Dapple Gray Farm

11/03/2024

10/29/2024

Temecula October 2024

10/29/2024

Red Stone & Zoe Provost looking sharp in their new gear from Thank you to our awesome grooms who always have the horses looking beautiful ❤️

10/27/2024

Phillip last weekend vs. Phillip this weekend 🤠🥰

10/27/2024

10/26/2024

Zumba 🦄 helped Stella Provost navigate her very first rated horse show including two WINS in the .65m jumpers 🥇

10/26/2024

The most confident riders, by and large, that I have been around, had one thing in common, and it wasn’t their physique, their money, their courage, any of those “outward” advantages.

Virtually all of them had easily available access to horses and to riding when they were young enough to get used to the feeling of being on horses before they were old enough to truly comprehend the risks involved.

The confident riders got that way by getting used to having their bodies mesh and align with the moving bodies of their horses almost “unconsciously.” Like learning by osmosis, rather than by active trying.

Later, even if they stepped away from riding for years, even decades, they had an easier time getting back into the groove than those who never had the chance (or the inclination) to stack up those hundreds of hours as kids.

Fair or unfair, that is what I have seen over many decades---

Want your child to get comfortable on a horse? Let “em spend lots of time doing it---. And chores---Make them do barn chores. Bottom up learning is total learning.

10/23/2024

Kingston placing 2nd in the 1.10m Classic in Temecula. This awesome horse is available for sale!!!

10/02/2024

What do Cesar Milan, barrel racing, and Hannibal Lector have to do with show jumping? They all played a hand in training Cristallo, the famed mount of Richard Spooner (USA). For over a decade, Spooner and the quirky gelding have accumulated an impressive roster of career wins. They’ve won the Mona...

09/19/2024

The most amazing first jumper!!!! This horse has taken his rider from .65m jumpers to 1.10m with dozens of championships along the way. Kingston will teach you how to be a winner in the jumper ring. PM for more information.

https://www.proequest.com/horse/kingston-0

09/19/2024

09/14/2024

Waffles is a good boy 💕

09/10/2024

“MILITARY” Riders---

Anyone who started to ride 50 or more years ago in any of the so called Olympic disciplines, dressage, show jumping and eventing, will remember just how many of the instructors we had were either former or current military men.

And from so many different countries, Poland, England, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Holland, USA, Canada, France, Czechoslovakia, others, and many of them here in the USA were recent arrivals from war ravaged Europe.

I don’t know who this rider in the photo is, or where he came from, or what year this was, but he exemplifies the solid and classical correctness that used to be a hallmark of riders who’d been taught by cavalry officers.

Most of them taught in similar fashion to the way they themselves had learned, rather formal, probably too “disciplined” in approach to be tolerated by modern Americans----Yes sir, no sir, thank you very much sir---Strict but almost never insulting, although some equated the two.

But the riders who could handle the discipline and the structure came away as good riders. That era is now quite far in the rear view mirror. And it’s like that meme we see---“Most of you never took lessons from military riders and it shows---.”

08/30/2024

The best first pony available for sale or lease.

Waffles - Sale, Lease - Scottsdale , AZ United States - Quarter Horse - Waffles is the perfect first pony. He is gentle and kind for a beginner rider. He has good ground ma