Stone Creek Farm / 1700 Plantation Road / Madison, Georgia 30650 / contact # 210 421 1534
First Georgia clinic at Starlight Farm April 19-20 !
Experience an indepth clinic with Sally Buffington at Starlight Farm. Her clinics emphasize safety from a balanced seat in all three phases as well as fostering a working partnership with your horse that is amazing. Sally will teach you how to communicate with your eventing partner with more than physical aids which allows your horse to learn concepts more thoroughly. Her students' success records as well as her horse Absolut IV are a testimony of her deep teaching philosophy. Call Brenda Spraetz at 770 788 8278 or email her at
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2007 Wellpride American Eventing Championships
Absolut competed in the Preliminary Horse Championships against talented horses from around the country. The two and a half day haul from San Antonio to Chicago was well worth it as he finished with clear jumping in both cross country and ever so challenging stadium. His dressage was marred by peaking early in the long warm up so some movements, while obedient, were not as fluid and flowing as I would have liked. The competiton was difficult with Darren Chiacha and Clark Montgomery scoring in the twenty's. Absolut was in the mid forties.
At the completion of the open and galloping, then sprinkled with compression questions cross country we were clear moving up to 28th with 3.9 time penalties as a result from an over eager rear in the start box which botched the start at ' Go!'. However, he will have a handler next horse trial to settle and hold him. He loves cross country! 
He was spot on for every question and brilliant in his open gallops. I could not be more pleased.
Stadium was maxed out and challenging and changed the placings fairly dramatically on Sunday. Absolut was strong, yet he went double clear and we moved up to finish in 25th place.
The atmosphere was riveting and the crowds were huge. The USEA has done a remarkable job of building the AEC's into a national event not to be missed. The cross country course was adequately roped off and the crowd's were bulging against the ropes.
I heard from friends across the country who listened to our stadium round in the live feed streaming in real time. What an awesome addition to a fabulous, difficult and exciting experience!
For Sale : For The Record
'For The Record' is a proven long format event horse. She has been in the top ten in the nation with the USEA, Area V Champion or Reserve Champion. She was double clear at the Wellpride AEC's and featured by Jo Whitehouse on camera crossing the finish line. She was in the ribbons at the training Level Three Day Event at Meadowcreek Park against preliminary horses.'Chanel' is beautiful, forward, brave and technical in cross country. She is honest and talented in stadium and scored a 26 on one of her USEA horse trial dressage tests. Her bloodlines include My Babu making her valuable as a broodmare once her career is over. She has the talent, heart and mind to go all the way. A young riders dream. Her half brother is my upper level horse, Absolut, also featured on the website. We bought them as un-broken two year olds. We will qualify all buyers and request serious inquiries only, please. $35,000.00 More information can be found on www.dreamhorse.com .
Marisa and For The Record's, ( Chanel), entire performance at the Wellpride 2006 AEC's can be viewed on You Tube. The key words in your search are...Marisa / Chanel / AEC. All three phases are on the dressage video clip.
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2006 Awards
We are proud to announce Absolut IV ridden and owned by Sally Buffington is the recipient of the Area V Walter Strauss Perpetual Trophy as the Preliminary Horse Of The Year for Area V.
He also finished as High Point Horse for Central Texas.
Sally is the Preliminary Senior Rider Champion for Area V. She also is the High Point Professional for Central Texas as well as the Preliminary Rider Champion for Central Texas.
2007 AWARDS Absolut has been honored by the North American Thoroughbred Society for his performance at the 2007 Wellpride American Eventing Championships!
In 2007 Absolut only competed in the fall season. Even so he finished Reserve Champion in the North Texas Eventing Association and fifth in Area V at Preliminary Level with only four shows for the year. He was Reserve Champion in the Area V Preliminary Championships, he finished in second at Wayne DuPage Horse Trials in Chicago and second at Holly Hills Horse Trials in Shreveport missing wiining both by less than two tenths of a point.
Marisa Myers and For The Record completed their first Training Level 3 Day Event in the ribbons! They finished upthird in Area V at Senior Training and in the USEA Top Ten for training!
Parham Wallin and Dorsola's Happy Liam took Beginner Novice by storm! 'Aiden' is the NTEA Grand Champion Horse for 2007 winning th emost points of any horse at any level! They also finished in the USEA Top Ten for 2007! She is Reserve Champion in Area V and Beginner Novice Junior Champion in North Texas!
Amy Miller and Irish Whiskey had a banner year as well. They are first in North Texas Eventing Association at Senior Novice and third for Senior Novice in Area V!
Becky Rickly finished 3rd in North Texas at Senior Beginner Novice with only two shows!
Irish Riverstone, our homebred Irish Sporthorse finished in a tie for fifth in Area V even though he only went to one show! It was a great year for us all. Not to mention the fun we had!
Leslie Elise Buffington
Our daughter has been honored by the United States Veterinary Society of Equine Practitioners with a rare scholarship. She is a fourth year Vet student at Texas A&M. Each year all of the veterinary schools in the United States nominate their top pick for one of only eight scholarships to be awarded. At the Equine Practitioners Convention in Orlando December 2, 2007 the eight were announced and Leslie was one of the eight! We are so proud of her! She is a talented rider as well as a dedicated medical student. This was quite an honor and a reception followed Saturday evening with the previous winners from 2006 present. 
Stone Creek Ranch is SOLD !
While we are very excited about our move it is with sadness that we leave this four acres of horsey heaven and beautiful memories.
We have bought acerage on Plantation Road in beautiful Madison, Georgia in Morgan County!
We have a mixture of open pasture and beautiful hardwoods just five miles from historic Madison and roughly twenty three miles from the University of Georgia right off of Highway 441. 
We closed Monday, March 3rd and have started fencing the paddocks, clearing the under brush and finding the barn and house sight. In the meantime I will be teaching out of Starlight Farm in Covington, Georgia. Please contact Brenda, the farm manager, for lessons or clinic inquiries.
We are very excited about this new chapter, meeting new friends and competing in new venues. Our Area V friends are our heart. It is so hard to leave and we will miss them terribly. Actually,we have collectively decided Stone Creek Farm in Madison will be the eastern extension of Stone Creek Ranch in San Antonio. So, my clients will be regular visitors which will be the most fun! It is not an end, but a new beginning!
So, stay tuned. Some cross country fences were on the moving van...my husband was not too thrilled. Also, our stadium jumps came too. Who cares about furniture!
Thank you to the best real estate agent, and now friend in the world. Jeanne DuFort in Madison with Prudential. Her daughter Johanna competed through Advanced and she helped me in my search for a new farm. She is wonderful, dedicated and thorough! We begin on the barn next week and will live on site in the living quarters there as the house is being built. As soon as it is done I owe her a lovely dinner complete with a good bottle of wine! We did do well looking for property,but may have missed a turn here or there immersed in eventing! Thank you, Jeanne, for everything.
