Welcome McKenna!!!!

Wow, there are so many cool things happening around here at the moment!  Lots of excitement in the last few days!  The biggest news is that we are moving to a fabulous new facility in Burlington, KY where I will be teaching all of the dressage and jumping lessons.  There is also a Natural Horsemanship trainer available on site.  The farm is almost 100 acres with ample turnout, indoor arena, 12x12 and 10x12 matted stalls (exterior stalls have windows to the outside!), hot/cold indoor washrack, loads of hacking and galloping, climate controlled tack room and lounge, and a 130x200 sand outdoor to be completed this spring.  It's awesome and we are sooo excited!  Full board, training, and lessons available.  More info and pics to follow very soon.

In other big news, we have finally found the perfect person to lease our beloved Cheddars!  The Miller family will be leasing Cheds for their 11yr old daughter McKenna and it is a perfect fit!  We have turned a few people away, but McKenna and her family are just delightful!  She's also an excellent little rider I might add!  Cheds still has a lot left to teach someone and this will hopefully work out great.  He will remain in our barn which is even better! 

On a final note, we took Snoopy and Dougie cross country schooling yesterday and overall it was a great, educational day for both.  The only thing Snoopy needed to accomplish was to jump as many ditches and coffins as he could stand after our little mishap at Sporting Days and he was great.  He jumped through the Prelim coffin about a hundred times and I think I got my point across!  We also jumped up and down the big steps which he handled like a pro.  He's really a very honest, intelligent little horse, just a tad ditchy.  This was Dougie's very first cross country school and he wasn't too sure about it at first.  Scott did a good job with him though, and I got on him at the end just to try to get his confidence up.  Mission accomplished!  He is a bit chicken about the water though, so we'll have to work on that.  He behaved like a total gentleman all day. 

Today is dressage test day for Snoops, so off we go to work on that Prelim test!

Until next time.....