Kickin’ Dust Performance Horses, LLC

02/09/2025

🫶🏼 flashy boy

02/07/2025

Your Trainer Gives You Their All
- A Reminder 💗

It’s easy to see what trainers do in the arena, but what you don’t see is the endless work behind the scenes. The early mornings, late nights, tons of skipped meals, and constant problem-solving. We don’t just show up to teach—we manage schedules, care for your horse’s well-being, handle emergencies, and do everything possible to set you up for success. But we’re also human. We have tough rides, we make mistakes, and we’re always learning, just like you. This sport isn’t about perfection or jumping the biggest jumps—it’s about growth, resilience, and the willingness to always improve while helping others do the same.

When it feels like it’s not enough, remember: we are already giving you everything we have. Beyond the physical work, we dedicate hours to research, reading studies, consulting with vets, farriers, and more experienced professionals—all to ensure we’re always improving for you. We never stop learning, because your success and your horse’s well-being depend on it.

This job is a 24/7 commitment. We sacrifice personal time, push through burnout, and stretch ourselves financially to keep our services as accessible as possible while maintaining the quality our clients and horses deserve. It’s not about exclusivity—it’s about sustainability. So when the journey gets tough, trust the process. Have faith in the work being done, and remember that your trainer is just as invested in your success as you are. A little appreciation goes a long way in a profession built on passion, sacrifice, and an unwavering commitment to you and your horse.

Remember that we do this for the love of the horse, and everything we ask of from our sponsors, supporters, and clients is to support the love and desire to nurture these creatures that work so hard for us. They give us their all, so we make every effort to return the favor in hopes to give them the quality of life they deserve.

(Credit to)⬇️⬇️
-Allison postier

📸Sofie Ramirez
Kickin’ Dust Performance Horses, LLC

02/04/2025

Update…

Updated: riding/horsemanship Lesson availability.
📍Williston,fl
Monday
-8:00 am ~full
-12:00pm
-4:00pm~full

Fridays
-9:00 am
-2:00pm ~full
Call or text me to talk about booking
(Katie) cell 352-316-8481

02/03/2025

Here’s to a great start to the week with some great horses!
-mango enjoying some good scratches…

02/01/2025

Gotta love good horses…

01/30/2025

Amen to this 💪🏼🙌🏼

Never stop learning. Even if all I learned was I’m not going to do that, or do that again, I still learned. This industry is changing so fast, and in order to be competitive, you have to change with it. I learn the most watching the warm up arena… and that’s free to all.

01/29/2025

SMALL STEPS, to create a big vision…

Focusing on the small goals to help us reach the biggest ones. This is one of the key elements to being able to see the big picture of your goals. No matter what they are!

~KDPH

📸photo credit to Sofie Ramirez

01/27/2025

Updated: riding/horsemanship Lesson availability.
📍Williston,fl
Monday
-8:00 am ~full
-12:00pm
-4:00pm~full

Fridays
-9:00 am
-2:00pm ~full
Call or text me to talk about booking
(Katie) cell 352-316-8481

01/27/2025

Have you ever noticed how the best riders/trainers are usually quiet and humble?
They are confident and speak positively about their training but don’t have to go around obnoxiously bragging on themselves or belittling and critiquing others.
You won’t find them commenting criticism on your Instagram posts. Even if that’s not how they would train they keep it to themselves. Because it does nobody any good to bring you down. We’re just glad that you are even in the horse world when you could be in any other world!
~We see you shining even if we don’t agree with or use those methods! Just hustle, stay quiet, kind, and humble.
~Caption Credit goes to Mustang Megan
(Photo credit goes to Madelyne Hinman )

01/25/2025

01/22/2025

Flash is still up for grabs to the perfect home!

01/22/2025

Still have three spots to fill for Monday and Friday. Call or message us if you want to try out our program! 🤗

01/22/2025

GOOD READ FOR OWNERS!
OUTSIDE HORSES IN TRAINING…

You pay that hefty training bill for the month.

You look to have you horse in training as little as possible so it doesn’t break the bank.

You’re disappointed when after 30 days or 60 days or 90 days, there’s still more work to be done or the goal hasn’t been met. Worse yet, it looks good, you take the horse home and it unravels piece by piece. All that money “wasted”.

When you pay a trainer, that money isn’t paying for a result, it’s paying for someone’s skilled effort.

At least for me, when someone gets unhappy that their horse “isn’t fixed yet”, or comes “untrained” after it’s been home a while, makes the task of training horses for other people, discouraging. Discouraging because the efforts are being made, usually my best efforts that are filled with compassion, determination and lots of ruminating on how to fix complex issues a horse may have. Their disappointment becomes my failure basically. I know that’s not an actual truth but it’s never rewarding when someone is disappointed due to their own expectations.

Training a horse is NOT like being a mechanic on a car. Its not a tune up, it’s not the simple replacement of a part. It’s an animal with thoughts, feelings, emotions, habits, talents, etc. You don’t just program them, tune them up or replace a faulty part and send it back good as new.

You arent paying for results to happen within your timeline, you are paying for the time it takes to reach a desired result. The more complicated the project, the bigger the investment. The more baggage a horse has, the more effort it takes to unravel the mess. The bigger the goal, the greater the investment.

People send their horses to certain trainers because they want the outcome that trainer proves they can achieve. The problem is, people want that result in the shortest time frame possible because time, again, is money. It takes the time it takes to create the vision and time costs money. People who have a diy mentality, value the effort so much more when they themselves invest their own energy into a horse rather than just paying for it. I really feel that those who do it themselves, come to appreciate the efforts it takes far more than those who sign the check.

Be nice to your trainers, we work unimaginably hard on these horses! 🙂

~ Credit goes to unknown author.
(If you know the author please tag in comments so we can give credit where is due)

📸 Sofie Ramirezby @ Sofie Ramirez