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Happy New Year from some of our IEA team! We had a wonderful time at our holiday party and are so grateful to the Robinsons for hosting!
Happy holidays from these handsome boys and from all of us at Clairvaux 🎄🎄🎄
We are excited to see everyone back for regular lessons after the holiday break! For now, our horses are getting some well deserved rest, and we hope you are too ❤️
These beautiful photos are by . Thanks, Amy, for letting us share!
Next Tuesday! Terri will be discussing sport governance and rule changes. We hope you check it out!
We had lots of great riding yesterday at ! Both our middle and upper school teams were champion, and Savannah, Riley, Madison, Grace, Karen, Bridget, Maddy, and Katelyn were all able to qualify for Regionals! We’re so proud of all of our riders and the progress we’ve seen you make over this season. Also, a big thank you to Riley, Tessa, and Ellie for their help today 💙
Our riders put in some amazing work this season, and we love when we get to watch it pay off. Here our our riders’ year end Zone 3 Horse of the Year standings:
🌟Jasmine and Diva de Baudry: 5th in the High Children’s Jumper 🌟
🌟Kate and Saint Exupery: 9th in the high children’s jumper🌟
🌟Taylor and SFS Harriet: 8th in the Low Children’s Jumper🌟
🌟Julia and Killian’s Red: 3rd in the Thoroughbred Hunter🌟
🌟Anneliese and GF Aurelia: 4th in the Large Children’s Pony Hunter🌟
Thanks to our whole team and congrats to all!
Thanks to our hosts for a great show today! Eva won the Future Intermediate on the flat and Karen placed 3rd. In the Future Novice, Maddy and Lacie both had awesome trips over fences, earning 3rd and 4th. Finally, Katelyn placed 3rd in a competitive Future walk/trot class. Good work, everyone!
Go Sydney!!
Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving! We are so thankful for our riders, staff, families, and, of course, our perfect horses!
This Thanksgiving, we are feeling so thankful for our amazing horses, IEA riders, and our whole community for all the hard work they did toward our first ever IEA home show! We had good rides all around, including .brandon_ and ‘s 1st and 2nd place finishes in the Open flat, .carrie ‘s win in the Future Novice flat, and .eqq and Alexis winning both sections of the JV Novice flats. Additionally, our adorable pony Oliver helped his rider earn 2nd place in the Open over fences his first time trying the IEA and ‘s Roo was named Horse of the Show! We can’t say enough how much we appreciate everyone who helped make this show happen! .westerly .eqq .tony .girl.2010 .eqq and everyone else, thank you so much!!!
Happy fall Friday! 🍂🍁🍃
We had a great day yesterday at our annual Halloween parade! Such creative costumes: we had bull riders, angels, Christmas presents, and Pooh’s honey pot! Thanks to everyone for joining in for a fun time!!
We had a fun time at Pimlico this morning!
“Your current habits are perfectly designed to deliver your current results.”
- James Clear
So proud of our riders this weekend at WIHS Regional & Zone Finals. We had some exhilarating finishes: Champion Children’s Jumper, earning a trip to WIHS for Jasmine and Zara; Reserve Zone Champion for Anneliese and Roo (as well as a win in the VHSA Children’s Pony Medal); Reserve Zone Champion for Bridget and Henry; third place in Zone Championship in High Children’s Jumper for Kate and Saint; fourth place in the MHSA TB Invitational Classic for Julia and Remi; winner of .95m Jumper for Molly and Frankie; second place in 1m Jumper for Tessa and Pepper; excellent effort and ribbons for Karen & Jack and Riley & Zen in the 2’ and 2’6” classes, plus two wins at 1m for Taylor and Paris! Go Team! Congratulations to our riders and many thanks to the parent and spouses and other supporters. Finally, to my awesome husband for doing some extra shuttling of horses back and forth. I couldn’t do this without him. Riding the high and feeling grateful.
Thanks to all of our riders, families, horses, and to for all of your hard work at the show yesterday! Of course, we are proud of our riders for their progress and the ribbons they earned, but after this weekend in particular, we’re especially impressed by their teamwork and how supportive they are of one another.
Some highlights include Riley and Maddy winning both their flat and over fences classes; Bridget having an awesome attitude despite a challenging ride; Sofiya winning their walk/trot class; Lydia placing 3rd in a large class; Grace being reflective on her horse’s needs and how he was feeling in order to help give him the best ride that she could; Emma winning her class on a very big horse; YooHoo, Kobe, Zuko, and Chandler doing a great job for all of their riders; Riley telling us how much fun she had when she came out of the ring; Meghan having a well ridden, confidence boosting trip; our middle school team earning champion; and seeing all of our riders work together and cheer each other on. Thanks again to everyone for your support and for such a good day!
This photo was taken at 8:15am today. The four riders in our arena spent ALL DAY at an an IEA show yesterday, and here they are, back at practice again. So proud of the dedication these riders have to being the best they can be. And elated to have an instructor like to guide their development. Happy Sunday!! 🍂🍁🏆🥇