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Tuesday 9am - 7pm Wednesday 9am - 7pm Thursday 9am - 7pm Friday 9am - 7pm Saturday 9am - 5pm Sunday 9am - 5pm

Skibbereen Farm

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Skibbereen is a successful Hunter/jumper show stable offering training, showing, leasing and boarding

LESSON PRICES
Lungeline (private half-hour): $45.00
Novice/Advanced (private half-hour): $50.00
Novice/Advanced (group one hour): $50.00

Chrissie Hannon: $60

11/02/2026

Congratulations to Jeff Hannon on winning the Zac Brown band tickets! Thank you for supporting our IEA Team!!!

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11/01/2026

Penelope is UB Equestrian ‘s good luck charm today at Cornell.

Mae won Intermediate over fences on Louie and was 4th in Open flat with Harvey.
We are always so grateful for the opportunity to ride these lovely horses.

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UB Equestrian

10/28/2026

Congratulations to the riders from our IEA team who have already qualified for Regionals.
From the Upper School Team:
Natalie Mumbach - flat
Lainey Galuszka - flat
Keira Murray - flat
Khloe Lynch - over fences
The upper school team has qualified as a team as well ☘️
Middle School:
Rosemary Hanzly
Aspen Moran

With two more shows in our season, I’m sure there will be more to report.

Great job and keep working hard riders! ☘️☘️☘️

10/26/2026

We are so grateful to the BTRC for providing us with the opportunity to ride with some of the greatest horsemen.

This weekend they hosted a clinic with Melanie Smith Taylor (an Olympic rider) and Alicia Landman who handled the horsemanship part of the clinic.

These clinics are always a tremendous opportunity to learn new things and brush up on both horsemanship and riding skills and we look forward to it every year.
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10/26/2026

Congratulations to the University at Buffalo riders who had a great show at the RIT IHSA shows this weekend at Lehman Farms!
Our newest members of the team had a fabulous start to their season and Marigold Maccabe-Angell qualified for Regionals in both limit over fences and on the flat.

Thank you to all the teams who shared their wonderful Horses for these riders to compete. There was truly not a bad draw to be had. 💙🤍💙

We are all excited to move onto Cornell!

10/23/2026

I have pity for the horses who have to live their lives in a dark stall unable to just be Horses and hang out with their friends. They do get a few scrapes here and there and might have the occasional injury, but they are still happier Horses and end up on the horse trailer heading to colic surgery far less often. ♥️☘️♥️

I am a firm believer that horses should have lives outside of their careers.

I love a talented horse. I love developing young horses, setting ambitious goals, and seeing what they might be capable of accomplishing.

But I also think it’s important to remember that our horses have absolutely no idea what their résumés say.

They don’t know what their breeding suggests they should be good at. They don’t know what level they’re supposed to reach, what scores they’ve earned, or how much money we’ve invested in their futures.

And I think they deserve lives that are about more than those things.

I want my horses to have friends. I want them to spend time in fields, play, explore, scratch each other’s withers, and occasionally make questionable decisions about which mud puddle looks the most inviting.

I want the young ones to have time to be young. To be a little scraggly. Have a few scrapes on them.

And I want the older ones to have lives where their entire sense of routine doesn’t revolve around being ridden.

Because as much as we love these horses for what they can do, I think we have a responsibility to remember that they are living, feeling, social animals first.

Their athletic careers are something we have chosen for them.

Their need to be horses isn’t.

And I don’t think those two things have to compete with one another.

We can have big ambitions for our horses AND give them lives that are rich in experiences that have absolutely nothing to do with advancing those ambitions.

In fact, I think those things often complement each other beautifully.

I hope the horses in my program become successful athletes. I hope they go on to do wonderful things, make their owners proud, and have long, fulfilling careers.

But I also hope they have horse friends that they love.

That they get to roll in the sunshine.

That they spend plenty of hours doing absolutely nothing sport related. Doing the only things horses were actually designed to do… walk around in groups and eat forage 😆

Because a horse can have an impressive résumé and still be missing some pretty important parts of a good life.

And at the end of the day, I want to be proud of more than what my horses accomplish.

I want to be proud of the lives they get to live 24/7, not just when I’m with them.

10/23/2026

We definitely had to count on a whole lot of prayers 🙏🙏🙏 and the Luck of the Irish ☘️☘️☘️ because the forecast for our fall Barn show was definitely dismal. It all worked because the weather held out and we had a fantastic day.

Thank you so much to my full “Team Skibbereen” who help get the horses schooled and ready for our students and who helped make it all run smoothly.

Our crew that was here early morning and all day truly displays what a Barn family is all about. I was going to name specific names, but was fearful I would accidentally leave someone out. The loyalty and dedication is recognized and Molly and I are truly grateful for all of you. ♥️☘️♥️

Address

5142 Bussendorfer Road
Orchard Park, NY
14127

Opening Hours

Tuesday	9am - 7pm
Wednesday	9am - 7pm
Thursday	9am - 7pm
Friday	9am - 7pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

(716) 648-1908

Website

http://skibbereenfarm.com/

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