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Future Performance Horses ***Future Performance Horses*** FPH is a training, boarding, and breeding facility known for producing World Champion-quality performance and sport horses.

We are conveniently located right off Exit 310 on I-65 in Cullman, between Huntsville and Birmingham, AL. Let our 30+ years of experience showing and winning help you develop your future performance horse!

Baby Sainte did a skinny, some serious splicing, and quite a few legitimate rollbacks this past weekend! Most importantl...
26/06/2025

Baby Sainte did a skinny, some serious splicing, and quite a few legitimate rollbacks this past weekend! Most importantly, she turned out a ton of confident double clear rounds! Icing on the cake was two thirds, each out of 23, and a 4th in Sunday’s stakes class, out of 17. She moved up four placings from her last money class (we still aren’t asking for any speed, just consistent accuracy) and almost earned enough to pay her own entry fee. 😂🙌🦄 Such a fun ride! I’ll put some video clips in the comments at some point, I just wanted to hurry up and get this posted quick, while I had a second! Enormous appreciation for the two awesome professional photographers, who stuck it out through sweltering 106° temperatures, to grab some great shots of my little sports car! e.reillyphotography and laura.ayres.photography 🥰

The Mohawk on Spike seems fitting, especially since he is ironically the sweetest little man, despite his “bad boy” 😎 mo...
19/06/2025

The Mohawk on Spike seems fitting, especially since he is ironically the sweetest little man, despite his “bad boy” 😎 moniker. 😆 Also, his new Quillin halter and lead with his big kid name have arrived! 🥰 When Lauren and Jennifer steal him from me and geld him to be an ammy packer for his sunscreen mommies, they insist his barn name will be Monty instead. 🙃

The sometimes rodeo-reality of getting baby horses experience in the ring. 🤪😅 Thank you, richard_force_photography, for ...
08/06/2025

The sometimes rodeo-reality of getting baby horses experience in the ring. 🤪😅 Thank you, richard_force_photography, for capturing this magnificent mixed bag of spectacular show moments. 😆🦄🙌 Oh Sainte... 🙂‍↔️🦋

08/06/2025

When there’s literally no pony else’s saddle in which I’d rather be sitting… to ground poles or big ol’ oxers… Éowyn is always ethereal. 🥰🦄 Don’t know what I did to deserve her, but not a day goes by that I don’t thank God for the gift He gave me - tongue blep and all. 😋

03/06/2025

How I know what I know is the way to go… I made this one, too, from legit scratch (she’s homebred, lol), and you won’t find a more confident newly five year old cookie in the carton. 😉🥰🦄

Thank you SOOOOOO much to people like BJ, Chance, Kendall, and Jay for putting on local shows like these with generous schooling and rings run better than at even international events, so we can get our horses and humans out and about!

We can’t wait to be back for Jumper Nights next week!!! 😘

03/06/2025

Sellers love to post dramatic pictures of horses over jumping fences, and, as much as the next rider with big track aspirations, I appreciate knowing the scope is in there; however, if I’m bringing one along, over-jumping is a tell-tale sign my horse may be overwhelmed by the questions she is being asked, so it’s a bright red flag waving with reason to back off a bit.

Sainte has had a really busy first show season, especially for such a young horse fresh out of the field only eight months ago, and, so far, she has responded to all the exposure with enthusiasm. However, on Saturday, Icarus almost flew a little too high.

The opportunity arose to hang out with our AHJA friends at River Pine Farm, so we happily hauled to Huntsville! We enjoyed catching up with everyone in the stunning sunshine, then… whether it was because she had only seen full hunter fill once before, or because the line was light gray, or because she didn’t get a chance to school the fences prior to completing her courses, I will never know... but what I DO know, is my baby pony jumped the absolute ish out of the in anddddd the out, and then she came back to refuse there on the next course.

Both of these reactions are out of character for her, so we went again to clarify the quandary (one handed - I got a little proactive to convince her we were super sure), celebrated big time (pat, pat, pat pat, perfect pony), and then came home to step it way, waaaaaaaay down the next day.

Sunday morning, we all focused on opening up our stride and using it to get the step - straight - through lines and lines of ground poles. Then we did it again over inviting 2’3” speed bumps. Luckily, there were no residual ill effects to be found and only continued progress to be made!

Sainte has the coming weekend off and then a fun cross country clinic to attend at Copper Top with our favorite eventer, Jim Graham, on June 15th - this will strategically serve to further build her base and teach her to read questions intelligently instead of panicking and resorting to over reaction in the face of excess information.

This little bay mare is beyond special to me and every precaution is being taken to ensure she loves her job and will eventually jump THIS big over fences that are actually this BIG. 😅❤️🦄

Shepherd and Spike Lee got fly sprayed for the first time tonight, and they would both very much like to report me to wh...
29/05/2025

Shepherd and Spike Lee got fly sprayed for the first time tonight, and they would both very much like to report me to whomever might hear their complaints regarding inhumane abooooose of future gray baybays. Actually, I think they accepted it better than Éowyn still does to this day. 😅 And, regardless, they were quite appreciative afterwards, when the barrage of flying pests all of a sudden vanished like magic. 😝🪄🦟🪦

I love Shep’s blissful ignorance that his mother, Annie, is theeeee mafia missus. This sweet, chonky, little butter bean...
28/05/2025

I love Shep’s blissful ignorance that his mother, Annie, is theeeee mafia missus. This sweet, chonky, little butter bean, muddy meatball is simply living his best life, playing in the brand new bale of hayyyyy, while, unbeknownst to him, he’s never not under the watchful eye of the queen herself. A subtle flick of those ears or single grind of those teeth and dogs, cats, birds, allllllll other horses, and even hippopotamuses alike immediately duck and cover. She had Eden, her lady in waiting, babysitting him yesterday, while she went grazing clear across the field. And like any good people’s prince, Shepling’s not stuck up about it one bit; he sees himself and sweet Spike as solid equals! 🥰🦄❤️

Stepping backwards slowly to move forwards fast… We are heavy on the horsemanship around here, so, after our warm-up Fri...
28/05/2025

Stepping backwards slowly to move forwards fast…

We are heavy on the horsemanship around here, so, after our warm-up Friday in Alpharetta, I confidently made the call to skip showing that afternoon and then change Adele’s entries to a bunch of remedial rounds ranging from 0.70-0.85. (For reference, she and I did the 1.20m last time we competed together at Brownland, lol!) What’s more, on Sunday, I strategically chose to only do the Open Clear courses because their design supported the rideability we were after.

There was ZERO shame in my game - heck, I bought three professional pictures of someone else’s horse because I was so darn proud of her, lol! They each represent a major improvement that occurred over these three days, as a result of this adjusted approach we took to advancing her technique and bolstering her confidence.

Your trainer isn’t just there to be the ballsy one that bops your baby over the bigger stuff, more often than not she’s probably the one begging you to go back to the beginning and should be the one most willing to bang out the “boring” basics in the background. It’s not how high you jump your horse, but how well you do it, that really matters in my opinion. 🥰 The silver lining is that Adele’s so fun, she still made these fences feel like they were 1.60m in Miami. 🦄😁

Thank you, Jennifer, for being an awesome owner - trusting me and still footing the show bill for what I said she needed, regardless of how far I strayed from our original plan, probably wasn’t easy in the moment from a state away. 😅

And thank you, Lauren and Ally, for your help with her in every little way this weekend! Unless you have developed a show horse from start to finish, it’s nearly impossible to understand and appreciate all the delicate details and millions of minutes that are invested in eventually turning out a happy, healthy hopper! 😅🙌

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