07/09/2025
What a phenomenal 3 days of education, sportsmanship and friendship its been.
Watching these USEA Area IV Young Riders learn and grow has been amazing. These young ladies have been a pleasure to have on the farm - it was wonderful to see the *2 group add to their tool box of skills and continue to chase their goals as well as watch the starter group on green horses or riders just learning the sport.
Allison Springer Eventing was a true professional- full of knowledge and offering experience and advice- she would see each riders need and work to fill that whole. Her exercises and teaching style hit the mark for each of the 18 horses and riders while remaining positive and on time! Every one of those riders left better than when they arrived along with a plan to continue.
We can not thank everyone enough for their time and energy to make this camp happen. The days were filled with riding, off horse information and technical discussions about the sport.
And thank you to the girls who came to learn and worked so hard and were a pleasure to have around!
A huge thank you to Barbara Pattee McMorris for organizing the camp and working tirelessly on behalf of the sport - this event took months of planning and dedication. An additioanl few special mentions of gratitude -to L'Esprit Equestrian our training partner at the farm for continuing to push for educational opportunities and twist our arm to host! To Ingrid Pavilanis for spearheading a team at Jigsaw Farms to get us ready for these girls and make the xc field look so beautiful. To Jenifer L. Kloss for all you passion for the sport - for standing with your camera and talent in the ring for 3 days. Photographing these ladies memories - we are so grateful. To all the parents of these kids - (Janette Saenz Hernandez who was a great extra set of hands this week) who chipped in running errands, picking up water bottles or just in keeping a watchful eye - these families all stepped up to support their kids and we thank you. A big thank you to our boarders who had to put up with the disruption to the farm and work around the camp we are lucky to have you! And a very huge thank you to our team at Jigsaw who worked so diligently to prepare the farm to house 18 riders and horses, stayed late, came early, worked extra long hours in the heat and rain to make this camp possible and Jigsaw shine. We truly have the best team around.
After the hectic few days and some crazy weather we are back to being Jigsaw - with the prettiest sunsets around!
Ps photo links will be posted with pictures from Jen in a few days!