Meet Our Horses
Lena
Lena came to us from our sister at CMB. She’s our oldest lesson horse, believed to be born in 1990. Lena’s breeding is unknown, it is believed she has some pony in her heritage, but we know she is 100% good girl.
Lena is a sweetheart and loves to nuzzle kids and stand there while they love on her and brush her. She has been involved in camps enjoys every minute of pampering that the campers give to her!
Lena can walk, and trot. We have retired her from cantering due to her age. She does a fantastic job of teaching new riders how to steer around obstacles and how to stay persistent in asking their horse to stay going.
One of Lena’s favorite pastimes is nickering at kids and other horses as they walk past her. She just loves attention! She also loves her naps!
Due to Lena’s age, we limit the types of treats that she can have, as she doesn’t have very many teeth left. She loves the soft peppermints that melt on your tongue and never passes up a chance to nibble them up out of your hands.
Sonya
Tino also joined our team from our sister at CMB. He is a Bashkir-Curly breed horse. They’re known for their curly hair, but Tino is on their straight haired registry.
Tino was born in 2005. He stands at 16.2hh. He’s our tank, sturdy and trustworthy. While he may not make fast turns or fast moves in general, he is so good for teaching the walk, trot and canter! He steers through, around and over pretty much anything! We have yet to find something he won’t do.
Tino loves to plod along, but picks up the pace when asked. He loves barrels, he chest bumps them any chance he can! He is a smooth ride, like a rocking chair just about.
Tino also loves food, he sneaks bites of grass and grain whenever he can and absolutely wants a treat if you have one!
We are so excited to have him in our program to help students finesse their skills!
Tino
Sonya came to us from our sister at CMB. She is our second oldest lesson horse, believed to be born in 1997. But, she is also one of our sturdiest horses to teach on. She makes a great teacher for rollbacks, jumping, barrels and overall control of one’s horse!
Her breeding is also unknown. We believe there is some pony in her heritage. However, we know she is 100% good girl, 100% sass, and 100% mare. Let’s just say, Sonya definitely tests skills as a rider and teaches riders how to be prepared for anything.
Sonya does fantastic on trails, either alone or in a group- she much prefers to go at her own pace, and she’ll try to sneak a bite of grass (like many horses do). She can jump up to 2’ and will jump just about anything you steer her towards.
She also teaches our kids how to rollback to prepare them for the barrel pattern and is one of our intermediate lesson horses. She is also one of our favorites to teach some basic vaulting skills on .
Sonya likes to eat, her favorite food is definitely treats of any kind! You are guaranteed to see her ears come forward if you start dropping treats in her feed pan or crinkling treat wrappers.