August events

photo credit to Steve Berkowitz
I've decided to let most of the string spend the month of August relaxing from the events and getting a little tune up at home in prep of the busy fall schedule. In between jump building and painting at the Kirkwood farm I have coached at a couple real fun summer events.

Beaujeste (Lauren Lenfest's wonder PONY), he competed a faultless training level ride at the New Jersey Horse Park. This pony is starting to jump around like he's dreaming of Preliminary! Marissa Hughes also competed at this event with a nice finish she secured her scores for teh Training 3 day as well as her last prep event for the AEC's. Marissa is doing a fun AEC challenge to raise money for her breast cancer walk... look her up on Facebook to learn more.

Then we went to Fair Hill, where I coached Barb Strang and her fancy Dutch horse Kirkwoods Sultan to his first training level and her first trip above novice since parenthood. Sultan jumped remarkably, Barb rose to the occasion with a few novice errors... I'm pretty confident that by their next outing they'll be a pair to be watching out for.

Off to go ride some horses... :)

Stuart Re-Cap

Charly and I went to Stuart this last weekend to figure out where we were in our cross country game, since as you all know Bromont didn't go very well. Dressage at Stuart went very well, finishing in 3rd - just .2 behind the competitive Jennie Brannigan and the Olympian Leslie Law. (skipping ahead) ... Show jumping was the best round Charly and I have ever ever done (on Sunday). The cross country course had many accuracy questions, just as we expected. Charly sailed through all the ones that I had thought would cause us difficulty but we did have 2 run outs at two different combinations. This is so un-like Charly and was quite disappointing. There has been a lot of analyzation going on in my head about why this is happening and I wish that there was an easy answer. After riding show jumping on Sunday I got a feeling on Charly of complete together-ness and I felt like we could do ANYTHING. I keep coming back to the the necessity of teamwork with this horse. And that's what we need to get created in cross country, again. We have had it in the past and I know we'll get it again.

Besides Charly Havarah had a grand crew; I rode a fabulous young horse named "Sprite"--- she jumped incredibly all weekend and is preparing for Preliminary in '11. I also was proud coach to two 6th place students in the training level, Katelyn Jackson and Collin Reynolds.

One day- An extreme to another extreme

Today we left Pennsylvania and brought, Charly, Sprite and two students horses to the beautiful Stuart horse trials. A great trip in the morning, good rides, nice HOT course walk... then it was time to go to the Hotel. By this point we all agreed that we couldn't number our preferences which included -eating -showering and -sleeping. Well all three got a huge delay when we arrived at "The Budget Inn". I was in charge of hotel accomadations -told to book 2 rooms and of course I found the most economical place (that's just my style). NO GOOD. This place was so scary, that I was afraid of becoming the next tv show on 20/20. The manager and his family kept making up policies which basically made it impossible to get our money back. I finally caved and decided to leave, money in hand or not. I'm hoping to find a way to dispute the charge. Irregardless, I learned a lesson today... pay the extra $10 a night for clean sheets, and nice people.

Now as we fled the scene and caught up with the second half of our party at TGIF- a new plan was instilled. All hotels were called and the only one with a room left was the top of the line fancy one. We all agreed to have a sleepover together and bunk it up in the NICE place. When we arrived they came with a golf cart to help us carry our bags. The beds are fluffy, the people smile, and I am clean from a nice shower... life is once again good, and Im off to bed!

Mouse House Farm

Mouse House Farm

Is the breeder of Havarah Equestrian's newest addition "The Diesel Boy" aka LETO. Leto has a fast and sound TB sire (Lyracist) and a Westphalian dam that has more than a couple quite competant Dutch ancestors. Bryce Kinnamon is the proud owner of this horse and the two of us have big plans for this horse. For now, since he's only 3, he will enjoy a peaceful summer at the farm. He is a pleasure to work with both on the ground and when riding, I'm soooo excited about this one!

For information on more horses like Leto visit... http://www.mousehousefarm.com/

JUNE 2010 Camp

Here at Inspo we're enjoying a week of wonderful weather and lots of good fun. The kids are off to a starter trial this Saturday and have each been hard at work in preparation. They are pictured here with "The Diesel Boy", our 3 year old that is one of are projects this summer.

Good luck to all my girls this weekend!

May up-date

I've been waiting for pictures from the Virginia Horse Trials, but have decided the post will have to precede the photos!

Charly and I had our final outing prior to Bromont at the Virginia Horse park- we decided to do an Intermediate HT as a fitness run and a good confidence builder before tackling the toughest challenge of our lives. VA was exactly what we wanted- a good course and good footing. Charly was on his game in all three phases and I really feel like I have so much more trust in him this season than ever before, it's so wonderful to know a horse as well as I know Charly.

Having said all this, I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't the least bit worried heading into Bromont. I have all the faith in the world in Charly and he feels great, but a) I've never taken a horse out of the country and b) Its a THREE STAR!!!

I suppose this is part of the challenge - not letting these things get in my head.

Luckily things at Inspo are keeping me so incredibly busy that there isn't much time to worry. For anyone that's reading this and doesn't already know, this weekend is a HUGE sale at INSPO- household and barn items at rock bottom prices. It's sort of like a fair, hot dogs and everything!

While everyone is shopping I will be waking up at 3:30 am to take the training level horses to Waredaca, one of my favorite events... except for the alarm clock that always gets set to an aweful time when I compete there.

Besides that my holdiay weekend will contain a LOT of riding, galloping Charly, barn stuff, and barn stuff... hopefully I'll find a minute to share with Mr. Bryce on his holdiay weekend..!

Keep posted for some up-dated photos, and definitely stay tuned for a June up-date!

ANKHE PASS

7 year old OTTB Bay Gelding... Too big for me but could be just right for you!!!

Life @ Inspo...

I've now been at Inspo for over 6 weeks and I dont ever want to leave. The facility has given my horses, my dog and myself great happiness... I even think my city boyfriend enjoys the peace that Inspo has to offer.

Most importantly Havarah's Charly enjoys his view, his pasture, the great indoor and ALL the hacking that he spends a lot of time doing! Charly and I have been ticking away trying to prepare ourselves for our first CCI ***. This involves lots of training on and off the horse and a whole lot of paperwork. There's so much that goes into competing at this level. I'm still in search of a new sponsor/owner to share part in the Minyan syndicate, I know the right person is out there...just a matter of finding them!

The other horses are really coming around in their training and fitness. I've got a new sales horse in I'm excited to start showing to people in the next few weeks. "Ankhe Pass" is a OTTB BUT looks like a WB and moves like one. He is big, so I need to find him a tall person, I'm sure I look pretty funny on this one.

Beaujeste is surprising me all the time, some days he's an arrogant pony that knows how talented he is and other days he's a talented pony that also wants to be a complete gentleman... one thing is always true for him, he's a child prodigy.

Sprite has agreed to our program. Molly riding days means its time to learn, sweat and jump big (training size) and Quinn days means it's time for Sprite to be the teacher and be a "kids pony". We've had to do a little convincing to Sprite that it's not always necessary to show everyone what a phenomenal pony jumper she is. Sprite loves her child (Quinn) and is really starting to respect her needs! They have conquered their first starter event together and the world is their oyster.

Sabrina aka the Queen is doing her best to put up with the other horses in her barn and share her people with them! She is such a lovely ride and I'm thankful for every day I have her, however my time may be coming to an end ... she's getting too good!

I also have a new horse in named Rivan... this one is a big fancy warmblood that wants to learn how to jump. Stay tuned for more info on this big guy!

Thatch aka Willing and Able

Thatch was a horse I sold to one of my long time students in California. Thatch started his life in PA as a racehorse and was taken over by the Allen's with Waterford Farm. I had a short stint in his life by finding him his wonderful new home with Alyssa Hatai. We let Thatch stay on the east coast for the beginning of his eventing career and now he lives with Alyssa on the west coast. They have successful gone from Beginner Novice to Novice in California and will now make the trek to their new home in Oregon. I am very excited for Thatch as I know he'll really appreciate the green grass and hope that he makes the transition a happy one for Alyssa. Good luck guys!

Good finishes for Charly and his "Mini Me" (Beaujeste)

The Minyans horse, "Havarah's Charly", got back out at the Advanced level today and showed that he is game and ready to carry on! Jumping in great form and cooling out well I feel really good about the future with this horse. I know that he is a horse of a lifetime and days like today are so special with him. I feel so honored to be part of his career!

Charly has a "mini me", Beaujeste. Beau is a New Forrest/Welsh cross PONY. Looks and acts just like Charly! They are best friends and both super cool animals, one a pony, one a horse.

Beau is very new to the training level and at just 5 years old is really showing us some great talent. He's still a little baby bugger and gets a bit excited, but once he gets out on course he is all buisiness!

Sabrina also competed this weekend and is feeling so so nice. She feels like she's just moments away from truely getting it, and when she does, wow, watch out! My other mount, Sprite, and Sabrina both got spooked by a tigers trap going down hill on the cross country. Both horses are very game and not stoppers, so it was a bit dissapointing... but thats the sport... always something to work on!

MCTA and Plantation aren't that far away :)

Fair Hill smiles...

As many of you know my "Big" horse, Havarah's Charly has a bit of time off in 2009 and has had a long slow road back to the advanced level of competition.

It took a lot of faith and good good people to get this done. Everyone that has been involved in this process should be feeling great pride as Charly has already shown this weekend that he was well worth the wait. A 26.9 in the dressage and a double clean in Show Jumping, he truely is a horse of a lifetime.

Tomorrow is the test of training and fitness. From our schoolings it seems like Charly remembers all of his "stuff"; but there's nothing like doing everything in competition mode, on your own, and "under pressure". Charly has nothing to prove to me, and I'm pretty sure his owners would all say the same. Sunday will go as Charly needs; when he needs a few seconds to read a question, he'll get it, if he's ready to roll up a hill to a huge gallop fence I'll allow him... this horse knows how he wants to play and I'm very excited to be his playmate on tomorrow's Advanced level cross country course!

Cheers!
Molly and Charly

NEWS FLASH!!!

Havarah's Charly has a 1/11th share open for purchase.

This is available only to those who seek enjoyment out of watching and partaking in the journey of an upper level horse and rider. You will receive up-dates and pictures and be invited to "the backside" at home and events. Charly is an AEC winner and just a down right COOL horse. His movement and jumping ability is phenomenal only to be beat by his incredible intelligence. With the right group of people behind him, this next year has the potential to be very exciting.

For under 3k you could be this owner! Monthly contribution is very minimal, if you are interested please contact me directly for exact information.



molly@mollyrosin.com

SABRINA - for sale-

Pictures all from Southern Pines II
Sabrina came to me late in 2009, with no eventing experience. This mare is quickly taking to our sport and seems to have her grandfathers wonderful work ethic and lovely movement. She is an ideal horse for someone to grow with through the levels and be competitive at the same time!

Northern Living

The Havarah horses and myself are officially back "home". I have set up at a wonderful facility, "Inspo", this is in Kirkwood, Pa. The horses are all soo happy with their big stalls, green grass and comfy footing in the indoor. Tomorrow they get to go exploring the woods and grass gallops... can't wait to see their smiles then!

This facility is top notch, it has all the comforts and eventer could ask for. The barns have wonderful ventilation and amazing storage (this makes me very happy, ask anyone that has worked for me, I like everything to have a "home")The horses have plenty of training ground and we're within feet of all horse necessities; feed dealer, produce farm....etc.

I am excited about this new venture and happy to be at a place where Havarah can grow!

As I'm busy settling in I'm also very excited to get lessons set up with those who have wintered North and are ready to get back into action. Charly and I head off to the Fork next Thursday.

Come over and visit our new set-up, look for the address at www.Inspo.com

MARCH 22nd

Is my move in date to "Inspo". This amazing facility is in Kirkwood, Pa. It has a full size perfect footing indoor (with a full wall of mirrors!), 20 stalls (nice view for the ponies and good ventilation), lots of trails (with jumps!) and great grass gallops. The farm also has an available house and apartment.

I will be accepting horses/riders in for training or training/board. I have a wide variety of options available. I will also be accepting working students as well as re-hab horses. This is a great oppurtunity! I hope you will all come visit :)

www.Inspo.com

The initial set of Havarah horses will be moving in on Monday March 22nd, straight back from their event at Southern Pines.

~Molly

Kirkwood, PA in 10 days!!

My time here in glorious Aiken, Sc is coming to a close. Aiken has served me and the horses very very well. I feel so inspired and ready for a busy year of training, coaching, competing and selling horses.

Today I watched a few of the "A" list USET riders work with Mark Phillips. Phillip Dutton rode one horse over fences and another on the flat; Boyd Martin rode Neville over fences. Both riders are exeptional and all three horses are true talents. It's so cool to watch these partnerships practice and see ways and methods to take home to my "barn".

After watching I went and had a glorious day schooling Beaujeste and Sabrina over fences. Both of them love the dressage and cross country but tend to get a little "excited" in the show jumping. Today I felt like we made tremendous stides in terms of their ride-ability which in turn gave them a lovely feel over the fences. Can't wait for Southern Pines!

Havarah's Charly has been ticking away at his conditioning program. He is LESS fat, and LESS hairy... AND he gets to do his first cross country schooling of the year, tomorrow!!! :) I'm a little excited if you couldn't tell.

Next weekend is Southern Pines II- I'll be busy that weekend with 5 or 6 competition rides. Luckily I'll be in good hands with my trusty helpers, Hannah, Quinn and Amy Jackson (Charly's personal strapper!)

THEN it's home to our new barn in Kirkwood, Pa. Horses will be so happy for green grass, great footing in an indoor and lots of wonderful hacking.

Movin' on up...

Aiken is great in so many ways, but relaxing isn't one of them! At least not for my barn crew; we're lucky enough to have a full stable and lovely horses. Most of them are young ones and I feel very strongly that their time here in SC is well spent... meaning we are ALWAYS doing something with them.

Luckily I started feeding McCauley's "Top Ten" - this feed has really helped get some good condition on the younger horses and provide adequate nutrition to those in heavy work. I highly suggest this plus the Rice Bran Oil for those less than plump ponies.

This year my horses started off at the level they were competing at last season and have just now moved on to the next level.

I am happy to say that our homework was done very well in two of the three phases... yup that means one of them still needs some attention! Eventing is definitely the best sport to keep one humble. All the horses were lovely in their dressage and so bold on their cross country, but the difficult show jumping track was tough... this week and next there will be some definite practice days!

I am still very proud of these horses, they are all fine athletes and most definitely game to do their job.

Final 2 weeks in Aiken!!

3 solid weeks in Aiken

I can't say it's been all sunshine and blue skies, but I know that we have NOTHING to complain about! I feel so lucky to be in Aiken right now; we've had two days that we were rained out, and one morning that we were snowed in... again, like I said nothing to complain about, I am very very sorry to all my friends and clients that are at home shoveling that 30 inches of snow.

The horses are all loving their home away from home; we are renting stalls from Susie Beale and have plenty of access to ride out and are in very close proximity to all the event sites.

My horse list this year is even better than I could've imagined.

Sporting Days was the first event of the year for me. I competed 4 horses and coached John Nunn....
Sabrina- Sales mare, completed and WON her first ever event on a 28 :)
Beaujeste- 3rd place novice on dressage score
Eurovision- first USA event, 6th place training
Sprite- first ever event, 6th place BN
John Nunn/Smiley - 3rd place Novice

Full Gallop
Sabrina- rider errors in dressage but perfect jumping gave us a 6th place finish

Pine Top
John Nunn and Smiley had their "move up" to training level and finished 6th


Paradise Farm will be our next outing ....stay tuned!

AIKEN

The horses and I have enjoyed our first week here in Aiken, SC. We've been lucky enough to have the wonderful help from Amy Jackson (horse care giver extroidinaire) as well as Allie Blyskal (working student here for the first 3 weeks). Our barn this year is adjacent to Sporting Days; this has given us access to wonderful trails and training grounds... everyone has been incredibly generous and kind!

So far ....

* Havarah's Charly has had his first dressage lesson of 2010...
* Eurovision had his first lesson with Silva Martin and did a lovely job!
* One trip to Hitchcock woods
* A night of Yoga
* Beaujeste, Sprite, Eurovision, Smile Like you Mean It and Sabrina all had successful first jump schools OUTSIDE!
* AND
*** I finally un-packed my clothes!!

This week we'll get in a cross country schooling... or maybe two :) Then next week we'll begin our competition season at Sporting Days.

A few of our horses are sadly up for sale, so if you're looking don't hesitate to call and make the trip to Aiken for some fun in the sun!

Congratulations to Wanda!

Wanda, my most recent sales horse from Inspo, has just landed a great new home.

I love helping horses and riders find "their" match, it's really exciting when things are just "right". This is a pair that will be great to watch for years to come... keep your eyes out for them!

Brittanie Hardy will be training with Phillip Dutton and keeping Wanda with the True Prospect group. They are heading south to begin their partnership in Aiken, SC.


Good Luck!