Yes, it is that time of the year again. Time to prepare for IRS Tax Returns. We ask that our 2011 employees who have since moved on to please provide us with updated addresses before the end of January. That will help us get your 2011 W2's to you without delay.
We have two paid positions open at this time. Both are morning positions, one for weekdays, the other for weekends. Both jobs share responsibility for the whole barn with another person. Prior horse care experience is needed in order to care for the horses on the farm. Contact Kimberley for more information and to arrange a farm visit and interview.
Kearsarge Meadows, along with West Meadow Stables in Bradford and Horton's Farm in Grantham, is featured in the Fall 2011 issue of Kearsarge Magazine Included with the article are photos of one of our clients and her lovely buckskin horse horse, taken after a riding lesson with Kimberley.
You can pick up a copy of the magazine at various shops in the Sunapee / Kearsarge area. In Warner, the Warner Pharmacy, Country Cobwebs, and Mainstreet Book Ends often have the magazine for sale.
The recently retired dressage queen chestnut mare of Kearsarge Meadows, Jeddien, is featured in the magazine's video clinic, critiqued by Axel Steiner, Olympic Judge, and his wife, artist and photographer Terri Miller.
Check out the November 2010 issue of Dressage Today to read what Steiner and Miller thought of this photo of Kimberley and Jeddien (courtesy of Carole MacDonald) and Jeddien's 2009 USDF Region 8 Championship dressage test.
Now's as good a time as any to get back to the basics and make improvements with your horse. Ride indoors to beat the heat or outdoors to enjoy the summer. Contact us to discuss your equestrian goals and schedule a lesson.
After competing in 7 USDF competitions in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York this year, Piper Warrior and Kimberley earned the title of 2010 NEDA Year End Champion in USDF Freestyles.
At the 2010 USDF Regional Championships, they also came 4th in their debut year at First Level Freestyle and half qualified for 2011.
As winter approaches, focus on training continues in preparation for the resumption of the 2011 USDF Region 8 dressage season in April.
You can keep abreast of Piper's competition life on the Dressage Queen blog, a chronicle of one rider's path to the Regional Championships.
After various tests, including walking barefoot in treated footing, we treated our 70x160 foot indoor arena with 2400 pounds of "Mag Flakes" in March 2009. Since then, our indoor arena has been 100% dust free. We highly recommend this Magnesium Chloride product and would be happy to show it to any farm owners who are considering upgrading their own arenas.
Since the start of Summer 2010 was so dry, we tried some Mag outdoors on our sand & rubber arena. It worked great for the first couple of weeks during the continued dry spell, but a number of fast hard hitting rainstorms, strong enough to shift the surface!, quickly diminished the concentration of Mag on the surface. While the dust is still much less than before, we can see that annual or multiple applications per season of Mag would be wise for that particular hilltop arena.
Everyone easily understands how nice it is to have an indoor arena during the winter. But it's also fabulous to ride in when the bugs get bad, when it's raining cats and dogs, and when you want to ride to music. Contact Kimberley whenever you want to ride indoors at Kearsarge Meadows.
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"Runaway Farm" in Warner, New Hampshire, New England, changed hands in the Spring of 2005. New owners, new farm name, new trainers, new management, and new activities... It's all very exciting for us, our clients, and the local horse community as well.
We purchased Kearsarge Meadows because it had everything we wanted and needed for our horses and equestrian pursuits.
Our horses love it here. So will yours.