Picadilly Equestrian

05/24/2025

Sweet Romeo got filmed by an actual videographer while he was getting some shots around the barn. Romeo is such a sweet and good boy!😍❤️🐈

05/10/2025

02/19/2025

Happy Birthday Boudreaux JC:Saluted Affair. You are one wonderful horse!

02/12/2025

Big Announcement!
You know the saying, every cloud has a silver lining…well, due to the loss of our lease/purchase agreement on our current property, we have moved to the absolutely beautiful Bit by Bit Farm in Elgin, TX.
I couldn’t be more excited about this!! I will be heading up the beginner program and helping support Kim Snyder (owner/trainer) and Linda Crothers (trainer) around the farm and when travel takes them away to horse shows.
The chance to work with and learn from these two accomplished horse women is a dream come true! Their vast knowledge of training horses, coaching riders and all things “horse” has lead them and their horses and riders to much success in the show ring!
I am so excited for my current students and horses too! Bit by Bit Farm is a beautiful 100 acres of rolling hills, covered in gorgeous grass and trees. The facility is lovely with a huge, lighted, sand arena and adorable red barns and shed rows. Kim has done a great job adding an “Austin Aesthetic” to the property and loads of planters full of beautiful flowers! The views are gorgeous! It is fantastic!!!
I have known many of the current Bit by Bit riders and their families for years from all of our time together at horse shows. They are wonderful people! The Bit by Bit barn family is very warm and welcoming and I am so excited to be a part of it!
I know the horses are going to be very happy in this horse paradise and I am so excited about all the growth my students will experience in their abilities and knowledge and I am super excited about growing the beginner program at such an amazing farm.
Thank you Kim for this fabulous opportunity! Here is to 2025! May it be the best year yet!

02/12/2025

02/03/2025

01/23/2025

Please, please, please teach your students this!!!

01/10/2025

The Picadilly Team had a wonderful 2024 show year!!!
I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what a great year we had! We are not a big, fancy facility. We ARE a wonderful, small barn family full of dedicated riders and wonderful horses on a humble property and with that dedication we managed to get it done!

I am so very proud of all of the riders that show up every week and do their best! We had a wonderful show season because of your hard work!
Here are the year end results for CTSSA and CTHJA

CTSSA Year End Results
GG Ontiveros-on Orchard Hills Trade Secret
-Junior High Point Champion
-Cross Rails Equitation year end Champion

Christina Mitchell-on Orchard Hills Trade Secret
-Adult High Point Champion
-2ft Equitation Champion

Orchard Hills Trade Secret-
-Year End Champion Cross Rails Division
-Year End Champion 2 Ft division

Maddy Sterns-and Polaris
Junior High Point Reserve Champion

Ellen Wilson-on GlitterTime
Third Adult High Point

Katie Miculcik
-Reserve Champion in Cross Rails Eq for the year
-third for she and her horse Tucker in Cross rails for the year
-4th in Adult High Point for Year End

CTHJA Final Results
Ellen Wilson-
-2nd in the 18-35 High Point
Ellen and Glittertime
-6th Low/Low Hunters
-5th High/Low Hunters
-6th YNP Hunters
-4th Green Hunters

Abby Norwood
-6th 18-35 High Point
Abby and Mannheim
-3rd in High/Low Hunters

Mannheim
-Beginner Hunter Champion
Both Rylin Armand and Maddy Sterns showed him to accrue the points to make him the Year End Champion for the division.

Congratulations to you all!!!

12/13/2024

Very true!

A small stab in the heart is what you feel when you put up the day's riding list and you see riders sinking heavily in their shoulders when reading which horse they are assigned for the lesson. A small stab in the heart for that horse that for an hour will carry around a rider who has already decided that he does not like his horse. A small stab in the heart for the horse that did not choose the rider himself but still does his best, lesson after lesson.

Riding is a privilege and something you have chosen to do. If you chose to ride at a riding school, your instructor assumes that you actually want to learn how to ride. The instructor's highest wish is that you get good at it.

Often there is a plan and a thought as to why you are assigned to that exact horse. Before you mount up next time, ask yourself "what can this horse teach me today?" All horses have something to give, a feeling or a new tool in the box.

The art is actually in being able to get a lazy horse to move forward, to get an uncertain horse to gain confidence, a naughty horse to focus or a tense horse to be released. It takes work. If you think a horse is boring, it's more likely that you don't ride the horse as well as you think! It's not easy to be confronted with your own shortcomings, but it is in that very situation that you get the chance to truly grow as a rider.

The excuse that "it's not my kind of horse" is actually a really bad excuse. A good rider can ride any kind of horse. A good rider has trained many hours on different types of horses to become a good rider. A good rider can find and manage the gold nuggets in every horse.

If we absolutely want to ride, it is our duty to strive to do it as best as possible, even if it's only for fun. We owe it to every horse that carries us upon it's back.

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