Sleeping Fox Farm Eventing

08/11/2025

What’s fun about Eventing? The sportsman ship, the community, the fun, the new friendships.
What to learn more or improve? Angie is a certified eventing coach and holds multiple medals and safety coordinator with USA Eventing.
Now accepting new students on your horse on or off farm and booking clinics. Discounts available for bulk lessons purchase. ALL lessons are private 1:1 so you get the individual attention, homework towards achieving your goals. Also plentiful opportunities to join the team and ride with many other amazing clinicians!
PM Gary Angie Francart today -

8/20 Boyd Martin clinic Harmony Hill Farm PM Gary Angie Francart. Today - we close 8/13 avoid late fees. Pricing includes XC pass and discount audit pricing for Pony Club




Devoucoux

USEA Area II Young Rider Program
Blue Seal
Sleeping Fox Farm Eventing
Eventing Nation
Grand Impression Design Co.
FEI Eventing

08/05/2025

You are not the missed flying change.
You are not the wonky shoulder-in, the judge’s 5.5, or the test sheet that looks like it was edited by a disappointed English teacher.

You are more than your mistakes, more than your failings, your failures, or your “shortcomings” (which, let’s be honest, often just means your horse didn’t feel like pirouetting today).

Your goals, your scores, your outcomes — they are not your identity.
They are data points. Not definitions.

When we start measuring our worth in percentages or ribbons, we risk turning something soulful and nuanced into a performance review with hooves.

Because at the core of dressage isn’t perfection — it’s partnership.
It’s showing up, rain or shine, for a creature that doesn’t speak your language but somehow understands your soul.

So breathe. Laugh. Cry if you need to.
But remember: the arena doesn’t determine your value.
It reveals your willingness to keep learning, adjusting, and showing up with grace — even when your inside leg is ignored like a politely worded email.

You’re not just training a horse. You’re sculpting a deeper self.
And that… isn’t something you’ll find on a score sheet.

credit : Boyle Dressage recently shared and it is point on!
Gary Angie Francart





PC: The Queen and I in Ocala

07/24/2025

Haven’t bought professional pictures in a very long time but Baby horses second show (maybe 30 rides) and I enjoy him so much. The photos can be picked apart but it’s his second show I am ok with him being over bent to his final center line and understanding halt halt, hell I am happy we stayed on the ring with general brakes and steering 😂DevoucouxiSync Equestrian Gary Angie Francartery far from perfect - etc etc - but he is soooo cute - had get a few
pc: Dee Prigel Photography
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Sync Equestrian
Gary Angie Francart

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07/22/2025

🤣🤣 It's true!!

03/31/2025

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Due to your horse's long neck and table-like body, when left to his own devices, your horse will use his head and neck for balance and carry the majority of your weight on his front legs and shoulders. This is known as your horse being "on the forehand" and is not desirable.

It is your job, as the rider, to teach your horse how to engage his hindquarters and lift and round his back so that he can carry your weight more on his stronger hindlegs. This brings your horse's balance back toward his center of gravity, taking his weight off his forehand, and allowing him to move in a more biomechanically friendly posture within a better balance.

The correct rider position (ear-shoulder-hip-heel) is correct for a reason; it allows you (the rider) to balance so that, in turn, you can improve the balance of your horse.

👉An unbalanced rider creates tension, which affects the communication between horse and rider because a tense horse cannot feel and respond to its rider, and a tense rider cannot feel and respond to their horse. This means that the aids can be misinterpreted or missed altogether.

👉A balanced rider creates enhanced communication. It allows the rider to use lighter and more accurate seat, leg, and rein aids, thereby promoting harmony and relaxation.

When horse and rider are both balanced together, their center of gravity is aligned.

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03/27/2025

What a great day Harmony Hill Farm for our Boyd Martin clinic. Baby horse Goose did his very first course and 3rd time off farm.