Luau Cove CSF and Jen take on Florida!

Jen Hauser and Luau Cove CSF owned by Lori Lynn Davis earned the blue ribbon in the $1,000 USHJA Level II Jumper Classic at Venice Equestrian Tour Week IV

The rest of the crew had a great weekend with Jus D’o and Mimi Colette Frei taking champion honors in the 3’6” junior hunters and Lauren Velazquez with Romney Velazquez’s Cake Walk taking reserve champion in the combined 3’3” juniors.

Paulina Frei had a great debut with her new mount, Truth Be Told in the low children’s taking a 5th in the combined classic.

Katie Ditmars with Korneel and Mimi Colette with Emir both had consistent round in the high children’s jumpers as they prepare for more showing this spring.

Lillian Reynolds signs with Texas A&M

Congratulations to Lillian Reynolds on your formal acceptance to ride for Texas A&M on their equestrian team.

Lillian has been a long time member of Fox Lake Farm starting in our lesson program and moving up the ranks to the 3’6” equitation ring. She has qualified for the Hammel Final, Maclay Final and Medal Finals.

She is ready to round out her junior years by making the move to the jumper ring.

Congratulations Lillian on all your success. We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see what the future holds for you.

Busy fall with the AHJA

The ladies have been showing up a storm recently! Take a look back at what all we have been up with our local association for the past few weeks.

Best Child Rider at The Hunter Place

On August 27, 2022 The Hunter Place hosted their AHJA sanctioned show at Fox Lake Farm.

Bella Jennings, Bella Culotta, and Paulina Frei were all named best child rider of their respective sections. We are so proud of all of our students!

Many of our other riders also competed with loads of champions and reserve champion honors!

Weekend in sunny Tuscaloosa!

Chance and Guerry spent last Saturday at Timber Acres showing with our AHJA crew! Congratulations to all of our riders on a super successful weekend.

Margaret Overton and Escalido are turning into quite the pair, taking home reserve champion in the short stirrup hunters.

Brynn Smith and her new mount, Despicable Me, had a great first show taking home champion honors in the long stirrup hunters. Lydia Clayton and For Fun were hot on their heels, taking reserve champion.

Isabella Culotta and Demitasse have improved by leaps and bounds. This duo won the pre-child/adult under saddle and took home second place in the equitation on the flat and over fences.

Ruth Branum with Cup of Joe and Lou Gidiere with Best Kept Secret each won a class of the short stirrup division and both had consistent rounds with improvements each time they stepped into the ring.

Bates Moody with Cinsational and Pamela Adam with Steel City Blues dominated the child/adult hunters by taking both champion and reserve champion honors.

Alabama Hunter Jumper Association Kick Off Show 2022

The AHJA crew is back at it again! This group of ladies had a great show back in the start of March. We are looking forward to a great year of growth and learning with our Alabama Hunter Jumper Association crew.

Our highlights from Kick Off include Fox Lake Farm riders placing 3rd - 7th place in the $1500 hunter derby, taking top ribbons in each hunter division, and excelling in the jumper ring. Equitation day was equally as successful with riders taking top placing in both junior board equitation challenges including a win in the pony ring.

Alabama Hunter Jumper Association 2021 Awards Banquet

We had the opportunity to celebrate our 2021 season at the Alabama Hunter Jumper Association Year End Awards Banquet. We had a great time seeing all of our AHJA friends and celebrating with our barn family. Our riders worked hard this year with many of them reaching their 2021 riding goals!

Our riders brought home 16 champion and reserve champion honors this year between the local circuit and USEF circuit offered by the AHJA. Our riders also won numerous other placings and awards.

Abby Guillory & Brynn Smith made it a 1 and 2 kind of night by taking champion and reserve champion honors in the long stirrup equitation.

Guerry was awarded the Jerry Morrison Award for service to the AHJA.

Dylan Martin was awarded the Pat Hoyle Sportsmanship Award and tied for the “Rise” Service award with Morgan Hurd.

Sydney Velazquez & Caredan Z had a stellar year taking home both the children’s hunter and children’s equitation perpetual awards.

Brynn Smith was awarded The Spirit of The Horse for her hard work and dedication to this sport and the horses.

Mae Moody missed the banquet, but was awarded the Little Equestrian That Could Award for her hard work and dedication.

Other Fox Lake Farm award winners include:

Lydia Guffey & Limerick

Abby Beaty & Prof De La Roque

Lauren Velazquez & Cake Walk

July McAdam with Cinsational and Scofield

Mimi Colette Frei with Jus D’o and Backstreet Boy

Morgan Madden & Con Air

Sydney Madden

Finley Dambro & Danny

Sophia Latham & Best Kept Secret

Paulina Frei & Cup of Joe and Mr. Congenality

Margaret Overton & Elliott

Mae Moody & Wonderland and Cup of Joe

Bates Moody & Wonderland and Cinsational

Pamela Adam & Escalido

For Fun with Annalise Holmes and Lydia Clayton

Jolly with Brynn Smith, Lydia Clayton, Caroline Adams, and Juliet Blakeslee-Carter

Secret’s Out with Cecilia Daigle & Brynn Smith

Sydney Velazquez & Caredan Z

Romney Velazquez & A Timely Affair

Kate Knowles & San Man DASH

Abby Guillory

Abigail Pattillo

Sophie Crane and Burlington graced the cover of this year’s program by winning the Junior Board Equitation challenge at the 2021 Year End Show.

We want to thank all our parents for supporting their riders and Fox Lake Farm! Can’t do it without them!

Fox Lake Farm receives 2022 Best of Birmingham Award

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Fox Lake Farm Receives 2022 Best of Birmingham Award

Birmingham Award Program Honors the Achievement

BIRMINGHAM February 1, 2022 -- Fox Lake Farm has been selected for the 2022 Best of Birmingham Award in the Farms category by the Birmingham Award Program.

Each year, the Birmingham Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Birmingham area a great place to live, work and play.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2022 Birmingham Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Birmingham Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About Birmingham Award Program

The Birmingham Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Birmingham area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

The Birmingham Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.

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2022 Scholarship Winner

Congratulations to our own Sydney Velazquez on being awarded one of the 2022 AHJA scholarships for higher education. She is following in the footsteps of two other Fox Lake Farm riders, Lydia Guffey and Kate Knowles, who were also awarded scholarships during their respective senior years of high school.

We have had the pleasure of watching Sydney grow up at Fox Lake Farm and we can’t wait to see what the future has in store for her.