Briar Field Farm

🎉Tryon Spring 3 WCHR🎉

Shanagarry Poetic Point & Charlee
🏆Reserve Champion Small/Medium Pony
🥇WIHS Pony Eq - 85
🥇🥇🥈 o/f

Evans Blue & Nora
Reserve Champion Low Children’s Hunter out of 17
🥇🥈🥈 o/f
🥉Tryon Low Children’s Medal
Congrats on great first horse show with us Nora and thanks to Ellie for sending this sweet boy this way! He is available for lease!

Forever in Blue & Hadley
🥇Small/Medium Pony Handy
🥉Small/Medium Pony Conformation o/f
So proud of your comeback this weekend!! 👊

Little League & Charlee
🏆Reserve Champion USHJA 2’3”
🥈 o/f 🥉u/s
Ribbons in the Children’s Ponies!
Thanks to Kelsey for showing Toby in the USHJA earlier in the week to great ribbons!

Sugarbrook Sockit2me & Charlee
Ribbons in the Greens and 2’ USHJA

Count Me In
🏆Champion Foothills 2’9” - with Kelsey
🥇🥉 o/f
🥇u/s
🏆Champion USHJA 2’9” - with Maddy
🥈 & 4th o/f
🥇u/s
Fred made quite the impression at his second show ever!! Great teamwork everyone!

🌼Tryon Spring 1🌼

Another successful weekend in Tryon!!

Count Me In aka Fred made his show ring debut! He just arrived in 🇺🇸 about a month ago and has been such a great student! Kelsey showed him to 🥇and 🥈o/f and Maddy picked up the win in the u/s for Champion in the USHJA 2’6”! He was also 🥈 and 🥉 o/f in the baby greens with Maddy. Great Teamwork!!

Nuff Said and Maddy picked up the 🏆 Championship in the Younger Adults! Keeping up with their 🥇🥇🥇 streak o/f. They also scored an 85 in their second classic round to finish fourth in the Classic!

Shanagarry Poetic Point and Charlee won 🥇 the WIHS Pony Eq and were 🥈🥈 in the medium pony handy and conformation class.

Little League and Charlee finished 🥇 in the children’s pony u/s and had great ribbons in the o/f classes including a 77 in the Classic to finish 🥉.

Glenhaven Small Talk and Elizabeth finished 🥈 and 🥉 o/f in the children’s ponies and 🥈 in the children’s pony classic with an 81/77. So proud of how this little team is coming together!

We also got to celebrate Übers 20th birthday with him and Colby came along (probably just for the kisses and treats)! 😂 Looking forward to the rest of the spring circuit!

A BIG Congratulations to Elizabeth on the lease of Glenhaven Small Talk and Charlee on the lease of Sugarbrook Sockit2me! They both had a great first outing with their new partners and we are super excited for what’s to come! Thank You to everyone who helped connect us with these sweet ponies!

Surprised Maddy (and Sue) and went to Ocala to cheer on the Lynchburg Equestrian Team at the NCEA Championships! Congrats to the team on the WIN and to Maddy on the MOP for Fences with an 88!! We are so proud of everything you have accomplished, Maddy!!

🏆 Tryon Welcome 4🏆

Our riders had an incredible weekend in Tryon! They all rode fantastic and the results showed. Congratulations to our team and everyone who joined us!! Thank You to our grooms and helpers at the show and home, we can’t do this without you!

Elle and After Hours:
🎉 Champion Adult Amateurs 18-35
🥇🥇🥈 o/f and 🥇 u/s
🥉Adult Hunter Classic

Charlee and Little League:
🎉Reserve Champion Large Children’s Pony
🥇🥉 over fences and 🥇 u/s
Their first tricolor together and moving up to the children’s pony division!

Elizabeth and Glenhaven Small Talk:
🎉Champion S/M Children’s Pony
🥇🥈 🥉 o/f and 🥈u/s

Frances and Sprucedale’s So Enchanted:
🎉Champion Small Pony Hunter
🥇🥇🥇🥈 o/f and 🥇 u/s
🥈Pony Hunter Classic
Thanks for letting Lex join us this week (also for the song inspiration) and to Frances for coming to ride her!!

Hadley and Forever in Blue:
🎉 Reserve Champion Small Pony
🥇🥈🥈🥈 o/f and 🥈 u/s

Melissa and Only You Saint Ghyvan:
🎉Reserve Champion .90 Non Pro Jumpers
🥇 Non Pro .90 Speed
🥈 Non Pro .90

Charlee and Shanagarry Poetic Point:
🥇WIHS Pony Eq
🥇🥈🥈 Medium Pony Hunters

Frances and Golden Goose:
🎉Reserve Champion Small Green Pony
🥇🥇🥉o/f
So fun having Frances and Goose along for the weekend! Thanks for joining us!

Charlee and Sugarbrook Sockit2me:
🥈🥈🥈🥉 Small Green Pony o/f, 🥈 u/s, tying them for Reserve Champion but less points o/f!
🥉 Green Pony Classic
What a fun first outing for this team!

Hayden And Colin MR:
🥇 Younger 3’3” Jr u/s
Thanks to the team at Deer Creek for letting us help with Hayden and Colin this weekend!

We had a fabulous first show of the season in Tryon!

Marilyn and Arkady very successfully competed at their first show together and Marilyn’s first horse show ever! They saved their best trip for last and WON 🥇 the Short Stirrup Challenge! They were also 🥈 in the Short Stirrup u/s and an o/f class out of 11! Way to Go and welcome to the team, Marilyn!!!

Shanagarry Poetic Point and Charlee
🏆 Reserve Champion Medium Pony
🥇Pony Hunter Classic (84/85)
🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉 Medium Pony Hunter
🥉WIHS Pony Eq

Nuff Said and Kelsey
🏆Champion USHJA 2’6”
🏆Reserve Champion Foothills 2’9”
🥇🥇🥈 o/f

Little League and Kelsey/Charlee
🏆Reserve Champion USHJA 2’3”
🥇🥉 o/f and 🥈u/s
🥈 u/s, 🥉🥉🥉 o/f - Foothills Child/Adult Hunters
🥈Schooling Pony

Elle Nutting’s After Hours and Grace
🥇 Junior Hunter 3’3”/3’6” Combined Classic
🥈 Older 3’3” Jr o/f
🥉 Older 3’3” Jr u/s
🥇🥇 Modified/Open Juniors
Thanks Grace for riding Yogi to so much success his first time out in the Junior Hunters! This great horse is available!

Forever in Blue and Hadley
🥇Small Pony U/S
🥉🥉🥉 Small Pony o/f
🥈Schooling Pony

Check out our website for our current sale & lease availability. We have everything from Walk/Trot superstars to winning Junior/Amateur Owner & Pony Hunters!

https://www.briarfieldfarm.com/sales

We have several ponies and a horse available:

Just Because - 12.2, huge bodied, Welsh Pony, 15yo Mare - qualified for PF 2025, minimal prep, kick ride, brave, good lead change, excellent jumper. L or S

Verano - 17.0, Dutch WB Gelding - he has been everywhere and done everything. Can teach your mom to WTC and jump or go horse show. Currently looking for a 2’6” and under job. Very safe, not spooky, sweet in the barn! L or S

Cheerio - 12.2, 5yo, Palomino Welsh Pony Gelding - Small Green Pony for 2025, excellent mover and jumper, swaps his leads, brave to the jumps. Going to be a top contender for 2025. He has been to all the horse shows to ticket and walks out of his stall to the ring. Available this fall. S only

Matinee - 14.1 1/2, 7yo, German Riding Pony Gelding - just came back from a successful Pony Finals with ribbons overall, o/f and in the model. He was 21st in the hack as well. Great mover/jumper, good changes, jumps around any ring. Beautiful and already qualified for 2025 PF, he’s been showing in the regulars all season so also has points towards Devon. S only.

Just Enuff - 12.1, 14yo, Welsh Pony Gelding - wt to xrails superstar. Auto change, quiet and adorable. L only.

Today we said goodbye to one of the greatest, Woodlands Troubadour aka Trooper. He lived to a wonderful 32 years old, and what a life he had!!

Trooper came to the farm with the help of Cricket about 15 years ago. I think she was happy to pass him along at the time. He was the pony who would jump out of the round pen or his stall, sn**ch a hot dog out of a kids hand and maybe not jump a jump (sometimes simply because he felt a course should have 8 jumps and not 9).

He quickly became a barn favorite and blessed us with years of memories, laughs, tears, ribbons and success! Trooper was a character with a huge personality! He always kept you on your toes and definitely got better with age! He would eat anything and everything; he was frequently called the ‘trash can’. If you needed a ride, Trooper was your guy. And to top it all off he had the BEST canter!

Delaney was his first rider. In their time together they won 2010 PHJA Pony Medal finals, had numerous tricolors in the Pony Hunters and too many hack wins to count. In true Trooper fashion though, he had a streak where he would trot the third jump of every course (including Pony Finals). Looking back, it’s funny, because that was just Trooper sometimes.

In 2013 we made him a promise. If he got a hack ribbon at Pony Finals, he could retire from the Large Pony Division. He promptly took us up on that, finishing 9th that year with his next rider, Emily Alvarez (this was before top 20 was given out in all phases)!

He had many other riders as well. Megan, Allie, Helen, Regan, Lauren and Antoinette, just to name a few. Feel free to share your favorite stories or photos below.

Thank you Trooper for the many years of happiness you blessed us all with. You will always have a special place in our hearts. We will miss you, “Troopy Doo” ❤️

Congratulations to Howie’s Canadian Family and Team on an unforgettable Royal!! This pony is one of a kind, thank you to Alicia Wilkinson for selling him to the Morgan Family all those years ago. He’s a super star!