr. young jumper championships and later, showing under the name Praise (by Kelly Farmer) won numerous accolades and t...

10/30/2023

🎉Horse Friends….. for anyone looking for a worthwhile project for the winter, and ready to start in the baby greens this Spring/ summer, please check out hip # 109!.. This filly has been professionally and correctly started!…… our focus is on ponies/ kids so we need to move a couple of our youngsters to make room for ponies!

Phraulein is a 16.1H 3yr. KWPN filly (registration ) She is by the incredible hunter stallion, Cosmeo who has earned numerous tricolors and top placings at the country's most prestigious shows in the high performance hunters and derbies. Her dam, Duplicated, is by Crown Affair, one of the....

10/02/2023

❤️🐴 Autumn In NY….. wow…. a marathon of a horse show but we’ll worth the long days!….Highlights include: Champion Low Hunters, Champion Children’s Hunters (14& under), Champion Low Pony Hunters, 1st M&S Bit O Straw Classic, 1st NAL Childrens Hunter Classic, 1st M&S Childrens Medal (2’6), 2nd M&S Childrens Medal (3’)…. and numerous placings / great rides from all of our kids…. We are so so so proud of all of them and thankful for super supportive parents❤️❤️

09/23/2023

❤️🐴 Saturday mornings!!❤️🐴

08/14/2023

Fall 2023 Pony Camp to start September 23, 2023

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Evergreen Stables Presents..... Pony Camp Workshops Evergreen Stables provides an equestrian program where students can improve their horseback riding skills, expand their horsemanship knowledge and have fun with friends! Ages: 4yr - 12yr Saturdays from 9am - 11AM COST: $50 per session For

07/24/2023

🎉🐴❤️ It was a good week to have a great week!!❤️🎉🐴

07/14/2023

It’s National Farriers Week and we would like to salute our farrier, Jim Holmes! Evergreen Stables has been producing successful students and horses since 1995. Jim has been our farrier for the past 25 years and played an integral role in our horses success and soundness. His attention to detail and his unwavering solicitude to do what is best for the horse have been instrumental in maintaining our horses soundness, success and happiness. Over the years we have acquired ( taken a chance) on several horses that had soundness issues/ needed rehabbing/ etc etc., through the teamwork of great vets and Jim’s dexterity, these horses have gone on to live productive, successful careers with students that might not otherwise be able to afford these types of upper echelon show horses. Those of us that know him well, know he doesn’t have a huge tolerance for those lacking in common practical horse sense, fads, or putting a ribbon value before the interest of the horse!…They say it takes a village!!…For the sake of our horses and their soundness and success, We are happy to have Jim Holmes in our village🐴❤️🐴❤️

04/19/2023

❤️” Archie” if there ever was a real life Thelwell pony, you were it❤️ You were lovingly persnickety and kept us all on our toes and humble with your amazing shenanigans❤️ I will miss your sense of humor, wit and patience…..you pulled at my heartstrings from the time you were a yearling and you will always have a special place there….enjoy those “ greener pastures” you have certainly earned it….. love you little man❤️ ( 3rd overall small green pony USEF Pony finals, USEF 2nd small green pony hunter, USEF HOTY small pony champion, numerous tricolors from NY to Florida to California and everywhere in between)❤️❤️❤️

12/10/2022

🎄❤️🎄The stockings were made by the “Littles” with care, in hopes there would be carrots, apples and peppermints to spare! 🎄The ponies were all tucked in for the night, waiting for St. Nick to begin his flight!! 🎄He will be whistling, shouting and calling them by name: Now Poncho! Now Eddie!Now Splash! Now Gracie! On Pixie! On Potus! On Bailey! On Bruno!….. to the top of the barn, on top of the roof! 🎄We can almost hear the beat of Stetson’s little hoof!! 🎄Then in a twinkle he will fly out of sight….. wishing all a holiday season that is merry and bright🎄❤️

12/02/2022

Sometimes it's not ulcers.

Sometimes it's not kissing spine.

Sometimes it's not EPM.

Sometimes it's not the bit.

Sometimes it's not the saddle.

Sometimes it's not the trainer.

Sometimes it's the fact you're a crazy human who continues to anthropomorphise these behaviours and insist that it couldn’t possibly be a pain related issue or anything related to you.

Sometimes it’s the fact that your horse was designed for the purpose of moving 20+ kilometres per day with their head down grazing and is now confined to a box stall and fed up on high energy grain whilst going without hay for hours each day, creating a sore tummy and a greater likelihood of having ulcers as a domestic horse than not in addition to being chronically understimulated and largely unable to exercise unless they have a human on their back playing puppeteer.

Sometimes it's the fact that you dress your horse in a variety of equipment with the purpose of restricting the movement of their mouth (flash) or creating more leverage for you to be able to ride and direct them easier by using a number of different harsher bits or gadgets like draw reins. This effectively removes any ability for quiet communication, so when your horse can’t take it anymore, they must get louder.

Sometimes it’s the fact that way too many unqualified trainers play saddle fitter and tell students their tack fits when it actually does not.

Sometimes it's the fact that your horse absolutely adores running away from you because it is one of the few things that brings them relief from the otherwise high pressure, high stress lifestyle that can be rides, especially when their communication of stress and/or discomfort is being labelled as personality and otherwise viewed through an anthropomorphic lens.

Sometimes it's the fact that you think your horse will wait for you while you mount or dismount but your horse is chronically stressed and cannot fathom the idea of standing still for a couple of seconds while they’re in fight or flight mode so they instead use the opportunity for relief by moving.

Sometimes it's the fact that the majority of the stress and avoidance behaviours we see ARE correlated with mental and/or physical discomfort and have shown consistent correlation in extensive equine behaviours studies.

Sometimes it’s the fact that we have a 70-90% rate of stomach ulceration in domesticated horses so your horse is more likely to have them than not.

Sometimes, the issue is that we as humans are really great at denying anything that would push us to self reflect and see the gravity of what is an industry wide issue of ignoring the horse and then when they finally get loud so we have to notice, blaming their loud behaviours once again on them.

Horses do not lie, their behaviour is honest. Humans, on the other hand, DO lie. Especially to themselves. To protect from having to sit information that is hard to hear.

It’s taking the easy way out to anthropomorphise your horse. But, I can promise you that if you actually put the time, money and belief into diagnostic work, you will have a very good chance of finding out what physical issue is causing their behaviour. Many who claim it can’t be pain related just don’t actually put the work in to find out because the real truth is often expensive and could be painful. For years, I avoided the truth for the same reason, all without knowing that was why.

If you learn to look for the reason behind their unwanted behaviour instead of just looking at the behaviour at face value, you also may find what situations, equipment and other factors contribute to it.

If you consider ruling out pain first and honestly looking at your horse’s living situation from a welfare standpoint, you may just realize how often pain and inadequate management cause behavioural issues, because these factors are behind the vast majority of issues we run into with horses.

After all, I thought it was “never the horse’s fault” or are we just saying that to sound good?

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12/02/2022

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So... happy black Friday!

11/28/2022

11/15/2022

❤️Where the fun stuff happens!❤️

08/24/2022

New for Fall 🍁 of 2022

09/10/2021

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Throwing it way back!!!.....Keely O'Hara ( 6yrs old)....Champion in the SS division at HITS Ocala!!

01/08/2021

"Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it"!!❤