Forest Gate Farm North

05/27/2026

We have friends today 💕 Katarina is still the boss mare but she is flat and on break now.

05/25/2026

August of 2025 we welcomed two retired Standardbreds to our farm! Major Decision (incredible bloodlines) retired at 5 years of age after winning about $70k in his short career as a trotter. His best friend is here also, Catcha Lefty A, who is 14 this year and a solid “warhorse” who loved his job as a trotter with winnings over $400k in his career. They are loving life in the grass fields with their leisure rides with their human dabbling in some lower level dressage as they are both BEAUTIFUL movers, tall, dark and handsome. 🤩🤩🤩🤩

05/22/2026

Beautiful day on the hill 💕

01/25/2026

Video from this past summer of APHA mare 🩷

01/19/2026

(SOLD)Double registered APHA/AQHA mare. Turning 4 in 2026. 14.3 hands, rides English and Western. Has been off property for rides and nothing bothered her. She LOVES to be busy and doing things, would excel with an ambitious junior rider or small adult rider on the QH/Paint circuit, I have not jumped her but she would also be a great pony hunter. I have not used her in a lesson program but I’m sure she would take fine to it as she loves new adventures. Many options available for this mare, references required, first right or refusal if transferred, all of it. If she doesn’t get the perfect home, she always has one here. Videos upon request.

11/24/2025

That’s right!

11/24/2025

I love them all dearly

At some point this winter, every horse owner ends up in the same spot:
stood in the mud, staring at their horse, realising they are now the CEO of a financially ruinous, emotionally demanding, hay-powered charity.

You start doing the mental maths.
Feed and Hay prices that make you sweat.
Livery fees creeping up like a bad jump scare.
Rugs that cost the same as a weekend away.
Vets who arrive, press a stethoscope to your horse's chest, and bill you enough to ruin your month.

And the horse?
Blissfully ignorant.
Living their calm, forage-based dream while you spiral over spreadsheets.

Here’s the thing no one says because it feels a bit too raw.
The only reason your horse is thriving in this current economic crisis is because you are quietly breaking yourself in tiny, responsible ways.

They don’t know that it’s you budgeting, cutting corners, selling tack, cancelling plans, eating beans on toast so they never miss a farrier appointment.

Horses only experience the outcome:

✨️warmth
✨️routine
✨️full belly
✨️predictable humans

They never see the emotional and financial gymnastics behind it.

People joke about “horse poor,” but underneath the humour is a level of devotion most people can’t imagine.

You’re out here holding an animal’s entire world together while the country falls apart round the edges (financially)

So if you're feeling stretched, tired, tetchy, or one invoice away from tears, it isn’t because you’re failing.....

It’s because you’re doing everything right in a system that makes it absurdly hard right now.

Your horse is safe because of you.
That’s the quiet, unglamorous truth of the current climate. 👌

05/22/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16TGxriW6V/?mibextid=wwXIfr Look at all these cute hunter derbies ❤️

We are so excited for this year’s show! Lots of fun classes, Derbies, Young Hunter Futurity…..no need to qualify to show on Friday and Saturday!! Hope to see you there!!

05/13/2025

Spring training has begun! Not sure what’s on the show roster this year but definitely having another go at some Quarter Horse shows in Sussex, NB!

05/12/2025

Bliss for these guys 🩷🩷