2 FEI Schoolmasters Available for on-site Lease/Half Lease

 Do you want to advance your skill set as a rider? Consider a schoolmaster lease!

Full or half lease on site option available for Artesian. Currently schooling 3rd-4th level, no maintenance and barefoot. Lesson packages also available.

Lease option for Atreo. On-site. Full or half lease option available. Lesson packages options available. Currently schooling 3rd level, no maintenance and barefoot.



Both geldings could return to full competition fitness and help you work towards your Bronze Medal scores.

Monday Wrap Up - clinics, stallions, sales, communication and lessons

So it is a bright and sunny Monday morning with predicted highs in the 40's! Not bad for late February! This post is going to be a bit of recap and questions for those who like to clinic!

To start - thank you again to all of our loyal students and clinic participants for bearing with us during the winter that seemed to deliver storms on each and every Friday! It was a joy to work with you all and we hope to continue to offer a clinic format throughout the year to help everyone advance their horses.  (see below for more information)

Secondly, today is an awesome day to consider Dressage Royal if you are debating breeding your mare! We have another DR offspring undersaddle and she is as calm, cool and collected about becoming a riding horse as all the others have been. Our older DR offspring (2007's) are progressing beautifully in their training and providing plenty of reasons to breed to him again each and every day. Charming personalities, sweet natures, super gaits, easy flying changes and great elasticity in their way of going...we are smitten! Come see them in person and that might make you a believer in his prepotency too!

Thirdly, if you are trying to contact Ellie or Anne to arrange interviewing for the working student position(s), view sales horses or to discuss any of our stallions, please email your information, requests and/or questions to Ellie@watermark-farm.net or Anne@watermark-farm.net .  The cell service at the farm has gotten more unpredictable and the riding list is quite long - which means getting a prompt (and coherent) answer will be a challenge unless we can sit down and type it out during some down time. We are happy to call you back but it can be difficult to mesh schedules during this hectic time. Email truly is best for now. We are all on Facebook, so that is another means of reliable contact through the Farm Page.

For lesson scheduling, please email or text what would work for you and remember to include your name in the first message so we know who it is coming from! ;) Thank you!!!!!

Fourth on the list - future clinics.
There are several clinics in the works with different topics than we have offered thus far. Check back in a few days as there will be an opportunity to weigh in on when and what will be on the schedule.

For those of you who wanted to participate in the Winter Clinic Series and could not - we are planning on offering the topics again in May as a series. It may be an afternoon/evening series during the week, however, in order to avoid conflict with the competition schedule.

The other alternative to signing up for clinics is to sign up for lessons. We offer private, semi-private and group lessons for beginner to advanced students. We will be offering a Weekly Group Lesson one afternoon per week starting the end of May to help those with young horses that need mileage in a more friendly atmosphere with equine company. For the more advanced work (flying changes, lateral work, etc), we can provide a demonstration horse and rider for the more visual learners. Private lessons for the advanced work on the schoolmasters are also available for those with a good seat and kind hands.

So I think that is everything for today! Communication is the key! Check back in a few days for the updates on the new clinics!

~Happy Riding!~

The difference a day makes!

So the revisions have gone up on the website and each individual horse's page needs to be double checked, updated and have the new(est) of the summer schooling photos and videos added. Which is fine - actually, it is almost fun to have it as a "To Do Project" honestly.

Except...

I had done two thirds of the pages and was preparing to upload them to the server when I went out to ride yesterday with printed copies of all the USEF level tests in hand. Mom had a "beat the heat" early lesson, so I wanted to squeeze in a quick run through the 4th 3 with Wyatt. Now he rocked the test! Which is absolutely awesome! A bit of fine tuning and he's ready to show! Which also means the DH PSG is easily within his reach for next season as well as the real FEI PSG and Intermediare I. (how awesome is that???)

But for kicks I schooled a few of the other horses through the 4th 3 during the day...and they were also very, very good. Most of them are coming back into the full program still as my ankle is beginning to let me work a full day from time to time, so there is more schooling to do before they are 'show ready'. But the changes are easy, the lateral work is no big deal and they are happy to do the pattern of the test!! Not bad for first run throughs of that level! Wendy (Wakanda) breezed through the test without any major hiccups, which was quite a surprise to me (she has opinions just like her mother did) and really settled into the changes beautifully. Liam (Don William) is a solid 2nd level and beginning to be strong enough to work on some of the 3rd level stuff. The others were very obedient and happy in the work! Which means, dum dum dum, it is definitely time to get out and about and find some schooling shows!!!

So what does this really mean? Well, for starters, it is downright fanfreakingtastic to have 7 horses on the cusp of being honest-to-goodness 4th level horses with some FEI horses ready to show! All of them are 8 or younger! But as a small downside - it's time to redo all their pages. Again.  :-/ Oh and shoot new videos, edit and upload them all to YouTube.  *sigh*

The work is never ending it seems! But I'll be honest - I'd rather be out riding than in the office working on the website and videos! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! ;-)