Lake Geneva Area Equestrian Center

06/29/2025

Our very first homebred baby pony made his showring debut at the age of 3 (almost 4) he was a rockstar at his first show and won his classes (he doesn’t jump) our baby Briar got 2nd in her huge classes in over fences and flat class

Congratulations to all the 5,6 and 7 year old ponies that made their Show debut! The future is bright 🌟

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06/21/2025

Rachel and our very own favorite school pony “marshmallow” (show name is Monkey Business) are making their eventing Debut at the FRVPC event today! They will be competing on the L’Esprit Interscholastic eventing league team. You can follow their scores as they complete each of the 3 phases!

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06/20/2025

I'm thrilled to share this proud coach moment - our team took first place in horse management and overall at their inaugural dressage rally competition! Several members experienced their first rally, and we saw incredible teamwork. Luis earned a sportsmanship award for his selfless help to other teams. Rachel and Luis, our experienced members, guided the newcomers to achieve this impressive feat. Charlie, new to Pony Club and riding, excelled as stable manager, keeping everyone organized and on schedule. Our youngest members, Lily and Ireland, showed remarkable spirit - despite Ireland's broken arm, she supported the team and contributed to their high scores in horse management but couldn’t ride . Lily, a first-time competitor, achieved exceptionally high scores in dressage and jumping, winning her combined test division. Luis secured the highest dressage score on Saturday, and both Rachel and Luis qualified for next summer's national Pony Club championships in Kentucky.

06/20/2025

What amazing week of learning and fun we had this week at our first Pony Camp of the summer! We finished the week honoring the most important participant, which is our ponies of course! The kids all made them “pony cakes” , which is a perfect mix of rolled oats and molasses, garnished with all things that ponies love like peppermint and sugar and carrots, the ponies were so grateful! We still have a few spots left at some of our camps through out the rest of the summer!

06/19/2025

Amazing first week in Pony Camp! Lots of smiles and learning! Everyone is doing the posting trot on a lunge line by day three! These kids have learned to lead their ponies safely, clean stalls and their tack, learn to tack up their ponies, and they are riding well enough to play mounted games on their ponies and even ride ba****ck! And it was so hot this week that the kids got to ride their ponies through the sprinklers, and finish with watermelon and popsicles for all! As soon as I can figure out this social media stuff, I will make some fun reels of all the fun filled activity.

05/18/2025

I love this.

Years ago I read an article about catch riders, those men and women who can get on a strange horse and go into a ring full of jumps and deal.

One phrase I remember well, and it was a description the author of the article used to describe Margie Engel.

She wrote, “Margie’s body is a tuning fork for the right canter.”

So ask yourself this question, those of you who jump---‘Is MY body a tuning fork for the right canter?”

If your answer is yes, you are good to go. If it is no, then there’s something to work on. And this same question can be asked about non-jumping canters, too. Dressage riders need good canters, and they are just one example.

04/30/2025

So after three super hard years of hard work with this Pony, Rachel gets to enjoy participating in the inter scholastic eventing championships in Aiken South Carolina this weekend. She will be representing the L’Esprit Area IV interscholastic eventing team!

Super excited for this opportunity to meet new kids who are also partaking in this sport and have some fun And so incredibly grateful to all the coaches and people that have helped Rachel along this journey!

04/16/2025

I was sad to read of his passing this week.

I never knew about his history of living through some terrible war era conditions and hos story is so inspirational

Coincidently I watched JJ Tates clinics this weekend and marvel in her amazing talent to bring out the best in her riders

I was fortunate enough to be able to ride in some of Mr De Kunffys clinics when I started working a real job after graduate school and could finally afford to ride for pleasure. One of the nice things about him is he would take less advanced amateurs as willingly as Grand Prix riders and give them his all . He made the biggest difference for me with a thoroughbred that I bought to resell, but was too sensitive and moody to be able to resell… and I had so much fun on him. I just kept him.. he was the most talented horse I ever had and Charles helped me “figure him out” and helped me learn to bring out the best in him.

I love reading about his passion for developing riders to be able to ride any level horse and learn to make them better.

The horse world has lost a very talented and gifted man.

Classical dressage master Charles de Kunffy died April 14. He was born in 1936 in Hungary and was a member of the Austro-Hungarian nobility. He wrote seven books and many articles for the Journal of Equitation and Culture and has a lecture series online.

04/16/2025

I am grateful to all the other Pony Club moms who take pictures and video my kid. I’m usually too busy with the Littles to supervise her and she doesn’t listen to me anyway.😂. I’ve just really enjoyed watching the progress with this little team. All the Dressage and proper flatwork Has helped this little team so much. They can do these poles now w complete proper lead changes. Their time has improved w the accuracy sans speed and she doesn’t get upset when we do speed events now.

If anyone tells you that Dressage And Proper flat work doesn’t help any discipline you choose to do tell them they are wrong.

04/13/2025

Come see our three amigos perform at the Midwest horse fair today at 2:30 at pavilion 2! They are doing the gymkhana games demonstration portion of our Lakeshore Pony Club region demonstration today!

Our first demonstration in the Colosseum on Friday afternoon, went off without a hitch!

03/16/2025

The lakeshore region Pony Club quiz rally is on the books. I’m Incredibly proud of our two teams that placed quite well.

And our mom, Megan, who hopped on an adult team and helped win the division!

The younger group “Rainbow Unicorns” ended up 4th in their division, Which I think is exceptional since they were a “short team” meaning they only had three kids so they could not drop a lowest score, And all three of these girls are not only new to quiz rally, but they are brand new to Pony Club And the only all D1 team, Who competed against other teams with higher ranked kids.

The older kids ended up fifth out of seven teams, (And they loved their pink ribbon anyway since their team name was pink Pony Club), This is exceptional in my opinion since two of the members hopped on our team within the last three weeks, And are brand new to pony club too, So they had a lot of studying to do in a very short time and had to compete against teams with much more experienced kids.

I am so incredibly proud of all these kids for their teamwork and their support of each other with all the different levels and learning styles, Although they were all very nervous, They held up to the pressure and stayed positive through the whole day!

Finally, a huge shout out to the Pony Club mom’s. Miss Toni made these amazing shirts, And Miss Megan prepared some amazing study materials for the kids and pull together the rainbow unicorn team “uniform”. OurPony Club parents helped pull together all the food for lunch for 80 people too! It takes a villiage w Pony Club and I couldn’t be more grateful for the pony club family we are growing here at our center.

At the end of the day, everybody had an absolute blast and learned a ton!

03/01/2025