Gaited Horses of New England

Ivy Starnes: Gaited Horse Clinic
2025-08-22 - 2025-08-24 | Mt. Lane Farm, 11 Stone Lane, Temple, New Hampshire
GHNE will host nationally renowned Gaited Horse Clinician, Ivy Starnes, this August 22 – 24. The clinic will be limited to 8 horses and rider teams to allow ample, individual attention to each horse and rider team. Each day, the clinic will begin with a one-hour classroom session with videos.
Each horse and rider receives an individual lesson each day and will interact during the other clinic participant’s lessons as well.
This individual and group format allows for all participants to receive individualized attention and additionally work on their goals. Ivy will ride your horse early in the clinic and then transition to giving the rider time to learn on their own horse. This clinic style works amazingly well, and by the end of the clinic, most times, every horse is gaiting like a champ with his or her rider!
It is a very interactive clinic, with lots of Q&A from riders and auditors.
Ivy will work on gaiting, cantering, dressage, obstacles, standing to mount, side passing, dressage, trick training, and liberty training, depending on the goals of the horse and rider team.
Cost: $1000 for the three-day clinic
$40/day to audit
For more information or to reserve your slot (1 of 8), contact Loren Stevens at Loren.Stevens202@gmail.com. Contact Loren for the waitlist.
Gaited Horses of New England will have coffee, snacks, water, and lunch runs each day of the clinic. We will also host a Potluck Supper on Saturday evening (August 23) for GHNE members to enjoy each other’s fellowship and ask questions of Ivy. Save the dates for the clinic and the Potluck!

NOTE DATE CHANGE! Scot MacGregor: Gaited Dressage and Horsemanship: Private Lessons
2025-07-31 - 2025-08-03 | Mountain Lane Farm, 11 Stone Lane, Temple, NH, 03084, United States
THIS CLINIC IS SOLD OUT FOR LESSONS.
Contact Loren Stevens at loren.stevens202@gmail.com to be put on the waitlist. Auditing for all days is still available. Please purchase your audit tickets only below.
Scot MacGregor will give private, gaited dressage and horsemanship lessons. As he teaches the horse and rider team in the lesson, he also includes detailed instructions to the auditors. His expertise is world-class, and he is skilled in explaining training techniques with unique clarity. All gaited breeds are invited. He will meet each horse and rider team at their level of riding to focus on their goals and next steps.
Lessons will be $150/hour for a private lesson. The audit fee is $40 per day; if you take a lesson that day, the audit fee is waived. All riders must be Gaited Horses of New England members for insurance purposes. You can find our membership form on the Home or Contact Us pages of this website and pay through PayPal on the Events Page here.
For more information, RSVP to Loren Stevens at: loren.stevens202@gmail.com
Scot MacGregor’s Bio:
Scot MacGregor is the son of World Grand Champion trainer, Marilyn MacGregor; he began his career and training at a young age, learning from his mom. He rode in the Rose Parade 7 times and exhibited a Gaited Horse at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Additionally, he exhibited a TWH at five different Equitana USA, the 1997 Equitana in Essen, Germany, four years at the Royal in Toronto, Canada, and was the group leader for the 2010 World Equestrian Games breed demonstrations.
Scot has presented clinics in Europe, Canada, the US, and Mexico. He judged the TWH European Championships in 2021 and 2022, the TWH Mexican Championships, and shows in US and Canada since 2001. Additionally, he has judged the United Mountain Horse World Championships twice.
In the show ring, he has won over 3,000 times in 20 years of showing, including 750 wins in AAA TWH championships. He has won over 65 Western Dressage Association of America (WDAA) Western Dressage World Championships and 7 Grand Championships. Just to change up his professional focus, Scot finished his first American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) 50-mile endurance ride in 2023.

Mountain Trail Course Versatility Clinic with Heather White, Play Day, Fun Show, and Trail Ride
2025-07-19 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Mt. Lane Farm, 11 Stone Lane, Temple, New Hampshire
Come join us for a day packed full of fun for you and your horse:
10:00 – 12:00 pm Versatility Clinic taught by Heather White = $150
10:00 – 12:00 pm Play Day on the Versatility Course for those who have already taken the Versatility Clinic = $40
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch (Zizza Pizza for sale or bring your own)
1:00 pm Fun Show on judged course = $10/class.
Afternoon Trail Ride is complimentary.
Have you already completed the Versatility Clinic with Heather White? Join us for $40 per horse and rider truck in, and bring a friend who has also completed the Versatility Clinic and pay 1/2 of price for the second rider ($60 for the day for two horses and riders). You must be Gaited Horses of New England member for insurance purposes.
RSVP to Loren Stevens at: Loren.Stevens202@gmail.com to hold a spot for this popular clinic! See you there!

GHNE Trail Ride with Derry Trail Riders
2025-05-17 10:00 - 13:30 | Manchester Water Works, 60 Depot Road, Auburn, New Hampshire
Gaited Horse of New England will join Derry Trail Riders on May 17 for a wonderful fundraising trail ride at Manchester Water Works. This is a Derry Trail Riders’ event. Please go to their website to sign up and complete the registration forms. The cost is $25.
For more information, please contact Kelly Leblanc at beaglemania71@comcast.net.
Derry Trail Riders website at www.derrytrailriders.com/publicEvents

Gaited Gang Brunch
2025-04-13 12:30 - 15:00 | Gardner Ale House, 74 Parker Street, Gardner, MA, 01440, United States
Gardner Ale House: 74 Parker Street, Garnder, MA
Join the Gaited Gang for Brunch for great food, conversations, and fellowship at the Gardner Ale House. Gaited friends and family are all welcome. RSVP to Carolyn Hochard at: csh3741@comcast.net.

POSTPONED: Potluck Lunch & Gaited Videos by Ivy Starnes
2025-03-30 | Location: Litchfield, NH
POSTPONED: NEW DATE TBD
We look forward to a club potluck lunch to enjoy each other’s company and prepare for the spring riding season. After lunch, we will watch and discuss some of our favorite gaited videos from clinician Ivy Starnes’ collection as a prequel to her GHNE Clinic in August. We can choose from among her video lists, such as:

Pacing to Trotting
Creating Gait
Training a Gaited Horse to Drop Its Head
Collection: What It Is and That It Is Not
Cantering Gaited Horses

Please RSVP to Donna Pettengill with the potluck item you would like to bring for lunch and your area of interest in learning more from Ivy’s videos. You can contact Donna at Dpettengill14@gmail.com.

Year-End Awards Dinner, Annual Meeting, and Silent Auction
2025-03-09 12:30 | Pepperell, MA, Pepperell, Massachusetts
NOTE DATE & LOCATION CHANGE:
Please join us for our Awards Dinner for 2024 and our Annual Meeting for 2025.
The Awards Dinner and Annual Meeting will be held on Sunday, March 9th at 12:30 pm. The dinner will be potluck style. Please RSVP to our club Treasurer, Stacey Deignan, at at staceydeignan@yahoo.com.
We will be holding our Annual Silent Auction as well. Please bring any clean, gently used, or new horse or rider items you wish to donate. As a non-profit, proceeds go to help GHNE fund our yearly clinics and events.
High Point Trail Mileage Awards & Show Awards for 2024 will be awarded at the Banquet. Please submit your mileage log sheets and show points to our Club Secretary, Carolyn Hochard, no later than January 30th to be eligible for year-end awards. All horse and rider teams must be members and have submitted nomination forms and fees for horse and rider before trail mileage and show dates. Carolyn can be reached at csh3741@comcast.net.

Equine Affaire
2024-11-07 - 2024-11-10 | Big E, Eastern States Exposition, West Springfield, MA, 1305 Memorial Ave, United States
November 7 – 10, 2024: Equine Affaire
Big E (Eastern States Expo) in West Springfield, MA.
Please join us at Equine Affaire for an exciting horse weekend of learning, shopping, and friendship.

Ivy Starnes, the keynote gaited horse clinician, will present on Saturday and Sunday, November 9 and 10. Here are her topics, locations, and times:

Saturday, November 9, 1:15 pm (Young Building): Training Relaxation and Gait through Softness
Sunday, November 10, 10:00 am (Better Living Building): Learning the Different Gaits of Gaited Horses
Sunday, November 10, 11:45 am (Young Building): Making Your Trotty Gaited Horse Smooth
Sunday, November 10, 3:00 pm (Young Building): Exercises for Smooth Gait

We will also host a Club dinner and brief business meeting on Saturday evening at 6:30 pm at the Storrowton Tavern on the campus of the Big E. Ivy Starnes and her husband, Parker, will be our guests. This is a great opportunity to speak one-on-one with a nationally ranked gaited horse clinician, as well as a wonderful time to catch up with old GHNE friends. The cost of the dinner is $40 per person with a cash bar. The entree choices are:

Baked Boston Scrod (can be gf option)
Chicken Francaise
Grilled Chicken Alfredo
Pasta Primivera (vegetarian)
Yankee Pot Roast (can be gf option)

To RSVP, choose your meal, and pay for your meal, please contact Stacey Deignan at staceydeignan@yahoo.com. We must submit all dinner orders by November 1
Stop by our GHNE booth #2406 in the Stroh Building. We have complimentary snacks, water, coffee, and tea for our members and a place to sit, relax, chat with friends, and charge your phone. We also have the 2024 T-shirts (dusky red) and the new 2025 T-shirts (fog blue) for sale! For more information, contact Loren Stevens at lhhstevens@myfairpoint.net.

Gaited Horsemenship Clinic with Carl Bledsoe: Clinic is Filled!
2024-09-14 - 2024-09-17 | Mountain Lane Farm, 11 Stone Lane, Temple, NH, 03084, United States
September 14 –16, 2024: Gaited Horsemenship Clinic with Carl Bledsoe
September 17, 2024: Private Lessons
Mountain Lane Farm, Temple, NH

About Carl Bledsoe
Carl Bledsoe specializes in American Gaited Breeds with a show, training, and breeding background with the Tennessee Walking Horse. He and his wife Tammy own and operate their training farm in Talking Rock, Georgia. They conduct clinics and present at horse expos around the country, promoting training with the best interest of the horse as their primary focus. Carl has been a guest speaker at the Sound Horse Conference, a presenter representing the Tennessee Walking Horse at the Equus Film Festival, a guest judge at the Appalachian Trainer Face-Off, and a featured Gaited Clinician at Equifest, the Horse World Expo, the Georgia Horse Fair, the Southern Equine Expo, the Horse World Expo, the Ohio Equine Affaire, and now the Massachusetts Equine Affaire.

About the Three-Day Clinic:
On the first day, Carl will begin with an assessment that allows him to assess the horses as well as the riders and determine groups. After lunch, riders break into their assigned groups to learn elements of classic horsemanship. The second and third days begin with classroom work (approximately an hour), discussing the topics being practiced in the arena each day. Then, Carl will split up the riders into two groups; one group rides while the other group observes, takes notes, and interacts with Carl. This format is interactive, educational, and progressive for each horse and rider team.

The 3-day clinic is $825/horse and rider team for GHNE members and $850 for non-members (which includes membership to GHNE for insurance purposes).
Private one-hour lessons on September 17 are $100 for clinic participants and $125 for non-clinic participants who are GHNE Members and $150 for non-clinic participants who are non-GHNE members (includes membership for insurance purposes). There are a total of 8 slots for lessons on September 17.
Audit fee is $40/day.
For more information, contact Stacey Deignan at stacey@deignan.com or StaceyDeignan@yahoo.com.

Galloping Gourmet Trail Ride
2024-08-25 | New Hampshire
Come enjoy the trails with your Gaited Horses of New England friends in Winchendon & Royalston on property owned by DCR (Department of Conservation & Recreation), DFW (Division of Fisheries & Wildlife), and ACE (Army Corps of Engineers). This ride is sponsored by Bay State Trail Riders Association.
There is a permanently marked 10 mile loop on beautiful cart roads and trails through out the park. This ride is just the excuse to grab a friend and enjoy a nice ride. After the ride, sit down, have lunch and chat with everyone. Lunch is a delicious affair that one would not expect out on a trail ride.
Location: GPS to get to parking area: 27 River Road, Royalston MA. Follow River Rd. (will turn to dirt and bears right) all the way to the end where we are parking at gate R06, ACE property
For more information and to registrer, contact Bay State Trail Riders Association at https://bstra.org/

Versatility Clinic & Fun Show with Heather White: NOTE DATE CHANGE
2024-07-20 | Mountain Lane Farm, 11 Stone Lane, Temple, NH, 03084, United States
July 20, 2024: Versatility Clinic & Fun Show with Heather White: NOTE DATE CHANGE!
Mountain Lane Farm, Temple, NH
Come join us for a morning of instruction for you and your horse in Versatility with Heather White, and an afternoon of fun low-key showing, practicing the versatility skills so recently taught to us by Heather. Versatility skills make a better trail horse and more accomplished horse and rider team. We are pleased to host Jennifer Stow, an International Mountain Trail Challenge Association (IMTCA) judge for the afternoon. Cost for the morning mini-clinic is $150 for GHNE members and $175 for non-members (which includes membership for insurance purposes). The cost for the afternoon show is $10/class; the show starts at 1:00 pm.
RSVP to Loren Stevens at: LHHStevens@myfairpoint.net to hold a spot for this popular clinic! See you there!

Gaited Dressage and Horsemanship Lessons with Scot MacGregor: NOTE DATE CHANGE!
2024-07-05 - 2024-07-07 | New Hampshire
July 5 – 7, 2024: Gaited Dressage and Horsemanship Lessons with Scot MacGregor
Locations: For July 5 – 7: Mountain Lane Farm, Temple, NH

RSVP to Loren Stevens at: lhhstevens@myfairpoint.net
We will make a lunch run to ZIZZA PIZZA or bring your own bag lunch; we will have coffee, water, and snacks throughout the day. All riders must be members of GHNE for insurance purposes.
Scot MacGregor’s Bio:
Scot MacGregor is the son of World Grand Champion trainer, Marilyn MacGregor; he began his career and training at a young age learning from his mom. He rode in the Rose Parade 7 times and exhibited a Gaited Horse at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Additionally, he exhibited a TWH at five different Equitana USA, the 1997 Equitana in Essen, Germany, four years at the Royal in Toronto, Canada, and was the group leader for the 2010 World Equestrian Games breed demonstrations.
Scot has presented clinics in Europe, Canada, the US, and Mexico, and judged the TWH European Championships in 2021 and 2022, the TWH Mexican Championships, and all over the US and Canada since 2001. Additionally, he has judged the United Mountain Horse World Championships twice.
In the show ring, he has won over 3,000 times in 20 years of showing, including 750 wins in AAA TWH championships. He has won 65 Western Dressage Association of America (WDAA) Western Dressage World Championships and 7 Grand Championships. And just to change it up, this year, Scot finished his first American Endurance Ride Conference (AERC) 50-mile endurance ride in 2023.
Cost: Private 1 hour lesson = $135
Semi-Private 1 hour lesson = $85/each (two people)
Audit Fee: $35/day

Spring Tune-Up Clinic with Julie Dillon
2024-05-18 | Horsefeathers Academy, 594 Sand Pit Rd, Mason, NH, 03048, United States
May 18, 2024: Horsefeathers Academy, Mason, NH
Back by popular demand, Certified Riding Instructor, Julie Dillon will hold private, one-hour riding lessons for you and your horse on specific areas of growth for you as a team. Slots for lessons start at 9:00 am, and you are invited to audit the other participants’ lessons throughout the day. The event will also include a grilled hamburgers, vegan burgers, sides, and ice cream sandwiches with a wonderful cookout by the fire pit at Horsefeathers Farm.
Cost: $90/person, includes lesson, day of auditing, and dinner
$30 audit fee for non-riders per day
$20 for your plus ones for dinner and fire pit fellowship
Saturday, May 17 with rain date Sunday, May 18.

RSVP to Julie Dillon at:
horsefeathersnh@gmail.com

Gaited Gals & Guys Brunch
2024-04-28 12:30 - 17:00 | Cafe 873, 873 Main St, Ashby, MA, 01431, United States
Exact date TBD: Cafe 873 in Ashby, MA
Join gaited friends for great food and fellowship at Cafe 873 in Ashby, MA. RSVP to Carolyn Hochard at: csh3741@comcast.net

Year-End Awards Banquet, Annual Meeting, and Silent Auction
2024-03-24 12:30 - 15:30 | New Hampshire
Join us at Williams Restaurant, 184 Pearson Blvd., Gardner MA for our Year-End Awards Banquet, Annual Meeting, and Silent Auction. We will enjoy a private room for fellowshipping and sharing our love of horses. The cost is $40/person paid to Gaited Horse of New England (Paypal on our website). The Annual Banquet will include your choice of

Baked Haddock,
Pot Roast with Beef Gravy,
Baked Stuffed Chicken, and
Gluten Free and Vegetarian options available (let Carolyn know),

and sides of mashed potatoes, vegetable garden salad, bread rolls, coffee, and dessert. Our diners will have access to a cash bar for cocktails, wine, and beer to be purchased on an individual basis. Following the dinner we will honor our high trail-mileage winners for 2023. If you have not submitted your trail mileage to Carolyn for consideration for these awards, please submit the mileage by February 1.
We will also hold our Annual Meeting and elect officers for 2024 and form committees for

Show & Points Committee,
Trail & Mileage Committee,
Clinics & Hospitality Committee, and
Social Media & Marketing Committee.

Please let Carolyn know if you are interested in serving on any of these committees.
We will also hold a Silent Auction. Please bring your new or gently used items to donate to the club for this auction and cash or check to purchase items unique items from the auction. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and we thank you for your generosity.
For more information and to RSVP (with your dinner choice) contact our Secretary Carolyn Hochard at csh3741@comcast.net.

Potluck Lunch, Book and Video Review, and Yankee Swap
2024-02-18 12:30 - 15:30 | New Hampshire
We are looking forward to a club potluck lunch to enjoy each other’s company and learn about our best-loved horse books and videos. Bring a sample of your fab favs in horse educational materials or literature, and after lunch we will share why we love these particular books and videos and what we have learned from them. Scout
around your house for a book or video that you would like to re-home, wrap it, and bring it for a Yankee Swap! Please RSVP to Donna Pettengill with the potluck item you would like to bring at Dpettengill14@gmail.com.
Location: Litchfield, NH
Weather Date: February 25

Gaited Guys & Gals Brunch: NOTE DATE CHANGE
2024-02-04 12:30 - 14:30 | Cafe 873, 873 Main St, Ashby, MA, 01431, United States
Join gaited friends for great food and fellowship at Cafe 873 in Ashby, MA. RSVP to Carolyn Hochard at: csh3741@comcast.net
