Indian River 4-H Horsemasters Valentine Horse Show

07/17/2025

🐴🍀Horsemasters had a busy week at the 4-H 🍀State Horse 🐴 Show!

Indian River County received the Emerald Award, Reserve Champion for our stall decorations!!

We had two senior members (Lilly & Maddy) qualify for regionals and one junior member (Anna Rae) qualify for regionals!!

The placings for our riders were the following:

🐴🍀Lilly and Smoke Pistol BW:🍀🐴
Sr. Speed Ground Handling 4th
Sr. Keyhole 1st
Sr. Poles 8th
Sr. Barrels 6th

🐴🍀Maddy and Zig Zig Zig:🍀🐴
Sr. Western Trail 6th
Sr. Ranch Riding 7th
Sr. Western Pleasure 4th
Sr. Western Horsemanship 6th

🐴🍀Alyssa and Saturdays Miss Charm:🍀🐴
Jr. Keyhole 6th
Jr. Stake Race 10th
Jr. Poles 9th
Jr. Barrels 10th

🐴🍀Abby and Beaches of Cheyenne:🍀🐴
Western Pleasure Pony 4th
Pony Hunter Under Saddle 6th

🐴🍀Anna Rae and IM DREAMIN OF YOU:🍀🐴
Jr. Western Pleasure 2nd
Stock Type Mares 3rd
Jr. Western Horsemanship 4th
Jr. Western Showmanship 9th

🐴🍀Calee and UF Benevolent Rebel:🍀🐴
Jr Western Pleasure 4th
Stock Type Mare 5th
Jr Western trail 6th
Jr Western Showmanship 10th

We are so proud of all of our members!

06/21/2025

Congratulations goes out to Maddy and Annika for their 3 place finish at the State Horse 4-H Team Demonstrations today!

We are so proud of them for all they have accomplished! 🎉🎉🐴🍀

06/20/2025

A few of our members got the privilege of attending UF Horsemanship School over the last two weeks.

Special thanks goes out to Indian River County 4-H Foundation for sponsoring our members! As well as our Valentine Horse Show Sponsors for an amazing week at the University of Florida!

All of the girls improved in their horsemanship, as well as learned about opportunities within the equine profession.

Thank you UF for providing this experience! 🐴🍀

05/28/2025

Way to go, Olivia! Horse Masters is so proud of you! 🐴🎉🍀

It is our pleasure to congratulate the class of 2025 graduating seniors on all of your accomplishments, 4-H involvement and high school careers! We cannot wait to follow your endeavors. 🎓

Through generous donations and our annual flagship fundraiser event, the 16th Annual Indian River County 4-H Foundation Annual Fundraiser “Wild Wild West” allows us to give back to our 4-H youth through scholarships and financial aid to encourage higher 4-H involvement in club, county, state and national 4-H events and activities.

It is with excitement and joy we announce the recipients of this year's Indian River County 4-H Foundation's Erin Foster Arena Memorial Senior Achievement Scholarship Award. This award is a merit-based scholarship rewarding $1500.00 to first place, $1000.00 to second place, and $750.00 to third place. This year we were unable to award a third place due to participation. Our two seniors however were simply incredible and blew us away with their 4-H careers.

Preference was given to members who distinguished themselves scholastically, showed leadership potential as exhibited by their academic record, and who have exhibited achievement and/or leadership abilities within 4-H. All finalists have been invited to attend our 4-H fundraiser with a parent so we can celebrate their accomplishments with our community!

Without further hesitation, please join us and say congratulations to our outstanding seniors:

🍀First Place: Olivia Diaz, Horsemasters 4-H Club (pictured)
🍀Second Place: Kylah Flint, Barn Blazers 4-H Club

Parents and 4-Hers are encouraged to learn more about this award and remember to apply by April 1 of each year. Visit https://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/indian-river/4-h-youth-development/irc-4-h-foundation/ for complete information.

05/06/2025

Horsemasters had a great showing at the Area East Horse Show! Congratulations to all of our riders who qualified for the state horse show!

Lilly K and Smoke Pistol BW’s placings:

1st in SR keyhole
1st in SR speed events ground handling
3rd SR stake race
5th SR barrels
6th SR pole bending

Sarah C and Tucker’s placings:

2nd is SR Speed Events Ground Handling
6th is SR Stake Race

Maddy A and Zig Zig Zig’s placings:
4th in Senior Western Pleasure
3rd in Senior Western Horsemanship
5th in Senior Ranch Riding
4th in Senior Western Dressage

Maddy A and Big Flirt’s placings:

5th in Senior Keyhole

Annika E and A Flashy Fax’s placings:

4th in Senior Speed Ground Handling
6th in Senior Western Showmanship

Alyssa G and Saturdays Miss Charm’s placings:

2nd place in Junior Poles
5th in Junior Barrels

Katie W and Chick A Dry Doc’s placings:

2nd in Junior Keyhole
2nd in Junior Stake Race

Katie W and Namgis Famous Romeo’s placings:

1st in Junior Poles
6th in Junior Barrels

Emily W and Sugar’s placings:

6th in Junior Key hole
5th in Junior Stake Race
3rd in Junior Poles
2nd in Junior Barrels
6th in Junior Speed ground handling

Abby A and Beaches of Cheyenne’s placings:

6th in Stock Type Mares and Geldings 14.2 & under
2nd place in Western Pleasure Pony
5th in Junior Western Horsemanship

Anna Rae F and IM Dreamin Of You’s placings:

3rd in stock mares over 14.2
3rd in jr western pleasure
4th in jr western horsemanship

Calee L and UF Benevolent Rebel’s placings:

3rd in Jr Western trail
4th in Jr Western showmanship
4th in Jr Western Pleasure
6th in Stock type mares over 14.2

Congratulations to all of our riders!!!

04/27/2025

Horsemasters would like to thank Sandy Curl for putting together a riding clinic for the girls. They were able to get in some good practice before the Area East Horse Show!!!

04/26/2025

Registration for our FL State Horse Events are now live! You can register until June 13th, 2025 for the June 21st contests.

Follow the link below to register for Team/Individual Illustrated Talks and Demonstrations, Horse Public Speaking, and Horse Quiz Bowl. You will also find eligibility rules to consider before registering.

**Horse Quiz Bowl will only be held if we have AT LEAST two SENIOR teams**

https://animal.ifas.ufl.edu/extension/youth/horse/presentations-qb/

04/26/2025

04/17/2025

This week we kept it light, and after going over some business we had a member present her “How to Groom your Horse” demonstration.

Then we decided to do a fun Easter activity and made Marshmallow bunnies!! 🐰🍀🐴

04/06/2025

Congratulations 🎉 to our Hippology team for their hard work at the State Hippology Contest this weekend. 🐴🍀

We had one solo intermediate, Abby, and she took 8th overall.

Our senior team results were the following:

The team took:

1st place in Horse Judging
2nd place in Team Problems.

They were 4th place overall.

Individual Achievements:

Maddy place 4th in horse judging, and was 9th overall individual.

Annika placed 3rd in horse judging, and was 15th overall.

Lilly was 13th overall.

Nina was 17th overall.

We also got to see our former President Lindsey and Vice President Arielle while we were in Gainesville!