Delta Equestrian

07/11/2025

Beautiful Lucia with her handsome Costalero. Dreamy, no??

03/19/2025

Huge congrats to Lucia Scaglia Roberts on her purchase of the lovely and extremely talented Costalero!!

We are so excited for their future together, and are even more excited that they’ll be in our stable as Lucia has been in our program.

Another Delta match made!

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10/25/2024

A good life for sports horses requires that they are trained and competed without discomfort and pain from ill-fitting equipment or inappropriate training. However, many sports horses have oral lesions, which is a source of pain and a welfare concern. This study found that dressage horses with oral....

10/05/2024

We’re looking for a very PT groom to help on weekends (mostly Sundays), and perhaps an evening during the week. Delta is a little boutique dressage barn in Sorrento, FL.

So, one 4-5 hour shift on Sunday, occasionally Saturday, and perhaps one other afternoon/ evening. 2:30-7:30 PM-ish. We have some flex.

Feeding, bathing, stalls, water, turnout. The normal stuff.

Lovely horses, good team, relaxing environment. And a pack of crazy little dogs!! 🤣

PM with interest!

08/03/2024

Delta Equestrian is seeking one or two additional grooms for our boutique dressage stable. Could be part or full-time.

You must have very high personal standards for professionalism, be extremely reliable, and have an excellent work ethic.

Responsibilities are the usual… feeding, turnout, stalls, bathing, grooming, water, and so on.

The work is physical and takes place in all of Florida’s weather. You should be able to lift 35 lbs alone repeatedly, and lift up to 100 lbs occasionally with assistance.

You must have experience with horses, and experience with sporthorses in particular is preferred.

Compensation is competitive, ranging from $15-$22/ hr. No housing is available at present.

Delta is a completely to***co free and smoke-free environment. Additionally, we have a zero-tolerance policy against intoxication of any sort while in the workplace.

Sorrento, FL

If you have interest, please PM.

Thanks!!

02/08/2024

Every time I go onto any social platform, I see images of horses in some version of piaffe, and people are drooling.

Very often, the horse may be shown with someone we are calling a Master.

Setting aside the idea that this piaffe-ish stuff is some sort of nearly unattainable Nirvana, I ask this:

How do you think our sport assigns the title of Master or Mistress? Are you okay with that? What are the ramifications of people carrying such a ”title” around if they are not the real deal?

Who are the ACTUAL Masters?

Photo is one of Delta’s imports, with someone who is not a master, for attention!

12/25/2023

11/28/2023

Lest there be any question, my stable and I do not stand with those who suggest we show empathy over Helgstrand.

WE STAND WITH THE HORSES.

And no, this matter is not the same as the moments of tension we may see in tests in environments which naturally contribute to the same.

It is not the same as a horse who is temporarily BTV as his rider works to get him out to the contact as he strengthens. It’s not at all the same as many other things that armchair riders like to point to.

This is a very deliberate, premeditated system… a culture of inhumane treatment driven from the top down, and in fact rewarded when the ill-gotten results would become visible, for the sake of financial performance. It includes any professional rider who chose to play along or look away for the sake of career growth, organizational acceptance, social standing or financial gain. All these people know better and there is no excuse.

We need to be talking about a lot more than Helgstrand, and that’s not new. But other issues cannot fog clarity about the Helgstrand matter.

I deeply regret cancelling my plans to hike all the way to Omaha for the USDF Convention. I fear we don’t have enough people in our discipline, or in our national federation or in the FEI, with sufficient steel in the backbone and intestinal fortitude to get done what has to be done. I fear we lack enough strong and empowered leaders.

But I will do my part. If I see something that crosses the line, and is in my own well-developed opinion inhumane, I will appropriately address that rider. They may be an AA or a pro. It does not matter. It is my obligation as a professional in the field to step up to the plate and advocate for the horse. It’s my obligation as someone who has had a ton of equestrian education to help educate others.

If I see the issue repeat, I will report it.

I invite every horseperson who has voiced any opinion at all on this subject to make the same committment. Let us not just gossip about others and lament the issues that exist.

Let us instead DO SOMETHING.

Let us help each other and our horses.

Let us commit to being bold and clear about our ethical expectations for our sport and each other, and let’s all commit to being brave enough to keep OUR house clean.

Let us be able to say in 90 days that we have all taken the oath and that we can say eith straight faces that US Dressage is KIND and CLEAN and HUMANE.

11/25/2023

Anyone interested in being a groom-for-a-day on Monday? I am taking two horses to lesson near Florida Horse Park, a gelding and a stallion, and I have one groom traveling with, but would like to have a second person.

About 10-3 if you meet us there, or 8:30-4:00 if you come to the farm and travel over with us. $25/ hour.

PFA. None of this behavior better be going on on Monday!! 😆