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Gale's Equine Facility

attended the

Horsemen's Fair

at the Elks CLub

March 16th, 2013

The Semplers sat with our display for the first couple hours! Our theme was that, at Gale's, we learn more about horsemanship than just sitting in the saddle.

Lynnelle entertained many people with her rides on the mechanical bull! The Fair was well attended.  Many people were there, many tables of items new and not so new, available for sale.  I was very pleased with our display.  THANK YOU everyone who helped today!

Madison, Hayley and Jeanine pose in front of the "bull"

before getting on for a threesome ride....VERY FUNNY.

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Sandra Beaulieu

comes to Gale's

We are pleased to welcome Sandra to our stable for a fun dressage and quadrille clinic.

Click "HERE" to visit Sandra's website.

DAY #1

             ^^^^^Patricia takes a lesson with Sandra

                                                                The Quadrille lesson begins>>>>>>

  <<<< The rollback routine

Learning how to "line up">>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sandra Beaulieu and the Quadrille

DAY #2

Today was the big lesson day.  Sandra did seven lessons today.

Click "HERE" to watch a fairly long video of Gale & Beike

taking a lesson from Ms. Sandra.

And here is a collage of photos from a few of the

lessons that Sandra taught to others during the day.

We look forward to having Ms. Sandra Beaulieu return to Gale's Equine Facility for another fun and educational event!

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February 23,2013

Harrisburg Horse World Expo

A group of us went to the Expo in Harrisburg this year to attend clinics and shop shop shop.  We saw fantastic presentations and demonstrations by clinicians Robert Dover, Nick Karazissis, Guy McLean, Tommy Turvey, and Steuart Pittman to name a few, and we attended the evening event "Theatre Equus". 

Click here to watch the one hour long presentation by Robert Dover, given at the Expo, on an

"INTRODUCTION TO DRESSAGE" 

Robert Dover is a multi-time Olympian for the United States and has brought home a Bronze medal to help

the U.S. to a bronze team medal.  Dover clinched his sixth Games berth at the 2004 Olympic Trials at which

he won all four tests.  He was elected captain at the Olympic games.  He also coached the Canadian Equestrian Team

at the 2010 World Equestrian Games and the 2012 Olympics.

    <<Lots of saddles to be seen at the Expo.

           But I had my eye on this one>>>>>

Guy McLean did some pretty cool acts at his performances.  Snapping those whips while standing on the horses was VERY COOL.

Tommy Turvey doing his act "The Riding Professor"

And here is Sylvia Zerbini and her Grand Liberty act with eight beautiful white Arabians.

Tommy Turvey did some awesome stunts for Theatre Equus.

And here is a photo of Robert Labrie of Friesians of Majesty, located in Vermont, NY.  I got to meet Robert and his son.  It would be nice to attend their camps with Beike.

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February 5th, 2013

Through the coldest days of winter, we did turnouts every day in the indoor arena.  When the temps are above 20 degrees, we do outdoor turnouts.  Above is a panoramic photo view from the back of the barn.  All 32 horses were put out in the various paddocks and pastures.

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October 2012

Our Annual Halloween Horse Show

We had a fun day at our little dressage horse show.

Enjoy the photos below:

Hayley on lesson horse, Austin

Abby on her horse Quinette

Elyse on lesson horse Duncan

another photo of Abby on Quinette

Madison on lesson horse, Cheri

Julia on lesson horse, Amos, a wonderful tall Friesian

Caron on Susan & Caron's horse, Tessa

Abby on lesson horse, Frosty

Jeanine on Lynnelle's horse, Dublin, who is used for lessons

Susan on her horse Tessa

Renee on her horse, Frank, who was born and raised at Gale's

Madison in costume on lesson horse Cheri

Another photo of Abby on Frosty, one of the lesson ponies

Aurora on 33 year old lesson horse, Flicka.

Emma on Gale's lesson horse, Star, named ARIA Outstanding Lesson Horse

Ashley riding Impress, brought out of retirement for the day

Another photo of Madison on Cheri, this was their first horse show together.

Another photo of Ashley on Impress

Pretty in Pink, were Alecia on her AQHA mare, Faith

Madison on Cheri again

Colorful photo of Alecia and Faith

Jeanine trots by on Dublin

Burkes BBQ was a HUGE hit at our event.  Good food, and great hospitality

Ashley canters by on Impress

And for a closing thought...remember....  Hope, Faith and Love

August 2012

Click the photo below to watch a video of the "Ridecital" performed

by the August 13th through the 17th Day Camp at Gale's.

Click photo for video of the Ridecital

June 2011

American Riding Instructors Association

publishes summer issue of Riding Instructor Magazine

with article about Gale in it.

Read excerpt here.

May 2011

Gale earns permanent instructor certification with

American Riding Instructors Association

for Level III Hunt Seat and Recreational Riding.

August 2010

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The Chemung County Fair Open Horse Show!

Above is a photo of our aisle front decorations at the main pole barn at the County Fairgrounds.  Many thanks to the Wiehe family for working so hard on this.  Also helping was Lynnelle and the Boviards. 

Congratulations to Pam Schneider for her Show Championship Award for High Point 2nd Level Dressage Horse, that she earned

with her Friesian Karolien.

Pam on Karolien

Congratulations to Lynnelle Harpst for her Show Championship Award for High Point Novice Rider, that she earned with her

Thoroughbred, Oso Allegro.

Congratulations to Gale for her Show Championship for High Point Carriage Driving Horse, that she earned with

her Friesian Beike!  Below is a photo of our Championship Chair and Ribbons and a photo of Beike with the carriage.

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July 2010

SUMMER DAY CAMP

JULY 5th though the 9th.

WE HAD GREAT FUN...in spite of the mid 90's temperatures through the entire week.

 During the week, each camper got two riding lessons per day, worked on a craft project (we decorated saddle pads this year) and we had a "classroom" activity, working on horsey instructional workbooks.  

Here are just a few of the 500 photos that I took at summer camp this year.  These were from the RIDECITAL - the concluding performance event that we did for our parents and friends.

June 2010

Cayuga Dressage and Combined Training had their USEF/USDF show on June 19th and 20th.  Pam and I took the Friesians to this show for both days, with Pam doing her first real maiden voyage hauling her horses in her own trailer....she did GREAT.

We did pretty well in the scores for the show as well.  Beike earned four first place ribbons taking the 4th Level Champion for the Show. 

Pam rode in SEVEN tests that weekend, earning a championship as well with Karolien for 2nd Level. 

Here are some photos of Beike taken by photographer "Who Took That?"

You can tell by my smile that we were having a great ride.......and we were!!!!!!

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Pam Schneider and I took our three Friesians to the Dressage Show at Houghton College on June 4th and 5th.  Beike earned enough points to receive one second place and three first place ribbons in the four tests that she rode - all at Fourth Level. Pam did well too in the ribbons, earning two seconds, a third and a fifth in larger classes.

Gal on Beike and Pam on Karolien at the Houghton Dressage Show

June 4, 2010

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  if you look closely, you can see me at the ingate under the big Devon sign. :)

April 2010

Congratulations to Alecia Orcutt on the purchase of her new mare "A Deal Breaker", also known as "Faith".

This lovely 5 year old mare was shipped in from Texas for Alecia and she sure is a beauty.  Watch for her

in Western and AQHA competitions in the future.  Gale is looking forward to working with this super pair.

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November 2009

Gale Wolfe Named as one of American's TOP 50 Riding Instructors for 2009

by the American Riding Instructor's Association

Gale attended the 2009 convention of the

American Riding Instructors Association

at which she was awarded, once again, the

recognition of being one of the

Top 50 Riding Instructors.

Pictured here is Gale with Mr. George Morris

who is Chef d'Equipe of the USET's Olympic Jumping Team.

Mr. Morris is a prominent name in the Hunter and Show Jumping World.

 September 2009

                                     New Rubber Footing in the indoor

August 19, 2009

August 9, 2009

Chemung County Fair occurred during the first week of August.  Several of us attended the fair.  Pam Schneider and I

performed our Pas De Deux at the Dressage Show.

Click HERE to see a video on You Tube of our performance.

And I did a musical ride to Madonna Music.   Click HERE to see that video on You Tube.

It was extremely muddy and the footing was terrible at the Fairgrounds.  Seems to be our fate when I go

to a horseshow.  It's either blazing hot, or I'm riding in muck.  :)

Day Camp 2009

2009 Day Camp at Gale's for the week of July 6th through the 10th. We enjoyed 10 lovely young ladies, ages 4 through 14. The average age was 9 years old. The theme of the camp was "Dressage as the Basis for All Riding", and we worked on perfecting dressage tests for the Friday Ridecital, a performance given to the family and friends of our campers. We included instructional classroom activities about dressage and other horse events. We also learned about the parts of the saddle and bridle and the basic exterior anatomy of the horse. The girls became more familiar with grooming and tacking up horses for riding, several being able to do so completely on their own by the end of camp week.

The craft project was to use jewels and fabric paints to decorate halters for their horses. Each halter was as individual as the young lady that decorated it.

The Ridecital was a lovely success with the group performing a very nice drill team demonstration and then each girl riding a USDF Introductory Dressage Test. I performed a higher level dressage demonstration with Beike and the group concluded with presenting their halters to the audience and stating a short explanation of what they learned during camp week.

I'd say that the week was a great success and we look forward to next year's camp week. Perhaps we'll have enough interest to host more than one week next year!

Many thanks to all the helpers that made Day Camp 2009 a great success.

More photos of Day Camp 2009 can be seen at my Smug Mug Gallery by clicking HERE.
~Gale
 

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October 2008

Kelly Sigler Parelli Clinic

We had a great clinic on October 25th and 26th with Kelly Sigler.  Two of us (Susan Cunningham and Gale Wolfe) completed their Level One assessment with Kelly and we look forward to receiving our "red" Savvy String, which acknowledges our level and success.  Parelli techniques are great for building a better relationship for your horse.  Even with my fourth level dressage horse, Beike, the Parelli games have made a significant improvement in her "interest in me" and wanting to be my partner..... and more than just "my horse". 

Click HERE to see photos of our Clinic.

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August 2008

August offered a couple of nice horse shows, to which Gale's clients attended.  We were well  represented at the Chemung County Fair with Laurie Baker, Cassandra Bartsch, Jill and Kennedy Van Brunt and Kristen Schehr showing their own and other's horses. Kristen also had her personal clients, Alecia Orcutt, Stephanie Oggeri, and Kaylee Paruski showing and doing well in the ribbons.  GOOD JOB LADIES!

On August 9th, Pam, Lynnelle and Gale took their horses to the CDCT Dressage Schooling Show in Ithaca, NY. This was an excellent show to get us "back into showing".

On the left, is Lynnelle on Oso.   On the right is Pam on Amos.

Below are photos/videos of Gale on Beike.

 If you click on the below photo of Beike, it will take you to a video of one of Beike's tests... but CAUTION...

These videos are a LARGE FILES and will require a long download time.

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July 2008

We constructed nearly two miles of all new fencing!

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May 2008

Congrats to Emily Jay and Samantha Baker

Winners of the NYS Team Presentation Competition.

That's Samantha Baker on the left and Emily Jay on the right.

Their presentation was titled "She Said Western.  She Said English" and was about the two

forms of horseback riding, complete with clothing and gear explanation.  GOOD JOB GIRLS!

YOUR HARD WORK PAID OFF!

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Riders from Gale's bring home the ribbons from the first show for this season!

Look at the ribbons in these photos!!!!!!

Congrats to Kristen, Cassandra and Laurie

on their many successful classes at the

Best of Both Worlds Horse Show

May 3rd and 4th.

September 2007

Pam & Gale perform

Pas de Deux with

Karolien and Beike.

Click HERE to see video.

June 2007

Beike gives us another wonderful

Friesian Foal..

Whisper fan Gale's

Click HERE to see more.

Whisper fan Gale's

at ONE day old.

APRIL 2007

Lil surprises us with her new

foal.... three weeks early.

Read about SMOKEY

HERE.

Lil with her new foal "Smokey Midnight Surprise"

February 2007

We finally got some snow!

John modified an old truck plow blade to work on the Bobcat...worked very well!

As you can see...there was lots of snow to move off of the driveway.

Timothy (8month old Friesian stallion) & AJ (23 year old AQHA/PHBA stallion) play in the snow that came to our area on Valentine's Day.

Click on the photo to see more Timmy Action!

Sylvester has a good roll in the snow......

and gets snow in his nose.

Morgan mare "May" digs in the snow.

Click on her photo to see more snow action.

"May" moved south with her family a few years ago.  Shortly

after their move, May suffered an allergic reaction to the tranquilizer used by a veterinarian for floating teeth, and she died.  Her family was devastated as we all were.  :(

Horsemanship/Equitation Clinic on December 17th

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JUNE 10, 2006

TIMOTHY FAN GALE'S is born.

Visit TIM'S WEBPAGE for photos!

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CAROUSEL 4H CLUB

did very well at June 24, 2006

Horse Show!

Click HERE to see more photos of the show!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO  GALE

for obtaining her new

 ARIA Instructor Certifications in

Western, Dressage, Carriage Driving and Eventing Specialties.

Click on the ARIA logo to learn more about the certification program.

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WOW!

CONGRATS to

JENNIFER TREACY

CAROL SPARKS

JESSICA ALLEN

FOR ACHIEVING THEIR

PARELLI LEVEL ONE CERTIFICATION

CLICK on the Parelli Logo Below to Learn more about the Parelli Partnership Program

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2005 NEWS UPDATES:

Visit http://www.pbase.com/tackshopper  for recent photos!

There are LOTS of photos at pbase of the County Fair Horse Shows, and of photos that I have taken at Stuart Horse Trials and Walnut Hill Carriage Driving, The Lipizzaner Stallions and other activities.

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Click on each of the images below

 to see more of each subject:

The Lipizzaner Stallions Came to Elmira on September 29th.  Great Fun To Watch.

Gale's 50th Birthday Party

The Chemung County Fair 4H Horse Shows

The Carousel 4H Club Saddle Stands

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News about Carousel 4H was published in the February 2005 issue of Horse Bits!

Click on the photo below to go to the Adobe File to read a copy of the article:

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NEWS FROM 2004

We had a WONDERFUL Clinic for Chemung County 4H Program at

our barn on December 4, 2004, taught by

Ms. Maggie Johnston 

View photos of the clinic by clicking on the photo below:

The clinic reviewed skills needed for Trail Classes, Lateral Aids and Showmanship.

We look forward to having Maggie back again to see how well we have done our "homework".

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In November, "Sylvester" came to our barn.  He's Gale's "Western" buddy... but we're using him for English lessons as well.  He's a 1998 AQHA PHBA gelding.  We thank Celeste Shearer for working things out so Sly can join us at Gale's.  He's a joy!

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Click on the above photo to go to the link of images

from our October 31, 2004 Halloween Horse Trials!!!!!!!

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With the help of my parents, we were able to paint the barn this year.  Gone is the old faded blue, and now we are a beautiful green.  We are truly blessed:

Steve Brinthraupt did the painting project for us.

<<<<<Before & After the Painting Project

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Maguire was purchased from Mallory Box in August by the Barn Goddesses.

He is a 1990 Thoroughbred Gelding, and we just LOVE him!  He is in the photo below being ridden by one of the goddesses:  Lisa Bartlett.

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     In September, we added another member to our lesson horse squad.   

     His name is "Teddy Two Step" and we bought him from Celeste Shearer.  Riding him is 6 year old Halie Stuart.  He's been a GREAT addition to our string of quiet safe lesson mounts.  Teddy has since been retired to his home with the Painters in Addison, NY.  His only job now is "pasture ornament".

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Photos from 2003

         Lindsey Canfield on Star (left) and Gale Wolfe on Skippy won the first prize by riding the Cornell Hunter Pace at the optimum time.  There were 137 rides that day, September 13, 2003 at the Equine Research Park.  Lindsey and Gale also won the first place prize for Best Matched Pair.  They are seen going over jump #33, the last jump on the 5 mile course.   We lost Skippy in the spring of 2004 to colic.  He survived his firt round of surgery, but he formed painful adhesions in his abdomen, so we halted his suffering, sadly so, as he is missed.  Star continues on as prime lesson horse.

                                                   The 2003 Barn Sleepover.....

                                                                2003 Fall Rideathon

The Lippizzan Stallions came to Elmira,

and we housed the beautiful white horses at our barn during their three days stay in our area.

The Annual Halloween Party at the Barn - GREAT COSTUMES THIS YEAR!

The 2003 Syracuse Sporthorse Tournament Invitational  - GREAT FUN to cheer for our favorite jumpers.

What a wonderful time we had at Equine Affaire.  We saw great celebrities and their horses.  It was great to have our training methods confirmed by famous trainers such as David and Karen O'Connor (who also play "tag" on horseback!).  Shopping was spectacular and we had great seats for the Fantasia.  Heather will be writing up a report which we will post here in the future!  For now, enjoy some of the photos. 

                                                                                                               Comic Stunt Riders at Fantasia:

Karen O'Connor and Clark Montgomery riding in Fantasia:

                                                                                        Side Saddle dressage on Lipizzaner Stallion:

Beautiful Friesian... "It's Ladies' Night and the Feeling's Right!"   Was it this performance that sent me into the direction of Friesian ownership????

                                                                                                             Voltige:

David and Karen O'Connor.  Note David's Broken Leg and Arm!!!!!!  Horses are Giltedge and Custom Made:

                                                                        O'Connors schooling over a SINGLE BARREL JUMP!

David gives a great lecture...

                                                              Gale with Olympic Gold Medal Winners Giltedge and Custom Made

                                Carousel 4H with Olympian and Pan Am Medal Winner Karen O'Connor

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