AbendrothEquine LLC

01/01/2026

Thank YOU for an amazing 2025! ✨

12/25/2025

Grateful for healthy horses and a wonderful barn community 🎄

12/13/2025

Carol is a very good friend of mine, please consider helping with the rising flood costs.

My name is Ashley Hawkins and I am a long-time friend of the incredible Carol Hinck… Ashley Hawkins needs your support for Brick Road Farm Flood Recovery Fund

12/09/2025

Abendroth Equine, a balanced approach to Hunter/Jumper training.

Training and care designed to harmonize horse and rider. Whether you’re building fundamentals or competing at A rated, our program grows with you.

Training stalls available contact Michelle (425) 770-1478

11/22/2025

Equine herpesvirus (EHV) is a family of equine viruses named by numbers including EHV-1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 with EHV-1,3,4 posing the most risk for domestic horses. EHV is a common DNA virus that occurs in horse populations worldwide. The two most common species are EHV-1 and EHV-4.

11/20/2025

Having lived through an EHV outbreak many years ago and losing my favorite mare. I don’t wish this on anyone.

EHV should have killed my horse in 2023. It wasn’t even the neurologic strain. He went recumbent and dropped 300 pounds in two weeks from EHV-2 and EHV-5. I still consider it divine intervention that he, somehow, survived.

Nothing compares to watching your own horse look more dead than alive. His second day in the hospital (shown in that photo), I told the vet if he wasn't dramatically better by morning, I would let him rest. That’s how close we came.

So let me make this as blunt as possible: If you are in an affected area and still hauling out…still competing…still hosting shows as if nothing is happening…

You are not just risking your horse.

You are risking every horse you come into contact with: your friend’s retired heart horse, your daughter’s pony, the teenager’s first horse she spent years saving for, the barn’s sweetest old gelding, someone’s emotional support animal, someone’s once-in-a-lifetime partner.

All of them.

You are choosing money over the very real possibility of watching any of those horses collapse, suffer, and fight for their life.

If you’re willing to take that risk, with a strain seemingly deadlier and more contagious than ever before... Your choice to “just go to one show” will be the reason someone else has to bury their best friend.

10/16/2025

That’s a wrap for the season! 🍁

October Monroe had some stiff competition with some wonderful horse and rider pairs. I am most proud of my group, showing up through the rain, the mud and the race cars. They maintained good attitudes and impeccable horsemanship.

🏆 Congratulations to Brigid Johnson and Pickle Power on Reserve Champion
🏆 Congratulations to Rachel Kimmerly on Nu Bueno Bux on her second place in the Derby class

10/08/2025

Horses need turnout. They need time to be horses, not just professionals.

Let them roll in the dust, sleep under the trees and feel the wind blow in their mane. Let them spend the daytime outside and see how much better they perform when the mind and body are both connected and calm.

Your horse’s living situation is just as important as their training schedule. They need a chance to be mentally relaxed and move at a slow pace. Here in Western Washington, it is wet nine months out of the year. Our horses are stalled at night but they spend multiple hours outside on pasture turnout seven days a week.

They can be horses and athletes at the same time.

09/28/2025

Congratulations to on winning the equitation challenge on the flat last weekend! The riding conditions were not ideal with heavy rain most of the day but these two stuck it out with great attitudes. Special thanks to .van.w for letting us borrow her special boy, Andros! 🏆