Legacy Oaks Farm

10/31/2024

Everybody’s favorite spooky kitty wants to remind you no afternoon lessons today. We hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween!

10/03/2024

Here are our 2025 dates in both Georgia and Pensacola! A couple of new additions to the Georgia schedule:

We are pleased to announce that our March, July and August dates at the Georgia International Horse Park will be sanctioned by the Athens Area Hunter Jumper Association (AAHJA) as well as the Georgia Hunter Jumper Association (GHJA) and our own Horse Show Ventures series.

Many of you have requested that we add dates at Wills Park, and we happy to announce we are adding a Wills Park date in 2025 - April 19 & 20 and September 6 & 7th!

Mark your calendars for Horse Show Ventures' 2025 dates! We will celebrate the end of our 2024 show season November 2 & 3 at the Georgia International Horse Park Season Finale & Halloween Show.

Our year end awards banquet will be February 8th at the Berkeley Hills Country Club, Duluth.

09/08/2024

We enjoyed a beautiful and successful morning at AAHJA!

🏆 Sham’s Fire and Ice and his Pre-Beginner Rider were Champion in their division! 🥇 🥉 🥇

🏆 Philosopher and Mabry Williams were Champion in Beginner 9 and Under 🥇 🥇🥉

🏆 Philosopher and Lucienne Mutolo were Champion in Beginner 10 and Over 🥉🥈🥇

⭐️ Sham’s Fire and Ice and Caroline Patrick attended Caroline’s very first show ever! and got 3rd and 4th in her two classes out of 6! We’re so proud of you, Caroline!

A big thanks to our hosts and neighbors High Point Farm for putting on a great show! It was so fun to see so many friends from around the region.

08/30/2024

Quick trip to Horse Show Ventures last weekend with the whole barn fam!

08/22/2024

So many good points in here.

When someone leaves a comments or a like here, I often click on their name to see their riding images on their page. I do this to keep track of what today's typical riding looks like. I see all kinds of riding. Some images and videos show very good balanced riding. What seems to be a common riding flaw that I see recently is with head position. So many riders post pictures of their riding with their eyes looking down. This might seem a minor issue, but it is not.

When your eyes are down, your horse can feel that your balance is forward, more over the forehand. This will put your horse onto their forehand. When your eyes go down, your head that weighs 15 pounds (7 kg) goes down and forward, and usually your shoulders fall forward as well. The fact that your head is up high at the end of an effective lever that is your upper body, multiplies the forward weight that you place over your horse's shoulders.

The negative effects this has on your horse show up in several ways. It makes both upward and downward transitions more difficult for your horse. This is because Horses need to push off or reach under with their hind, and you have shifted their balance off their hind. Lead changes become more difficult for the same reason.

Worst of all for riders, looking down makes it more difficult to develop "feel". I briefly had an argumentative student who insisted on looking down. She would argue with me when I said "eyes up", saying "I like to see what my horse is doing". I'd explain that with eyes up you can feel what your horse is doing and that makes all the difference.

If you look down when riding, just stop doing that. If you have to look down, move your eyeballs, not your head. If you do this, many improvements will follow. You will sit the canter better because your head and neck position will no longer interfere with your hips swinging to the 1-2-3 beat of the canter. "Eyes up". It's simple and fixes a lot of things.

08/18/2024

Mothman hung out on the roll top for lessons this morning. If he’ll take care of some army worms, he can stay. This guy was the size of hand.

08/07/2024

🚨 New Pony Alert🚨
So excited for this sweet little guy to join us.

07/29/2024

We had a fun and progressive show at Horse Show Ventures this weekend!

Avery and Diesel became a pair 8 months ago - Diesel had a year+ off work, spending his days chilling in a field of (absolutely precious) cattle and ponies. It’d been even longer since he was in the show ring as a lesson horse. Avery was jump 18”-2’ on a green large at home. This weekend was their 2nd ever show together and first time round the 3’! I’m so proud of their warp-speed progress and truly becoming a team this weekend. I’m excited to see what the rest of the show year holds for them.

Baby Louisa went to her 1st ever horse show and let it be known how special she is. She was a risky sight unseen purchase as a 2 year old a few years back, but I’m reminded every day as she meets us at the gate with her showy trot and precious personality she was absolutely a risk worth taking. So excited to see what her future holds and thank you to Mischa Jahn for showing her the ropes this weekend.

Disenchanted with the thought of a July trailer ride, Handsome Ransom let us know he would not join us at the show this weekend. Scrambling, we ripped our dear Cupcake from the field, scratched her from the walk trot lesson roster, loaded her in a single go, and dropped her in the jumper ring for the .45 crossrails. Cupcake and pilot Maddie Arnold had two clean rounds with time faults only because I asked Maddie to go with care. By the second go Cupcake knew the assignment and let us know she had way more in the tank! Leave it to a Red Mare to finish a gelding’s job 🧁 Big thanks to Maddie for taking care of our girl.

Thanks to our entire barn family for your support! Excited for the next one!

07/17/2024

Summer slow down! We’ve been busy and it feels like it’s flying by ☀️

06/15/2024

Great morning at AAHJA!
🥇 Casper and his rider were Champion in Pre Beginner🥇

And Casper and is 9 and under rider continued to make great strides and improvement!

Thanks to Fawkes Farm for hosting!

06/10/2024

We took a quick break from camp and attended Horse Show Ventures at GIHP this weekend. So proud of Avery and Diesel at their very first show outing as a team. Looking forward to the next one!

06/05/2024

Camp Counselor Take Over! Ba****ck obstacle day and we lived to tell about it!

06/03/2024

Summer Camp is in full swing! We do have a couple spots left June 10-13! www.legacyoaksfarm.com

05/08/2024

We are so excited to congratulate Lauren, Gracelynn, and the Smith Family on their purchase of Jasper! Jasper is the sweetest pony gelding and already dearly loves his new family! We know you’re on to great adventures together! (Also the video reveal in the comments of Gracelynn seeing Jasper is the sweetest thing you’ll see today! 🤩 💕)

Legacy Oaks Farm in Watkinsville now offers full boarding options to lesson clients. We offer a family friendly and fun environment for our clients and horses. Call today for availability - 404-861-5872

05/05/2024

We’re excited for Equus Healing Arts LLC to demonstrate during our Advanced Camp week!