Lone Oak Farm

03/12/2025

🌸Lone Oak Farm welcomed in spring at the beautiful Texas Rose Horse Park for Spring Kick-Off I and II🌸

Highlights

Freestyle and Caro Bookman moved up to the 1.20/1.25 with so much success. Top placings in every class, Reserve Champion in the 1.20 division, and wrapping up their week with a second place finish in the $5,000 1.25 Classic. Goals met and knocked out of the park!!! 🌸

Calling Card and Laura Sisson continued to find their groove at the shows with many breathtaking jumps(knees to nose) and a Champion Ribbon in the Adult Hunters. Love being a part of this team!!!🌸

Confetti and Phoebe Ainsworth Baessler quality cantered around the Adult Hunter ring with top three placings and so many good jumps!!! I adore this team and love seeing their hard work paying off!!! 🌸

Don Good Owned by Johnny Nichols got the sister duo both weeks and as always was the best boy. With Meghan Nichols, he was Champion and Reserve Champion in the 3’6” Performance. Crowning each week with Meghan placing in the National Hunter Derby with scores in the high 80’s🌸 With Jennifer Nichols Pesnell up, they had winning rounds in the Adult Hunters, flat class wins, and wrapped up our time at TRHP as Adult Hunters 36+ Champion!!! The joy this horse brings to our family is unmatched!!! 🌸

Mr. Cielo Z and Meghan had the best time in the jumper ring!!! So many smooth fun rounds. Wrapping up their two weeks Reserve Champion in the 1.20 Jumpers and 2nd place in the $5,000 1.25 Classic. So excited for where this team will go!!! 🌸

Meghan also got to meet up with Laureen McKenzie and all her amazing horses!!! Under Laureen’s mentorship, she piloted their horses to Championships, Reserve Championships, and a National Derby Win. Thank you for sharing your horses and knowledge!!! 🌸

As always, Thank You to everyone who supports us!!!

Red River Equine Hospital
Double Oak Tack
Renaissance Saddles Texas
Equine Elixirs
Horse Led Healing
Reagan Avery
Jerry Mohme Photography

11/28/2024

🍁🍁🍁Happy Thanksgiving🍁🍁🍁

11/25/2024

Lone Oak Farm spent two fabulous weeks in Katy, Texas for Southbound Show Management Harvest/Zone Finals and Great Southwest Equestrian Center Final Chase.

Harvest/Zone Finals Highlights

Don Good, owned by Johnny Nichols, had a stellar week. With Meghan Nichols in the irons, he had great placings in the 3’6” Green Hunters and wrapped up his time with her with a fourth place finish in the USHJA Green Hunter Regional Championships. With Jennifer Nichols Pesnell on top, they continued their adult hunter partnership and finished the week Reserve Champion in the Middle Adults and Zone Finals Champion in the Middle Adult Hunters!!!

Twoshotsofcrown and Kerrigan Welch continue to impress us with their hard work, dedication , and success!!! Their week consisted of multiple top placings in their equitation class and Zone Finals Champion TB Jumpers!!!

Mr. Cielo Z and Meghan Nichols continued to get in their groove at the 1.20’s. They look like they are having a blast and he’s jumping amazing!!!

Final Chase

Confetti and Phoebe Ainsworth Baessler knocked their 2024 goal out of the park: qualifying and competing in the THJA Low Adult Medal Finals were they ended up Reserve Champion!!! So fun to be a part of this team!!!

Freestyle and Caro Bookman had a stellar show. Ribboning in every class out of a large competitive field. These two are on their way to an exciting move up!!!

Calling Card and Laura Sisson stepped back into the Adult Hunter ring after some time off and placed in every class. So happy to have Laura back showing with us and to see Logo loving it!!!

Korino Van Bueren and Lola Potter joined us from Oklahoma and were super!!! Multiple good placings in large equitation classes with a top three finish in the USHJA 3’3” Jumper Seat Medal. Hoping we’ll get to spend more time with this pair!!! Thank you Meagan Decoursey for sharing her with us!!!

Mr. Cielo Z and Meghan Nichols kept cruising around the 1.20’s. The sky is the limit for these two.

Don Good owned by Johnny Nichols wrapped up his 3’6” Green year with great placings in the 3’6” Greens and competed in their first USHJA International Derby. The icing on the cake was finishing 12th. Looking if forward to many more Derby’s in this boys future!!!

A HUGE Thank You to everyone who helps us, loves us, and supports us!!!

Double Oak Tack
Renaissance Saddles - TX
Megan Mullane/Windswept Farm
Equine Elixirs
Red River Equine Hospital
Reagan Avery

10/15/2024

🍁🍂Fall Fun🍂🍁

Don Good owned by Johnny Nichols was super for his first fall outing with both Meghan Nichols and Jennifer Nichols Pesnell. Meghan and Lewis had some amazing jumps in the 3’6” Greens and National Hunter Derby. Jennifer Pesnell took over the reins in the Adult Hunters to finish out Reserve Champion. We all Love Lewis!!! 🥇🥈🥉

Twoshotsofcrown and Kerrigan Welch knocked the summer dust off and were amazing in the jumper and equitation rings. Winning two TB Jumper classes, a second place finish in the THIS Medal, and finishing off their week with a sixth place finish in the 1.05 Jr/Am Classic. It’s been so fun helping this partnership continue to grow!! 😍🌟😍

Freestyle and Caro Bookman joined the LOF family in September. They knocked the socks off their first show with us!!! Wins in 1.10 and 1.15 Jr/Am Jumpers, sixth place finish in the 1.15 Jr/Am Classic, and wrapped up the week with Champion in the 1.10/1.15 Jr Jumpers. So excited to get to continue to work with this fabulous team while Caro is attending Louisiana Tech!!! Thank you Janet Talmadge and Ravenwood Farm for sharing this pair with us. 🥇🏆🥇

Calling Card owned by Laura Sisson took a fall field trip to Tyler. Meghan decided to show him on Friday and they had top three placing in a competitive 2’6” USHJA division. We are ready for Laura to get back from her trip and join us at the next show. 🤩🥈🤩

Mr. Cielo Z and Meghan had a fault free week and continued smooth rounds in the jumper ring. So excited for their future move up!!! 💓🎉💓

Thank you to Southbound Show Management for putting on a fabulous show. We always love showing at the Texas Rose Horse Park.

Special thank you to everyone who makes this happen.
Double Oak Tack
Red River Equine Hospital
Equine Elixirs

05/28/2024

Breeder owned 5 year old Hanoverian mare. "Mia" is by the elite Hanoverian stallion Cabalito and out of an imported KWPN mare by Flemmingh. Had 120 days under saddle last year before getting the winter off to chill. Has been back going since Spring. Lightly jumping and has lead changes. Fancy and sweet. Beautiful mover. Clean X-rays on file.

Full and half siblings (same dam) successfully competing in low adult hunters up to 3'6" juniors. Sire has tons of high performance hunter offspring.

Located in North Central Louisiana. 40k

Official video being made as soon as the weather cooperates but I do have some short clips available.

05/25/2024

💓Love This💓

9 Facts About Perfectionism: A mindset that must be unlearned or will ultimately bring your riding down 🧠

1. Every rider makes mistakes, even the best of the best.
It’s an unavoidable, universal experience and all a part of the sport.

2. Mistakes are learning opportunities.
You can grow from them and become better because of them.

3. Hyper-focusing on mistakes helps them happen.
They both become a self-fulfilling prophecy and take your focus away from your ride.

4. Mistakes mean you’re on the right track.
You can’t improve, learn, overcome challenges, and level up without them.

5. It’s not what happened but how you move forward from it that matters the most.
Moving on from the mistake matters more than the mistake itself.

6. Mistakes are temporary.
Work to fix and put them in the past instead of dwelling and allowing them to stick around.

7. Mistakes don’t define you.
You may have had a bad ride, but that doesn’t mean you’re a bad rider.

8. Social media only shows highlights.
Everyone is struggling whether they post about it or not.

9. Perfect doesn’t exist.
It’s impossible to meet unattainable expectations.

A perfectionist mindset and a lack of an ability to accept mistakes will do much more harm than good for an athlete’s mental performance. Mistakes are a normal part of sport and life. Everyone makes mistakes no matter how talented of an athlete they may be. Since perfect doesn’t exist, holding yourself to an unrealistic standard will only set you up for disappointment every ride. Instead, give yourself permission to make mistakes, using them to your advantage by viewing them as valuable feedback and learning opportunities. Refer to this post whenever you begin to feel hard on yourself, and remember that you are not alone! 🏇🏽💭✨
www.mindalignperformance.com

05/21/2024

Imagine you’re assigned a partner project in school. Only one of you gets to read the directions for the assignment, and then you have to explain it to your partner in a language that is secondary to both of you. You’d expect some miscommunications and misunderstandings, right?

That’s basically what’s happening while riding a horse. Whether in a lesson or a ride of your own direction, you as the rider are the only one who knows the assignment. It’s then your responsibility to relay that information to your horse, speaking through intention and cues that are a second language to both you and your horse. Your horse doesn’t understand what your trainer is saying he’s supposed to do - he’s relying on you to tell him.

Keep this in mind any time you’re riding and you feel like your horse isn’t listening, or you get frustrated with a missed distance or a sloppy transition. Remember that you’re the only member of this team who knows the assignment, and your horse is relying on you to tell him the game plan. Sometimes we make mistakes in our cues or our timing, we start thinking too many steps ahead or we forget to clue him into the next movement in time. Sometimes the horse is a little distracted, or tired, or not feeling it today. But most of the time, he’s doing his best he can with the information you’re giving him!

05/14/2024

Welcome to Trainer Tuesday! Each week we ask trainers a question and gather their answers for you. These trainers have a range of experience, backgrounds, and focus points of their programs, so the answers have as much variation as you would expect and also probably much more similarity. This week....

04/23/2024

🌷🌹Texas Rose Spring Festival Recap 🌷🌹

Copycat and Jennifer Pesnell had their three foot debut. Many top three placing an and an undersaddle win. This team has put in the hard work and it’s showing. 🥇🥉💓

Confetti and Phoebe Baessler had super rounds in the 2’6” Derby to end up third overall. They had a win and multiple lovely rounds in the Low Child/Adult Hunters. 🎉🥇🥉

Twoshotsofcrown and Kerrigan Welch continued building on their move up to 1.0/1.05 jumpers and the 3’ Equitation. Winning an equitation class and putting in lovely smooth rounds in the equitation and jumper rings. They wrapped up their show with a beautiful 5th place finish in the Classic. 🤩🎖️🤩

LVF Kosmo and Brianna Thomas-Smith had the best time in the jumper ring. This team put in lovely smooth and fast rounds all week. Their hard work paid off and they ended the week second in the Classic. Only one tenth of a second behind. 🏆🥈🏆

Don Good owned by Johnny Nichols had a super show with both Meghan Nichols and Jennifer Pesnell in the irons. Jennifer Pesnell took Lewis for a spin the Adult Hunters to ended up Reserve Champion and 2nd in the combined Adult Hunter Classic. Meghan and Lewis had a super time in the 3’6” Greens and the USHJA National Hunter Derby. So fun to watch this guy tackle both the Professional and Amateur Divisions with style.
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Mr. Cielo Z and Meghan Nichols are catching their stride again in the jumper ring. Finishing off with a double clear win in the 1.15’s. Time for these two to move up. 💓🆙💓

We got to meet up with our McKenzie Stables Family again. Meghan alway loves getting to ride with Laureen and show their super boys. Thank you to Laureen McKenzie, Courtney Stewart and Ginger Terrill!!! 💓🏆💓

A huge Thank You to Tyler Jasper for coming over to help us this week. Such a treat to be able to work another super professional!!! 🤩

03/11/2024

🎁Our second week at Texas Rose Horse Park is a wrap. 🎁

Texas Rose Spring Kickoff II Highlights

Don Good owned by Johnny Nichols earned Champion in the 3’6” Green Hunters and 2nd in the National Derby. We pumped about Lewis’s constant performances the past two weeks!!! 🏆🥈🏆

Confetti 🎉 and Phoebe Ainsworth Baessler had a amazingly consistent show with loads of top three placing and a 4th place finish in their first 2’6” Derby. Their handy round was 🥰. 🎉🏅🎉

Spotify’s Top Pick 🎸and Collins Jones stepped up to the Large Children’s Hunter Ponies with winning rounds. This kiddo and green pony have been doing their homework and this move up was super. 🥇📚🥇

Mr. Cielo Z and Meghan Nichols had great rounds in the 1.15’s and ended their show with a first place finish and a sunset ride.

LOF had the best supportive barn family and cannot wait for the rest of the year. 💓👨‍👩‍👧‍👧💓

Pics coming soon!!!

03/04/2024

🎉We are excited to be back in the show ring after our winter off🎉

Texas Rose Spring Kickoff I Highlights

Don Good owned by Johnny Nichols had some great trips his first time showing in the 3’6” to end up Reserve Champion and won the USHJA National Hunter Derby. 🥇🏆🥇

LVF Kosmo and Brianna Thomas Smith had a great show back in the jumper ring after graduating college and getting married. They had super rounds and won 🥇 a few classes. Excited to watch these two move up the levels!!!

Twoshotsofcrown and Kerrigan Welch moved up to the 1.0/1.05 jumpers and 3’ equitations and were stars. Winning rounds in the jumper ring and winning both classes of her age group equitation. ⭐️

Mr. Cielo Z and Meghan had good rounds in the jumper ring. Looking forward to being back in the groove with this guy. 🎉

Looking forward to week 2!!!