Grace & Grit Horsemanship

Grace & Grit Horsemanship Tiffany Stauffer is a passionate student of the horse offering lessons, clinics, and training.

What we offer:
C**t Starting
Horse Training
Liberty Clinics
Private Lessons

Tiffany Stauffer is a lifelong horseman whose goal is to create soft, trusting, and willing equine partners through safe, patient, and effective training methods. With a very accomplished start to her equine career, Tiffany has competed in versatility ranch horse, breed shows, cowboy mounted shooting, western dressage, ro

deo events, ranch sorting, show jumping, and more as well as being an accomplished clinician of liberty and trick training. She holds four world championship titles and one reserve world championship title, along with numerous top 5 and top 10 finishes, regional championship wins, high point wins, and ROM's. She has a vast knowledge of different training techniques and approaches to best suit various horses, owners and disciplines. Tiffany loves helping people to find more effective ways to communicate with their horse and watching their bond grow and flourish.

Dressage pony by day, babysitter by night ❤️So proud of both of these boys.
06/03/2026

Dressage pony by day, babysitter by night ❤️

So proud of both of these boys.

Well… none of my boys have a bronc career 🤪Who wore it best?! Caspian, Aslan, or Digory?!
05/26/2026

Well… none of my boys have a bronc career 🤪

Who wore it best?! Caspian, Aslan, or Digory?!

Just a boy and his horse 💕 Della is going to make someone one heck of a mare. I have to start compiling videos… 😢 but wh...
05/20/2026

Just a boy and his horse 💕

Della is going to make someone one heck of a mare. I have to start compiling videos… 😢 but when they’re SO versatile, it might take a while.

05/17/2026

I’m definitely not the best about posting regularly 😅 but I’m going to try to start sharing a weekly exercise with some of the horses here simple things that I think any horse could benefit from, no matter the discipline or experience level.

This week’s exercise: ground tying + picking up all 4 feet 🐴

It sounds basic, but this one exposes a LOT.

Can your horse quietly stand in an open space without constantly moving their feet or walking off? Can they calmly allow all 4 feet to be handled without leaning, pulling away, or losing patience?

Exercises like this help build:
• patience and emotional regulation
• confidence away from the herd
• respect for personal space
• safer farrier and vet experiences
• a horse that’s easier and more enjoyable to handle overall

Cat here can show you how it’s supposed to be done. Can your horse do it?

Um, can we say copy paste?! The twins had twins… I don’t think it gets too much more matchy matchy than this 🤣 However, ...
05/07/2026

Um, can we say copy paste?! The twins had twins… I don’t think it gets too much more matchy matchy than this 🤣

However, I must’ve ordered my buckskin filly’s in the wrong language because they’re both Perlino colts 🙃 but happy and healthy is the best color so I guess I’m still winning.

Baby and Jewel have both taken to their new motherly rolls so perfectly.

Kingsley’s journey to Midwest was a product of low blow. Anyone who's been in the industry long enough knows that horses...
05/02/2026

Kingsley’s journey to Midwest was a product of low blow. Anyone who's been in the industry long enough knows that horses aren’t for the faint of heart. And with all of the highs, seem to come just as many lows. But resilience and perseverance certainly is essential being in the horse industry.

A few weeks before Midwest, I was getting Charlie’s feathers cleaned up late on a Friday night from all the mud in preparation. Charlie (proudly owned by Hidden Ponds GypsyVanners and Cobs) had been working hard all winter to prepare for this upcoming show season. He was as fit and prepared in every way and I was super exited to get to show him off. Only a mere 10 hours later Saturday morning, I found him unstable in the walk, with a really bizarre kind of lameness in his hind leg. Literally overnight, he went from a really promising show season to 12 weeks of stall rest with a ruptured tendon. What happened was devastating, and even though I don’t own Charlie, it still knocked me down for a while.

The only reason Kingsley got to ride along for Midwest, was because it was too close to the event for them to give a refund on Charlie’s stallion stall, but they would let me fill the stall with a different horse. Talk about underprepared…. Kingsley had never been in a trailer prior to his trip down, never had been bathed, obviously had never been to any sort of event or seen the sights of town, and truly has had minimal handling simply because I just never have time.

But despite all of that, he was a trooper for the entire weekend. We proceeded to continue our endeavor of starting under saddle with no headgear, and I got on several times to hang out in the big arenas ❤️ of coarse I haven’t worked with him since, but riding at home should be a piece of cake in comparison. Kingsley really is a standout guy in far more ways than just his appearance, and his second birthday is coming up in another week and a half 💕 such a fantastic boy for his age. And although taking him will remain bittersweet, I cannot wait to see what the future holds for this guy!

In the meantime, send prayers and good vibes for Charlie’s recovery. Hopefully next year will be his comeback story ❤️‍🩹

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.Because strength multiplies when it’s shared.There ...
04/27/2026

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Because strength multiplies when it’s shared.

There will be plenty of updates coming on the horses who joined us at the Midwest Horse Fair and Minnesota Horse Expo these past two weekends. But truly, the stars of the show are the people working behind the scenes.

The last two weeks have been early mornings, late nights, the chaos of back-to-back expos, so many moving parts, unpacking, repacking… and running on little more than sheer adrenaline while still trying to maintain regular life in the middle of it all.

Add some young inexperienced baby horses to the mix for these events and things really could have gone sideways fast.

There’s no way I could have pulled this off on my own and I am so incredibly thankful for the people God has placed in my life. Grace & Grit Horsemanship is far beyond what I could have built alone, and it continues to grow because of so many impressive people who show up, step in, and carry so much of the load right alongside me. They are the ones who make everything we do possible, and the glue that holds everything together.

Truthfully, this goes far beyond just these past two weekend events. There's also a lot of others working quietly behind the scenes that keep things rolling on a day to day level as well. And not all of the people who have been part of the journey of building Grace & Grit Horsemanship are still around, but that doesn’t mean their impact isn't still appreciated. Every lesson, helping hand, and moment of support has shaped what this has now become, and I will always be thankful for that.

Cheers to many more years, laughs, adventures, and people who continue to be a part of it all! Because truly it’s more about growth, education, and the community we build along the way.

It’s easy to see the polished moments on social media and assume that’s the whole story, but that’s rarely the reality.I...
04/21/2026

It’s easy to see the polished moments on social media and assume that’s the whole story, but that’s rarely the reality.

I don’t quite have the energy to fully recap Midwest Horse Fair as we unpack and turn right around to prepare for Minnesota Horse Expo this coming weekend.

What I can say is this, I’m incredibly grateful for the help and support I had and I truly couldn’t have done it without everyone.

Both boys had their moments, the good and the not-so-good, but that’s part of bringing along young horses. Overall, I’m really proud of how they handled themselves. Taking two young stallions into an environment like that isn’t simple, and they stepped up in a lot of ways.

Progress isn’t always pretty, but it’s still progress.

If your headed to the MN Horse Expo, be sure to stop by and say hi!

Can anyone guess which horse this is? 👀
04/14/2026

Can anyone guess which horse this is? 👀

04/08/2026

Well… last night certainly didn’t go as expected. It was late, I really didn’t have the energy to work my boys (as usual) but pushed through anyway, because the expos are coming up. Kingsley was last, but figured I could at least hang out and maybe work on some obstacles or desensitizing. Something very low effort.

We walked into the arena and I had left a saddle in there from the previous horse. I figured I’d put it on Kingsley just so I didn’t have to carry it back up to the tack room. He’s never worn a dressage saddle before, but we have worked in getting comfortable with the idea of a saddle.

He’s hasn’t actually had his second birthday yet, and I have no intentions to start him under saddle this young. But for some reason, I really got the itch to just sit on him. (Probably because I didn’t have the desire to do anything.) So I made a bargain with myself and with him. I could sit on him, as long as I had no headgear. No control, no expectations.

This would prevent me from doing any real work or pushing him mentally or physically much at all. So my only option would truly be to get up there and just hang out. He doesn’t know any cues and has never worn one a neck rope.

This truly is the benefit of having them from a baby. I know everything about him, every experience he’s ever had, every interaction, every reaction, and because of that can pretty well predict his next move. His energy, and his history, gave me the confidence I needed.

Needless to say, we took our first steps, we yield our shoulder, and we backed up. When people talk about a good minded horse, I really don’t know that you’ll find a better one.

After the expos, he will likely go back to just being an untouched baby in the pasture. But all of these moments will definitely help when it does come time to start him.

His future right now is still unknown, but I think I’ll plan on continuing to keep him stallion and continuing anything under saddle to be done with no headgear. Maybe, just maybe, he’s meant to stay for a while and teach me. ❤️

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