Level Green Riding School

04/07/2025

Hello Level Green lessoners! Today is Monday April 7th and all lessons are cancelled due to the rain. Hopefully lessons will back on track tomorrow. We hope you stay warm and dry!

04/05/2025

Level Green wrapped up the IEA season with some fantastic results at Zones in Lexington last month!

Team Results
High School- 3rd 🥉
Middle School- 4th 🤍

💙 Ribbon Winners
🥇 Arden Paisley- Team Future Intermediate O/F
🥇 Sofia Ruffin- Team Novice O/F
🥇 Byrdie Paisley- Team Open O/F

Individual Results
Arden Paisley won her Individual Future Intermediate Flat to qualify her for Nationals! 🏆🩵

Special recognition to Ann Lilly Kim who had the highest score for middle school in the horsemanship challenge! 🥇🩵

The following riders also represented Level Green for both team and individual classes, achieving some excellent results and rides!

Maddie D’Amato- 🥈for team
Clara Mannell - 7th in team and individual
Ryon Sinclair, Mary Young, Clemmie Mannell, Henley Mayfield, Kaitlyn Rennie, Ann Lilly Kim, and Avery Lessner 🙌

Last but not least, our own Level Green unicorns were amazing for all of their riders. Many people advanced on to Nationals or had blue ribbon rides on:

🌟CIO- IEA Horse of the Day on Saturday!
🌟Jewel
🌟Savoy
🌟Gracie
🌟Jupiter
🌟Twix
🌟Swagger

Congratulations to all on another successful and fun year in IEA!!

04/02/2025

Entries are still open for Calais Horse Trials! Get them in on Thursday if you haven't already entered.

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03/31/2025

The final show in the winter series at the Barracks ended our indoor season on a high note!🍀🍀

🌟All Star and Robert Caputo were Champion in the Green Ponies 💙❤️💛, 🥇in the USEF Pony Medal, and 🥇 in the VHSA Pony Eq on the Flat
🏰Casalletto and Byrdie Paisley were Reserve Champion in the 3’3” Jr/AO’s ❤️💛🤍, 🥇 in the Jr/AO Classic, and 🥇 in the NHS Medal
🪩 Divergent and Mary Young were🥈in the VHSA Children’s Medal and🥉in the Children’s Hunters
⚓️ First Mate and Rosalie Morton were Reserve Champion in the 2’9” Special Hunters ❤️💛🤍 and Reserve Champion in their 3’ debut in the Adult Amateurs 👏
👑 Imperio and Arden Paisley were Champion in the Low Children’s 💙❤️💛 and🥇 in the Gittings
🕯️Jack Be Nimble and Charlotte Nelson were Champion in the Large Children’s Ponies 💙❤️💛 and🥈 in the VHSA Children’s Pony Medal
🪄 Neville and Ryon Sinclair were 🥈 in the Child/Adult Classic and 🥉in the Children’s Hunters
📖 Quietly Thinking and Avery Lessner were Reserve Champion in the Low Children’s ❤️💛🤍 and🥈in the Low Child/Adult Classic; Fiona rode Diva to Champion in the 2’6 Special Hunters 💙❤️💛
⛅️ Silver Lining and Madelyn D’Amato were🥉in the Large Children’s Ponies and🥉in the VHSA Children’s Pony Medal
🐼 Solaguayre Cafoo and Ann-Lilly Kim were Reserve Champion in the Children’s Hunter ❤️💛🤍 and 🥇in the VHSA Eq on the Flat
🎤State of Grace and Zoe Basmajian were🥇in the Large Children’s Pony Flat and🥈in the VHSA Pony Eq on the Flat
🦄Swagger and Gillian Sandhu were 🥈🥉in the Low Children’s Hunters and🥉in the Low Child/Adult Classic. Fiona rode Swagger to Reserve Champion in the 2’6” Special Hunters ❤️💛🤍
🫣Woodlands Take a Peek and Locklyn Willwerth were🥈🥉in the Large Children’s Ponies. Thank you Locklyn for the rides!

03/16/2025

Good morning! Today is Sunday March 16th. All lessons that start after 12:00 are cancelled for the day due to the upcoming storms. We hope you all enjoy your day and stay dry!

03/13/2025

Level Green rang in March at the🌷Spring Welcome🌷with much success!

🌟All Star and Robert Caputo were Champion in the Green ponies 💙❤️💛,🥇VHSA Pony EQ on the flat,🥇WIHS Pony Eq, and🥇M&S USEF Pony Medal
🦁 Ballon and Caelan DiCosmo were 5th in the THIS Medal
🏰 Casalletto and Byrdie Paisley were🥉in the 3’3 Juniors
🐆Coughar and Meadow Miller were🥉in the Low Children’s
🐧 CSS Old Fitzgerald and Finley Boyd were🥈in the THIS Medal and🥉🥉in the Gittings and Oak Ridge Medals
🐻Floris Van De Voshevul and Robert Caputo were🥈🥈in the Gittings and Oak Ridge Medals, and🥉in the NHS Hamel
👑 Imperio and Arden Paisley were Champion 💙❤️💛 in the Low Children’s and 4th in the Gittings Medal
🎩 Leading Man and Sheryl Hines were🥈🥈in the Special Adult Hunter and Low Adults as well as 🥉in the Low Adult Classic
🐠Lions Share and Marran Vansickle were Champion in the Special Adult Hunters 💙❤️💛 and 🥈in the Low Adults
🪄 Neville and Ryon Sinclair were Champion in the Older Children’s Hunter 💙❤️💛
⛵️Silver Oak and Robert Caputo were Grand Champion Children’s Hunter 💙❤️💛. Thank you to the Barracks for sharing this fantastic horse!
🐼Solaguayre Cafoo snd Ann-Lilly Kim were🥈in the Younger Children’s,🥈VHSA Eq on the flat, and 4th in the VHSA Children’s Medal

03/07/2025

It’s been a puppy filled couple of weeks! 🐶🥰 Thank you to everyone who helped with Ros and Enzo at the Barracks and Lexington!!

03/05/2025

Hello LG lessoners! Here is our update for Wednesday March 5th: Yvonne’s 3:00 lesson is cancelled but her 4:30 lesson is on. All of Fiona’s lessons are also on. See you soon!

02/22/2025

Great news for all LG lessoners! All lessons are on starting Sunday February 22nd! Whew!! See you soon!

02/20/2025

Congrats to all of our riders on a fantastic IEA Regionals show at Virginia Tech!

Our qualifiers competing at Regionals were:

Byrdie Paisley, Ala Diaz, Clemmie Mannell, Mary Young, Ryon Sinclair, Ann-Lilly Kim, Arden Paisley, Avery Lessner, Meadow Miller, Henley Mayfield, Amory Meyer, Clara Mannell, Madeline Winters, Abigail Moore, Sofia Ruffin, Ava Becker, Charlotte Nelson, and Kaitlyn Rennie

Both our High School and Middle School teams for qualified for Zone 3 IEA Finals 👏
🥇High School
🥈Middle School

In addition, our Zone 3 Individual qualifiers were:
Clemmie Mannell - Beginner WTC
Arden Paisley - Future Intermediate Flat and Fences
Avery Lessner - Future Intermediate Fences

Finally, our own 💎Jewel💎 was awarded the IEA Zone 3 Region 11 Horse of the Year! 🐴

Congrats to all and we can’t wait for IEA Zone 3 Finals coming up in March in Lexington VA! 🙌🎉💐

02/20/2025

Here is our LG lessoners update: Still no lessons for today, Thursday February 20th and also none for Friday February 21st. Stay tuned for updates for Sunday!

02/19/2025

Good morning all LG lessoners! Welp you guessed it! No lessons today Wednesday 19th or Thursday February 20th due to the snow. We will let you know about the rest of the week. Stay safe!

02/16/2025

Here is an update for Sunday February 16th. All lessons will resume that happen after 2:00! We hope you enjoy your Sunday!

02/16/2025

Good morning LG lessoners! Today is Sunday February 16th. All lessons today before 2:00 are cancelled due to the rain. We are hoping it will clear up later in the day and will let you know by 12:00 if we will resume lessons after 2:00.

02/13/2025

Great news to all LG lessoners! Today is Thursday January 13th and all lessons are on! See you soon!!

02/13/2025

A big thank you to Glenn Moody for braving the elements to deliver a fantastic clinic to some of our riders last weekend! 💚🤍

02/11/2025

Hello LG lessoners! All lessons are cancelled for Tuesday February 11th and Wednesday February 12th due to the snow and ice. We will keep you posted about the rest of the week!