We've Opened More Stalls & Started Our Field Care Program!

Training Stable

Team JS is thrilled to announce we’ve opened 4 more stalls for horses in training. In matters of competition and style, preparation is key. Horses in full training receive 6 days of training, grooming sessions twice daily to maintain coat quality, and lots of love.

Our roomy 12’ x 14’ stalls provide ample space for large warmbloods, and horses are fed up to 3 times a day. We're onsite 24/7 to treat your horse like royalty, and our knowledgeable staff includes an onsite masseuse and a physical therapist to accommodate the equine athlete. This is an amazing opportunity to become part of an up-and-coming international dressage team.

Stalls will be available September 1st, and we expect them to fill quickly, so call or text us at +1 (240) 479-5435 or email info@jsdressage.com to schedule a visit!


Field Care Program

By request, we’ve started our Field Care Program, and opened 2 fields to accommodate both geldings and mares. Let your riding horse, retiree, or open broodmare live in style in our lush fields! Our spacious pastures boast huge 15’ x 40’ run-ins, PVC fencing for your horse’s safety, and terrain designed to promote muscle growth! Your horse will be fed twice a day, and we inspect the horses twice a day.

Riders will enjoy our large indoor with new footing, our beautifully-groomed dressage arena, and 2 outdoor jumping arenas, with jump courses professionally set up for your convenience. This is an ideal situation for your horse, and horses on field care are given the same love and attention as our international FEI horses! Learn more here!

We expect these openings to fill fast, so call or text us at +1 (240) 479-5435 or email info@jsdressage.com to schedule a visit!

Heath Ryan Clinic Days 3 & 4

Nikita and I continued our week-long session with Olympian Heath Ryan by working on perfecting our passage-piaffe-passage transitions, and trying to tidy up the tempis. We achieved a softer passage, which Heath said should score an 8 or 9, and he said our piaffe is a 9! Heath gave us some more hints for how to ride the Grand Prix test professionally to score as many points as possible, and we received lots of career advice. We worked on our tempis on a circle, which will come in very handy for the musical freestyles. Here's some video from Days 3 & 4!

Clinic with Heath Ryan, Days 1 & 2

Nikita and I are half way through our week-long training session with Olympian Heath Ryan. For those who don't know, Heath went to the Bejing Olympics for Australia, so it's pretty neat we get almost a whole week with him.

We've focused on the Grand Prix test, and Heath said we should practice it daily. He likened it to a total body work out, and said doing each movement daily will help Nikita to build muscle and stamina without stressing her joints, ligaments, or lungs. The nice thing about working on the Grand Prix with someone who's done it in the Olympics is we've gotten these clever hints about how to ride the test with more polish and presentation. These are the kind of things I wouldn't figure out myself (then again, as my wonderful groom Stephanie knows, that top hat is still a mystery to me)!

Heath said the work we're doing is getting closer to international caliber, and believes Nikita will be an awesome international Grand Prix horse, once we have more experience under our belts!

Good Times at Hilltop Farm

Nikita and I had a great time working with Chris Hickey at Hilltop Farm this week! Nikita thought it was funny to roll in her own pee right before my lessons, and clearly wasn't as concerned about making a good impression as I was!

Chris had a lot of great things to say about our work, and gave some awesome hints to improve our half passes, pirouettes (which are already a show stopper!), piaffe, and piaffe/passage transitions. He helped make our tempis more expressive and collected, which hopefully will bring us from a 7 to an 8 on the tempis!

I got to watch Chris ride some horses, and learned all kinds of valuable information from just watching. I also saw a preview of his I-1 freestyle, which he will perform at the Saugerties CDI this weekend!

Nikita and I can't wait to go back in September, and get some more feedback!

Our 5 Year Anniversary

Today marks my 5 year anniversary with Nicolbria. I bought her in August 2006 from Barbara Eberly of Sweet Effort Farm. Nicolbria was fat, out of shape, and uber-green. And I can't forget to mention she was crazy, which only came to light after she lost the weight!

She's the first horse I trained to Prix St. George, and her foals will be the next generation of horses I take to the FEI level! I certainly wouldn't be where I am today if it wasn't for her, so let's take a moment to appreciate Big Red!

News about Chamonix SSH and Nicolbria

I saw Chamonix SSH and Nicolbria for the first time since May. It also was my first time seeing Nicolbria since she's been in foal to Bugatti Hilltop. I visited to check on the gang, and find out the gender of Nicolbria's baby.

Unfortunately, the baby was hiding, and although I saw some legs of the future "Bugabria," we couldn't see enough to determine the gender. Here's some photos of Nicolbria!

Up next: EEMI Summer Fling in Leesburg, VA!

Wish us luck - we're doing Intermediare I!

Ride times are 7:57 AM and 9:12 AM!

Nikita and I had another lesson with Bent this week. He praised our extended trots and tempis, and said our canter half-passes were much better. We were lucky, and the storms didn't start until after our lesson. Here's some video, taken before the torrential downpour started!



Thanks, Jeanette, for letting us come again to your lovely farm! Look forward to seeing you again later this month!