Mystique Pond Farm

03/11/2025

Dressage Prospect:
Are you looking for that Dressage dream horse to take you to a Grand Prix but you can’t afford the 6 digit dollar amounts to get there? Perseus MPF, our young Dutch Warmblood, might just be your dream come true! Percy is available for just above the mid 5-digit dollar amount. He is out of our Dutch Warmblood mare, Bapolita (Parcival) and was sired by the late Sir Gregory. Percy was second Premium at his 2-year-old Inspection as a Dressage prospect, in September of 2022. He is a 16.2 H gelding and just turned 5 years old. Percy is a very expressive and talented young man who loves his work, and he enjoys learning. He has 3 wonderful gaits, is an easy ride, easy sit, and has no vices. Percy has been in professional training with Alejandro Salazar since he was 3 years old. He is solid at First level and is schooling Second level. Percy has been to a couple of shows. He scored a 77.36%, First level test 3, at his second ever Schooling show earlier this year. Schooling show video available on Mystique Pond Farm FB site.
Percy was born on our farm and grew up here with love and care. He is as sweet as can be, and very sociable, both, with people and other horses. He is a very healthy young man, and we have a recent set of clean x-rays on him.
Percy is available to a professional or ambitious amateur, who wants to take him all the way in his Dressage career! If you are interested and would like more info, please message me.

03/09/2025

Percy, my Dutch Warmblood, gets to experience more riders now and is doing great! He is turning 5 later this year and is a very talented and easy to ride Dressage horse in professional training; Solid at First level and training at second. ❤️ I will put him up for sale this month. The sales post will be up in a week or so.

02/23/2025

We had a wonderful seminar this past Friday with Shauna Karrasch and Jessie Hillegas talking about and demonstrating training your horse with positive reinforcement. Thank you ladies for coming out to speak to our community! ❤️

02/12/2025

Percy under Alejandro at Overlook Farm South yesterday ❤️

02/12/2025

Alejandro Salazar took Percy to his second ever schooling show at Overlook Farm South yesterday. Percy will be 5 years old in April this year. To say Percy did well is an understatement; They scored a 77.36% at First Level, Test 3!!!
The judge was very complimentary about rider and horse! Great job Alejandro!

01/15/2025

FIRST ever trail ride for Miss Malia! She did awesome, just like a little pro! Thank you Jessica and Twister for being moral and physical support to her! 🥰

01/15/2025

Percy's first outing in 2025! At Sweet Dixie with trainer Alejandro Salazar.

01/12/2025

Velvet and I will be there on Jan. 30th. ❤️

UPDATE: The Jan 16 show is FULL but we have more to come 👇🏼

See below for the link to sign up if you’d like to come to our dressage schooling show January 30 🙂 As always, you ride through your test then get a few minutes afterwards to chat with the judge about what you can improve!

Sign up here (one signup for each test you’d like to ride) ➡️ https://forms.gle/qwj7JzrYxHVk2hPy6

01/11/2025

Bert Rutten – Beautiful Riding Is Simple…

September 2nd, 2024

Contact is not determined by the weight you have in your hand, that’s a mistake a lot of riders make, they think contact is weight. Contact is that the horse has the desire to follow the bit at all times...

Bert Rutten – Beautiful riding is simple… Posted on September 2, 2024September 11, 2024 by horsemagazine Christopher Hector sits in on a training session with Bert Rutten (Photos – Sanne Wiering) I first became aware of Bert when he chaired the Press Conference for the dressage horses at the K...

12/11/2024

Breakfast at the Stomp Barn today with Jessica; this may just have to become a regular Tuesday morning event! I had a delicious freshly cooked bagel with cream cheese and cowboy candy on top.😍

12/02/2024

Sooo loving these cooler temperatures!! Having a ball around the farm with the horses and dogs! Started doing cavaletti work with Kate and her Queso and my Velvet on the open grass field which is so much fun and so good for the horses brain and body!
Velvet and I also went on our first trail ride of the season today with our new boarder Jessica and her mom.Thank you guys for taking me along!

It is just AWESOME out here in winter!! 😍

11/11/2024

We are offering winter boarding for this year! Six 12x12 stalls with turnout are available! Self-care only. Also available are 2 RV hook ups and one tiny cozy cabin, with full bathroom in the adjacent barn (washer and dryer provided). Please PM me for details and visit our website if you are interested.
We are conveniently located 5 mins from I-75, on a beautiful, quiet and private 20 acres property, right between Gainesville and Ocala, FL, 25 minutes to WEC and 20 minutes to HITS.

Horse Boarding and Sporthorse Breeding Facility

04/05/2024

Alejandro Salazar on Malia, Training Level, test 3. First time showing for Malia.
Sorry for the smallness but I could not zoom in because the phone camera kept trying to compensate for the poor lighting...

04/03/2024

First Schooling show at Overlook Farm in Ocala for the two teens! What a day to pick!!! Blasting winds and black skies... thankfully the rain held off until we got home but quite the experience for the youngsters.
They both did GREAT! So proud of them. Percy was a bit more hesitant and surprisingly uneasy about walking on unknown surfaces (like the rubber mat leading into the arena). However, once he was in he went to work and did great, Level 1, test 1 and 2.
Malia was the big surprise! By the time she got into the ring the wind was blasting, chairs and Dressage letters were being knocked over - she could not have cared less! Such a soldier!! She delivered two awesome tests with plenty of 7.5 and 8.0's in both. There were also a few 8.5's (Training 2 and 3).

The judge was very complementary of both horses, and of course, their rider, Alejandro Salazar. Alejandro is a very quiet and gentle rider, just what the youngsters need. The judge was very impressed with him riding both!

Overall, a proud momma day!!! Thank you Alejandro for training both these horses dear to my heart and letting them have such a great time today!!

02/25/2024

700+ bales of hay delivered by Thomas Buettner!!! So grateful to have helpers stacking!!! ❤️

02/07/2024

My Delicate Flower, Malia, under saddle with Alejandro Salazar.

Malia has been a lot of fun and a HUGE learning experience for me, from the early beginnings of her life until now. Malia is extremely sensitive to just about everything and that is combined with a low level of self-confidence. She gets anxious when she does not understand what is going on. However, she has grown up in a loving environment and she trusts and loves her people.

I had no issues starting her on the longe-line, with or without saddle, with bridle, side-reins, all was great and easy! The issues started appearing with riding. While ridden, her back was stiff and arched, with frequent head-tossing and tail-arching. You could have argued that she was resisting and just simply a difficult horse! I know this horse since birth, she was clearly stressed and trying to tell us something. Her back seemed fine, I suspected the saddle. Multiple saddles were tried, they made no difference, until we put Peter Grigoriev's Dynamic Saddle on her. Literally, problem solved! No more head-tossing, the back relaxed and she started swinging through her back, tail relaxed. Happy horse, happy me!
Next issue was her bit-grinding. It became constant and seemed to become a habit! Teeth were ruled out as an issue but we noticed that she was still a little anxious while ridden as her p**p got loose after 20 mins under saddle. Alejandro suggested trying a gastro-intestinal supplement. A week after starting the supplement, the teeth grinding stopped, as did the loose stool while riding, just like magic!
Malia is doing great now and I am just in awe as to how much I have learned about horse-communication in these short 6 months of working with this beautiful mare!
I am very much aware that a similar horse in a less attentive barn would not have been successful in its training and I feel very privileged that I can work with my own youngsters whose complete history I know and whom I trust.
I am super grateful to Alejandro Salazar who is taking his time working with both my youngsters, fully aware of how different they both are and working with them at the level each requires. I am also grateful to Peter Grigoriev for having developed the flex-tree, close contact, Dynamic saddle, all my horses work so much better in this saddle but it is a key-piece to Malia's well-being under saddle!
Well, a long story but I thought it was worthwhile sharing....

02/01/2024

Red Velvet 🥰

01/09/2024

My 3 year old Percy making progress under saddle - ridden by Alejandro Salazar. First time doing counter canter - and he just does it. First time doing shoulder-in, he did it, first time doing leg-yield, he did it. It might not be perfect but Percy tries his heart out. He has talent, is a nice mover and he LOVES to work and learn. You just got to love a horse like that!!! 💕💕