Jonesborough Equestrian Center, located in historic Jonesborough, Tennessee!
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You know what we should do tomorrow?!? HORSE SHOW!!
Gates open at 9:00, show starts at 11:00! English divisions on the flat for beginners, youth and peewee as well as classes over fences and times jumpers! Western divisions for beginners, youth, peewee and open from trail and rail classes to ranch riding and reining!
Entries will be open until the show begins! (406)596-0875
This Saturday, August 20 Schooling Show at Jonesborough Equestrian Center! Registration opens Thursday morning!
Let’s horse show together! Show starts at 11:00am, rain or shine - gates open at 9:00am! English classes on the flat and over fences as well as Western divisions are offered!
Light concessions available with ample trailer parking and warm up areas for your horses! Come ride with us! (406)596-0875
❤️ If I live for 1000 years, this picture will always remind me of one of my proudest moments. Lois is my horse, and she is weird: she’s an off the track TB and hasn’t had the easiest life with a lot of poor training. This picture represents her willingness to take a walk of faith for my oldest daughter, Kate, who has learned to support her and encourage her and most importantly, how to be kind to her. If I had a nickel for every time I saw Kate reassure her with a gentle pat or soft word or the support of her leg when she needed it over the past weekend, I’d be rich.
Being a horseman is not about ribbons or riding better than anyone else. One of the most valuable things we have to teach is how to lose graciously and to never put your competitive spirit above the needs of your horse. It’s about learning to love something bigger than you. It’s about making mistakes and valuing the chance to make a correction. It’s about knowing when to be hard and when to be soft.
My oldest daughter is becoming my hero - how lucky am I?!? ❤️ 🌈 🦄
It was an incredible team effort with our friend and fellow trainer at to put on a private schooling extravaganza at River Glen for our lesson students this past Sunday! Our riders got the chance to school the ring over fences as well as the cross country course! Collaboration and working together makes the world go around - it takes a village! ❤️
Horrific sweat scald - caused by blatant laziness of a rider who repeatedly asked this horse to perform in hot weather - and was then habitually too lazy to take proper care of him. This took a month of neglect to show itself, and will take weeks of care to heal. Unacceptable.
10:30pm and cool. Why wouldn’t we work the 17 hand monsters after horse showing…before we finish the barn for the night…so we can go school tomorrow at a different venue?!? Me thinks they might be hungry to progress. ❤️
Just me and my girls tonight at Greene County while the rest of our students rest up for our big schooling event tomorrow! We ❤️ Greene County!
This seems to be a common theme!! 😂
After an 8 hour round trip through 3 states….welcome to the barn, you silly 17.1 hand Moose!! Anna scored a much deserved new ride this week - big things for these two! ❤️
Project complete! ❤️ Our personal tack room with all of our daily using gear - the overflow suite isn’t finished quite yet!! 😂😬
Epic haul-out Barn trail ride to Buffalo Mountain tonight! 9 saddled horses loaded on the trailer, our other riders following us in the car behind and 5 excited barn brats in my truck…..yapping my ear off around every tight turn with their little helmeted heads blocking my side mirrors! 😂 They rode their little hearts out on our trusty steeds right on up the mountain! More photos coming tomorrow - but this one sums it up pretty well! ❤️
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It's Schooling Show time again this month at Jonesborough Equestrian Center! Come school with us - we have both English divisions on the flat and over fences as well as Western divisions, including Ranch Horse and Reining Divisions!
Saturday, August 20th - RAIN OR SHINE (courses will be modified to run in our indoor arena in the event of copious amounts of rain)
No gate fees, no spectator fees (bring your own chairs!)
As a barn owner, the hardest line you'll ever draw is the boundary of who you allow in and who you allow to stay.
A friendly reminder to my fellow trainers (and any horse person in general)-
-Nobody is worth your peace of mind..if they cost you your peace, kick them out!
- No one can buy your trust, when you see their true actions...believe them.
- If they can't respect you or the facility, they need to leave.
- No amount of money is worth harboring negative energy in your work and play atmosphere.
I am done trying to hatch bad eggs. I am no longer willing to try to fix, help, slave or suffer for those not willing to give the same effort or at the least carry themselves with class and integrity.
Say it with me friends:
Your barn, your rules. And your happy place. If they don't like it, they can leave.
Customer service should not feel like slavery. You shouldn't feel uncomfortable when people pull into your barn driveway. Stick to your guts. And your boundaries. 💕
- Ian Baese O’Connor
📸 Kaly Madison Photography
Jonesborough Equestrian Center is looking for horses to lease and/or care lease for several clients! Most excellent love and care here with clients that are interested in both full and partial leases. Stall boarded with beautiful pasture turnout. We need kind and honest horses for deserving riders in our program. Long or short term! (406)596-0875
A love of the horse, the sport, team work and comradery is what it’s all about - thank you to our barn family and their children - who came early to take care of the barn and all of our boarders and stayed late to do the same so we could horse show together all day!
Champions were crowned yesterday at our first schooling show here at JEC - and most importantly, all of our riders had the opportunity to school and advance in their riding and partnership with their horses!
Thank you to our enormous crowd of spectators, our Judge, Laura Ligon and to Sorrows End Farm for bringing your kids to school with us at our first event!
Our next open, judged schooling show will be in August - stay tuned for updates and dates here!!
It's a great day to horse show! Come ride with us for our first schooling show here at JEC! Rain or shine, we're ready to roll. Classes start at 11:00 and all fees are waived for our introductory show today! (406)596-0875
Rain, sleet, snow or hail - we’re horse showing here tomorrow! We’ve got both the indoor and outdoor arenas set up so we’re ready to roll either way!
It’s almost show time!! These little barn rats can make a competition out of about anything - first we had to have a pizza eating contest at a trot….and now they’re making sport out of playing in the rain…. ❤️
The First Annual Zucchini Games were a smashing success with plenty of room for improvement in….well, all events!! 😂😂 A list of of today’s games:
Zucchini Balance Race
Zucchini Lap Race
Zucchini Relay Race (our worst team event) 😂
Egg and Spoon
Water Race
Cowboy Race (also not our best showing) 😂
Join us for our first H/J Schooling Show this Saturday, July 30 here at Jonesborough Equestrian Center! We plan to offer one each month for the remainder of the year!
We will offer both adult and youth walk, walk/trot and walk/trot/canter flat classes as well as ground pole, mini-cross rails (youth only), cross-rails, 18”, 2”, 2’3”, 2’6” Divisions and unofficially timed jumper rounds at 2’-2’6”.
We’ll close out the day as time allows with free games horseback.
Class list and entry forms will post shortly - please call, message or text to pre-register! (406)596-0875
Come one, come all! Our barn will be there for a great cause and always a super fun day!!
Just practicing my selfie-taking skills while judging the Ranch Horse Competition at Evening Breeze Arena for the Appalachian Saddle Club with my good friend and co-hort, Emily Grieshaber!
….I have no words, but this team picture from today’s show says it all quite nicely. 😂
Show prep….93 degrees!!! 🤮
Had an incredible time today co-instructing the Ranch Horse Clinic with Emily Grieshaber, hosted at the beautiful Majestic Acres in Bluff City, TN! We had a great crew of spectators and a full clinic with close to 20 riders split between our morning and afternoon sessions! We finished out the day playing in their fantastic Horse Park with incredible water crossings and obstacles to challenge the horses!
Fireworks and happy, oblivious horses….who have learned to be out with their pasture mates and become seasoned rather than confined in a stall alone and afraid.
The 4th of July doesn’t frighten them - and they’re ready for gunshots and backfiring cars out on the trail as a result!
***disclaimer: this doesn’t work for every horse or every situation - we have big pastures, safe fencing and reasonable, seasoned horses for any frightened horse to buddy with. :)
We’re excited to announce that we are at full capacity here at Jonesborough Equestrian Center - we are now a 24 stall barn and no longer board pasture horses to allow for spacious pasture turnout for our stalled horses. We believe in horses being horses! We have indoor and outdoor arenas as well as access to trails and outside riding from our facility. We have started a wait list should any spot open up.
We continue to offer lessons and training and we haul to events to compete as a family - we have a limited number of partial leases available to qualified riders in our lesson program.
We haul out as a team for a minimum of one trail ride each month - this month we are planning to ride at Phipp’s Bend.
We will be hosting our first schooling show this month, July 30. We will offer classes in the flat, hunter and timed jumper events. Stay tuned for more info, coming soon!
Anna works for me and rides with me and watching her work as hard as she does for the past 9 months to EARN this win today in pink has brought me nothing short of pure joy. She’s not my kid…but she’s a part of our family and I borrow her any time I can. ❤️
And Domino - continuing to give everything he’s got and breathing like a champ in the dust on his new asthma meds.
All of the kids rode great today - it was another red letter day. ❤️
Horse show coma….horses and ponies are turned out and we’re grabbing a delicious dinner….at Sonic! :) An epic day for all of our riders - with all kinds of fun twists and turns thrown in!! **only some of our riders pictured here!
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10:30pm and cool. Why wouldn’t we work the 17 hand monsters after horse showing…before we finish the barn for the night…so we can go school tomorrow at a different venue?!? Me thinks they might be hungry to progress. ❤️
Rain, sleet, snow or hail - we’re horse showing here tomorrow! We’ve got both the indoor and outdoor arenas set up so we’re ready to roll either way! It’s almost show time!! These little barn rats can make a competition out of about anything - first we had to have a pizza eating contest at a trot….and now they’re making sport out of playing in the rain…. ❤️
Fireworks and happy, oblivious horses….who have learned to be out with their pasture mates and become seasoned rather than confined in a stall alone and afraid. The 4th of July doesn’t frighten them - and they’re ready for gunshots and backfiring cars out on the trail as a result! ***disclaimer: this doesn’t work for every horse or every situation - we have big pastures, safe fencing and reasonable, seasoned horses for any frightened horse to buddy with. :)
Anna works for me and rides with me and watching her work as hard as she does for the past 9 months to EARN this win today in pink has brought me nothing short of pure joy. She’s not my kid…but she’s a part of our family and I borrow her any time I can. ❤️ And Domino - continuing to give everything he’s got and breathing like a champ in the dust on his new asthma meds. All of the kids rode great today - it was another red letter day. ❤️
