Desert Bloom Horse Training

10/07/2026

a wee bit wet today

10/04/2026

That winning feeling = grass treats on the hill! 🕺

10/04/2026

Congratulations girls!!

What a beautiful foggy fall morning. 🍂

10/02/2026

Special shout-out to this hardworking young lady & her amazing family! Especially mom Leslie who tirelessly supported all of us ABOVE AND BEYOND through a very busy horse show week.

Olivia & her incredible mare Farrah were consistently fabulous together in every class. With great ribbons among competitive company.

Wed - 1st .95m Open Jumper
Fri - 2nd 1.00m Jr/Amateur Jumper
Sat - 2nd 1.00m Jr/Amateur Jumper
Sun - 5th $500 .95m Jumper Classic

Olivia also had the great opportunity to pilot the talented 6yo Oldenburg Tianna in T's first junior equitation & hunter classes with very supportive and empathetic riding for this young horses first time to compete with a junior rider.

Congratulations Olivia. The horses and I are proud of your dedication, compassion & ever-expanding skill-set as an equestrian and human 👏

09/25/2026

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09/21/2026

Bloomin at our barn!! Totally real photo with zero editing. A few hours later there were TWO little frogs on this same rose bloom!

09/21/2026

✔️ Prepped to 💃
✔️ Lots o love
✔️ Blessed

Thanks to our wonderful owners for trusting me to work with your favorite horses 🙏

09/13/2026

We have a few high quality, seasoned, smoothly trained horses (& a large pony) available for show lease at WEC Ocala the last week of September. Also available in November and throughout Winter circuit 2026-2027.

Ideal candidates for low level jumper divisions. Not cheap. Price includes -everything- for one full Jr/Am jumper division & coaching/hacking with our team. Call Rachel 520 468 8533 to discuss. You must have decent hands to appreciate these animals trained very well to take you confidently around courses up to .85m no matter the distance or angle you may find the jump so long as you do your best to show them the way, they will happily win jump-offs or cruise around at a mellow pace.

09/10/2026

Winter & I were introduced at the beginning of summer. His story was that two years prior this family had bought a cute pony that was way too strong, spooky, and forward for the kids who were too intimidated to ride him after their initial experiences. He hadn't left their farm in two years as the kids chose to ride different ponies than him.. remarking that even their previous trainer had fallen off his quick spook. They said trail-riding was not a safe option for him.

Winter & I became immediate besties & included outside hacking into our intial routine.

Yes he had a tendency to run through the bit and had traffic fears and insecurities which manifested in him wanting to leave. The first few days of jumping, he saw the jump and ran straight at it. It became clear that his homework was to trot every jump and come back to the trot on the backside for a little while. It didn't take long for him to take a breath and use his good insticts for jumping. The cool thing was this pony had plenty of bravery and scope to trot jump whatever I asked at any angle. I started taking him to shows - he has won most classes he's entered and every time we showed up at a new arena he was more relaxed about everything than the last time.

I trust this fun little guy A LOT and it didn't take me long to feel very confident in him.. and him in me. Yesterday I encouraged one of the families kids to pop on for the first time and without giving her time to think, told her to go straight for the butterfly oxer: count out loud and trust him. Here is a video of each jump.

It was so cool seeing what a professional Mr. Winter was taking this (shows as a 9 year old) kiddo around jumps as a catch ride.

Annnd.. can we all celebrate what a super cuteee technique he has over these .65-.70m fences?!

09/01/2026