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In other sports, hockey was dominated this season by the barn guys and their friends! Total blow out! Well done team!

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Lessons canceled for tonight, check your email for details if you are on the schedule for today.

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Cruller (2020)

Lovely conformation for the hunter ring. Currently w/t/c and schooling small fences with a junior rider. Attended his first under-saddle show (Hamilton Hunt Club) and acted like he had been going there every weekend.
Lovely conformation for the hunter ring. Currently w/t/c and schooling small fences with a junior rider. Attended his first under saddle show (Hamilton Hunt Club) and acted like he has been going there every weekend.

Kind and quiet

Not spooky, very easy to handle. Low 5 carrots. Show home preferred.
Flamborough ON

Fire Fly’s Tugs On My Heart “Tugs” is a bay roan American Sport Pony stallion standing at 12.3hh. Tugs has correct balanced conformation on great legs and hooves. He has superb natural jumping form and easily frames under saddle, showing promise for both the dressage and hunter rings. Sweet disposition, loves attention, easy to handle and great barn manners. Excellent candidate to cross with Welsh and Sport Pony mares.

We received 4 beautiful foals from him. His oldest are both going well under saddle. All have been off property to shows and behaved like proper show ponies. They placed well at the Pony Star Search series. 2023 Tugs’s foal qualified for the Royal and went and competed in the big city. Tugs produces very trainable youngsters, with natural jumping ability and with great hooves.

Tugs is bored and would like a new job now. We think he would make an excellent driving pony, geld him or keep him a stallion. Either way we are looking to find someone who will enjoy him and allow him to have a fun new career.

Located in Flamborough ON

Melissa VPP Photoshoot
Capture some fall colours with Melissa VPP (my personal bestie, who has captured so many special moments throughout Fire Fly Stable's journey). Melissa is coming from London on Tuesday, September 30th.

15 min photography sessions will be available from 4:30pm onward. Please book ahead by emailing me, these sessions are not ridden sessions (you can lead your favourite horse in a halter or bridle) You are welcome to come early and pamper or even braid your horse before your booked time. Photos will be taken where the best light and the best leafs on the trees are.

Book it through me by emailing back with your horse and ideal timeslot. Want to learn more about Melissa's photography, click the link below.

$45/session

About - Melissa V. Photography & Wedding Planning Photographer and Event Planner with a passion for weddings, based out of Belmont Ontario, serving the surrounding counties.

Alexis Martin Clinic - Dressage (and so much more)
Date: October 27/28 2025
Time: 9am to 5pm both days
Location: Fire Fly Stables (1374 Concession 5 W, Branchton ON, N0B1L0)
Format: Each day will be comprised of 1 hour of theory open to auditors and participants followed by private/semi-private sessions (your choice of mounted or unmounted, English or Western)
Cost:
Participants:
Private 45 minute session $400/both days includes catered lunch
Semi-private 1 hour session $300/both days includes catered lunch

Auditors:
$60/day includes catered lunch
Stabling:
$45 both days, stay overnight or ship in, same price.
Stall will be bedded with shavings on arrival. Please bring your own water bucket and any feed buckets/implements.
Your horse must be vaccinated for Rhino-Flu.

Catered lunch: please let us know any food allergies or limitations prior to the clinic.

Regardless of whether you are riding or auditing, please sign up in advance by emailing Jenn at [email protected]. Payments need to be paid at the same time as signing up for you to hold the spot. No refunds available prior to 1 week of the clinic. Spots are limited. Semi-private riders who don't have someone to ride with, just email in with what level you are at and we will do our best to find another rider at your level to share the spot with.

About Alexis
Alexis MV is a classical dressage rider and coach who is well educated in both the French and German methodologies of traditional riding. She utilizes the principles of both, along with R+ (clicker training) to create a blended approach of science based, biomechanically sound, ethical training of the horse for any discipline. Having studied extensively with world renowned author and coach, Mary Wanless, Alexis offers riders detailed insight on how to correctly use the position to ride with balance and feel, as well as preserve their own ‘soundness’. Here are some highlights of Alexis' achievements:
● USDF Bronze, Silver and Gold Medalist on self trained horses
● USDF Silver Freestyle bar, and freestyle competitor at nearly every level
● USEF r dressage judge
● USDF Horse of the year top 20 placings multiple levels
● Former CHA (Certified Horsemanship Assn) Certified Instructor

We are excited to host Alexis here for our first time but you have already heard her quoted many times in your lessons with me. Nina and I were able to participate in this clinic back in the Spring, and we are so excited to bring her to our home barn now so you are able to have the same opportunity.

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This is what working Equitation is all about and we are hosting a clinic very soon! A few spots left.

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Stephanie Crawford - Biomechanics - Feb 2nd
Dr Stephanie Crawford is a Chiropractor and Certified Animal Chiropractor specializing in treating horses and riders, and a biomechanics coach.
Her equestrian background includes over twenty years' experience riding, competing and coaching in the English disciplines. Stephanie is dedicated to bringing a wider knowledge of human anatomy and biomechanics to riders through her clinical practice, and rider education.
In September of 2022 she spent three immersive weeks in the UK with biomechanics expert Mary Wanless riding and participating in the basic and advanced Ride With Your Mind teacher training courses.
This will be Fire Fly's 3rd time hosting Stephanie and we are excited to learn from her again. You will not walk away from this clinic without having learned something, whether you ride or audit it will be worth your while.

$130 semi private/hr - $34 to audit Lunch provided

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Summer Camp Dates are posted.

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