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Game Night at HCS and meet Dallas! High Country Stables

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High Country Stables is now offering Game Night the first Friday night of the month. Weather permitting, they will be playing Ultimate Frisbee, Capture the Flag, Freeze Tag, etc. My older son is in charge of setting up the games and ordering the pizza(the most important part). Our next Game Night is Friday February 3rd – 5:00 until 9:00 – Bring $5.00, wear old clothes and your fastest running shoes. If you have further questions you can email Ian at ian_phillips@bellsouth.net. Any and all are invited!

Dallas is awesome and we look forward to adding her to our lesson program!

Summer Camps and RIFNA Show

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Summer Camp schedule has been posted. Click here to view

Awesome RIFNA show this past weekend at In Your Dreams Farm. Thanks Keely for hosting. The kids had a great time. Congratulations to everyone who showed. You guys looked great with all those smiling faces and blue ribbons.
Our next RIFNA show is February 25th at KTR Farms in Cartersville.

Another Video – Watch the Jumpers!

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Just a short video with some of our jumpers practicing…

New Video – Fun Camp December 29, 2011

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15 riders learning how to ride – or how to ride better!

Next Fun Day and January Happenings at High Country Stables

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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great holiday season! We sure did! Many thanks for all my wonderful Christmas presents. I think everyone wants me fat! We still have cookies and candies on our kitchen counter.

The barn is full and our lesson program is awesome. We have 18 students signed up for RIFNA and hopefully all will be qualified for Regionals this Spring. Our next meet is January 28th & 29th at In Your Dreams Farm. We will host a meet February 28th.

January 16th we have our first Fun Day of the year! 9:00 to 3:00 – dollarsignr45.00 for lesson students and dollarsignr55.00 for non-lesson students.

Our Drill Team is picking back up and hopefully, when we have a Spring Fundraiser we will be able to perform. Very excited about this.

Belated Happy Holidays Video!

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We actually sent out Christmas cards with links to this video December 14th. Apparently a lot of them never got delivered. (Long story).

Plus Shelly made me redo the video as I had left out some – well – participants you might say.

We hope you like our little Christmas tradition.

We may not say it enough, but we are so very grateful for all the High Country Stables supporters, from the lesson students (and their parents!) to the readers of the website. From all our wonderful boarders to the people who come visit for trail rides, camps and birthday parties.

While many business have really been hit hard lately, you have made it possible for us to stay open and provide what we hope is a good and safe time for all!

Happy Holidays!

Shelly, Miami, Ian, Ryan and Gooser!
High Country Stables

Holiday Happenings at the Farm!

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, full of love, good friends and lots of turkey! We spent the weekend in NC at my parents. Took them a cord of wood and brought home 25 Frasier Fir trees! Let me know if you haven’t gotten your Christmas Tree. We still have a few left!

Welcome to Maddie and Snickers!

Maddie is 22 and does barrels and Cowboy Mounting Shooting!

December 2nd is our annual Christmas party. We are spending the week decorating the farm if all this rain doesn’t wash us away. But you should see the grass. We fertilized, seeded and limed the 1st of October and now everything is so green – early Christmas present to all the horses!

December 27th – Boxing Day – we are having the last Fun Day of the year!

9:00 to 3:00. Don’t miss all the riding and winter fun! Space is limited to 15 campers. Sign up here!

December 30th is our first RIFNA meet. Wish us luck!!

From everyone at the farm! Happy Holidays! And as always thanks for all the wonderful support you have shown us throughout the years!

The HCS Gang!

Fall happenings at High Country Stables

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Wow, so much going on; end of season shows, trail rides, birthday parties and new horses arriving at the farm. We were sad to say good-bye to Kiwi! She went home to her owners. I know Sara was happy to have her back and ready to start riding her again.

We want to welcome Sugar and Busta to the farm. Sugar is a rescued Mustang who needs lots of love and carrots. Busta has come down from Ohio. He is an Arab who has shown dressage in the past and a very sweet boy! Snickers will be arriving at the end of the month. He is going to take Sherle to State in the running events!! Go, Sherle!!

HCS has a new horse – Chance! He is too cute, goes English or Western and we are excited to add him to our lesson program.

Our RIFNA team is up and running! We will have our first meet in December over the holidays.

October 29th was the last PCSC show of the season. So, proud of Emily and Rosie – it was Rosie’s first show – and they did awesome!

All the HCS riders did a great job showing this season. The PCSC Awards Banquet is coming up and we can’t wait to see all the awards and trophies the girls will be bringing home.
The girls came up with some great costumes for the Halloween Class! To see all the show pictures – facebook!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone from the farm!!

Becoming A Rider … The Movie!

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Savannah began riding at High Country Stables less than a year ago.

What a great video! We are so proud of her.

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RIFNA coming to High Country Stables

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Hey all,

RIFNA (Riders Interscholastic Federation of North America, Inc.) is a national organization whose mission is to introduce and expand equestrian sports to students in grades 6-12. RIFNA assists barns and educational institutions to create equestrian clubs. RIFNA riders must maintain the educational standards of other athletes in their schools.

Riders Interscholastic Federation of North America, Inc. (RIFNA) is a national organization that functions as an interscholastic governing body between schools and farms to promote and award college scholarships to student riders of all riding levels and economic backgrounds the opportunity to:

Participate in an organized interscholastic equestrian club, sanctioned by RIFNATake riding lessons in up to three disciplines (Western, Dressage, Hunter/Equitation) from a RIFNA Coach Ride and compete at RIFNA facilities

• Gain show experience and confidence by competing in RIFNA sponsored meets and shows locally and nationally that are run in an intercollegiate format.
• Be recognized as athletes in their schools by working with the state governing board to meet the requirements necessary to become a sport
• Gain access to various sources of college funding, including the awarding of scholarships directly from RIFNA
• Learn the basics of barn management by involving students in the day-to-day care of the horse, horse stall, and equipment
• Attend educational clinics to further the student’s knowledge of horses and horseback riding

I need to know who is interested in joining the RIFNA team.

There is a $50.00 annual fee per rider (paid to RIFNA with application).Each show your child competes in will average $40.00. Click for Riders Application.

RIFNA is open to Middle School and High School students. If you are interested I need to know the name of your school and district. Home Schoolers are listed as Independents.