Ramsman Equestrian, LLC

01/07/2025

We had so much fun at last weekend! The people, horses, food and weather were all awesome!☀️ What a great way to start off the new year! 🥳💫 Looking forward to the next one!

01/06/2025

Millie Allred & Abe won the $500 2’ Hunter Derby at Rardin Equestrian this weekend! Very proud of them both 💗🦄💯🏆 Thank you for such a fun day!

01/04/2025

Katie Gayon’s TF Vee One showing off her scope in the $750 Knock Down and Out Jumper Stake at Rardin Equestrian today 🤩✈️💯🦄 “Vienna” was definitely not going to knock this one down! Thank you Jamie Rardin and Mike Kocher for such a fun day!

12/31/2024

This has always spoken to me. I first saw it shared by The Plaid Horse. I’ve edited the list slightly and starred 🌟 the ones that hit me hardest 💗🦄 Photo of one of my favorite horses of all time, the chestnut mare, Outspoken, owned by Dave & Dee Pellegrini 💕

🌟1. If a horse says no, you either asked the wrong question or asked the question wrong.

🌟2. An average hunter course has 100 strides. Only 8 of them are jumps. Don’t sacrifice the 92 for the 8.

3. On approaching a fence: good riders wait until it’s time to go. Great riders go until it’s time to wait.

🌟4. It is NEVER the horse’s fault. Yes, sometimes a horse may take advantage of a situation, but there is ALWAYS something the rider could do differently to change the situation.

5. You can only lie to your horse so many times before they call your bluff.

6. Horses do not know what they are worth. They do not know, or care, what they are capable of. They only care about the way you treat them.

7. If you work hard, try your best, and never give up, your efforts will not go unnoticed. And you will be rewarded with opportunities when you least expect it.

🌟8. If you work hard, try your best, and never give up, you will still fail sometimes.

9. Video doesn’t lie – after being told repeatedly that I was lifting my right hand before every fence, and swearing up and down that I was certainly NOT lifting my right hand before every fence… I was—in fact—lifting my right hand before every fence. Sometimes your brain lies to you. Video does not.

10. On being nervous going into the show ring: you’re just not that big a deal. No one at the show is watching you close enough to know every mistake you might make, except for the judge and your trainer, and you are paying them to watch.

11. Be patient – there are no shortcuts. Any shortcut you may try, will actually be the long way.

12. Check your personal issues and emotions at the door. Your horse will know. It usually does not go well.

13. If your horse is in front of your leg, you have options.

🌟14. We never lose. We either win or we learn.

15. Ride like a winner. You cannot act like flip flops and expect to be treated like Louboutins.

🌟16. If you have to pick only two things to think about during a course, pace and track are the two you should choose. The rest cannot happen without pace and track.

17. Give yourself and your horse brain breaks. Go have fun, go hack out in the woods, go swimming ba****ck, read a book in the paddock, whatever. Just allow yourself time to have fun.

🌟18. At home there’s no reason to jump as big as you show every time. The basics are the basics regardless of the jump height. Save your horses legs.

19. The horse world is very small. Remember this; don’t burn your bridges and be mindful of your words.

20. Clean your tack. Polish your boots. Groom your horse. Properly. Every day. If you can control nothing else, you can control your turn out.

21. No matter what the problem is, the solution is almost always add leg.

🌟22. Ride the horse you have today. Not the one you had yesterday. Not the one you want to have. The horse under you at this moment is the only one that matters.

23. You go where you look. The human head weighs 10 pounds. Unless you would like to end up on the ground, do not look down.

🌟24. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

12/26/2024

Merry Christmas from the Ramsman Equestrian crew! 🎄🦄❄️

12/24/2024

The horses are nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of sugar-plums dance in their heads… The stockings are hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there🎄❄️🦄🎅 We hope everyone enjoys a warm and cozy holiday! Happy Christmas to all!

12/22/2024

We are thrilled to announce our newest partnership — Mary-Hunter McCaslin & CRF Carlitos! 🦄💫🎄 We are already in love ❤️💙💚 and can’t wait to see what these two can do together! Thank you Robbie Hunt and Hunters Lane Farm for developing such a sweet, well-rounded horse and for being an absolute pleasure to work with! 🥂Cheers to new friends and new beginnings!

12/21/2024

Our annual holiday party did not disappoint! Horses and riders were spectacular through our Christmas-themed gymnastic! 🎄🎁🎅 We are grateful to have such a wonderful barn family ❤️💚❤️ Thank you .m.l_equestrian_ for capturing some amazing jumping photos! Stay tuned to see our stars in action! 🦄💫

12/20/2024

We have a lot of cute pastures but this one might be the cutest 😍🦄🦄🥰

12/16/2024

Big congrats to ._.blake and Cetric Van Beek for winning the 1.20m Junior/Amateur Jumper Classic at Bruce’s Field! 🏆🦄💫 Thank you, Molly Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, for managing Ceddy’s crazy and making sure he’s ready to perform his best! And thanks to our team at home for keeping him happy and healthy! Great ride, Olivia! 💯🔥

12/15/2024

Hollis Hubinek & Korsakov de Bellarose earned an 83.5 and 3rd place their first time out in the 3’3 Junior Hunters! We are excited to see them grow in a new division this year 💫🦄🙌🏻 Proud of this kid’s work ethic and attitude! She’s going places!

12/14/2024

Great start to week 2 at Bruce’s Field, with ._.blake and Cetric Van Beek jumping to a 3rd place finish in the Welcome Stakes! Great ride on a phenomenal horse!

12/09/2024

Sally was a huge part of my youth and her teachings had and continue to have a large influence on my riding. I feel fortunate to have been immersed in these principles from an early age. Sally was always one of my biggest cheerleaders! Growing up with her, it’s easy to forget what a big deal she really was. It’s humbling how many people’s lives she touched and that her legacy lives on. get excited for your new reading assignment!

Sally Swift's "journey" to becoming a riding teacher who has probably helped more actual people than the most famous Olympian didn't really start rolling until she was in her sixties.

Sally had scoliosis, so her own riding was limited, but probably, just as they say blind people have a heightened sense of hearing as a compensatory mechanism, Sally had an uncanny sense of what body part was the root cause of something else. Fix the root, start to fix the bigger problem. An example might be that rigid shoulders prevented a swinging back, that sort of thing.

At first, I don't think Sally's insights were accepted or even "welcomed" by the "dressage community."

After all, they said, she isn't a rider. She has worked for decades for a Holstein cow association. In Brattleboro, Vermont. She is old. What does she know?

But Sally could see, and therefor fix, posture and mechanical and emotional issues that flew past the radar screens of the more famous "experts."

Her book, Centered Riding, is probably the biggest selling non fiction horse book of all time, and every day riders use Sally's techniques to loosen up and balance and be more one with the horses they ride.

And Sally was totally and completely non judgmental. She tried just as hard with someone most trainers would write off as she would with some current riding icon.

A famous rider is only famous for about as long as he/she is riding and competing, and after a few years of retirement, is vanished and forgotten. But Sally Swift who died in 2009 at 95, will be remembered today, as riders all over the world quote her and use her teachings.

12/07/2024

🦄💫 Cedric 💫🦄 Congrats, Olivia!

12/07/2024

Ceddy the superstar 🤩🦄

Saturdays are for the horses! Take some time out of your day to come enjoy the 🎅🎄☃️ Today, Saturday, December 7th is the $9,999 Jingle Bells Jumper Classic 1.30M 🐴🐴🐴 Visit whendoigo.com for daily class time estimates and equusevents.com for a complete show schedule! Spectators are welcome and admission is FREE 🎉🎉🎉 Visitors should use the Audubon Dr gate and follow signs for parking 🚗🚗🚗

11/28/2024

So proud of this pony (and her kid!) Ladybug🐞 has settled into her new life beautifully and has been SUCH a good girl for little Isla! 🦄 We are so excited to help these two reach their potential! Thank you, Annalee Renee Ashcraft for your pony jockey skills and Morgan Grant for all of the effort you put into developing Isla as a true horsewoman! Thanks also goes out to Audra Conard Slater and daughter for getting Ladybug ready for our girl 💗 The sky is the limit!

11/25/2024

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