KevyGo Riding

08/12/2025

So many congratulations are in order! First up congratulations to our riders Ruby, Paige and Madi for their stellar performances at HEA this past weekend, each of them bringing home several hard earned ribbons with partners Molly, Fox and Tilly!

Madi and Tilly are both new to showing, but took everything in stride. They figured each other out better and better each class, I couldn’t be prouder!

Tilly and I had a lot of fun in the jumper thing as well, bumping up to 2’ for the first time on Sunday and racked up 950 points the gamblers choice for 2nd place!

Ruby and Molly had their best weekend yet, coming home with division champion and reserve champion ribbons!

The biggest congratulations, however, goes to Paige, who not only brought home a reserve champion ribbon of her own, but won it on HER “new” pony Fox! They have proven themselves to be such a dream team, when her parents approached me about buying Fox I really couldn’t say no. I can’t wait to see what adventures these two get up to!

07/03/2025

This isn’t something I normally do, but I know this girl and this breaks my heart. She’s had a tougher go in life than many people her age, and I couldn’t believe it when I heard what happened at the show last Friday.

This sport is dangerous. Sarah is a very good rider, who puts in tons and tons of practice time and isn’t reckless.

Please donate if you can. If not, at least take an extra moment to check that your helmet fits properly and is stored correctly (NOT saying Sarah’s helmet was the issue here but want all riders to understand how important helmets are, and that helmets stored in hot cars, helmets that have hit the ground in a fall, or been dropped/tossed around, are subject to not protecting YOUR head as well as it should, and even helmets that have been properly taken care of and not in any crashes should still be replaced every few years!)

https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/63lonz?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLTX19leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvsBwkoR0hdiv7jNGJGkPF418Qj9Wns43UV8UYqZbWifIxXUC8HrceF07c_n_aem_kW5wyXFuIcyQwNaiq3khAA

On Friday evening June 27 Sarah sustained a significant brain injury while at a horse show near Columbus and lost consciousness. She was taken by squad to Nationwide Children’s Hospital and within minutes was rushed into emergency brain and skull surgery. We are hopeful for a positive outcome with...

06/18/2025

Days 2 and 3 of camp kinda blurred together, and I failed to get pics yesterday, but I made up for it today! We designed and painted our own ground poles (and some muck buckets, by default) rode with our own self-made “look up” glasses (which helped immensely!) did lots of ba****ck riding (witsome beautiful canters, even!) made a packing list for taking the horses offsite, and finished the day doing a blindfolded obstacle course (on foot) which was hilarious and harder than they thought it would be! Tomorrow is the last day, we’ll be doing their own dressage tests and utilizing our fancy new pole sets!

06/16/2025

Day camp day 1! I only took students for camps this summer due to some personal health issues I was dealing with at the time I had to post camp sign ups. Next year I plan to offer the open camps again, but for this year having all regular students has offered a great opportunity to work on more advanced skills and knowledge! Today after a great (but challenging!) ride we learned how to read the feed bag labels and then create a diet based on the weight and work load of each horse. We also made up our own saying to remember the order of the dressage letters, and will be working on making up our own freestyle tests throughout the week! Of course we ended with some ba****ck fun and tons of giggles 🙂

05/24/2025

My shy girl left today for her adoptive home! She will be very missed for sure, but I’m so proud of her and the progress she made here. Thank you to Embers of Hope Equine Rescue for giving me to opportunity to love and help her. I hope you go on to do so many good things with your life, pretty girl!

04/16/2025

We are home and recovered from a FANTASTIC weekend at Equine Affaire! We had 5 horses and 7 riders going in 16 different clinics, plus two riders in the first ever Ohio Breed Bonanza.

We all learned so much, solidified things we already knew, grew our confidence, and found inspiration for the upcoming riding season!

Molly and I got to learn how to work cattle, a lifelong dream of mine, which was so much fun I am now going to have to find somewhere to continue that journey closer to home. I also got to ground drive a team of Percherons!

Sherman (on his anniversary of being adopted at Equine Affaire 3 years ago!) carried two riders through Breed Bonanza, which is an equitation style flat class where any breed and discipline can enter and be judged against their own breed standards. Competitors were scored by 3 judges in 3 categories, and points were tallied at the end to determine winners. There was a wide variety of horses, including Quarter Horses, Gaited Breeds, Friesans, Thoroughbreds, Standardbreds, Morgans, and other Saddlebreds. Sherman came home with a top 3 finish in the youth class with Paige aboard, and a 6th place in the adult division with Melissa G catch riding him after her lovely mare Coco said I’m too tired to go again today, mom. This was such a cool event to watch, I can’t wait to try it again with more horses and riders next year!

02/23/2025

This pretty girl is ready to start looking for her forever home. Her buddy Bubbles found hers, now it’s Cheyenne’s turn!

01/03/2025

12/18/2024

We were feeling festive last night!

10/07/2024

We finally made it to our first Happily Ever After show of the season this past weekend, and we were so glad to be back! The 4 horses in our group this time were all thoroughbreds, who each dutifully carried riders of a different age and level. What testament to the versatility of the breed!

Congratulations to Melissa G and her lovely mare Coco, whom she adopted at Equine Affaire just 6 months ago, on their division champion win in the 2’ hunters!

Another big congratulations to Maeve and Zoey on winning reserve champs of the 2’ jumpers in Zoey’s return to the show ring after over a year! Maeve has worked Zoey back into competitive form so diligently and thoughtfully all summer, I couldn’t be more proud of the pair and their resilience and the beautiful bond they have developed.

Maeve and Melissa were on fire all weekend; Saturday evening they showed as a team in the pairs jumping class, bringing home a 3rd in a large and very competitive field!

Little Ruby and Jay made such a stylish debut at the most formal show they’ve done together so far, putting on the best possible performances as a new pair that we could have ever asked for. They really are two peas in a pod and we are all so excited to watch them continue to learn and grow together! One of the most impressive things was the positive, relaxed attitude they both maintained all weekend. Ruby said that one of her favorite parts of the whole show was getting to take care of her own horse and hang out with him all day!

It was a joy to watch my good friend and colleague Kaylie Eaves and her horse Mahina put their bond to the test as well this weekend, braving a lot of firsts for both of them. They accomplished everything they set out to do, learned a lot, and are eager to try again in the future!

So much else has happened in the past month I haven’t had the chance yet to post about, but now that I’m further on the mend from my hand injury and things are starting to wind down for the event season I hope to get back to regular programming soon!

09/15/2024

The pace results were posted late last night and these two placed 6th out of 11 teams! The course was 4.42 miles long, ideal time for the slow division was 1:06:17 and Melissa & Sally did it in 1:00:07. Not too bad for a first timer and a second timer!

09/14/2024

Even though I’m a little sad I can’t ride this Rocky Fork Headley Hunt hunter pace myself while I’m broken, I’m thrilled things worked out for two of my students to still have the opportunity to go have fun!