Watership Downs, LLC

15/01/2025

When you are supposed to be stall cleaning, but a ba****ck snow ride keeps calling your name:)

22/12/2024

Super fun and cold morning lesson with Waylon:) All of the horses were fantastic and absolutely on their best behavior:) love traipsing through the dark and snow with these ladies and love the mom vibes:) thank you to Timber Run for hosting:)

20/12/2024

19/12/2024

Not sure where the time went, but so very excited for her next adventure!:) a heartfelt thank you to all of her coaches, teammates (and their families), as well as our extended family, that have been so very supportive and instrumental along the way:) Go BIG RED!:) cannot wait!:):):)

14/12/2024

Season spirit:) Bridlespur (our 4h club) donated our holiday tie blankets to the Catherine Cobb Safe House for women and children. Thank you so much to Mikala and grandma Joanne for the suggestion and delivery:)

05/12/2024

Other skills in which Baby Biggie excels: finding lost bell boots and putting them on correctly, all by himself:)

28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!:)

17/11/2024

Congratulations on an outstanding 2024 season!:) So happy for everyone, their horses and their connections:) Thank you so much to TEAM for this generous support of our sport and the continued enthusiasm:)

Maura O’Connor:
BN Junior Rider Champion
Castleberry Trophy (Top Overall Junior Rider)
Will You Be Mine: Overall High Point Champion, Junior Rider:)

Molly Nachtrieb:
BN Junior Rider 4th place:)

Slater Boos:
Novice Junior Rider Reserve Champion
Lowest Overall Event Penalty Score Trophy 23.1 Novice Level:)

Bridget Herrmann:
Starter Senior Amateur Rider Champion:)

Margaret Wooldridge: Starter Senior Amateur Rider 4th place:)

Deena Zaitounh:
BN Senior Amateur Rider Champion
Bob Hutton Trophy (Top Senior Amateur Rider)
See My Tuxedo: Overall High Point Champion, Senior Rider:)

Julie Wooldridge:
Hunters Run Farm Derby Trophy (Lowest Overall Derby Score)
BN Derby Champion
Starter Senior Amateur Rider 5th place
BN Senior Amateur Rider 3rd place:)

Cannot wait for 2025!!!:):):)

11/11/2024

I love the Virginia Horse Park!!:) Such a fun show and Punchie was a blast!:) so proud of him for working to relax and figure it all out and such a wonderful girls' weekend:) this beautiful weather makes it so hard to believe winter/2025 is just around the corner:) grateful for the 2024 season and already can't wait for spring!:)

29/10/2024

Fantastic last derby of the season at Revel Run this past weekend!:) first of all, thank you so much to RR for being so accommodating and making this work for our peeps and our crazy schedule:) thank you to the volunteers and our group for showing up strong to help put on a great show:)

The weekend was definitely highlighted by Jules and Galahad scoring a 15.6 in the Beginner Novice:) May we please all aspire to follow in these footprints in the sandbox:)

Jules kicked us off with a super first Novice with Cleo to jump around clear with one rail to finish 7th:)

Then Jules had the win in BN, with Bridget and Tannis finishing 3rd in their first BN completion:) Huge shoutout on that 28.2, which they have been studiously and patiently working on:)

Allie and Stellar easily hopped around the Starter to finish 4th and Cami was awesome both piloting her big guy around, and cruising around clean on an awesome catch ride:)

In the Grasshopper, Adeline and Analee finished 3rd and 4th in their first ever eventing experiences:) so fun to have an exciting new partnership and a 30yr old Joeseph showing us how it's done:) They definitely have the cross country adrenaline bug:)

And finally, in the Junior Grasshopper, Mikala and Alissia rocked it to finish 3rd and 7th:) Both were awesome as they learned to canter across the country:)

That was a fantastically fun weekend and i think i speak for all of us when i say that we are not feeling ready for this show season to wrap up:) i feel like we are just getting going for so many of us, but i am also looking forward to the winter months as we build on our foundation:) i have one more quick outing with Punch and then cannot wait for the 2025 season!!!:):):) congratulations to everyone:)

26/10/2024

They did it!!!:):):) Biggest congratulations to the 2024 Division 2, Michigan State Champions!!!:):):)