Meadow Creek Training

06/07/2026

Evie JC name Loveumom is a 2022 OTTB mare that is built like a tank, quiet as a mouse, and sweet as pie. One of the best 4yr old horses I've ever had the pleasure of owning and riding. She came to me as a 3yr old and had a wonderful initial slow restart. She is easy to handle on the ground and under saddle. No spook I've seen yet, quiet and capable in new environments and absolutely always ready for work and attention. Evie goes well WTC, has a solid start on lateral movement, and looks fabulous English or Western. I initially had her with 2 good professional Trainers/Friends to slowly start foundation work to move onto the barrel pattern. She hasn't been shown the pattern yet but honestly may never get the "speed" button to click🙃. Evie would easily clean up in Ranch classes, Hunters, or learn to be a fun and capable trail/endurance partner. She has never met a stranger and incorporates into a herd well. She is comfortable with pigs, chickens, farm equipment, pool parties(our pool is right by the pasture), and ESPECIALLY cows. Evie is quite cowy and always game to go with you to move/track them. She really is an incredible horse at such a young age. I had every intention of keeping her but with our focus turning to having our own small herd of Dexter cattle and more time to travel with our kids and camper, she deserves to find somewhere else to keep being the star she is.

No maintenance (Smartpak with basics)
Front shoes
Ties, Grooms, Bathes, Loads
Easy for Vet/Farrier
Solid eater/drinker
Steady at home and new places
7even,○●○
Located in Burgaw NC
Many current videos
UTD shots and Coggins

05/27/2026

Evie enjoyed getting back to work at home this morning ☀️💜🐴

05/22/2026

Hank is a handsome and thick boy looking for his next partner. He is a stout 4yr old Registered AQHA Gelding standing at 15.2hh. He has a comfortable WTC both directions and could be easily finessed for the Ranch division or the Hunter world. He has not been shown fences yet but could easily accommodate a multitude of jobs thrown at him. He gets along well with others, UTD on vaccines and Coggins. No maintenance other than front plates which he came with. He recently went to a local Ranch show and did wonderful in the new environment and was quiet in his classes. If interested please contact Rebecca Buck Taylor.

05/01/2026

Jess A Rare Cookie is the kind of stallion that brings speed, and a willing mind. Everything you want stamped in your colts.
Stacked with proven bloodlines and built to perform.
💰 Stud fee $850 +shipping, (only chute fee to book)
📩 2026 contracts are available
14.3 hands▪️e/e A/a n/w20▪️6 panel n/n

Standing at Langdon Farms
Owned by Haley Moseley & Pelham Plantation

04/28/2026

03/29/2026

In absolutely every and any discipline, putting in the proper work prior to competition is essential. Many Trainers can make your horse perform much better than you as the owner ever could. Unfortunately when the owner/rider is in the saddle the outcome is most likely not the same. This isn't meant to be insulting or demeaning, it is literally just factual until the owner/rider puts in the same time and effort. As a Trainer I spend hours weekly on a horse. Those hours are absolutely not just working under saddle. Those hours involve the clients horse being an "adult" and solid citizen for grooming, tacking, lunging etc. A client horse being able to properly lunge on a line all 3 gaits, their ability to do some form of ground training ie Long lining or Ground Driving, is incredibly important. If you cannot achieve proper steering, brakes, and lateral movement on the ground then your chances of it being successful under saddle are moot. Stop rushing. Stop skipping steps your Trainer DIDN'T. And more importantly, think of the horse first. They don't know you expect things of them, so don't be surprised when they offer something wildly different than what you foresaw. ☀️🐴

03/25/2026

✨ FOR SALE: ASIL Gold Hunter✨

If you’re looking for a safe, dependable, all-around gelding, meet Hunter.

Hunter is a registered Half Arabian × TWH (non-gaited) with a kind eye and an eye catching champagne color. He’s the type that meets you at the gate, stands to be handled, and takes care of his people every step of the way.

He’s been exposed to a little bit of everything from everyday ranch life, to being loved on by kids, and handles it all with a level head. Whether you’re wanting a solid partner, a confidence builder, or a family horse you can enjoy, he checks a lot of boxes.

🟡 Gentle and easy to be around
🟡 Good ground manners
🟡 Stands tied, saddles, baths
🟡 Used around kids and commotion
🟡 Smooth-moving and comfortable
🟡 Happy to go down the trail or just hang out
🟡14.3 hands 6.5 years old (7/8/19)
🟡6️⃣5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣

Hunter isn’t advertised as a finished show horse (though he could compete in the ranch/trail), he’s your reliable, honest, go-to gelding for real-life riding and enjoyment.

Located in Willard, NC
Hauling Available
PM for more info, and videos. Videos and pictures also on the Pelham Plantation page.

Serious inquiries only — good home is a must. 🐴💛

03/25/2026

What a Bad Trainer!
By Gaye Derusso

So you send your horse in for training. It’s got bad behavior, a bad gait, or it’s just bad-bad. Like “I found it in a kill pen and thought, ‘Perfect first horse!’” kind of bad. Excellent life choices so far.

You decide you need help. (Good start.) You pick a trainer and ship your discount dragon off. If the trainer’s good—and spoiler, not all are—they fix as much as they can in the tiny, ridiculous little window you gave them. You hand them 30–60 days and say, “Hi, can you please turn Satan into a kid-safe babysitter? Thanks.”

This trainer pours their entire heart, soul, spine, and possibly a few internal organs into your horse. They spend 2–6 hours a day with it. They ride it, lunge it, desensitize it, pray over it, negotiate with it, and occasionally reconsider all their life choices—all because you gave them two months to undo years of mystery trauma and bad riding.

They get bruised, stepped on, bitten, sunburned, and emotionally damaged. They are out there trying to turn water into wine, except the water bites and kicks.

And the great ones? They actually make it work.

You show up, climb aboard like you’re mounting a bar stool, do literally everything wrong—lean forward, yank on the reins, clutch with your legs, flop around like a fish in a dryer—and the horse still goes, “Okay… I’ll try.” It stops, it turns, it doesn’t immediately launch you into orbit. Miracle.

You’re thrilled. Trainer’s silently wheezing inside. They smile, say, “You’re doing great!” and cross every finger and toe they have as you load the horse up. You drive away buzzing, and where do you go first? Straight to Facebook: “BEST TRAINER EVER OMG!”
And then… it happens.

You get home. You’ve had one lesson. Maybe seven, if you’re fancy. You now consider yourself a semi-professional. Then life shows up: work, those damn kids, the hubby or wife, the dog, the neighbor, Netflix, the couch. You don’t practice. Or when you do, you do it… creatively.

Because let’s be honest: seven lessons doesn’t make you a trainer. Seven riding lessons barely makes you a competent passenger.

You don’t book more lessons. You don’t buy a Pivo. You don’t video yourself. You just head to the arena and freestyle your way into chaos.

Slowly—or very quickly, lol—you start peeling the training off that horse like duct tape off a hairy leg. A wrong cue here, a missed correction there, some accidental punishment for the right answer, a reward for the wrong one… and boom. The poor animal is speaking Spanish, you’re yelling in French, and nobody knows what’s happening.

Then you pick up your phone:

“I don’t know what’s wrong with this horse! It was PERFECT with you! Now it’s dangerous and won’t listen!”

Trainer: “Send it back in, and you need more lessons.”

You: “That’s stupid. I already did that and it didn’t work.”

Plot twist: It did work. You just undid it.

Because guess what? It’s not the horse.
It’s you.

You’re not a trainer. Your timing is off. Your feel is off. Your balance is off. Your reins are uneven, your legs are doing the Macarena, and your core took a personal day. You give the wrong cue at the wrong time, then get mad when your horse doesn’t psychically guess what you meant instead of what you actually did.

But wait, it gets better.

Now you have another genius idea: Facebook.

You log in and type, with righteous fury: “My trainer RUINED my horse. It’s DANGEROUS now. I can’t even ride it!”

Yes, clearly the problem started after the professional, who rides 5–10 horses a day, fixed your bargain-bin dragon and handed it back in working order. Definitely not when you, who rides twice a month on a good year, climbed aboard and started pressing buttons like an unsupervised toddler on a nuclear control panel.

That trainer did everything right—except maybe one thing: they didn’t sit you down, look you in the eye, and say, “Hey. Even if I turn your horse into a saint, you still need training. Lots of it. Repeatedly. Forever.”

Because here’s the truth nobody wants on a T-shirt:
I can train your horse. I cannot magically install skills in you via Wi-Fi.

A trainer can start the process. They can put on the buttons, explain the settings, and hand you a freshly updated model. But you have to learn how to ride it. You need to learn balance, timing, feel, leg aids, hand softness, body control, and the advanced art of “not becoming a flying lawn dart when things go sideways.”

You need experience. You need to make mistakes, fix them, fall off, get back on, cry a little, laugh a little, and do it all again. That’s how riders are made.

I always tell clients:

“I can train your horse. I can put all the right buttons on it. But you can rip them off in a week. If you don’t also get trained, you will need a full-time trainer to fix your horse every week so you can un-fix it again every weekend.”

What a sad little loop for that poor horse.

Honestly, I’m shocked horses don’t kill more people. Not because they’re mean, but because we are:

• Lazy
• Inconsistent
• Overconfident
• Undereducated
• And somehow offended that riding actually requires effort

We expect them to be:

• Calm after two months off
• Polite while they’re young and stuffed with rocket fuel
• Perfectly balanced while we flop around like a sack of laundry in a windstorm
• Totally fine with us yanking on their face while gripping their sides like a nutcracker

Then we’re shocked—shocked!—when they say, “I’m uncomfortable and confused” in the only language they’ve got: bucking, bolting, rearing, or just tuning us out.

If the trainer does everything right and you do everything wrong, it’s not that the trainer failed. It’s that you didn’t do your job.
It’s your horse. It’s your responsibility. It’s your riding.

If you can’t or don’t want to put in the work, that’s your choice. Totally valid. Get a pasture pet, get a horse you pay someone else to ride, or don’t ride at all.

But don’t you dare blame the trainer who:

• Got on your bargain-bin dragon when you were scared to
• Risked getting launched into low orbit
• Poured their heart, soul, time, and body into making it safer

All so you could go home, skip your homework, and then bash them on Facebook.

What a bad trainer, huh?

Sure. Let’s go with that.

03/04/2026

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03/02/2026

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