Cottonwood Equestrian Center

04/23/2025

Post a picture of a favorite moment or memory with your horse(s).

04/22/2025

Need great bedding? Use Central Florida Shavings Cody Garcia! We love the sawdust because it’s so much easier to clean and there’s less waste than with other bedding options. Get $25 off your first delivery with discount code “shavings savings”!

04/21/2025

Such sharp ensembles!🤩

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04/18/2025

Get these REALLY comfy Maximillian technical gloves from SunSpree Mobile! They’ll be at Canterbury this weekend. You’ll be impressed with how comfortable and close a feel these gloves provide to the reins!

04/12/2025

Leave it to SunSpree Mobile to have the prettiest outfits and accessories out there!😍 they are going to be set up at the Canterbury showgrounds the weekend of April 19th and 20th!

Maximilian Ombre in aqua and plum Sandy Gillespie's custom-designed browband One browband results in two outfits.

04/12/2025

Meet Nikole Rossitter and Chivas! They’ve been with me for quite some time and it’s been such a joy to watch them further their education together. I appreciate the humor that Nikole brings to her lessons! We take our work very seriously but…. sometimes it’s ear to make light of it and try again!😜 I think it’s safe to say if I told her two years ago she’d be doing all the things that she is, she probably wouldn’t have believed me (but I always knew her commitment to improvement and over-all horsemanship would take her far).❤️‍🔥

04/09/2025

ISO a gelding for a mother/daughter to lease and board at Cottonwood Equestrian Center in Lithia. Mom is turning 73 and is very athletic advanced beginner, as is her adult daughter who has some fine motor skill issues that aren’t an issue in the saddle if the horse has a pretty quiet temperament and tolerant of the typical learning curve presented by advanced beginners. My ladies are interested in something that has been in hunters or the dressage world but if you have a western horse that is versatile and any horse presented to us has walk trot and canter cues, that’s all we need. They have no interest in showing, but will ride for pleasure and take weekly lessons to further their knowledge and ability.  Please call or text me at 334–648–1103 or PM me.

04/09/2025

Being at the beginning of any path can seem daunting, but take time to enjoy that it can feel exciting! You have a clean slate and if you work really hard, stay detail/oriented  and except the feedback as it comes to you, you can always challenge yourself to be better and a more educated and responsible horseman. No one owes you anything in this life. Whether it is knowledge, scale, education, growing as a person or being enriched in your life in any other way, you better be willing to work for it because that’s exactly what most of us have to do. This gal right here in this picture doesn’t have a lot of time to ride her horse because being newly 20 means you have to work hard, get your education and balance all of your life.  I give Kennedy Kimauri so much credit and flowers for doing exactly that. When she’s here at the barn, she is 100% in work mode absorbing everything she can, anyway she can. Stick with it, Kennedy, you and your four legged dance partner are getting there! ❤️💫💯💪🐴💐

04/08/2025

I don’t do too much training anymore on other people’s horses, but I just couldn’t turn down a client in the barn who has this awesome OTTB who needs to start his Dressage education. 💜

04/07/2025

Who needs something engraved? The utilities are endless! I’m offering full and small Dressage Court letters in fun color combinations where you have a choice to add the centerline letters and or personalize it for your farm or maybe even add some fun reminders that we all need like “Inside leg to outside rein” for a little check at each letter! I can do stall plates and custom signage for any purpose up to 8“ x 10“ with indoor/outdoor and UV rated acrylic plastics as well as pet tags. I recently started creating personalized frames for cats, dogs, and horses as well! The frames make a nice memento for our current fur babies as well as those who have crossed the rainbow bridge. For the pets who are no longer with us the angel wings and halo are often popular to add to the pet tag instead of just the name. Please feel free to private message me or text me at 334–648–1103 so I can answer any questions and take care of your order for you with personal service. I’m currently working on the website and an Etsy store so The DM and p.m. are the best ways to get in touch with me currently.