Author Archive | Christina Bradford

  2/23/2016 A long overdue update about whats been going on!  Since moving to Black Pony Farm the horses have still been busy working.  Avery’s leaser followed us and rode him up until the end of January, he has a new one so after some time off he’s back in work.  Tilly has become my […]

11/3/2015 This past weekend I loaded up my 3 horses and business to move back to Black Pony Farm in Manassas.  Moving the horses was the easiest thing I did and went through.  It was very bittersweet leaving behind the place I considered my sanctuary and what I built up.  However moving back to Black […]

  10/20/2015 Evolution and adaption is an important part of staying in business.  Since we are an equestrian business without our own home base, we have to rent our facility.  Sometimes it does not work out even if everyone came into the agreement with the best intentions.  SCS is moving.  As the business owner, I […]

7/14/2015 For the past week and half we have been keeping a secret.  Its a 16HH bay with lots of chrome TB gelding that we’ve named Zeke!  Zeke has officially joined SCS over this past weekend as he’d been on trial for the past week.  Zeke main job is to be my own mount and […]

4/27/2015 This week Stewie is moving onto his new home to continue his career in eventing.  We are sad to see him go, but excited for him too!  Kim has found a new horse to work with to start his career in eventing.  We are excited to introduce to everyone Killian!  Killian is a 12 […]

  12/21/2014 Yesterday morning we welcomed our newest lesson horse home!  As of today she is on 2 week trial, but we feel already that she is going to stay!  She has her pre-purchase exam on Tuesday afternoon.  Tilly is a 12 year old dun solid Paint/QH mare.  Tilly has EPSM (PSSM) which is a […]

  11/17/2014 Meet our second training horse, Davy Jones!!  We are extremely excited about this guy and working on providing another quality Thoroughbred to the community.  Davy is a coming 3 year old unraced gelding, who apparently was bred by a racing farm here in Northern Virginia, but he was never raced trained and has […]

5/23/2014 We have been patiently waiting for our own barn since we started Second Chance.  We’ve run SCS out of 2 boarding facilities and always, we’ve longed for a place where we can do things our way and not have to limit ourselves because of the cost of boarding.  Back in February, Kim’s family decided […]

4/28/2014 Couple of updates! With our move to our own barn looking more and more likely to happen and on schedule, we are officially on the market for another lesson horse.  Here is what we are looking for: – Horse must be able to back beginners but can still be a mount for our intermediate […]

    4/15/2014 We’ve been complimented on how our horses look and asked what our secret is by a few followers.  It is not easy and each horse’s needs are reevaluated every month.  Someone might have lost a bit of weight, someone’s ulcers appear to be returning, Stewie needs to go back on alfalfa cubes, […]

  3/13/2014 So much has been going on here at SCS that we have gotten behind on our updates here on our website.  Here’s whats been going on: – We decided towards the end of January that our paint lesson horse, Roo, wasn’t happy with being a lesson horse.  He appeared to be missing the […]

1/18/2014 Avery’s Mysterious Past Isn’t So Mysterious Anymore! As many of you guys know, Avery is my horse obsession.  I research crazy things to make him feel comfortable, hunt for deals on the best of the best for him, and probably everyone at the barn is tiring of me asking how “the Cutest Pony in […]

  12/10/2013 Yesterday afternoon through this afternoon, we’ve gotten close to 3″ of snow!  Today Kim went out to check on our ponies and took some fun photos of them in the snow. Enjoy! – Christina