KB Sport Horses LLC

10/31/2026

10/31/2026

Halloween party 2026 was a huge success 🙏

This is one of our favorite traditions- Thank you everyone who joined us!

10/20/2026

I am a firm believer that horses should have lives outside of their careers.

I love a talented horse. I love developing young horses, setting ambitious goals, and seeing what they might be capable of accomplishing.

But I also think it’s important to remember that our horses have absolutely no idea what their résumés say.

They don’t know what their breeding suggests they should be good at. They don’t know what level they’re supposed to reach, what scores they’ve earned, or how much money we’ve invested in their futures.

And I think they deserve lives that are about more than those things.

I want my horses to have friends. I want them to spend time in fields, play, explore, scratch each other’s withers, and occasionally make questionable decisions about which mud puddle looks the most inviting.

I want the young ones to have time to be young. To be a little scraggly. Have a few scrapes on them.

And I want the older ones to have lives where their entire sense of routine doesn’t revolve around being ridden.

Because as much as we love these horses for what they can do, I think we have a responsibility to remember that they are living, feeling, social animals first.

Their athletic careers are something we have chosen for them.

Their need to be horses isn’t.

And I don’t think those two things have to compete with one another.

We can have big ambitions for our horses AND give them lives that are rich in experiences that have absolutely nothing to do with advancing those ambitions.

In fact, I think those things often complement each other beautifully.

I hope the horses in my program become successful athletes. I hope they go on to do wonderful things, make their owners proud, and have long, fulfilling careers.

But I also hope they have horse friends that they love.

That they get to roll in the sunshine.

That they spend plenty of hours doing absolutely nothing sport related. Doing the only things horses were actually designed to do… walk around in groups and eat forage 😆

Because a horse can have an impressive résumé and still be missing some pretty important parts of a good life.

And at the end of the day, I want to be proud of more than what my horses accomplish.

I want to be proud of the lives they get to live 24/7, not just when I’m with them.

10/15/2026

On a research farm in Norway, 23 horses learned to walk up to a white board and touch one of three symbols with their noses.

The question behind the study was a practical one, because owners routinely decide when a horse should wear a blanket based on their own sense of the weather, and nobody had ever asked the horse. The researchers designed a board with three symbols, one meaning put my blanket on, another meaning take it off, and a third meaning leave things as they are.

Training was short and gentle, with 10 to 15 minutes a day and small pieces of carrot as rewards. On average the horses reached the free-choice stage around the eleventh day, and every one of the 23 had mastered the task within 14 days.

Then the researchers tested them in different weather, and the horses' choices were plainly connected to the conditions rather than random. On cold, wet and windy days they were far more likely to ask for a blanket, while on pleasant days they generally preferred to go without one. A later study using the same board found the same pattern, with very few horses asking for a blanket once the temperature climbed above about 10°C.

The researchers described the board as a simple way for a horse to report on its own comfort, and in cold, driving rain the report from almost every horse was the same request for the blanket.

09/15/2026

For your consideration:

Riley
Age: 6
Height: 16.1
Breed: Appendix
S*x: Gelding
Career: Event prospect
Price: Affordable
Location: Athens, GA

Pros:
*Athletic, kind, brave. Three beautiful gates and a STELLAR jump.

*He has a soft mouth and is very well balanced between the aids.

*He loves to be ridden out of the ring. He trail rides, goes XC schooling, and went to his first schooling HT recently.

*He loves to be challenged. Make the flat work hard and make the gymnastics where he has to think through it and he shines. This boy has TALENT.

*He is a lover. Loves to be brushed. Trailers well. Is good for the farrier. Good to lead in and out of the field.

*Affordable. Low fives starting with a 1.

Why he’s for sale:

*He was purchased to be kept at home in a two horse home and because he’s such a lover, he blew up the herd dynamic. Can you say attachment issues? He’s been at my farm with many horses and we haven’t had any issues with attachment. However, he definitely notices when all the other horses leave the ring.

*He’s not for a beginner. He needs a program with a rider who understands a horse being between the aids. This guy is super talented and smart. He needs his attention held and needs to be challenged daily. He’s looking for that gritty junior or amateur that wants to bring one up the levels with a trainers help.

Please call me to discuss. I have tons of video. I will not answer your comment or message that says “more info”. If you’re serious, let’s chat. This horse will make someone a nice horse and his owner is motivated to get him into the right hands.
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08/19/2026

08/04/2026

We had an awesome crew this past weekend at Stableview and a great time! Love this barn family and these good horses! Some highlights:

🥇Makaylee Robinson and Quaisar were champion of the Low Adult Hunters Sunday
🥇Molly Manring and Wyatt’s Me were champion of the Low Adults Hunters Saturday
🥈Molly and Wyatt’s me were Reserve Champion of the Equitation on Saturday
🥈Lauren Gregg and Nothing But Flowers were reserve champion of the Limit Hunters
🥈Lauren Gregg and Nothing But Flowers were reserve champion of the Limit Eq
🥈 Autumn Mccullogh and Felix were second in the 1.0m stakes class
🥉Cyndi Carter and Wyatt’s Me were 3rd in the Limit Equitation and had other great ribbons
🥇 Tail Her Swift had a winning Crossrail trip piloted by Giselle Kennedy and got great miles and is on her way to being the cutest medium in the southeast 😊
👻Casper the Friendly Ghost was piloted by Emma Kettle and had a FANTASTIC first horse show debut. He just turned 5 on Monday and this pair is so fun to watch.

Great job team!

07/15/2026

Although my riders’ accomplishments in the show ring are important, I never underestimate the value of solid flatwork as the foundation that makes all the pieces come together in competition, Max Amaya writes. At home, we don’t spend much time jumping big courses; we save that for the show ring. Instead, we find ways to practice rideability and adjustability without raising fence height and putting extra pressure on the horses’ bodies. These are a few exercises I rely on at home in order to keep the horses in shape mentally and physically. Poles and cavaletti are not too demanding, so we can use them daily to maintain rideability.

1. Figure eight. I have one flatwork exercise I always turn to because it has the potential to be dynamic yet also simple. I set up two cavaletti on each long side of the arena, forming “lines” of five to seven strides, then I place one cavaletti at the midpoint of each short side and one right in the center of the ring. From an overhead perspective, it looks somewhat like a figure eight of cavaletti, though that’s not the way we typically ride it.

I begin by sending the horse down each long side and adjusting its stride accordingly. I ride a comfortable number, then add one stride, maybe add two strides, then take one stride away, and let the horse really practice its adjustability in this line.

Once the rideability on the straight line has been achieved, I begin to add in the bends and play with lengthening and shortening on a curve. This is where the exercise can be dynamic, and it prevents the horses from anticipating what’s coming. You can start on one long side, bend to the middle, ride to the opposite corner, bend to the end, and really take these cavaletti in a variety of directions, practicing lengthening and shortening the whole way around. You can get creative with it and practice your track and your horse’s ability to lengthen and cover the ground, then shorten its stride and come back to you.

📎 Continue reading more flatwork exercises at https://www.theplaidhorse.com/2021/01/12/four-flatwork-exercises-to-increase-rideability-from-max-amaya/
📸 Max Amaya and Stella Wasserman © RandolphPR

07/11/2026

Awesome day at Big Cheese Eventing!! Addison and Hashbrown had their horse show debut and finished with a blue! Rebecca Abney knocked off the horse show dust and won her division with a 69%, and Corinne and Cirie did a fantastic job going up centerline for their first ever dressage test and I think might go back for more 😉 !

Thank you Kieran Alpin for your help today, And thank you BCE for another fun and great day.

07/07/2026

Our instincts are powerful, even when they are wrong.

In riding there are lots of them. Interfering by using too much hand ---Looking down---Jumping ahead of the motion--- Rounding our shoulders---Automatically thinking when the horse is sluggish from fatigue that he is “resisting”---Many more---.

And the best way to transform incorrect instincts into better conditioned responses is through training.

Maj. General Sid Shachnow was formerly the commanding general of all US Special Forces, and one time I was telling him that I was having a hard time getting a mutual friend of ours not to jump ahead of the motion. “It’s so instinctive, Sid,” I said.

Sid replied, “Denny, the most instinctive thing for a soldier when he is suddenly ambushed is to turn and run. And it’s the most likely to get him killed. At Bragg we train our soldiers to instantly run directly at the attackers firing their weapons, Now, Denny, if I can train my guys to run into live r***e fire, you can train someone to not jump up the neck”

He followed that with these five words. Write them down. Post them where you will see them often. They are the essence of teaching---

“TRAINING HAS TO OVERCOME INSTINCT.”

(Photo---Sid and Denny)