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Allie Heninger

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🗂️Professional organized horse girl
📖Creator @equi.form ✍️Rambler @goeventing
⚕️Lupus 🏞️Wanderer/Weird Tree Girl

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this summer has been a movie 🤩😈🤪

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✅ Dressage at the @kentuckythreedayevent

Smiling through the rain! Up next ➡️ cross country day at the #bestweekendallyear. 💪

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POV: you’re on the @athletux team at the #bestweekendallyear 📸👏🤳🏆

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So grateful for a barn full of wonderful people! Thanks everyone for a fun evening!!! Merry Christmas!! 🎄

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Can’t imagine why, honestly.

The EN team wishes the riders who are worlds better than us the best of luck at @paris2024 next week! We’ll stick to writing. 😅 #goeventing

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We now refer to my office as "Lookin At Birds".

Me: "Nova, why you screamin."
Dallin: "The door is closed, she wants in to Lookin At Birds."

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Having a fabulous time in the sunshine in Temecula! Emma, Marylee, Allie, Amy and Kat and crew came down for some schooling and it’s been such a fun couple days! Some schooling rounds tomorrow will top it off perfectly! Next time we’ll have to bring more of the @gphequestrian crew!!!
Huge thanks o Amy and Allie for being fabulous grooms and grounds crew and to @highaltitudesaddlery and @valgeist for keeping our @blissoflondon saddles fitting perfectly so we are ready to rock and roll this spring!!

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From the backwoods of the Bayou to Santiago, Chile, Sydney Elliott has certainly traveled far since her days riding with Pony Club in Benton, Louisiana. While the Pan American Games U.S. Team Member is “still Louisiana, through and through,” her recent move to Hoffman, North Carolina, has helped prepare her for her latest experiences as a rider for Team USA.

Sydney’s very first riding experience as a child was at Holly Hill Farm in Benton, where she would remain for the rest of her riding career before moving her operation to her own farm just two miles down the road. Owned and run by Bobby and Tracy Hewlett, Holly Hill and their Gator Bayou Pony Club branch served as the foundation for Sydney’s riding and horsemanship education. “We were just so lucky to find them,” Sydney said of the Hewlett family and the Pony Club program. “We started there and I stayed involved in it all these years—I was even a co-district commissioner for our Pony Club until I left last year.”

“It’s so important for these kids to come up through Pony Club,” Sydney noted. “It teaches them so many valuable life lessons. I know that I needed it as a child growing up, and I needed structure. I think it was very important for both life lessons and for horsemanship.”

Seeing herself as a bit of an anomaly, considering where she started and how far she’s come since, Sydney knows she was very lucky to find such a great support system as a child. “My mom dropped me off at the farm on the weekends and I would basically live with the Hewletts,” she laughed. “We’d ride ponies every day, all day long—do things we were not supposed to do without our parents watching—we were just let loose on a 200-acre farm. It was probably the best childhood for a child loving horses.”

For more information, follow Sydney at elliotteventing.org or on Instagram @elliotteventing and to keep reading head to the link in our bio!

📸Photos by Pam Jensen, www.pamjensenphotography.com

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Huge thanks to everyone who volunteered and competed at The Pumpkin this year! 🎃 We appreciate all your help and support throughout the show season. See you all next year!
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sponsors: @goldenspikeeventcenter @ruralave @simplyedensoap @haacke.motors @hollywiebelhaus
Learn more about sponsorships on our website! Link in bio.
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#wasatchponyclub #utaheventing #useventing #useventingassociation #usea #unitedstatesponyclub #uspc #areaixeventing #eventing #ponyclub

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Many horse-crazy individuals know that with hard work, determination and a little creativity, they can pursue their horse dreams whether or not they’ve got the money for the most expensive horses. That was eventer Allie Heninger’s plan—until her body began attacking itself.

“Some of the toughest challenges I’ve faced in my horse life have been accepting that my childhood dreams may not be possible with the body I now have,” Allie shared. “Whether it be the aspirations to become a professional rider or wanting to run a stable of my own, since my diagnosis I have been forced to come to terms with a new reality in which I cannot sustain a career with heavy physical involvement.”

With a slew of autoimmune disorders resulting in symptoms just beginning with overwhelming fatigue, muscle and joint pain, overresponse to minor injuries, poor blood flow, gastrointestinal issues and recurrent infections, 26-year-old Allie has had to rethink what it meant for her to be a “horse girl.”

Want to keep reading? Head over to our website! Link in bio!

📸Portraits by Melissa Anderson

#sidelinesmagazine #sidelines2023 #forhorsepeople #abouthorsepeople

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New episode with @autoimmuneequestrian just went live today! Also featured in the episode- @ellsworthofficial_ 🩷🩷🩷
Link in bio to listen on our website or listen on @spotify @applepodcasts
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#horses #podcast #equine #equestrianpodcast #listen #listentopodcasts #spotify #itunes #applepodcasts #autoimmunedisorder #hairnets #equestrianlife #equestrianstyle

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Hello August! August is our fashion issue and you are going to want to give it a read! Thank you to all of our photographers for always making our magazine look beautiful!
Artwork by Janet Ferraro
Portraits by
Melissa Anderson
Shawna Whitty
Tracy Kujawa
Shawna Whitty
Isabel J. Kurek
Arianna Vetere
Edie Baggett
Muirneen
Lindsey Long
Melissa Fuller
Susan McClafferty

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