Milestone Farm LLC

26/07/2024

💥📢ATTENTION EVENTERS!!!💥📢
Tim Bourke is coming back to Milestone Farm with fabulous opportunities to learn and tune your ride. Happening September 21st-22nd, 2024. Click the link below to sign up and secure your spot before it’s gone! If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to us.
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07/07/2024

The sass☝🏼 but we love them right!?

04/07/2024

✨Rider spotlight of the month✨

Courtney

I wanted to start riding horses at the age of 5, but my mom told me I had to be 7 years old in hopes that it would be a phase and I would forget about lessons. The day I turned 7, I told my mom I could now ride horses! My parents acquitted and soon found a barn where I took lessons on a small gray pony named Lightning. A few years later, I began taking lessons with Dallas Bradbury at a farm near Chelsea, MI. Soon after, I got my first horse, a bay Appendix Quarter horse named Tempest. At the time, I was in Pony Club and attending rallies, but it quickly became apparent Tempest was ring sour, and we decided to rehome her with someone who loved her and wanted to trail ride. I became a working student at a barn, where I found my next horse. An OTTB named Tia whom I hoped to event and show dressage. Two days after acquiring Tia, she stepped on a nail and spent 10 days at MSU. After much rehab, Tia made a full recovery, and I owned her for nearly 15 years. Shortly before moving to Kalamazoo, I acquired another OTTB named Maestro, who I worked with until selling him to a young event rider. After losing Tia in 2019, I took several years off from riding. However, the horse bug became too much and I started looking for barns in 2023 where I found Milestone Farm and started lessoning with Kim Sullivan. I’m now leasing Rummy, an awesome schoolmaster, to get back in the swing of things and rediscover my love for dressage. We’re excited to compete in our second show of the summer at Waterloo this month!

29/05/2024

Good luck to all our riders headed down to compete at IEA!

25/05/2024

✨Rider spotlight of the month✨

Tara

Tara discovered her love of horses at summer camp in 3rd grade, and then rode at Fleetwood Manor until college. During college she ran the equestrian barn at Sherman Lake YMCA teaching kids how to ride and discover their own passions for horses. After college she started riding at a hunter jumper barn and purchased her first horse Xtreme. Tara always had a passion for dressage and eventually changed disciplines focusing on dressage until the unexpected death of Xtreme in 2012. After taking a 10-year break, she found Milestone Farm and started riding again, leasing Porter and taking him to the 2023 Region 2 USDF Championships. In the fall Tara found her dance partner, Vincenzo and is excited to see what they can accomplish together.

08/05/2024

We have 4 stalls and a few small turn outs available for temporary use if anyone needs help from any storm damage in the Portage/Kalamazoo area!

08/05/2024

Well that was a little nuts... Fortunately, we were pretty lucky with this series of tornadoes that passed by the farm. All people, horses, and other animals are doing well, but it will take some clean up to get things back in order. Neighbors close by might not be as lucky. Thoughts go out to all who have lost homes a businesses during this storm.

09/04/2024

An eclipse gathering at Milestone Farm with a clear sky and plenty of glasses to go around! ☀️🌑

03/04/2024

✨Rider spotlight of the month✨

Megan

Megan started riding when she was 5 years old out at a barn in Schoolcraft, MI. At age 10, her parents realized horses weren’t just a phase and they put up a barn which lead to her first horse, a little paint mare named Annie whom she used for 4-h.
Eventually she started taking lessons out at Sterling Acres where she began to take riding more seriously. In the spring of 2020 after outgrowing Annie, she purchased Corbin to be her show horse. Her plans were to just use him in Dressage and for the Highschool Equestrian teams until she spent the summer tagging along with a friend to her eventing shows. This is where she became hooked on eventing. Unfortunately, plans with Corbin were halted when he began battling some health issues with EPM. In the meantime, Megan competed on Cedar Lodges IEA team and went to Dressage Nationals. She was also fortunate enough that the Cannizzaro family let her use their horse Kimmy who helped show her the ropes of the eventing. Eventually, Corbin’s health had improved enough to where Megan and Corbin were able to enjoy competing and training together again in the world of eventing.

28/03/2024

Mr. Porter says “gooooood morning!”
📸Lydia LeAnne Smothers

15/03/2024

…..still waiting…..

09/03/2024

✨Rider spotlight of the month✨

Lydia

Lydia started riding lessons at her local hunt club in Connecticut around age 8. She then moved to Michigan and started up weekly riding and schooling shows at a local barn. When introduced to the Battle Creek Hunt Club, she became more serious about the sport of riding. Through this she began leasing horses and learning about the world of eventing. Around 7th grade the Kalamazoo Valley II pony club came to be and she became heavily involved in this. Shortly after this she switched to leasing a horse named Piste at Craig Barsuhn’s Wintergreen Farm. Piste and she began eventing together and eventually tied for first in Novice eventing for the state of Michigan in 2009. Fast forward a few years of moving off to Wyoming and working for a dude ranch, she came back to Craig Barsuhn’s farm in 2016 and eventually got to lease a horse named Herbie for about 4 years. She was then able to buy Herbie and has now owned him for 2 years. They dabble in eventing together and want to continue this passion for eventing and trails.

28/02/2024

See you there!!

Please join us for our 3rd Annual Client Education Seminar! RSVP is required - call or text (269)779-4352 OR email [email protected]. See you there!

20/01/2024

✨Rider spotlight of the month✨

Kasi Huver

Kasi started taking lessons when she was 5 and showed mostly hunters as a kid. In high school, she rode on the equestrian team and started eventing (both with Lorin!) with her horse, Remo. In college she rode for Central Michigan’s IHSA hunt seat team and evented in the summers. She continued to event with her thoroughbred Max, and in 2017 she spent a winter in south Florida as a working student with dressage trainer Lou Denizard. This is where she first met Rummy, her current mount! Kasi has enjoyed showing at the thoroughbred championships at the Kentucky Horse Park, riding on the beach of Lake Michigan with Max, and doing her first freestyle and qualifying for USDF Region 2 championships with Rummy this past year. She’s looking forward to some more showing and clinics this summer, and checking more items off her horsey bucket list!

01/01/2024

Happy New Year to our equestrian family and followers alike! 💙💙💙💙

25/12/2023

The horses were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads...

20/12/2023

Milestone Farm wants to welcome the newest member to the family, Rowan!!! 🥰🐴 .s_dressage newest mount and partner!

13/12/2023

Today was nice enough for a XC ride for a few students here at Milestone. Taking in as much as we can here while the weather stays nice☀️Wishing all a happy hump day! 🐫

06/12/2023

I mean….am I right or am I right? 🤷🏻‍♀️

02/12/2023

✨Rider spotlight of the month✨

Olivia Cannizzaro
Olivia has been taking riding lessons since was 4 years old and began riding in 4H. She showed for her high school equestrian team with a mare named Kimmy and really loved jumping. However, the mare wasn’t too keen for that so she turned her into a dressage horse. When Kimmy retired, Olivia wanted to start eventing to combine jumping and dressage. Enter Audi, her current mount, at the end of 2019. They started at Beginner Novice, moved up to Training and are on to Modified in the next year.
“I’ve been at milestone since September 2022. We’ve finished at AEC’s twice and my favorite place to show is the Kentucky horse park. Audi loves to jump and is a cross country beast. I find I just have really special bonds with mares in particular. Besides eventing I love to trail ride as well!”

23/11/2023

Happy Thanksgiving from Milestone Farm! We are thankful for everyone, especially our barn family and crew!

10/11/2023

Don't have any weekend plans!? Come join us at Milestone Farm for an eventing clinic with Tim Bourke.
Auditor spots are still available!
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10/11/2023

Don't have any weekend plans!? Come join us at Milestone Farm for the eventing clinic with Tim Bourke.
Auditor spots are still available!
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09/11/2023

I mean really? Is it tho? 😬

06/11/2023

Clinic times for this weekend are posted!

02/11/2023

✨📢📢📢 Attention equestrians! Today and tomorrow are the last days to sign up for the Tim Bourke clinic on Nov 11th and 12th. We are working hard to set up a stellar cross country field for this clinic and we don’t want you to miss out on this great opportunity! Secure your spot now! ✨📢

Closing sign date: Nov 3rd, 2023
No spots will be held without payment in full after closing date.
No refunds after closing date unless spot can be filled from a wait list.

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Event and Mailing Address:
Milestone Farm LLC
7903 E N Ave
Kalamazoo, MI 49048

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31/10/2023

✨Rider spotlight of the month✨

Kate Martini
I got my start with riding in Pony Club in the Bay City/Midland area. When I moved for college, I joined the Western Michigan University Equestrian Team and rode hunter/jumper for 15 years. I've been reuniting with my eventing roots over the past few years and am having a blast competing in eventing derbies and schooling shows.

Horses:
Michael: I started leasing Michael at Milestone this spring. He's had a competitive eventing career and has really helped me take my skills to the next level. We had a great summer and won a bunch of ribbons at some local schooling shows.

Houston (pictured): Houston has been in my family for a little over two years and moved to Milestone with me this month. He's an OTTB and had a successful racing career - his last race was at Churchill Downs! He's done a little bit of everything since, including some eventing. His favorite things include trail rides (with or without dogs aboard 😂) and literally anything edible, especially if it's a carrot or a pear. He's a special horse and I'm super excited to grow our eventing career together at Milestone!

31/10/2023

We have two lovely horses available for your consideration!!! Please see below!!

Book of Kells (2009) - Sweet jumper, eventing, dressage gelding
https://manestreetmarket.com/search?id=QljEYr6P5FsSmetmv4Zy

Big Delilah (2016) - Fancy dressage or fox hunting mare
https://manestreetmarket.com/search?id=ruF444c9yPnvqG80CwIW

30/10/2023

2023 Rudisill Scholarship

26/10/2023

Spooky season is here! 👻🎃💀 what will you and your four legged partner be this year?! 📸: Kate Martini