Flying Change Farms, LLC

A horse, a dog, lupine, and beautiful vistas in every direction! Trail riding at FCF this time of year is just a dream come true!

Bonnie hams it up her first day wearing a halter! Rise knows the best spot for itches! Are baby teeth the cutest or what?!

I have a tongue! Can you see it? Do you have a tongue? Tongues are weird!

Romp and stomp!

My new work gloves, so nicely color-coordinated with our FCF jump poles! It’s the little things!

Lalo and I put the finishing touches on 3 new jumps in the enchanted emerald green forest today!

Welcome home Petite Gabrielle and baby Bonaire!! It was such a big day! A ride in the trailer, new stall, new friends, and a short turnout to romp and stomp!

How to carefully off load thousands of pounds of steel from a truck without dropping it on your toe. (Hint: 4 huge forklifts come in handy)

After a little pause in construction action, today was a BIG DAY! A convoy of semi trucks, and fork lifts arrived at 7:00 am with the materials for our new covered arena!! Pinch me, am I dreaming??!!

Do you remember the name of the first horse you ever rode? This was Pepsi. I was 8.

A lot of truth to this!

THE REAL RULES OF DRESSAGE 1. If you really want to get better at dressage, take it up at an earlier age - and grow an extra 3 inches of leg. 2. A dressage tes...t is a test of your skill against another competitor's luck. 3. Dressage is about achieving a harmonious working relationship with your horse, whose only idea of harmony is eating grass in a field with his buddies. 4. If you want to end a drought or dry spell, wear a new jacket and hat to an outdoor arena. 5. Untalented, difficult, aggressive horses have robust health, good hocks and long lives. 6. Talented tractable horses are accident prone and have OCD lesions. 7. You will ride the best test of your entire life just prior to being disqualified for not wearing your gloves. 8. Never keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your head before a test. 9. Never keep less than another 300 separate thoughts in your head during a test. 10. Horses do not improve their paces because you are wearing expensive German breeches. 11. If you chose a disco theme for your dressage to music test then the judge will be more than 90 years of age and Swiss. 12. The less skilled the rider, the more likely they are to share their critique of your test. 13. If you are considering the services of a horse clairvoyant to help you with training then you have reached the point of total desperation - try the German breeches. 14.Your horse has never heard of Podhajsky, let alone read the book. 15. No matter how badly you ride a test, it is always possible to ride a worse one. 16. If it ain't broke, try shifting your position and it will be. 17. Judges only suffer from temporary blindness (or kindness) when they are judging someone else's test. 18. If you fall off your horse in the arena you will have paid to have the test videoed. 19. If you are feeling confident before a show then three of the USET dressage team will turn up to give their young horses some "experience." 20. Your horse will perform its best piaffe ever when you ask for extended canter. 22. Since runs of bad competitions come in groups of three, the fourth competition is actually the beginning of the next group of three. 23. No one cheats at dressage because no one has worked out how to do it. 24. It is surprisingly easy to end a test with a perfect square halt once you have scored a four for every other movement. 25. The result of an expensive lesson from a top pro is that you will stop believing in that tiny piece of innate ability that was holding your riding together. 26. Remember when buying a dressage horse advertised as "needs experienced competitive rider" this really means "needs the skills of Isabelle Werth just to stay on board." 27. If you think your test was better than someone else's, it probably wasn't. 28. If you pay 60,000 for an imported WB, you will be beaten in First Level 4 by a Quarter Horse. 29. Clinics given by someone with an interesting accent are not necessarily superior to those given by the homegirl. 30. If you go to the expense of raising an expensive WB foal, he will have a talent for jumping and no walk worth talking about. **Author unknown

Starting to get a little fancy with our newest little log jump! Sal and Lexie, who moved into FCF towards the end of 2020, make it look easy! A belated but warm welcome to Le Salvan and Lexie Gonzales!

Road work day 2!

Ok, so it’s road work. Not so exciting. But it is. Step one: make safety improvements to James Drive at Rocklin Road for eventual increased traffic...

Rise and Cuervo look so stylish in FCF Blue!

Jumping for joy at Flying Change Farms that 2020 is almost over! Wishing everyone a better year in 2021!

Mama-to-be Gabby soaking up the sun today.

It’s a beautiful morning, dah, dah, dah... Fara and Jennifer Lisle Azevedo looking so pretty on a crisp December morning at FCF!

Trail time at FCF is full of beautiful surprises.

How utterly perfect! Très bien!

Huge congratulations to Cordelia Valle (and Heather Valle) on her beautiful new boy, Dax! These two are going to setting the junior Dressage world on fire next year for sure!

Hadn’t really planned on going to the Halloween show, but then...it just had to be done. Three days of doing it on the cheap, trailering in for two meter classes each day. HMS Diamond, owned by FCF, LLC, showed just how much he has matured by taking it all in stride and laying down one amazing round after another! Thanks to my friends and FCF village, Jennifer Lisle Azevedo, Miranda Glisson, and Kathy Thompson for all the help on the ground! And thanks to my dedicated jumper trainer Sami Milo for putting up with my crazy schemes. First in the Open $1,000 meter stake, and reserve champion in the open division; second in the Low Child/Adult meter stake, and champion in that division! And I call that a wrap for show season 2020!

I hope for your sake that your trainer is this person. I’m grateful that mine is.

This lovely young equestrian was a working student with a highly reputable dressage trainer. The fall did not seem to be so dramatic at the time, but the resulting brain injury has been devastating. Yes, she was wearing a helmet. Please consider a donation of any amount, and keep her in your thoughts.

Coming down the home stretch on shows for the season! HMS Diamond 54, owned by Flying Change Farms, trained by Sami Milo. : Brianna Hunt

Flying Change Farms welcomes Catherine Melz Roddick and her pretty young mare Mitica!

When your best friend shows up in the same shirt, different color! #Kastel

This week we said farewell to a special mare named Abilene that is now returning to Missouri after her visit to California. She was impeccably cared for by our good friend Nancy Fisher who now owns her beautiful baby, Cabo that was born locally during her stay. While it’s goodbye to Abilene, it’s just see ya later for Nancy as we hope to see her back at FCF when Cabo is further along in his training!

So glad to have Monica Ruiz Rogers helping HMS Diamond 54 (aka Gunny) feel his best with her Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF). This technology can optimize wellness, increase range of motion and assist with muscle fatigue and discomfort after exercise by addressing cellular dysfunction. It helped Gunny recover after his last show and return, ready for more. I have also tried it personally and can say it left me feeling relaxed and pain free!

Congratulations to our lovely client, Miranda Glisson and her gigantic (yep, 19 hands!) sweet horse, Drogon! Dressage is full of challenges, and large horses make riding a successful test even more challenging. Everything feels more cramped and the letters come up so fast! These two are on their way to earning their USDF bronze medal with scores at first level and now, their first score at second level! Keep up the great work, Miranda and Drogon!

Welcome Week of the Sacramento International Horse Show is a wrap! HMS Diamond, owned by FCF, shared championship honors in the amateur meter division with longtime friend Megan Hirano and her clever mare Disco Super Fly! It was a huge division with over 30 entries! There were some good rounds in the amateur 1.10m too, but not good enough for top placing. More to work on next week! Such an honor to show at this big competitive show which happens practically in our backyard and draws over 600 horses from all over the West Coast! Thank you to Sami Milo for being the steady and patient coach and to Brianna Hunt for the beautiful photos!

Sabine schooling in the Sunday September sunshine. (Nice alliteration) (Nice horse too)

Charles de Kunffy jumping. He says that it bothers him quite a bit that dressage and jumping are separate disciplines now, and that there used to be only "good riding" and "bad riding."