Meet Sandy:
Sandy was born and raised in Vero Beach FL. "I grew up galloping horses in Ocala during the summers and training with a local German trainer.
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Once out of High School I joined the Air Force and traveled around in the US, and during this time kept horses on station. Once I became settled in Virginia my passion for dressage exploded!"
"I was blessed with a schoolmaster and learned a lot from him. I have always specialized in difficult horses. The reward is awesome when they figure everything out! Currently I train with Debbie Bowman and C
arol Bishop. I have also had the reward of breeding and raising Hanoverians." "I have completed the United States Dressage Federation “L” program with Distinction and I am a USDF Bronze/Silver/Gold Medalist and Silver MSF bar. I own/operate a Training/Sale/Boarding operation and travel for judging/lessons and clinics! I am a member of USDF, USEF, SVDA, AHS, AWS, FSA, NADWA." Facilities:
• 12x12 Stalls with Rubber Mats
• 60 x 20 Dressage ring
• Lighted Outdoor Ring
• Round Pen
• Hot/Cold Wash Rack
• Grooming stall
• Washer/Dryer Restroom
• Separate feed/hay/equipment storage
Board Rates:
Standard Board: $650.00/month starting
Training Board (includes one weekly lesson): $ Ask for packages
Training Rates:
Individual Lessons: $65.00/per ride on farm
Individual Training Lessons: $65.00/per ride on farm
Now a long yearling and she is going to be tall!
Perfect for the farrier, brushing, bathing and shots. So very very sweet!
Shades of Gray OMD
2023 Gray Filly received high praise from the inspection!
She just doesn't take a bad picture!
Super sport horse for the future!
ES Sarkozy x Trimmed in Grey x San Pablo
Available!
So excited about this next journey with the USDF “r” program. I’m an so grateful for the support from my barn family and friends and The Dressage Foundation helping me make this dream come true! Lisa Schmidt & Bill Warren are our instructors here at Waterloo Dressage.
Happy 4th of July!!!
For horse friends and friends of Wayne Darrington - the probate attorney asked me to spread the word that his 2 horse trailers are now for sale.
- 2H Double D, 2005, slat sides. I don't think this has been used much in recent years. The attorney found an approximate value to be $1,500.
- 3H slant Lakota Sport with LQ and rear tack, no slide out, 2019 model. I'm estimating the short wall to be around 10' (?). Wayne kept this trailer in excellent condition. Approximate value $45k.
The attorney indicated she is open to negotiate and accept reasonable offers. I have the VIN of the LQ if needed (will send privately).
If you are interested in either trailer, comment here or message me and I will send the attorney's contact info privately.
(There will be no "estate sale" 😔 and there is an offer on the table for his truck already.) I regularly check on Fiero and Callie, both are doing well and settled in their new homes and routines. Please feel free to share!
Contact Robyn Nunnally
Welcome to the world pretty boy!!! Simpatico x Trimmed in Grey. He is available in Suffolk VA.
✨Reserve your next superstar ✨
Imported from Germany, this Premium Hanoverian daughter of the S-line progenitor Scolari with Hanoverian Stallion of the Year Weltmeyer and the legendary Rubenstin I through the Dam line. Scantolina had a very good mare performance test with highlight scores of 8 on canter 8.5 on rideability. Successful through 3rd level, she exhibits outstanding mechanics of movement with good power. She brings beautiful expression, elegance and type to our program!
2019 – Dressage at Devon - Winner of Maiden Mares class (21 entries and only horse to break the 80% mark) She was also named Mare Champion, Mature Horse Champion, and highest placing Hanoverian for the entire breed show.
2021 – Produced Dressage at Devon Champion Foal – Foo Fighter QC (c**t) by Fabergas
2023 – Produced Dressage at Devon Champion Foal – Fidelis QC (filly) by Feinrich. Fidelis was also a Gold Medal Foal and named Top Foal an AHS inspection.
Sold!
✨For your consideration ✨
✨For your consideration ✨
Lehua Custer will be in Carrolton VA for a clinic June 1st and 2nd.
There are a few slots available!
Cost is 175/ride.
Contact Kris Montgomery @ (757)810-0656 or DM
Rider Spotlight: Lehua Custer
By: GDF Admin
Dec 6, 2022 - 12:44 PM
Article about Lehua Custer
This week’s rider spotlight features Lehua Custer! Lehua began riding at a young age in Hawaii. At first, she rode all sorts of disciplines, but she fell in love with Dressage. Now, Lehua is based in Wellington, Florida, and has achieved great success with her horses, F.J. Ramzes and Fortunato H20. Continue reading to hear about Lehua’s accomplishments, her horses, her goals for the upcoming season, and much more!
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Photo courtesy by Lehua Custer ©Q2 Photography
When did you start riding, and when did you decide that dressage was what you wanted to pursue?
I grew up in Hawaii, and if you ride, you just do every discipline. I got my first horse, an Appaloosa, for my 11th birthday, but I didn’t realize that you had to pick one discipline, so I did everything. After graduating from college at Pepperdine University, I started seriously riding Dressage and got a job with Hilda Gurney as her assistant trainer. I saddle-broke a lot of babies and got very interested in bloodlines and saddle-breaking stallions. I was also fortunate enough to present them to the registries for stallion approvals.
What are your goals for 2023?
My main goals for 2023 are to get into the show ring with the horses I have in training and move each one up a level if they’re ready. However, my biggest goal is to get a bit more serious in the CDIs with F.J. Ramzes.
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Photo courtesy by Lehua Custer ©Barbara Bella
What are your most recent accomplishments?
I started campaigning Ramzes at the Grand Prix level in Wellington in March of 2021 and started getting more serious last season. Recently, I got first place in my first CDI4*at Terranova Equestrian Center in the Grand Prix and the Special earning a 71.277%.
Tell me about your horses!
I only own one horse, Fortunato H20, a six-year-old Oldenburg stallion bred by Kendra Hansis in New Jersey. I have had him pretty much since he was born. I picked him out from a picture online when he was first born, and I reached out to Kendra on Facebook and asked if he was for sale; I bought him and have had him ever since! He is now an approved stallion and has shown through the third level with me. He recently went to Denmark and competed in the World Championships with Roxanne Trunnell in Paradressage, for which they earned a team bronze medal. Ramzes is a 12-year-old KWPN gelding owned by Wendy Sasser bought from Cornell University, and I have been riding him since he was three years old and have trained him up to the Grand Prix level. My newest competition horse is a five-year-old stallion by Daily Diamond X Johnson. His name is Medico van de Watermolen and he just scored a 78.75% at his first show.
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Photo courtesy by Lehua Custer ©US Equestrian
What are you most excited about for 2023?
I am most excited about going to the shows and seeing everybody! I have a lot of friends that are competing, and it’s fun to go and cheer them on. I hope to fulfill a big goal of riding a Freestyle under the lights at Global. Before I lived in Wellington, it was a big thing to hear about who was showing at Global, and I realized that it is such a hub for our sport. Wellington seemed like a more intense version of the life I was already leading. California is Dressage rich, filled with many Olympians, and has a wonderful show season, but coming to Wellington is California on steroids. It’s not just people from the States but from Europe as well. Watching a full day of Grand Prix in the CDI ring, you start feeling like a small fish in a big pond, but that is the only way to improve.
If you could show anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Aachen! That’s where I’ve wanted to compete since I’ve known about Dressage. I was able to go with Hilda Gurney many years ago to spectate. I saw Kira Kirkland in the warm-up ring and thought, “this is it; this is the real deal!” The competitors were getting 10s which I had never seen before. I had the opportunity to go again and see Blu Hors Matine in the main stadium, and it was such a dream come true!
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Photo courtesy by Lehua Custer ©Susan J. Stickle
Thank you, Lehua, for being this week’s rider spotlight! Be sure to look for Lehua in the show rings at AGDF 2023!
Categories: Features, Rider Spotlight
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As we enter Horse Show Season
1. Horses don’t get broke at home. Be brave and enter!
2. EVERY disappointment at the show is a learning opportunity..... Be humble, be open to change.
3. Everyone gets nervous. Everyone has bad days. Everyone makes mistakes. Literally: EVERYONE!
4. Don’t watch others in the warmup ring and start changing what you have been doing - if you see something cool or you want to step up your game that’s homework for after the show!
5. When we run out of knowledge, we often punish our horses. Seek help instead.
6. Be a competitor! But be a horseman first. There is always someone watching who sees you as a role model.
7. Supporting your fellow competitors and engaging with people will enrich your show life.
8. Know the rules of competition! Make sure your attire and tack is legal. Read the rule book, ask questions and be well prepared.
9. Have FUN, don’t sweat the small stuff!
~Julia Keil Quibell~
Bald eagle visitor this morning! Very very chatty ❤️
Gold medal c**t!
Glamordale x Wynton x Gribaldi
Reeta Edmundson and I co-own this little hot mess….
Born July 22 2023 has all of his daddy’s moves!
Gold medal filly
Top Foal
Cum Laude x Westernhagen x Matcho AA
Was a amazing day! Will post more when the pictures are ready!
Cakes is a sweetheart! She is available!
This little heartthrob filly Calysta (Greek for Beautiful) born April 17, 2023 out of EM Wespe (Weltmeyer x Matcho) by Iron Spring Farms Cum Laude (Apache x Rubenstine I). This is the sweetest/easy/kind foals I have ever had.
Truth
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MY LITTLE FARM ❤
“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive. The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.
There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.
“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.
Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.
Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.
If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.
When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.
You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.
You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile. You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.
You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.
You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.
Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.
You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.
Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.
You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.
Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”
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