Triple Creek Farm

Triple Creek Farm is a traditional equestrian facility with a quiet family atmosphere. Our riders are typically focused in eventing or horse trials, fox hunting, polo, as well as the other more demanding equestrian sports.  We welcome a few new committed students into our program each year, regardless of their current skill level, who are dedicated to fitness, athletic pursuit and a love of horses.

An appointment for a visit is required.

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Appointments are Required - Please contact us Due to safety and insurance requirements, as well as in consideration of our clients - spectators, drop-ins or visitors without a prior appointment are not permitted on the premises. Triple Creek Farm is a private facility open to our invited guests and established students only. This policy is strictly enforced. Please be sure to call for an appointment if you would like to visit the farm.
Cross Country Schooling & Horse Training Services Cross country jumping is available to horses and riders who wish to school their horses on our course by appointment only. Horse training for cross country jumping, fox hunting are also offered.
High Quality Riding Lessons & Instruction Triple Creek Farm offers the area’s most comprehensive experience in riding instruction for traditional equestrian sport. Our curriculum is dressage based in keeping with the time honored Military/Balanced Seat. Triple Creek Farm is where riding is a sport, not a hobby. See http://www.equineequip.com/triplecreekfarm.htm LESSONS & TRAINING for more details.
Horses For Sale or Lease Sport horses and ponies for sale or lease. Pre-purchase evaluation services available.
Riding, Jumping, & Dressage Clinics Regular Clinics are available presented by Triple Creek Farm instructors and visiting professionals in a range of disciplines. Please check our website for current offerings. Clinics also available off site.
The Traditional Balanced Seat At Triple Creek Farm we teach the traditional Balanced Seat. This riding method was developed by the US Cavalry at Fort Riley KS and is the most effective method of riding in the greatest number of circumstances or conditons. It predates the popular contemporary Hunter/Jumper show seat, which was popularized by George Morris in the 1970s for use in the show ring. The Balanced Seat remains the preferred method of riding for 3-day eventing, polo, and foxhunting as well as for mounted police work. ............................................................................................. More info - www.thebalancedseat.com ................................................. Internet discussion forum - http://thebalancedseat.com/yabb/YaBB.pl

Triple Creek Farm operates in the military equestrian tradition.  We teach according to dressage sportif principles. This method originated at the French Cavalry School at Saumur France just after the turn of the last century. Before Caprilli introduced his Forward Seat around 1904, cavalry schools taught soldiers to ride based on the high school dressage system. The French Army tried in various ways to integrate Caprilli’s new Forward Seat ideas into the older method, but the fit was not easy. At Saumur they eventually divided the old and the new, and called the older high school principles dressage academique and the new method dressage sportif. Dressage sportif, which is basic dressage principles applied to modern field riding, was refined at Fort Riley Kansas from the time of Caprilli until 1943, when the US Cavalry was dismounted.
 
The genius of the French was that they applied as many of the classical dressage principles to the sportif side of the curriculum as they could. This process was not accomplished by means of translation of the classic principles, but by way of interpretation, which is, I believe, a very important distinction. The context of that interpretation today could be described as the application of dressage principles to riding, not necessarily jumping, in a more forward seat with a shorter stirrup than dressage, and over terrain...and yes, with some jumps too.  
 
I often say to Hunter/Jumper trained riders who come here for lessons, that they have not been taking riding lessons, but rather jumping lessons. These riders generally jump well, but their skills in difficult approaches to jumps are often quite limited. Also, Hunter/Jumper riders tend to "over-do-it" in field riding and over lower jumps by using an inappropriate and overly dramatic jumping position. I can often be heard telling these students, particularly in low jumps and gymnastic jumping, “Ride it, don’t jump it."  
 
Dressage sportif is the basis of the Balanced Seat. It is riding to a jump, down a hill, around a bend with difficult footing, and much more. It is balancing and lightening you horse in a sympathetic manner over any terrain or surface.