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We have pictures of our fine horse halters & leads in the photo albums. 

Thank you,

~Sara

AETA International 2010 Summer Trade Show August 14, 15 & 16, 2010 Greater Philadelphia Expo Center at Oaks, PA

Saturday 8/14/10 - UPDATE:  Eric and I are having a wonderful time at the AETA Expo, we have posted pictures of our first day to our Facebook local business page here, click on the link to view them, Come visit us at booth #1245 Enjoy! : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23040&id=144604838902403&saved#!/album.php?aid=23040&id=144604838902403 ~Sara

We are Getting ready for the AETA Exposition in King of Prussia, PA August Saturday 14th, Sunday 15th & Monday 16th. Our booth No. is 1245, one row away from the Champagne Lounge.

Volunteers welcome for La Vie Equestrienne AETA Expo Booth August 14th, 15th & 16th. 8 am- 6 pm. Booth# 1245 E-mail Sara if interested in volunteering at one of the largest Equestrian trade shows in the USA. Come check it out!

Thank you to everyone who has been apart of the setup for the booth.

~Sara L Kellner, Owner

Dressage at Saratoga

Dressage at Saratoga will feature our very own halters as prizes at the show!

Dressage at Saratoga
Memorial Day Weekend 2010
May 29th-30th 2010
Saratoga Springs, NY

La Vie Equestrienne Sponsors the University of Southern California's Equestrian Team

La Vie Equestrienne officially sponsors the USC Equestrian Team! We are so proud to support this amazing team. Sara Kellner, owner of La Vie Equestrienne, traveled to Los Angeles, CA to tour their facility where they train, meet their horses and some team members. LVE donated halters to the USC school horses and will donate a halter and logo tote to the silent auction at the April fundraiser event on 4/18/10 at 12pm at the Saddle and Sirloin Club adjacent to the Paddock Riding Club where they train.

To View Information about their April Fundraiser click here.

To go to the USC Equestrian Team's Website click here.

Special thanks to Lisa Collins of the USC Equestrian Team for coordinating the sponsorship!

La Vie Equestrienne Supports the UMASS Equestrian Team

Hello Everyone!

La Vie Equestrienne recently donated a halter and LVE logo tote to the silent auction held by the UMASS Amherst Equestrian Team at their February horse show in which many other college equestrian teams attended. Below are pictures of the UMASS Equestrian team and a writeup from the team. LVE wants to raise awareness to the recent budget cuts to the equestrian program - please be generous donate to their equestrian team!

Special thanks to Lauren Kolodzinski for coordinating the donation to the auction!

Thank you, Sara Kellner, Owner of La Vie Equestrienne

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"After placing second in their region this year, the UMass Equestrian Team had a successful run at the regional horse show this past weekend with individual riders who qualified. UMass has six riders looking forward to competing at Zones on April 10th, hosted by the No. 1 team, Mt. Holyoke.

The Equestrian team came into the 2010 season behind Mt. Holyoke, competing first at a horse show hosted at the UMass farm in Hadley. UMass finished second that day, only losing by two points. Mt. Holyoke hosted the next show where another second place was earned, followed by the final regular season show hosted in Connecticut where Mt. Holyoke officially qualified to go to Nationals in Kentucky as a team. UMass qualified for Nationals two years ago in 2008, where they traveled to California and placed fourth.

However, UMass still had 17 competitive riders “point out” of their divisions, meaning they received enough points and won enough ribbons in their divisions to meet the requirements for moving onto Regionals as individual riders. For the walk-trot division, Sara Collins, Michelle Dewar and Kimberly Montague moved on, along with Jennifer Sears, Catheline Froehlich, Sarah Dickstein and Erica Seidenberg for the walk-trot-canter division. In the novice division, co-captain Molly Bettencourt, Lauren Kolodzinski (over fences), Catherine Adams and Meghan Laprade represented UMass. Amy Donahue, Lauren Kolodzinski, Kristen McDermott, Elena Serkin and Stephanie Van der Kaiij competed in the intermediate division, while co-captain Kate Lawrence and Amanda D’entremont showed in the open division. UMass had the most riders out of any team qualify for Regionals.

At Regionals, the qualified riders had a strong showing and placed high in all divisions. In order to move on to Zones, the final step before Nationals, a rider must place 1st or 2nd in their division. UMass had six riders do so; Jennifer Sears for walk-trot-canter, Catherine Adams for novice flat, Elena Serkin (fences) Lauren Kolodzinski, and Stefanie Van der Kaiij for intermediate flat, and Amanda D’entremont for open. UMass also had a number of riders extremely close to moving onto zones who placed 3rd in their division, such as Molly Bettencourt, Michelle Dewar, Erica Seidenberg, Amy Donahue and Kate Lawrence.

UMass would like to greatly thank those who donated to the program and the raffles held at horse shows. At the home shows this year, a lot of success has come from silent auctions, raffles and 50/50 raffles, which are vital to keeping the Equestrian team alive. At our last regular season home show held on February 27th, 38 donations were made and, combined with a food booth, UMass was able to raise an impressive $1,400 dollars that will greatly help the riders moving onto Zones and Nationals, as well as the entire program.

At Regionals this weekend, the UMass team also held a 50/50 raffle to raise money to offset the costs of the surgery that will be incurred by the program for one of our school horses Dawson. Dawson is a rescued PMU foal who was donated by her former family to the UMass Equine Program at the Hadley Farm. Now a beloved member of the program at ten years young needs surgery to remove a large tumor in her reproductive tract. The team raised several hundred dollars to contribute, but if anyone is interested in making further contributions you can contact our co-captain Molly Bettencourt at mollybettencourt@gmail.com."

Picture Descriptions:

1. The 2007-2008 Team

2. The 2007-2008 team after they won the region and qualified for Zones and Nationals
3. The team that competed at Nationals in Burbank, CA. Right to Left: Our coach Jerry, Stefanie van der Kaaij (intermediate flat), Elena Serkin (intermediate fences), Kate Lawrence (open flat and fences), Molly Bettencourt (novice flat and fences), Ariel Spuzzillo (walk trot canter), Hannah Deutsch (walk trot), Assistant Coach Tracy, Bob Cacchione
4. Photo taken at College of the Holy Cross show on March 27th, posing with Catheline Froehlich and her blue ribbon. Photo courtosy of Steve Maxwell via campusequestrian.com
5. Jill Bourne posing with Denny one of the UMass school horses before warm-up riding at Regionals on April 3rd
6. Preparations at Regionals
7. Lauren Kolodzinski and Stefanie van der Kaaij, placing first and second in Intermediate flat at Regionals qualifying for Zones on April 10th

8. UMASS Equestrian Team horse "Dawson."

Equine Affaire 2009 W. Springfield, MA

This was a fantastic year at the Equine Affaire! New friends and connections were made and we all went home with new memories and plenty of shopping bags. This was the second year in a row that La Vie Equestrienne has offered its horse halters at the Equixotics booth in the Breed Pavilion. The halters will soon be sold on the Equixotics website. When they are up we will be sure to make an announcement.

Picture 1: Sara Kellner, owner of La Vie Equestrienne, posing with her Signature and Economy halters sold at the Equixotics booth (wearing an Equixotics sweatshirt and Dragons Fly Designs jewelry). Picture 2: LVE halters. Picture 3: The women of the Equixotics booth! From left to right: Elizabeth Creamer owner of Ambleside Designs, Dianne Dakowicz owner of Equixotics, Susan Werner owner of Dragons Fly Designs and Sara Kellner, owner of La Vie Equestrienne. Picture 4: Nicki Velozo founder of New England Cheval Candian and owner of Bella Cavalli Canadians and Sara Kellner at the New Hampshire Horse Council and New Hampshire Quarter Horse Association Booth. Sara volunteered this year at the booth and was a director on the NHHC when she lived in NH but has since relocated to MA; she still stays involved as a business member.

The winner of the NH Horse Council raffle winner to be announced, stay tuned...

I will update this posting more soon!