Show off your equestrian talents with Gillonna's show season. If it's your first show and you're just in it for show experience or if you're there as a hardcore competitor, showing with Gillonna Farms is fun and creates memories that will last forever. We encourage all of our riders to show as it gives them a chance to see how their skills are matched against other riders and gives an extra practical example of why proper riding techniques are important.

A Day Showing with Gillonna

Talk about a frenzy! Show days with Gillonna begin usually the day before while everyone tries their hardest to get their own horse ready and help others out too. Rituals include bathing, braiding, wrapping and cleaning tack. Everyone tries their best to help out if someone needs a hand. For the most part I was showing jumper which relieved me of having to do those tedious little braids until one show day - payback. I did a Hunter Classic and whipped a 10" mane into braids somehow??? All this pre-work pays off though when you get to the show and know you look pretty good!

Everyone helps each other out if they are not in the ring. That might be holding your horse while you run to a port-a-potty, or so that you can take your wraps off the horse's legs. Nothing feels better that a whole crowd of team Gillonna cheering for you from the sidelines and congratulating you on your victories. Janna and Gillian - our coaches, are running around from ring to ring in the dead of heat (or rain as I mostly experienced) to tell you what your course is, give you some last minute advise or just make sure you are ready to do your best.

When the show's over and it comes time to pack up and load the horses, everyone jumps in to help get the beasts on. After all, it could and often does mean you will be there a while if you don't help out. Some of the horses just love to get silly outside the trailer when it's time to go!

The return from the show is always exhausting; however, one way or another we all find the time to sit down for a drink or chat. When the next weekend rolls around, the ritual repeats itself.

- Suzanne