Sierra Woods Farm

01/06/2025

We had a great time at the Indiana Hunter Jumper Association banquet celebrating the 2024 season! In addition to riding awards, two of our riders, Kathy Shoemaker and Banu Heydarpour, were nominated for IHJA Sportsmanship awards. We are lucky to have such a great team. We are excited to see where 2025 takes all of these talented riders 🎉

12/26/2024

Chilly celebrating the best way - glitter at WEC 😍 Merry Christmas!

Happy holidays from our World Equestrian Center family to yours! 🎁

12/18/2024

12/16/2024

We had an incredible time at WEC winter classic 2! We even celebrated with some glitter and our incredible braider Jen Davis did some super holiday themed braids. It was so fun!

Banu Heydarpour and Callaghan put down incredible rounds at Banu’s first rated show. They ended up reserve champion in the limit hunter and 9th in the classic!

Maggie White and Chinchilla successfully moved up to the 3’, they were champion in the Children’s Equitation and had lovely children’s Hunter rounds!

Marlowe Martin and Abby Dabby Doo were reserve champion in the small pony hunter, Abby is ready for 2025 pony finals already!

Charlotte Mould rode Kathy Shoemaker’s Corbally Marty in the Low Children’s and Intermediate Children’s eq, the pair had great rounds and finished in the ribbons in large classes. Charlotte and Dewy also had a great round in the non-pro derby, they were bumped from the handy by only 1 point!

Claire Williams and Motor City got back into the show ring together and had great rounds in the low adult hunters. They finished 9th in the low adult hunter classic!

Catherine Walz and Catching Fire had a great time at Catherine’s first rated show! They had a first place finish in the intermediate children’s eq fences, and multiple second and third place finishes in the low children’s hunter! They finished 8th in the low children’s classic.

Grace Schubert and Strawberry had a fantastic show, finishing 1st in the 0.80 Intermediate Jr/Ams on Friday, 2nd on Saturday, and 3rd in the classic on Sunday!

Boris De Bruz and Ava Auvil did great in the 0.90 Novice Jr/Ams, the pair finished first on Friday thanks to their impressive speed and tidy tracks.

Leah Sousa and Corallo J had lovely consistent rounds in the Low Adults and finished 3rd in the classic!

Allison Staub and Promise van de Watering had great rounds in the low adult hunters, they were 12th in the Classic! Promise van de Watering also had lovely trips in the USHJA 2’6” with Amy Ochoa.

Orchard Hill Chocolatier and Ashley Arend made progress together in the baby greens!

Gracie Guenthner’s horse Virgo had great rounds in the 3’3” performance, ribboning in large classes!

It was a great week!

12/02/2024

Join IHJA today to be a member for the 2025 show year!

IHJA Members, today is December 1st - the 2025 horseshow year has officially begun! IHJA membership does NOT auto renew, you must join and sign up your horse if you wish to receive points for the 2025 show year.

If you compete at a show this month, you must be a member of IHJA before the end of the horseshow on Sunday if you want points from that particular show to count towards your 2025 year end total.

Don’t wait, join today at in-hja.org/join.php and ensure all of your points count for this year. We are excited for another great year of IHJA!

11/29/2024

The IHJA Banquet is approaching, Jan 4 2025! Please be sure to RSVP by Dec 1, 2024. If you have not received your invite in the mail, please email [email protected] to get information emailed!

Additionally, we will be looking for items for our silent auction and raffle! If you know of any donors or have a donation, please reach out to a board member or email the IHJA secretary!

11/18/2024

a bit late, but we celebrated Halloween at WEC! It was a great week in October, great job everyone!

09/29/2024

It was a great weekend learning from TJ LeBlanc of Fox Ridge Farms! TJ brings years of experience and expertise, it is always an incredible time when he is here. Thank you TJ, and thank you Amy for putting this weekend together.

09/24/2024

We had a great time at Lamplight Equestrian Center last week! Great job everyone 🎉🙌🦄

09/05/2024

Yesterday we lost Beau to a very fast moving and rapidly progressing colic. We will miss this incredibly sweet horse, he was one of a kind.

Hug your horse extra tight today, every day is a gift with them ❤️🦄 Huge thank you to Janssen Vet Clinic for the incredible care Beau received yesterday. We are grateful for all of the doctors and techs that work so hard to help our horses.

09/03/2024

Congratulations to Claire Williams on the purchase of Cadbury! We are excited to see these two in action 🙌🤩🎉

08/28/2024

Happy birthday to our head trainer Amy Tilson Ochoa! We are so lucky to know you! 🎉🙌

08/17/2024

Marlowe Martin and Abby Dabby Doo conquered their first pony finals! This pair ended up 25th in a fences class, and 49th overall out of 123 competitors!

So proud of these two 🥹🥰 We can’t wait to watch what the future holds for this special young rider, she’s off to do some great things! Go get em Marlowe! 🤩🎉

08/13/2024

Two weeks ago we wrapped up a great week at Kentucky Summer Classic!

There were lots of highlights in some very competitive classes!
Leah Sousa and Corallo J finished 2nd out of 34 in the Children’s Hunter Classic.
Grace Schubert and Strawberry walked away with some wins in the 0.90 Jr/Am jumpers.
Gracie Guenthner and Virgo won an over fences in the children’s hunter.
Sarah Gould and Promise van de Watering placed 8th out of over 40 competitors in the adult eq.
Marlowe Martin and Abby Dabby Doo had a great weekend prepping for their first pony finals 😍🎉 (pony finals pics to come later)

Everyone did a great job! 👏

08/13/2024

We had a wonderful weekend at the IHJA Annual Show, great job to everyone!

Maggie White and Chinchilla were 3rd in the 2’6” IHJA Medal finals, 5th in the 2’6”-3’ derby, champion in the intermediate rider equitation, and reserve champion in the low children’s hunter.

Banu Heydarpour and Callaghan finished second in the IHJA 2’ medal finals, 3rd in the 2’-2’3” hunter derby, champion in the long stirrup equitation, and reserve champion in the long stirrup hunter!

Corbally Marty and Catherine Walz were 9th in the IHJA 2’-2’3” hunter derby, champion in the 2’3” equitation, and reserve champion in the 2’3” hunters.

Penny Cole and Nickelback finished 5th in the 2’-2’3” hunter derby, were reserve champion in the 2’3” equitation, and won the high point TIP hunter award!

Amelia Weddle and Spectible Brillance had multiple top 3 finishes, and finished 4th in the 2’-2’3” hunter derby!

It was everyone’s first time in either medal finals or a hunter derby - everyone did an incredible job. Good job everyone!

08/10/2024

Congratulations to our two medal finalists in the Indiana Hunter Jumper Association Medal Finals!

Banu Heydarpour finished 2nd in the IHJA 2’ Medal!
Maggie White finished 3rd in the IHJA 2’6” Medal!

Great job ladies!

08/01/2024

Last week we wrapped up our 4th and final week of summer camp! IEA team camp is the perfect way to end the summer and gear up for the IEA season. Huge thank you to Dr. Lexi Miller from Janssen Vet clinic for talking to our campers!

07/16/2024

Last week wrapped up our 3rd week of camp! It was a great week with lots of learning and fun. Thank you to Dr Lexi Miller from Janssen Vet Clinic for giving our campers a very educational talk, it was great! Thankful for all our amazing helpers and horses for such a great week 🦄❤️