Southern Cross Equestrian

What a fantastic day from start to finish So proud of all SC riders! Great riding. Great horsemanship. Great sportmanship. What an incredible team of young riders. Best part... nothing but smiles all day long

**only 2 stalls still available** We are located 10 minutes off the 403 in Brantford. We are a big, beautiful, quiet facility with a lot to offer, including: - a large 85x160 indoor arena with fibre footing and a heated viewing room ... - Indoor and outdoor boarding - 12x12 and 12x16 stalls with softstall padded flooring - Heated tack room - Blanketing, booting - Daily individual or group turnout -Grass or dirt paddocks - 24/7 access to hay and water - Vet on site For more information please call/text Madison Gough at 519-732-1389

Only 2 stalls available! We are located 10 minutes off the 403 in Brantford. We are a big, beautiful, quiet facility with a lot to offer, including: - a large 85x160 indoor arena with fibre footing and a heated viewing room ... - Indoor and outdoor boarding - 12x12 and 12x16 stalls with softstall padded flooring - Heated tack room - Blanketing, booting - Daily individual or group turnout -Grass and dirt paddocks - 24/7 access to hay and water - Vet on site For more information please call/text Madison Gough at 519-732-1389

Prada and I were feeling very blue for our first outing of the show season with four 2nds in the 1.10m classes and reserve champion it has been quite the lear...ning experience with this mare *in a good way* and all our hard work is paying off. You know what they say- practice makes progress! See more

Arena is prepped and ready to go! Looking forward to another fun clinic day

Lots of sleepy ponies today

This is brilliant!

Hoping this resource from a legal professional (not Karen on FB) might help a bit. Check it out.

Winter courses begin Monday! What are you taking?

Truth. #pleaselungefirst #careful #actuallygoingtobeagoodone #happynewyear #kissyourhorse

Memories from a fantastic barn Christmas party! Best days are spent with friends and family. And snow. And tobogganing. And hot chocolate. Mayyybe had some Baileys in it.

Can’t wait to go see it! Love that they honour the military with the statue out front.

What an amazing Christmas gift! Unique, exciting, outdoors, AND social distanced!

Great Christmas Gift idea.....just sayin! Wouldn’t a winter trail ride be amazing? Support local this year!

Today we said goodbye to the ‘boss’ aka her highness aka upper management at Southern Cross. Never worked a day in her life, always ready for lunch, forever being the sweet soul that she was. Chucklebum (please know that I did not name her that) you will be missed. #barnkitty #loved #sweetoldlady #ruledthebarn #youwillbemissed

2015 16hh OTTB gelding. Retired sound September 2019 and restarted slowly. Very cuddly and playful. W/T/C on the bit or loopy rein, leg yield, shoulder-fore, jumps a 2-2'3 course with super form and started on changes. Hacks out with friends. Goes the same whether he's ridden every day or left for a week. Barefoot, UTD on dental work, vaccinations, and deworming. Clips, ties, trailers, good for vet and farrier. Will make a lovely hunter, but could easily go in any direction. Requires an experienced rider as he is still green and can be spooky. Perfect for someone looking to polish off a young horse for next year's competition season. Mid to high four figures. Located in Burford, ON. PM for video and additional info.#horsesofinstagram #southerncrossshowjumpers #lovehorses #equestrian #goodboy

Today is a great day in horse sport, because US Equestrian is about to find out exactly how useless it has allowed itself to become to 95% of competitors. Toda...y the World Equestrian Center put out a press release announcing it would be going forward with its plans to host a 12 week winter circuit in Ocala after USEF’s refusal to grant his facility competition licenses. Instead WEC will license its classes through the National Snaffle Bit Association, traditionally a western focused equestrian organization and completely unaffiliated with USEF. Its 12 week circuit in Florida will include a $250,000 grand prix, $4 million dollars of total prize money, and just like it did when it opened its facility in Ohio, all competing horses will get free stalls. Roberts and WEC understand what no one seems to be able to get into anyone at USEF’s heads: 95% of us do not care about Horse of the Year awards. We do not care about money won points or young horse this, green horse award that. We do not care about any of the new random championships or awards USEF invents every year. We care about showing at a decent, safe facility for a fair price. We want to spend a few weekends a year having a good time with our barn crew at a cool horse show. If we do well, it’s nice if the ribbons are pretty and there’s a photographer to buy a couple shots from. A decent food joint and beer does not hurt. And the trainers who teach the 95% of us would like some decently big classes with some good prize money for their top horses. And while we say these things over and over again for years USEF continues raking in $9 million+ dollars of our membership fees every year and makes exactly zero effort to lower the cost of competing in this sport for any of us, instead spending that money on flying Nations Cup horses owned by billionaires around the world, paying $300k+ to each sport's coach, paying its CEO $400,000+ dollars a year and its marketing director $330,000 dollars a year. So WEC comes along and offers two amazing facilities with all the amenities mentioned above and free stalls?! And this show will not be charged a USEF licensed competition fee, will not have to buy a date per the mileage rule or pay USEF’s per horse competing fee or a drugs and medication fee, or require a USEF horse registration, or a USEF rider registration, or a USHJA membership? I mean y’all. When I’m checking out at the horse show office and I’m not seeing any of those fees, or a stall fee, THAT is what makes showing cheaper for 95% of us. In its letter responding to WEC’s press release USEF tries to frame the issue around horse welfare and rider safety, which should strike anyone who even sort of follows this sport as hysterical. I know the modern memory in the digital era is short, but I trust we have not yet forgotten USEF’s own drug lab, which burned through $5 million dollars of membership money every year, so badly bungled the most high profile drug testing case of our sport with Glefke that the ENTIRE LAB was shut down, it’s director was fired, and a third party lab was brought in to do testing. And you know what organization uses the exact same extremely reputable third party lab as USEF for its drug testing? The National Snaffle Bit Association. WEC is not gearing up to be some lawless land of rule-less showing where any drug goes, it’s just not going to go through the USEF for its drug testing. Oh, and guess who charges $35 dollars for a LIFE horse membership? The National Snaffle Bit Association. All I can say is happy trails, USEF. Y’all missed the boat big time on this one, and WEC called your bluff. Link to WEC's press release: https://worldequestriancenter.com/an-open-letter-to-our-ex/ Link to USEF's letter: http://links.usef.mkt7856.com/servlet/MailView

Just a beautiful lady and a handsome horse to brighten your day photo creds @caitlinbevy #beautiful #horsesofinstagram #lovehorses #admiral #addy #seizetheday

Send them your photos! What a fun idea!

Good evening everyone! Buckle up because this is a long sweary rant... I apologise for the swearing... Why I don’t like the checked by vet and all clear phra...se, when addressing behavioural issues. I come across this phrase all the time and mostly it is when someone is at their wits end with their horse’s behaviour... but occasionally it seems to crop up when someone wants to hear that their horse is just being an arsehole. They’ll be there, emphatically stating there is just NOTHING wrong with him/her and this is followed by assurance from everyone else that because the vet checked, the behavioural issue is entirely the horse’s fault, and this gives the owner the justification to bring in *insert honcho cowboy/bigger gadget/stronger bit/give it a few good slaps/crack an egg on it’s head bullshit*. I’ll be frank with this- it makes my blood boil. Have a look at me. Look at any picture or video of me, going about my day, riding, teaching, parenting, mucking out, hanging upside down from a pole etc etc. I look like your average healthy, reasonably active person. But I have a problem somewhere in my hip that causes me excruciating pain when I move my leg laterally. I have had painkillers, physio, doctor assessment, Xrays, consultant assessment, MRI with contrast, a different consultant assessment, an hour’s ultrasound investigation and several very painful, massive steroid and local anaesthetic injections. I currently survive on Naproxen. No one has successfully diagnosed me yet. No one can tell me with any accuracy, what is wrong with me. And you would not know there was anything wrong with me from my weight, the fit of my clothes, how I exercise or what I eat. I’m sound in walk, trot and canter... I also have a hernia, a shoulder that has limited movement, two fingers that don’t work, a thumb that has lost its UCL, a painful big toe and anxiety from previous history of living with domestic violence... but I digress... So now imagine I’m generally pretty calm and happy, but I can’t talk. And you try to make me exercise in a way that causes the excruciating pain in my hip to flare up- I am going to do the only thing I can do and stop doing the exercise or try and get away from you. If you then continue to push me, the pain would likely make me defensive and at some point, let’s be honest- I am going to punch you directly in the face. Now have a look at your horse and apply the same logic... at what point do you say he has been sufficiently checked? Let’s say you had all the investigative procedures done that I’ve had done to myself and you haven’t found any problems. If your horse is me, we both know we are still in a lot of pain. But you’ve found nothing, so we’ve been checked right? So now you go to some honcho cowboy who claims he can fix your horse in a few sessions, and nothing your horse says now will matter- honcho cowboy won’t stop bullying him and he cannot escape. He has no choice but to comply. He still hurts. He stops fighting. He is fixed. Yay for you. I now want you to imagine your horse has had to be PTS and you do an autopsy that perhaps reveals he had a brain tumor. Or arthritis in his SI. Or leukaemia. Or a thick tendon that was maybe causing him a lot of pain... are you still happy with what you did or are you now thinking if only I’d known he was in so much pain? At what point would you have listened? Because your horse was already communicating with you when he started being naughty. I’m not saying 100% of behavioural issues are pain related; they aren’t. Many are down to bad training, bad husbandry or previous negative experiences. But the vast majority I have seen and worked with, began with a physical cause. On such a large skeleton, with so many limbs and things that could go wrong do you really want to assume he is just being naughty?! Rant over...