Four Farthing Farm

12/22/2024

Hold these dates! The Four Farthing Farm Dressage shows for 2025 are scheduled, registered with the ESDCTA, and we have our judges lined up!! Here are the dates and other key info; we will post the entire prize list on the Four Farthing website shortly at four-farthing-farm.square.site

Show Date Open Date Close Date Judge
May 3, 2025 Mar 28, 2025 Apr 29, 2025 Cindy Glaser
Jun 29, 2025 May 24, 2025 Jun 24, 2025 Peggy Hipple
Aug 24, 2025 Jul 18, 2025 Aug 20, 2025 Carol Seaman

If you are riding a pony ≤ 14.2h, we will be presenting a High Score Pony Award at each show. Is your horse 20 years of age or older? Specify his or her age on your entry form and automatically compete for our Clifton Fair Memorial Senior Horse High Score Award at each show. An Overall High Score Award will be presented for the highest score at each show. Year End Championship ribbons and prizes in each Level (Intro, Training, First, Second, Third, Fourth, FEI, and Western) to horse and rider combinations competing at two of our three shows.

Please contact Lori with any questions and we hope to see you at the shows!

12/01/2024

Hey Four Farthing Show Team! Mark your calendars!! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18RmFGKZdL/

🏅 It’s almost time! 🏅

Please join us for the first annual SCHJSSS awards luncheon and silent auction. We look forward to recognizing the achievements of our participating horses and riders this past season!

11/24/2024

ISO Large Pony for lease - please read this carefully and ONLY respond if the pony you have meets our criteria! Need a pony able to meet the needs of two girls. The first needs a pony to move up from the Beginners to Low Childrens Pony. Needs to be honest, jump courses at two feet, and either have or be able to get a change put on it. The second is moving up from Lead Line to Minis. The pony needs the be able to be ridden by a very small girl - quiet and safe is essential. Some maintenance is ok. Looks and movement are not that important, but attitude and a good heart are. No vices or spook! Free leases are always best, but a moderate lease fee is possible. Would have the best possible home and care and would be loved on every day! Need at least a one year lease, put a possibility for two years exists. Please PM Lori with any SERIOUS contenders. Here are a couple of pics of the girls.

11/20/2024

Fun night tonight riding with all three of my mares in the ring. Jackie (on Symphony), Avery (on Rosie), and myself (on Ellie) were riding all together for the first time so proud momma Beth had to take these pics of us! We tried to get them to put their ears up but - mares!!

11/14/2024

ESDCTA Champion available for part or full on-farm lease - Super friendly and sweet, large gaited pony with successful Western Dressage show record. Owner no longer has the time to devote to riding full time. Chance of a Lifetime (“Chance”) showed one season of Introductory Level Western Dressage and was the ESDCTA Champion in 2021. With his round barrel, he is the perfect mount for a smaller adult. Please PM for further information.

11/12/2024

SAVE THE DATE!! Four Farthing Farm in Wantage, NJ will be hosting another Shane Ledyard Clinic on Saturday, March 22nd. Those of you who have ridden with Shane before know that he is a judge, rider, coach, and author. He is also knowledgeable, insightful, a great communicator, and kind to both horses and riders of all levels. Mark your calendar whether you want to have a "tune up" before going out to show the 2025 season or maybe bring a youngster out for its first clinic to our low key, laid back, no pressure atmosphere. There will be sections on the flat, over crossrails, all the way up to...as high as people want to jump. Here is a pic of Shane showing in the hunters and a few pics from last year's clinic where we all had a great time and learned a lot! More information will be coming out closer to the date, but feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

11/10/2024

This post is outrageously late, but I was having trouble downloading the pictures so please forgive me. On 26 October, Jessica and Derby went to the ESDCTA Championships. It was their first time showing the finals at First Level and they were just wonderful! They did First Test 3 for their first ride and got an impressive 68.056%, their highest score of the year for this test. First Test 2 was their second ride and, although Derby was a bit tired at that point, they still got 63.182%. This placed them 4th overall in some very impressive company. I want to congratulate them both for showing everyone what they have worked so hard all year to achieve.

10/19/2024

Four Farthing Farm has stalls available at our lovely facility in Wantage, Sussex County, NJ. Large 100' x 200' sand outdoor, spacious 68' x 165' sand/rubber indoor, heated tack room/bathrooms/lounge, on site schooling H/J and dressage shows, summer day camp, miles of trails on the property, and many other amenities. All while your equine partner enjoys daily turnout in large grassy paddocks or dry lots (depending on his/her needs), large airy stalls that are deeply bedded with rubber mats, and customized feeding plans. Our riders/students enjoy not only our home schooling shows, but we offer a varied show schedule from local off site schooling shows to big, nationally rated competitions. Ride with a professional with 30+ years of experience who has qualified for the National Horse Show, and who has also coached students to both State and Regional awards. And all of this is offered in a friendly, family-like atmosphere where we can honestly say we all care for and support one another. Come and join our family and reach your own riding goals! Please message us on FB or call/text Lori directly at 860-338-4018.

10/08/2024

As we wind down our show season, Jessica and Derby represented the Four Farthing Show Team at the Square One Dressage show this past Sunday. Jessica admitted to being a bit nervous about moving up to First level Tests 2 and 3, but you would not have known it to watch her, and Derby was a star! They put in two solid tests and, as it was the last show of the series, they took home the 3rd place ribbon in First Level and overall Pony Champion for the 2025 season. Very proud of them both! Now, ESDCTA championships, here we come!!

09/22/2024

Late again! But I want to post the results of our final Four Farthing Farm Hunter/Jumper Schooling Show of 2024 and the 7th of the 8 shows on the The Sussex County Hunter/Jumper Schooling Show Series that was held this past Saturday, 14 September. It was a fun filled show and we were very happy to have Pat Byrne judging for us at this last show of the year. Not only did we pin our classes for the day, along with our division Champions and Reserve Champions, but we also pinned our 2024 Series Champions. We want to thank our sponsors for prizes that we handed out to our winners from Farmside Supplies, Equitique, and Purina Horse Feed. We also want to thank our long time sponsor, Farmside Gardens, for the lovely flowers that have decorated our ring at every show this year. Here is the list of Champions and Reserve Champions for 2024, with our congratulations to everyone!

Lead Line:
Champion Adelyn Vander Groef
Reserve Champion Harmony Rose Craighead

Pleasure:
Champion Skip Point (Anne Marie Roberts)
Reserve Champion Tailwind Cowboy (K. Scott/E. Baker)

WT, 17 & Under:
Champion James Baker
Reserve Champion Naomi Smarro

WT, 18 & Over:
Champion Erin Schoeberl

Baby Green Hunter:
Champion Epic Rise (Julia Torres)
Reserve Champion Evolution (Jessica Dailey)

Beginner Equitation:
Champion Anne Marie Roberts
Reserve Champion Samantha Mammolo

Maiden Hunter:
Champion Epic Rise (Julia Torres)
Reserve Champion Bregalad (Aundrea Johnson)

As always, enjoy the pictures!

09/07/2024

Last weekend we traveled to Heavenly Rose Equestrian LLC. for another show in the The Sussex County Hunter/Jumper Schooling Show Series. They say rain is good luck and Samantha and Guy took full advantage of this in the Maiden Hunter division where they were division champions. Jess and Evo also joined us there and showed in the Pleasure classes where they earned some nice ribbons. You can tell from both girls' faces how much fun they had, even in the rain!

08/28/2024

On Saturday, 14 September, Four Farthing Farm is holding the third and final hunter/jumper schooling show at our facility in lovely Wantage, NJ. We have classes for all levels of riders and for horses and ponies of all skill sets. From Lead line to Pleasure classes and from Baby Hunters to our Mini-Medal class, we've got something for everyone. Find our prize list and entry for on our website at: https://four-farthing-farm.square.site/hunter-schooling-shows and please send entries by 7 PM on Thursday the 12th to our email at [email protected]. Enjoy some pics from our previous two shows and remember, if you attended either or both of our shows earlier this year, you are in the running for our year end championships!

08/17/2024

Hello again Dressage riders! Just a reminder to get your entries in for the next Four Farthing Farm Dressage Schooling show in one week on Sunday, 25 August 2024. Entries close on Tuesday the 20th at 9 PM. Please send them via the USPS, send an email to [email protected] (please bring a check prior to the close date directly to the barn) or you can drop the entry off with payment in person. Come enjoy a great day of schooling and learning with us, our great group of volunteers, and our judge for the day, Maggie O'Leary. We look forward to seeing you and your four hooved friend! Just look to see how much fun these past competitors had!!

08/17/2024

I’m finally getting around to posting how the Four Farthing Show Team did at the Sussex Fair and the preceding Local and Friends Day. Spoiler alert – they were AWESOME! Horses and riders stepped up to the challenge of riding at a big, rated show (the first time for all 5 of of my riders) and showed us all how it’s done. I can’t list everything they accomplished, but here are the highlights: Samantha and He’s my Guy were Champions on Local Day in the Hunter Cross Rails division, Aundrea and Bregalad (Laddie) showed in the Low Hunter Derby at the Fair and placed 5th out of 22, and Anne Marie and Kip were just a couple of points shy of Reserve Champion in in the Beginner Hunter at the Fair. But the real stars were our Lead Liners, Miles on Sweet Caroline and Adelyn on Laddie. On Local Day, they were Champion and Reserve Champion, respectively, and then at the Fair they were Co-Champions! Samantha, Aundrea, and Adelyn also won the team competition in the Horseless Horse Show. And, last of all, we took 3rd place in the Best Tack Room competition. But the very best was watching friendships grow, kids learn about sportsmanship and hard work paying off, and their bonds with the horses getting deeper each day. There were so many great shots that I had a dreadful time selecting pictures for this post, but please enjoy these!

08/02/2024

The Four Farthing Show Team was at the Sussex Benefit show this past Wednesday as a wind up for the Fair shows beginning on 5th. We had such a great day and there were sooooo many pictures that I cannot possibly share then all! But here are the highlights: Miles and Carolina were Champions in the lead line division, Aundrea missed Reserve Champ by just a few points in the Beginner Rider division, Anne Marie rode a very relaxed and obedient Kip in her division getting extremely nice ribbons for her efforts, and Christian went on the road with us for the first time and was a terrific help to us all. Samantha and Guy also joined us just to get him "off property" for the first time in over a year and Guy was a perfect gentleman the entire day, schooling in the warm-up as if he had never missed a show. All of this bodes well for the Fair - if the weather will cooperate!! Warning: These pictures are in absolutely no order, so just enjoy them as best you can.

07/08/2024

I know this is late - again - but it took a while to get all of the pictures pulled together. FFF had the second in its series of three schooling dressage shows on 30 June and the weather held out, at least mostly. Although we had a short period of rain in the afternoon, it was still a great day for everyone. Results have been sent to the ESDCTA and will be posted in their next publication. Many thanks to all of our entrants, their horses, to our volunteers, and to our judge, Erin Hurley, for her excellent feedback. Enjoy the pictures!

06/19/2024

We had perfect weather to show this past Sunday at Heavenly Rose Equestrian LLC. Adelyn showed Lead Line away from home for the first time and rode extremely well. Aundrea also showed away from home the first time and she and Laddie did very well in both the Maiden Hunter and Beginner Rider. Avery and Rosie did the Pleasure division and, I have to say, Avery rode better than I think I have ever seen her ride at an away show. But the very best part of the day was watching all of the girls work together and bond over their horses. Truly a very successful day!