Video Day! Video Day!

It' may be Friday April 3rd in some people's lives, but it is Spring Video Weekend here at Watermark Farm! That means the camera will be out, braided horses will be in abundance and many jumps will be jumped! And that is just today!

We're setting up a jump chute in a few minutes and then getting the polish on several horses that are seeking new riders and new homes! Check back here, on Facebook or our You Tube channel for the newest footage.

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Holiday Sales Extravaganza!

The Holidays are approaching quickly and we would like to make sure that everyone has a happy and positive Holiday Season! And there is no better way of ensuring that than to have a talented, sane and fun horse to work with each day!

Dream Girl WF

We will be offering a substantial discount to show homes with a trainer reference on our current Sales List!

Wall Street WF

There are a few updated photos below of a few of the Sales Horses -

Wendolyn WF

Wolfgang WF (no additional discount)

Wilson WF

Aloysius WF

Westerleigh WF

Whodini WF

Avebury WF

Wallace WF

Don William WF

Wylie WF

As You Wish WF

Wilona WF

And that still leaves Waverleigh, Windrose, Drummond, Dreamcatcher and Wichita Rose WF who need updated photos and videos! We also have a few horses that are available for lease at this time.  If any of the horses listed here (or on the website) are of interest - please contact Anne@watermark-farm.net (484) 880-0779 for more information and pricing.

Featured Sales Horse - ***Westerleigh WF***

Show hunter peeps this mare is for you!! Shrug off the bias against chestnut mares - she is fancy, talented and a superlative hunter prospect for the discerning trainer!

Around the barn, Westerleigh is best known as Joy and that is what she is!! Pure joy to work with! But alas, we are a dressage barn! What do we do with a horse that is clearly more suited for a different discipline??? We need to find Joy a new person! So the search is on!!! 

Here is a super opportunity for a gifted hunter rider to have a fantastic horse to bring along! She is sweet, very intelligent and in need of a new career director.

Joy is currently priced at $15,000. Please contact Anne@watermark-farm.net to discuss your purchasing options. 

Time for more education!!! It's a Fall Reduction for our Lesson Fees!

Fall is upon us! For many of us that means winter is looming and it is time to address training conundrums, add in new exercises and challenges or get our young horses out and about in new locations in a socialized group experience!

With all of the above in mind, we will be offering a reduced Group Lesson Fee of $35 per horse for groups of 3 or more. A Semi Private Lesson (just 2 horses) is reduced to $50. 
Lessons will run for exactly 1 hour. 

This is a super opportunity to have a less intense environment to get some instruction and have a few minutes to practice on your own while the other rider(s) get some one on one help! With many years of FEI experience behind us this is a great chance to have a correct foundation established for both horse and rider!

These reduced fees will apply September 25th-November 30th, so it is time to band together, share the ring space and improve your riding and your horse’s education!

Email Anne@watermark-farm.net to reserve your Group Lesson Time!

Yeah, it's pretty awesome!

Wylie waiting to go compete

As it's a tad chilly out there this morning, I'm taking a minute for some self indulgent "Atta boy Wally!" praise! His daughters were simply rockstars this weekend...

They were fine with being caught in the pitch dark at 4 AM, being brought in the barn, cleaned up, loaded like they've done it every day all year and shipped like champs to Bel Air. Then they calmly unloaded, got tacked up, whinnied a few times, and then hung out until it was their turn to show. No fuss. No great prep routine with hours of lunging or tons of schooling. Briana had come up a few days before and jumped over 1 X, a vertical and a small oxer several times...other than that, they've been working on their dressage training! So the show was a Holiday from that!

Wylie hanging out waiting her turn

Wilona catching a nap

Wilona watching Wylie head to the ring

Now we have carefully picked the mares we bred to Waldaire - several generations into this whole breeding adventure, there are some do's and don'ts that we've figured out...but he really does make "rider friendly" horses. They learn their job (do whatever the humans tell them to do) and go do it. What more can a rider ask for?

'Nuff said.

It's SHOWTIME!

So we packed up two of the mares that enjoy their bit of jumping and met one of our working students from the summer of 2011 - Briana for a day of fun! We went to what our Dressage friends would know as Heavenly Waters...but in the land of hunters - it was the Hartford Hunter Show Series Benefit Show! :)

Wilona and Wylie had a BLAST! They've only hopped over jumps a handful of times here at the farm this year but (obviously) do not need much prep work to go compete! Their intense dressage lifestyle worked just fine...

Wylie competed in the Schooling Hunter Division which had a fairly large group of competitors, from amateurs to professional coaches and trainers.

She jumped very nicely but was not quite "the type" that they are looking for in Hunterland that day. But her changes were clean, her form is tidy and she enjoyed herself, so we consider the day a resounding success!

Wilona rocked the Baby Green Division. Plain and simple. She went in right after Wylie's hack, jumped a beautiful round to capture the blue ribbon, had a small rider error in the 2nd round, a good hack for a 2nd place and returned home with a Championship to her credit! So it's safe to say she enjoys life as a show hunter! :)

So many thanks go out to our crew here at home! Thank you to Monika for videoing the rides! Thanks to Briana for riding with her fantastic style! Thanks to the organizers of the show for running such a friendly show - even my DQ self felt comfortable in the strange environment! :) 

Links and embedded videos will be posted later! Happy Riding!