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All The News! December 11, 2024The 2024 Knockout holiday party was a rip-roaring success. While the weather wasn’t winterish,...
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Election Endorsements December 04, 2024So, we haven’t done this for a while, but we’re going to let the lesson horses endorse candidates...
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The Holidays Come to Knollwood November 27, 2024Happy Thanksgiving to all! Thank you to all our friends and supporters who made this year spect...
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Finishing BIG! November 20, 2024Team Knollwood has returned from the UPHA National Championship American Royal Horse Show, the ...
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It May Seem Quiet Around Here ... November 13, 2024The academy team is done competing for 2024, and the show horses are at the American Royal, the...
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Kansas City, Here We Come November 06, 2024Team Knollwood’s show horses are heading to Kansas City tomorrow where they’ll compete at the ...
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IASPHA Stories October 30, 2024Photo by Andrea SItzman Knollwood’s academy team has returned from their 9th and final out of ba...
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We Had A Ball! October 23, 2024Team Knollwood finished their in-barn show season with a celebration of the lesson program. Nin...
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What A Weekend! October 16, 2024Our academy team is back from an action-packed UPHA Chapter 10 show at Beyond Stable Farm. With...
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Pumpkin and Bee Tell All October 09, 2024Hi everyone! Pumpkin here, Knollwood’s 2023 School Horse of the Year to explain everything y...
A Master Teacher Passes
Team Knollwood lost one of it’s finest teachers today when Jelly passed after a brief illness.
Jelly was a schoolmaster. He could teach the youngest riders how to post, and was endlessly patient with lessons about diagonals and steering.
Jelly was a lunge lesson master for the show barn riders. His trot cadence never changed, allowing total concentration on the smallest of rider adjustments.
Jelly was a wonderful cantering teacher. As riders progressed, he’d test them about leads and follow through.
Jelly was a pattern king. He was patient beyond campare teaching the littles how to trot circles, and could be a genius at pattern camps, teaching our advanced riders to listen to all his subtle clues before he became, shall we say, creative.
Most of all, Jelly was a grand soul.
Friendly to all, Jelly loved everyone and loved being a horse.
We’ll miss him dearly, but he’ll live on in all the memories he made with us. We are truly better for having spent time with this gentle soul.
