AW Horse Training & Lessons

10/07/2025

Hey everyone please like and share the ORIGINAL post so that Lacie can win a custom saddle! She is the staple to my entire program and deserves nothing less 💕

09/27/2025

❌SOLD❌
✨ For Your Consideration – Boone ✨

Meet Boone, a titled 6-year-old BLM Mustang gelding from the South Steens HMA. Standing a solid 14.3 hands, Boone is built stout and sturdy, with the width and presence that make him feel much bigger.

Boone is a sweet, goofy, and willing partner who gives his best every ride. He has a nice collected walk/trot/lope and a responsive “whoa.” He’s sensitive and eager to please. Boone thrives with a consistent job and attention, but does fine with time off as well. He’s athletic and quick enough for gaming, roping, or cow work, yet can also gear down and go slow when asked. Boone would make an incredible show horse! I could see him also excelling in reining, jumping, working equitation, ranch riding, and English flat classes. He would really make an amazing all around horse!

✅ Highlights & Training
• Loves water
• Loads and unloads easily (backs out of trailer)
• Hard ties, cross ties, and hobble trained
• Lunges walk/trot/canter
• Quiet and confident to tack up
• Rides bitless or with a bit
• Moves off leg, rates your seat, and collects at all gaits
• Knows haunch turns, forehand turns, sidepass, back up (on the ground & under saddle)
• Will line up to the mounting block
• Confident over, under, and through a variety of obstacles

📍 Located just outside Tumalo, Oregon
💲 Asking mid–high $x,###
📩 Message me to meet your next lifelong partner!
🎥 Videos can be sent upon request

08/31/2025

Results are in! Rafiki and I took 1st🥇 in Showmanship, 3rd 🥉 in Body Conditioning and Handling, and 9th place overall. I am so incredibly proud of him! He tried his heart out for me.
Now for the hard part. I hope he ends up in the best home with someone who uses him to his potential, but most importantly loves him and treats him with kindness and fairness 💕 get your final bids in now here before we move through the live auction! Please message me if you have any questions at all!
Tag 8584 Rafiki https://teensandoregonmustangs.hibid.com/lot/259326948/tag-8584-rafiki

08/25/2025

Hello everyone, the Teens and Oregon Mustangs competition is taking place THIS weekend. In order to earn my 10 bonus points, I need to sell my remaining 9 raffle tickets. Each ticket is priced at $10, and there will be 4 incredible prizes awarded to 4 winners. It is not necessary for winners to be present. I can accept payments via Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, cash, or check. I includeded some pictures of my incredible gelding for attention. Remember he is available and bidding has begun! Here’s the link to bid if interested! Tag 8584 Rafiki https://hibid.com/lot/259326948/tag-8584-rafiki
PRIZE 1: DeWalt 3400 PSI 2.5 GPM Cold Water Pressure Washer, featuring a 208cc engine and 35ft hose, with an estimated value of $429.
PRIZE 2: YETI Cooler, 45 Quart Wine colored, capable of holding 52 cans, accompanied by a 3-piece Camp Chair Set, with an estimated value of $330.
PRIZE 3: Blackstone 28" Culinary Omnivore Griddle with Hood, a 2-burner liquid propane flat top grill, complete with a starter toolkit, with an estimated value of $280.
PRIZE 4: Stihl 16” MS 162 Chainsaw, powered by gasoline, featuring Stihl Quickstop and Intellicarb Carburetor, with an estimated value of $200.

08/22/2025

Rafiki has been making great leaps and bounds in his training and is doing so wonderfully! He’s had some people coming to meet him and he’s done so great with meeting lots of new people and being handled by lots of new people. We went back to the obstacle course to get more solid on them and for the extra exposure and he was so amazing! The only things he was not 100% about were the three pool noodle obstacles but he ended so wonderfully calm and confident with all of them. I will add videos into the comments of this post of him going through them. I had him go forwards and backwards through them. Such a good boy! If I had more time with him I’d start doing saddle training and saddle starting. He’s so ready!

Don’t forget to get your bids in on this stunning boy with brains and try to boot! Here’s the link to bid! And in case you need a reminder, he’s aged at 5 by the BLM but I believe he’s likely 4 instead, he’s about 15.1, and out of South Steens. We will be competing NEXT WEEKEND! Not sure how that’s snuck up on us so quickly! If you have any questions about him or would like to come meet him please reach out! You will love him 💕
Tag 8584 Rafiki https://teensandoregonmustangs.hibid.com/lot/259326948/tag-8584-rafiki

08/09/2025

I just realized I’ve been the absolute worst about posting! Don’t take my lack of posting as lack of progress for Rafiki or any of my client horses for that matter. Everyone is doing amazing, but Rafiki has turned into a totally new horse! He’s so so much quieter, more confident, and consistent as well as just showing more personality and being incredibly kind and seeking people out! It’s too bad our time together is almost up because I think if I had another month he’d be going great under saddle. I would like to extend the offer to continue training this gorgeous horse for whoever buys him! I would really love to do that. Please enjoy all the things we’ve done together since June! He’s had body work, gone to an extreme obstacle course, has been getting handled and caught by new people, been working on making everything he knows sharper and more crisp for the competition, we’ve taken some stunning pictures both ourselves and from the amazing photographer Photography! He’s looking so good and so healthy! I will be making comparison collages next!

06/27/2025

I’ve been keeping a secret 🤫

We have officially relocated to Bend Oregon area! It has been a dream of mine for awhile and I’ve been keeping my eye out, knowing the perfect place would present itself when the time was right. To say I’m in heaven is an understatement! The night we got our last load of horses brought over I was blessed with the most spectacular sunset. I’m a sunset fanatic so this felt like an amazing sign to me. I’m so incredibly excited about this new chapter in our life! Enjoy pictures of the beautiful facility, the horses settling in, and the stunning sunset 😍

Barn Amenities:
⭐️ Massive 204’x80’ Indoor Arena
⭐️ Similarly sized Large Outdoor Arena
⭐️ Wooden Outdoor Roundpen
⭐️ Indoor Panel Roundpen
⭐️ Roping Chutes
⭐️ 10 stalls with Automatic Waterers in Main Barn
⭐️ Individual Tack Lockers Per Stall
⭐️ Hot and Cold Wash Rack
⭐️ Individual or Group Turn Out
⭐️ Bathroom with Washer/ Dryer & Shower
⭐️ Viewing Room Above Indoor Arena
⭐️30,000 Acres of BLM Land for Trail Riding
⭐️ 4 Stalls with Runs in the Upper Barn
⭐️Irrigated Orchard Grass Harvested and Sold Onsite
⭐️ New Trail Obstacles Being Made and Brought in Regularly

Training & Lessons:
⭐️ Immediate Full Time and Part Time Training spots open now!
⭐️ Lesson Horses Suitable for All Ages and Riding Experience
⭐️ Horses Available for In Barn Lease to be used for 4H, OHSET, Local Shows, etc.

Boarding:
⭐️ Full Care
⭐️ Partial Care
⭐️ Self Care

PM me to get your horse in for training, get on the lesson schedule, bring your horse in for boarding and more!

06/12/2025

Rafiki has been such an awesome boy and has been doing so well. Since my last update he’s earned full time turn out and is no longer being penned up even overnight, we’ve started doing in hand trotting, he’s gotten his hind feet trimmed, been doing lots of hard tying, worked on loading in a trailer, and as of yesterday was moved to my training barn! So he got to experience and indoor arena for the first time as well as sniff and check out all the scary thing in it. He handled everything so well! We also did a mini photoshoot. Now that I have him over there we will be doing tons of desensitizing and obstacles and I plan to get him saddled for the first time her soon as well!

06/03/2025

Check out his 1 month comparison from the wild horse I picked up to the horse he is today! This gelding has made so much progress both physically and mentally! He was a rack of bones with ulcers, horribly long feet, body soreness, and a big ball of nerves that couldn't allow himself to relax and settle. Now not only has he gained and incredible amount of weight, he is gaining confidence, emotional stability, physical comfort and overall relaxation. His feet are trimmed and he's thriving. His goofy and sweet as pie personality is starting to shine through. We're only about a month in and there's already been this much great change! I can't wait to see where we are at by competition! Go Rafiki!

Check out Alexis Wilkinson’s video.

05/31/2025

Much overdue update on the stunning Rafiki! Rafiki has been making good, steady progress. I determined that I believe he had ulcers, his body was in need of some serious body work as well as his feet being so overgrown with his bars growing into his frog, and he was pretty severly underweight so I decided to address all his physical issues before really working on pushing his training and it has made a huge difference! He was struggling to let down his guard and retain sessions and now he’s making huge strides in his training! Recently we’ve accomplished our first hose down, trimming his front feet, picking up all four feet, lunging at the walk and trot both direction out in the arena, tying, and being socialized to and loved on by new people. He’s getting so much quieter and more confident through his everyday things and taking on new challenges. I’m so pleased with him and so excited to really start our training now! Here’s a bunch of pictures of him. Also I know one of my friends needs a new dressage mustang because 😍 his movement is to die for!