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Our horses

Meet the HVS horses and ponies! Many are available for our partial-lease program. Ask Cindy for details.

Bailey (Bailey's Irish Cream)

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Bailey and Anna
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Bailey and Anna at EZGO Jumper Show
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Bred in Chile, Bailey is a 1999 Thoroughbred gelding who has tons of Pony Club and fox hunting experience. He was on the winning Pony Club show jumping team at both Eastern and National Rallies, and also was a member of several winning Elkridge-Harford Hunt Teams at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show. 

At 16 hands, he's a great size, and his sweet disposition has quickly made him a barn favorite. He also has a perfect lead change, which is an extra-special treat! Bailey is leased at this time.
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Bailey and Anna at Cross Road Jumper Show
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Bailey and Kristen at Cross Road Hunter Show
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Bailey and Anna at EZGO Jumpers

Crumpet (Tea for Two)

​Crumpet is a 2002 Appaloosa pony. He's a good jumper and also has some dressage talent. He has competed in hunter paces, some local hunter shows and has evented successfully at the Beginner Novice level. A favorite among our students, he is good with beginners and steps up his games for those who know a thing or two. An all-around fun pony. 
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Crumpet and Sierra
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Crumpet and Meghan
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Amber and Crumpet at the HVS Spring Schooling Show
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Crumpet and Julie

Delight (Special Dark)

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​A 1999 Thoroughbred gelding, Delight is Cindy's special horse. She bought him from a horse meat dealer as an unbroke four-year-old when he sold to slaughter for a board bill. Since that time, they have had lots of adventures together, from dressage and hunter shows, to pace events, to fox hunting. She has evented him successfully at the Novice level. Although he's not a lesson horse, Delight has been helping out from time to time and seems to enjoy the extra attention, especially from the tiniest riders.
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Photo credit: Megan Hoffer
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Cindy and Delight at Plantation Field
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Cindy and Delight at Twin Brooks Dressage Show
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Delight in Aiken

Fynn (Sure Thing)

​Fynn is a 2000 14.1 hand Welsh cross who is experienced in the show hunter arena, and he's been used for beginner lessons. He quickly learned to enjoy the fun stuff at HVS, and has been jumping in the field and competed at various shows and horse trials.

Sweet and kind, he is a favorite at the barn.

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Fynn and Karley
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Fynn and Wende
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Fynn and Anna
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Sarah and Fynn at Beaufort Hunter Trials
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Abby and Fynn at Beaufort Hunter Trials
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Fynn and Brownie at Windurra

Brownie (Dark Roast)

Brownie is a 2003 Welsh cross who is our smallest pony, but probably the best jumper in the barn. He is 13.3 hands and consistently wins our Chase Me Charlie competitions during our fun shows. He prefers jumpers to hunters, but is quiet enough for beginner riders. He's a barn favorite among both children and adults. He has evented successfully at BN with the scope to easily go Novice. He has also shown in hunters, jumpers, and paper chases, and he has been out fox hunting. Very nice all-around fun pony! Brownie is SOLD.
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Anna and Brownie at Windurra
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Brownie and Jadea
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Brownie and Abby

Cheer

​Cheer is a 1997 Morgan gelding on loan to us from one of our friends in Maryland. Cheer is an experienced event pony, having competed up to Novice with a number of riders. He is one of our most beloved ponies, and is happy to show beginners the ropes while being fun enough for riders who have more experience.

No pony is sweeter or more kind than Cheer, and we are grateful to have him in our program.

Cheer is available for partial lease.
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Cheer and Phoebe
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Cheer and Beatrice
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Cheer and Phoebe

Patrick (Dunlaoghaire)

​A 1998 WBX, Patrick is Cindy's foxhunter/event horse. He has competed successfully in hunter shows and pace events, and Cindy has evented him at the Novice level and schooled Training level. In his early years, he was a show jumper, then trained as an event horse before he became a fox hunter with the Elkridge-Harford Hunt. Cindy purchased him as a nine-year-old in 2007. Although he's not a lesson horse, Patrick helps out in the lesson program from time to time.
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Patrick at Hunt Cap Horse Show
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Patrick and friends at Riding Academy
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Patrick and Henley
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Patrick at MCTA Horse Trials Photo credit: Mary Powell
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Patrick and Gadget in Aiken. Photo credit: Julia Beamish
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Cindy and Patrick with Betsy and Play at the EHHPC Hunter Pace, Spring, 2018

Sprite (Bantry Bay's Shelby)

Sprite is a 14.2 hand 2010 Connemara pony who came to us from an eventing barn in Massachusetts. She has eventing experience and is a talented jumper who has nice flat work. She is very forward, and therefore will be for our more experienced riders. ​​
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Sprite and Julia
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Sprite and Julia

Julia and Shelby #wedothefunstuff #harvestviewstables #ponypower #connemara

A post shared by Cindy Gilbert (@spoiledhorse) on Jul 10, 2018 at 3:14pm PDT

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Julia took a test drive on our sporty new pony and declared her the nicest pony she's ever ridden! #futurechasemecharliewinner #ponypower #jumpforjoy #twistycourse #wedothefunstuff #harvestviewstables #connemara

A post shared by Cindy Gilbert (@spoiledhorse) on Jul 8, 2018 at 6:37pm PDT

Cricket (Scooter Bug Blues)

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Cricket and Anna
Cricket is a 2006 Palomino Quarter Horse gelding who has evening, hunter and fox hunting experience. He's around 15.2 hands, so is a great size for almost any rider. We are excited to have him as part of our lesson team and look forward to having lots of fun with him.
Cricket is retired.
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Cricket and Anna
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Cricket and Sierra
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Elise and Cricket at the HVS Spring Schooling Show

Neo (Cyber Criminal)

Neo is a 2012 bay Quarter Horse Cross who is the new kid on the block. He will be Patrick's understudy and learn to go fox hunting, paper chasing and xc schooling. He's very friendly and sensible, and he's become a great addition to the barn.
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Neo and Bea
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Beryl and Neo
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Ally and Neo
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Neo and Cindy
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In Memorium

Buccaneer

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Buck died unexpectedly on Thursday evening, April 5, 2007. It was very sudden, and he didn't suffer. Only minutes earlier he'd been happily giving a lesson, looking beautiful and acting completely fine. After the lesson, I kissed his nose, told him I loved him, and sent the kids for a cool down walk around
the property. He collapsed at the bottom of the hill. Fortunately, no one was badly hurt, and he was gone quickly. He was 24 years old.

It wouldn't have been Buck's style to grow old and feeble, so now we'll always remember him as the bright, happy, beautiful boy that he was, with the shiny, dappled coat  and feisty attitude. He had a great season hunting with Beaufort and helped us train our newly-entered crop of hound puppies. He made a beautiful showing at  Hunt Night at Harrisburg where he was the only horse to represent our hunt in  2006, and in the last six months we had some of our very best rides together.
Our last outing was simply a short, bareback ride through the woods here at home after it had snowed.

Buck always acted as though he'd live forever. He was the heart of the barn and my best friend and patient teacher. Things just
won't be the same without him. He was truly the light of my life--a life that's so much richer for having had him as my partner.

My First Kiss

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Winter of 2014 was a challenging one and a heartbreaker in many ways. Sadly, we lost Petie to a sudden, violent bout of colic the evening of January 29th. We were lucky to have had such a sweet and talented horse in our lesson program, and he had quickly become a favorite among many of our riders. Gone too soon, he will live on in our good memories. Rest In Peace, Petie.

Little Kish

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Who would have thought that the little, lame Saddlebred who looked like he'd  been put together by committee, would turn out to be one of my life's great characters? With a heart as big as all outdoors, he made the transition from tired Amish cart horse to beloved lesson mount, and won over a generation of riders at Harvest View Stables.

We will miss him terribly, but we are grateful to have been blessed with his company for the second half of his long life. Rest In Peace, Little Kish. Echoes of "Go, Kish! Goooooo!" will resound through the barn forever.

Calvin (Smoke Screen)

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In December, 2012, we bid a sad farewell to our beloved Calvin. He came to us in the summer of 2004 and in that time has touched countless lives and taught  many, many people how to love and appreciate horses. He went from life as a  fancy show hunter, to reliable lesson horse, eventer, paper chaser, fox hunter,  gaming horse and general reliable good citizen. His life has never been dull!

He would have been 25 in 2013...he lived a long and happy life. May he graze in greener pastures with the knowledge that he's been so special to so many. Rest in peace, Good Friend.


Deluxe

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When I first saw Lux at the horse rescue, I nearly dropped to my knees. I don't think I'd ever seen such a stunning horse. He had a personality to match his good looks, and Dave and I were thrilled to have him join us at HVS. He had been imported from Europe to be a show hunter, but had not been sound enough for that career. Here with us, he went out for long hacks and later fox hunted and competed at local shows.

Sadly, he contracted EPM and never quite made a full recovery. He spent several years in retirement, but in spring of 2011, a month after losing Kish, we made the sad decision to end his pain.

He was a great, expressive character, and we were happy to have had his company.

William

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William died from complications brought on by colic on Memorial Day weekend, 2013. He was a 1989 English Thoroughbred/Irish Draught cross who was imported from England in 1998 and  began a long career as one of the Kinsley's fox hunters with the Elkridge-Harford Hunt. Along with the Kinsley's other stunning Irish greys, Mexican Wave and Stanhope's Gassoon, William became quite well known on the now defunct Hunt Night Circuit, as a member of the winning hunt team. He also competed
successfully at Middleburg and Warrenton before retiring to us at HVS in 2008. H was a truly wonderful teacher, and riders of all ages, sizes and abilities came to love him.

We were fortunate to have had such a special horse in our barn.

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