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05/21/2026

The giddiness of a child jumping on a trampoline can elicit many instinctual behaviors in horses. In this lesson, student Eleanor witnessed some horse behaviors including fear, affection, trust and bonding with Lexandra.

05/08/2026

Atra Lyria Fonteyn
(pronounced AH-truh)
Affectionately named by her new owners, Leatha and Grant Melton
Congratulations!

04/17/2026

Congratulations to the Melton family on their purchase of the incredible and treasured Half-Arabian Victoriosa. She has been a teacher to so many and is lucky enough to be another young girl’s first horse. Victoriosa and Violet… Go Team V!!!

04/12/2026

Olive loves being a mommy to her precious daughter.

03/23/2026

Hooligan DGL
5/24/02-2/11/25

A lifelong soft candle wish from youth,
You arrived with intention and steady truth.
An athlete in body, in spirit the same,
A misread moment gave Hooligan your name.

A needed pivot from showing to teach,
Your dream life became the standard to reach.
Athletic, versatile lesson horses you sired,
With echoes of Park lines in styles they acquired.

Kind to the timid, soft in their ways,
Independently confident, commanding a gaze.
Polite in your presence, stoic and aware,
Hypervigilant power that took in all there.

Structured in habit, yet gentle in mind,
Empathetic, consistent, and thoughtfully aligned.
With heightened intuition, you read what was near,
Sensing the energy others could not hear.

Highly perceptive, with patterns you knew,
Organized thinking in all that you’d do.
With keen memory, steady and deep,
Individual judgments on who to keep.

Meeting each student exactly where they stood,
Adjusting your timing as only you could.
With clarity, feel, and a measured pace,
Soft guidance appeared when calm filled the space.

When minds were unsteady, unclear in their way,
Of order and energy lost in the fray,
You answered with firmness, composed and precise,
Restoring direction through steady advice.

But when one came open, with breath calm and true,
A future good leader in all they might do,
With no weight of malice, no burden to hide,
You met them with empathy right at their side.

Attuned to the subtle, the shifts and the space,
Each moment received with intention and grace.
Reading intention, emotion, and cue,
Mindful in all that you chose to do.

A quiet internal order you carried with care,
In rhythm and movement and presence aware.
Still present in motion, in breath, and in art,
In each influenced horseman, in each willing heart.

Becoming unseen was a strength that you wore,
A quiet command, not a need to be more.
You chose to observe rather than display,
To gather the truth, then proceed on your way.

You’d rather watch than be watched in return,
For stillness revealed what others must learn.
When eyes fixed forward upon your head,
Without clear guidance or leadership led,
A tension would rise, uncertain and lone,
Without steady leadership, not fully your own.

In unseen spaces your strength was defined,
A watcher, a reader, perceptive in mind.
Sensitive, nurturing, intuitive-minded presence,
Your beautiful descendants carry your essence.
Even though you are not here to see,
thank you for
your influence, your love, and your legacy.

Written by Lissa Kucher about Hooligan DGL

11/12/2025

Did anyone else see the northern lights?

11/04/2025

The Spooktacular Weekend Show AVS with the Mayflower Dressage and Sport Horse Show at the Iowa Equestrian Center was a blast again. The late nights of bonding and practicing made the best memories. Congratulations to our Olivia and Elza as well as Leslie and Ollie!

10/23/2025

Throwback Thursday

10/19/2025

Olive (DHH/Saddlebred)
In foal to Friesian for 2026

💥Pregnant Olive is available for purchase💥

10/13/2025

Olivia is learning about restarting her retired, Half-Arabian show/lesson mare. After many years away from training, this geriatric mare can still captivate with her beauty. The future options are multiplying for Elza and Olivia. 💗

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Princeton, IA
52768

Telephone

+15633405750

Website

http://riverbottomhorses.com/

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