Iron Star Equestrian

♦ October 2009-

♦ Student Jessica Ferrell bought a 6 year old Trakehner gelding and is boarding him with Iron Star. Art is a beautiful bay gelding who needs a bit more groundwork before starting an exciting career in Dressage.

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♦ Iron Star has borrowed 4 jumps from Jennifer Dixon. We now have almost a full course! Sarah is in the process of having jumps built so we'll have a full course and some jumps of our own. We need to have a Painting Party!!

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♦ Iron Star would like to welcome a new lesson horse: Ty! Ty is an 18 year old Thoroughbred gelding. He's 16.1 hands and is bay with a star. Ty has successfully competed in Dressage, Jumpers and Cross Country. He will be used for lessons for jumping and dressage. 

*Photos Coming Soon!*

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♦ Heather Whitaker and Sarah MacKusick showed at Gray Lily Farm on October 10th. They competed in dressage; Heather rode in Intro Dressage Test A and Sarah rode in Intro Dressage Test B. Heather earned a Third place and Sarah earned a Fourth place. Heather rode her mare, Megan while Sarah rode Rudy.

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♦September 2009 -

♦ Iron Star would like to welcome a new student: Jessica Farrell!! Jessica has been riding dressage for most of her life, the past few years spent riding Arabian horses. She is looking forward to getting into horse showing here in the Panhandle. She plans to do Eventing.

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♦  Iron Star would like to welcome a new student: Katie Kremau! Katie has her own Paso Fino at her home but is taking lessons with Sarah to advance her knowledge of horses. She's excited to ride a "Trotting" horse as her family is partial to gaited horses. Katie enjoys trail riding and has been riding horses since she was four.

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♦ Junior Brown wore his first saddle on September 26!!

He was so good! He bucked a few times, but was very accepting afterward!

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♦ Hannah Banks jumped her FIRST jump on September 26th!! She rode Blue and they trotted a low cross rail. She did an excellent job!!

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♦ Rudy and Sarah have started working over fences. He'll be working on dressage as well.

 While he's still very green and crooked, Sarah sees real potential in him and is very happy with his scope and ability.

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♦  Iron Star would like to welcome a new student: Shannon Daniels!! Shannon and Sarah have been friends for a while and Shannon has decided she want's to learn to ride English. Shannon has two horses at her home: Pepper, a young QH gelding and Omaha, an Arabian cross. She primarily rides western and on trail rides. She is a volunteer firefighter and is going to school for EMT.

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♦ Sylvia Megyerdi and Heather Whitaker competed at Cavallo Farm on September 19th.

Heather rode Twister in Long Stirrup Under Saddle on the Flat and Long Stirrup Equitation on the Flat. She placed Second in both classes! This was her first horse show and she now has "The Horse-Show-Bug" and plans to compete again in October.

Sylvia rode Twister in Intermediate Hunter Under Saddle on the Flat and placed Fourth. She also rode in Intermediate Equitation on the Flat and placed First! This was her first show outside of the IHSA and she plans to compete again soon.

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♦ Iron Star would like to welcome a new student! Erin Strong is joining the crew here at Iron Star. She is interested in learning Dressage and to work on her jumping skills. Erin went to school in Missouri and had several Equine Sciences classes. She rode a lot during school but has since not had the time for it. She is friends with Heather Whitaker and came to see one of Heathers lessons. She realized how much she missed riding and has since began taking lessons again. 

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♦ Iron Star Equestrian and Sarah MacKusick would like to congratulate Aleigha Brown on a job well done with her pony Zeus. Aleigha has worked VERY hard the last two months to re-train him. When Zeus arrived at Iron Star, he was borderline dangerous. She spent the first month working with him from the ground employing Parelli techniques of building a relationship with her pony. Zeus went from rearing in the cross ties, running over Aleigha and bucking when asked to do anything besides walk to cross tying perfectly, walking like a gentleman when being led and jumping crossrails and low verticals. He has gone through an amazing transformation and now his time at Iron Star has come to a close. Zeus will be moving to his own farm in Panacea where Aleigha will continue riding him and taking him on loads of trail rides. We, at Iron Star, will miss "Zeusie" and we wish Aleigha the best of luck with her little white pony!

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♦ Iron Star Equestrian would like to welcome Junior Brown to the farm! Junior is a 2 year old Arabian/QH cross. He is here for a few months to be broke and trained. Junior is a beautiful curious bay gelding with four socks and a blaze. Sarah is looking forward to working with Junior as he explores his new job as a riding horse.

August 2009-

♦ Iron Star Equestrian has a new TRUCK! Sarah purchased a 2002 Ford F-150 to take horses to shows and to make feed store runs. Keep an eye out for the big RED truck!

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♦ We would like to welcome a new student: Sarah Kovalaskas! She is an Archaeologist with the South East Archaeological Center and a student at FSU. She wants to continue riding in college and is a working student for ISE.

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♦ Sarah and Rudy were featured on the front page of the Havana Herald. A complete write up of the article will be available soon.

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♦ Sarah and Rudy competed at Cavallo Farms' Summer Horse Show. They entered two flat classes (both undersaddle) and placed seventh in the first class and fifth in the second one. Go Rudy!

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♦ We would like to welcome a new student: Hannah Banks! Hannah has taken several riding lessons in Western Pleasure but is looking to learn to ride English. She has taken a few lessons with Iron Star and continues to improve every time!

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♦ Iron Star Equestrian is welcoming two new lesson horses! Twister and Blue came from Camp Glen Arden in Tuxedo, North Carolina. They are being leased to ISE for the school year and will return to camp in May of 2010. Both horses are tall thoroughbreds who have horse showed, trail ridden and fox hunted. They are available for lesson as well as on-site half lease. Both are hunter jumpers who are very easy. Blue is a 16.1h Flea Bitten Gray gelding while Twister is a 17.2h Dark Bay gelding. Both horses are looking forward to spending the winter here in Florida, putting on a few pounds and going to horse shows. 

July 2009-

♦ Iron Star would like to welcome a new student: Heather Whitaker! Heather has owns two horses at home. She is learning to jump and plans to compete this fall at local horse shows.

♦ Iron Star has a new lesson horse! Rudy will be joining the team. He is an 8 year old bay thoroughbred gelding who is a hunter/jumper. 

♦  Iron Star would like to welcome a new boarder and student: Aleigha Brown! Aleigha just bought her first pony, Zeus and is boarding him at Iron Star to do some remedial training on him and to enhance her riding abilities

June 2009-

♦ UPDATE: Joey has put on over 100lbs and has matured so much since April! Sarah has saddled, bridled, sat on and has now ridden Joey! He is coming along! If only it'd stop raining!!

♦ Iron Star would like to welcome two new working students: Michelle Scheuerman and Sylvia Megyerdi! They help feed the horses, clean stalls and do basic chores in exchange for riding lessons.

Michelle and Gray

Sylvia and Gray

May 2009 - 

♦ Gray has arrived! "Gray Flannel" is our new lesson horse. He's a 13 year old Quarab gelding who is a hunter/jumper. He is a great horse with tons of patience! 

♦ Iron Star would like to welcome their new boarders, Robin and Savannah Locke. Their horses are Chipper and Sampson!

              Above: Sampson

              Right: Chipper

♦ Iron Star would like to welcome their new boarders, Gary and Kay Mayer and their horses Joe and Chase!

Right - Joe                                       Left- Chase

April 2009 -  

♦ We have a new horse! Joey is a 5 year old paint gelding from Hinesville, Georgia.He needs several hundred pounds of weight added, his feet need to be trimmed and he needs to be educated. We will be working to break and train him in Dressage and Hunters.

 ♦ Iron Star Equestrian would like to welcome a new client: Stephanie Miguez! She rescued two young paint mares from starvation and has enlisted Sarahs help to gain the mares trust and to help train them. Both mares are gaining weight and doing well.

♦ Iron Star Equestrian is born! The farm officially opened on April 15, 2009 and is welcoming boarders, students and horses for training. 

♦ Iron Star Equestrian would like to welcome a new student: Jillian Schrier! She is riding Sky and plans to attend horse shows and compete in Jumpers.       

March 2009 -

♦ We have a farm!! Sarah began leasing Renegade Run Ranch in Havana Florida. She is working to clean up the facility and ready it for new boarders and horses in training!! 

 February 2009 -

♦ We would like to welcome three new clients!

          Cindy Hemanes and Kelso

          Keith Hemanes and Sierra

          Jimmy Hemanes and Lady

♦ Sarah took Ashley and Sky to their first horse show, the Spring Schooling show at Gray Lily Farm

        Sarah rode Sky in  two classes in which they placed first and second, earning division champion!  Video coming soon!

♦ Sarah is currently looking for more equine enthusiasts who want to expand their knowledge of the sport!!

January 2009-

♦Sarah sold Turk!

♦We would like to welcome a new client!

          Bill Barnes and Rickie

November 2008-

♦The website was built! Hopefully this will be a better resource for prospective clients to reach Sarah and to find out more about her and her services. 

♦Robert and Lacey Mayer: Classical Dressage Training

♦Chronicle of the Horse: Site contains useful equine information, forums, classifieds and articles. http://www.chronofhorse.com/

♦Southern Hunter Jumper  Association: http://www.shja.citymax.com/

♦South Wind Dressage and Eventing Association: http://www.southwinddressage.com/

♦USET : http://www.uset.com/

♦Equisearch: A great search engine for the equine community.                                         http://www.equisearch.com/

♦State Line Tack: Online catalog for all your equine needs.                                               http://www.statelinetack.com/

♦Red Hills Horse Trails:  Held right here under the sweeping oaks of Tallahassee Florida. http://www.rhht.org/