Misfit Equestrian Performance

As we move into true fall weather, enjoy some shots from the last ‘summer’ show!

Our partner has officially started shoeing… YAY!

Misfit Equestrian Performance had a fantastic show this past weekend at Ohio Standardbreds and Friends!

Dancing Liana & Kenzie made their debut into the show ring, bringing home lots of new goals and material for lessons, as well as an awesome 2nd in the New Vocations class! This young pair are going to be exceptional once we work the buttons out!
🥈 New Vocations English Pleasure

Dancing Liana & Alex Horton made their debut into the adult classes, the entire goals of their rides being to educate Liana and build new confidence. Liana was great and brought home the bacon!
🥇 English Pleasure Champion
🥇 English Equitation WT Adult
🥈 English Equitation Reserve Champion
🥈 English Pleasure WT Adult
🥈 English Pleasure WT Jackpot
🥈Ground Poles WT

Alex Horton also catch rode Smothastenesewisky, Snips, in the standardbred WT Equitation Adult. Snips has had about 60 days undersaddle and is still actively racing with her owners Brian & Mackenzie Haynes. She’s brought in over $500,000 in her ongoing career!
🥇 English Equitation WT Adult

Hang Ten Henry & Kati Lou stepped back into the ring after a hiatus from showing, and we couldn’t have asked for better first show back! They showed in a range of classes from halter to jumping!
🥇 Open Halter
🥇 Non-Standardbred Halter
🥇 Halter Champion
🥇 Hunter Hack
🥇 Ground Poles
🥇 Crossrails
🥇 English Equitation Champion
🥇 English Equitation WTC Adult
🥇 English Pleasure WTC Adult
🥈 English Equitation WT Adult
🥉 English Pleasure WT Adult
🥉 English Pleasure WT Jackpot

📸 Debbie Schiff

Settled in for Ohio Standardbreds and Friends show tomorrow!

Let’s get this breadddd!!!!

Our best boy ❤️❤️❤️

Still cant get over how good Desi with Misfit Equestrian Performance looks! Such a good brain on this guy and Alex does an amazing job with him.

Swapping to day turnout in this awesome cool weather means the horses finally get to rock their fly sheets 🙌

January to August 2025 🙌

Still a long way to go for this 4 YO, but a LOT of positive progress.

Liana arrived in fall 2024 with her awesome family, having just come off the track earlier that year. Her body & mind had a hard time adjusting to day-to-day horse life, and therefore had a bit of a rough winter. Proud to say a few months of adjusting her diet, changing up our riding / ground work routines, and we are on the rise 👏

She has been working under saddle with our group for about two months, after 4 months of groundwork and getting familiar with routine life around the barn. She’s learned how to calmly stand in the crossties, behave the farrier, overcome scary obstacles, lunge / ride in groups & alone, back-up, and has recently achieved an understanding of moving bio mechanically correct under saddle 🙌 Liana also recieved her first body-work session this month, so thrilled! She is an absolutely perfect citizen for her absolute phenomenal youth rider, and we can’t wait to see their show debut here in a few weeks.

We’ve got a long way to go in building adequate topline and muscle, but for only being 6 months deep in such a life changing journey for all parties involved we are super proud.

A massive thank you to Frisky Filly Stables for aiding us in her day to day life & feeding plan. In addition, a thank you for such great care to all of our current team members!

A huge thank you to the Hatfield family for trusting us with your baby, and allowing us to collaborate with you in her off-the-track career!! 🙌

Happy birthday to our vet!!!!

40 bales got dropped off today 🙌 Gonna have some happy ponies!

Need to know by end of August who wants to attend this! :)

Our showbill for the Fall Grande Classic Open Horse Show. ❤️

This evening we encourage the members, new or old, of misfit equestrian and the horse world alike to support Sarah’s family. If you’ve shown at Happily Ever After, it’s likely you’ve watched a round of Sarah’s, been a closer friend of hers, or passed her in the ingate or barns. Our group has been showing locally for about two years.. and while we have never had the honor of working alongside Sarah, nor knowing her personally, this is a tremendous loss. Community is a large part of this sport, and this loss is heavy for everyone. Now is the time to demonstrate our strength, support for family and friends, and resilience. Supporting Sarah from ringside and watching her equestrian journey online has been nothing but fantastic. I’ve interacted with Sarah through comment sections, and have personally observed comments she has left on others posts, she was always kind and encouraging of others to keep working hard. The equestrian world is in desperate need of hard working, passionate, and loving riders like her. Every single interaction I have had with Sarah has been so good, and I’ve only ever heard or seen fantastic things about her from others. This is a good time to reflect on what you have, and to be thankful for every ride you dismount from your horses safe. It only takes one leaf blowing, one plastic bag blowing by, or that mounting block that’s been there for a year but looks slightly off to change things. Hug your ponies extra long, triple check that your helmet is buckled, and always be kind and encouraging to your fellow equestrians. - Alexandria Horton, owner of MEP.

Please please please share the link below or donate if you are able to support Sarah’s family.

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