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~Wellgreen Farm Equestrian Center~
Downs, Illinois
Full Service Boarding Stables, Overnight Horse Motel, & Clinic Headquarters near Bloomington, Illinois ~ Normal, Illinois ~ Champaign, Illinois We are just 10 miles southeast of the twin cities and 30 minutes from Champaign, Illinois & Urbana, Illinois. We are just 5 minutes from Moraine View State Park which boasts of over 15 miles of scenic wooded trails. We are only 2 1/2 hours from Chicago, St. Louis & Indianapolis where I-55, I-39 and I-74 intersect.
On-site owner/managers for boarded horses, natural horsemanship training to get a foundation on the horse, then Larry Whitesell and Mark Russell's for fine tuning methods of relaxation, balance of the horse and rider, and supplying exercises. This works for every breed of horse and every discipline.
We also offer certified riding lessons, leasing, natural horsemanship training, horse sales and our overnight horse motel program!
"Where honesty and integrity in the horse business count!"
Phone 309+530-0670 (Marj) or 309+532-1558 (Richard)
or email us at:
wellgreenfarm@frontier.com
The Gilmore's
Richard, Marjorie, Ryan, and Adam
Successful training requires a mindset of action.
Overcome any obstacles and just get started.
Be determined…
- to learn what you need to learn
- then take action & do what you learned
- with a work ethic that won’t quit
- and integrity that builds long term success.
I want to share with you one of my favorite quotes of all time from Master Horseman and Showman, Bob Avila,
taken from his book with Juli Thorson, Win With Bob Avila, Beyond Training: Mentoring From A World Champion Horseman. I think about this quote a lot…
“I think we’ve all known people who talk big about having horse goals,
and yet always have an excuse for not going forward.
They put more energy into coming up with justifications
than they do sticking to the concept of “just do it”
That’s the big reason why such people are seldom successful past a certain point.
Their true motivation isn’t to succeed it’s to avoid failure by playing it safe.
They back down to their comfort zone the minute the going gets tough.
To me, that’s the ultimate self sabotage, because the going always gets tough at some point when you’re dealing with horses and human emotions. Illness, injury, lack of money, stiffer competition, family problems, depleted confidence
-name a setback, and chances are you’ll come up against it sometime.
There’s a lot of truth to the phrase,
“No guts, no glory”
April 11,21