Indigo Show Stables

*ISO Head Groom/Assistant Manager Lexington, KY*

Contact Bri (859) 797 - 6475 or Roman (720) 648 - 5092

Thank you ._media for taking these awesome photos of some of our riders from this past weekend at !

We’re getting excited for show season here in Kentucky! Next stop 🔜 Kentucky Spring 🌷

🐸 Polliwog ISS (2022 mare WT Leapfrog x Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve)

It takes a village to produce a good horse. Thank you to our wonderful team for making raising our homebreds possible!

Indigo had a great week of showing ! We are very proud of how our horses and riders kicked off our 2026 show season. Thank you to the team that makes it all possible!

💥 Young Horse Show Region 1 Finals 💥

We are very proud of how our three homebred young horses represented Indigo this week!

🏅 Nancy Thomas’s Just Believe (Rexar du Houssoit x Friends Lake xx) finished 3rd in the in-hand and liberty portion and 7th in the free jumping portion of the 3 year old final!
🏅 Our own Polliwog ISS (WT Leapfrog x Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve) earned 3rd place in the free jumping 3 year old final division.
🏅 Our Ruckus ISS (Erco van’t Roosakker x Friends Lake xx) put in a solid performance, even if it wasn’t his day in the 2 year old final.

📸 1: Polliwog ISS aka Kiwi 🥝
📸 2: Just Believe aka JB
📸 3: Ruckus ISS
📸 4: JB
📸 5: Hurry up and wait feat. JB and
📸 6: JB
📸 7: Kiwi
📸 8: Ruckus

Christmas came early at Indigo this year! Thank you for your support, and we can’t wait to break in our new saddles!!

Very cool! Nice to know our horses are built to weather the single digits we’ve been having this week!

FUN FACT FRIDAY! Are you familiar with the many adaptations that help your horse stay warm during the cold winter months?

🌾 Hindgut digestion of hay produces the most heat, acting as a small furnace inside of the horse. This is why free choice, good quality hay is so important in the winter.

💪 Horses have a huge muscle mass and muscle activity produces heat. This includes running and playing and even shivering if their body temperature starts to drop. It is important to remember that these activities also will result in a bigger caloric demand so free choice hay and in some cases, grain, is often needed.

🧥 To blanket or not to blanket is a constant debate but either way, as it starts to get cold your horse will grow a thicker coat. If you decide to leave your horse unblanketed you may notice that they look “fluffy”. This is due to a phenomenon called piloerection where the hair stands up to better trap air within. Two layers of the coat also help with warmth. The inner layer is softer and has air pockets to create an insulating layer. The outer layer is coarse and has oils that keep moisture from penetrating the insulating layer and keep the horse warm.

⚖️ Wild horses go into the winter heavier than ideal and the fat serves as an extra layer of insulation. However, if a horse is going to be kept heavily blanketed and in a barn during the cold weather months this is unnecessary and can lead to obesity related issues.

🦵Their distal limbs (below the knees and hocks) are made of mostly bones and tendons, tissues that are resistant to the cold temperatures.

🦶The hooves have an alternative route of blood circulation through larger vessels that can be used in low temperatures. This is why horses can stand in snow without detrimental effects.

👃A horse’s nose has a robust blood supply and is rounded so that it is less susceptible to frostbite than a human’s nose.
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Courtesy of the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee

I’m so happy to provide a retirement to Phinneas after all that he has given me. Happy retirement, buddy!

A little leg stretch was exhausting.