Setting Sun Equestrian
Setting Sun Equestrian, in Union, Kentucky, is the founding barn of Horse Commons — home to the horses on these pages and the riders who show them across walking, hunt seat, western, and Kentucky 4-H divisions.
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Horse Commons
Every horse has its people.
A shared place for horses, their people, and the barns they call home.
Read founding stories
Kentucky, first chapter
Founding commons
Horse Commons begins with reviewed stories from one community and leaves room for every careful, permissioned chapter that follows.
Permissioned profiles
People and horses
Names, relationships, and memories appear only when the public record is ready.
Field notes
From the Commons
Recent approved stories, results, and notes from around the barn aisle.
From the show ring
Ribbon days from the Setting Sun Equestrian archive: winners circles, champion coolers, banquet trays, and the stall-row moments in between.
Read the storySnow day at the barn
February 9, 2021: school called it off, so Rylee and Kaleb spent the whole white day bareback among the blanketed horses.
The early years
From a face-painted five-year-old at Sunrock Farm to a confident young rider: 2012–2015, one patient horse at a time.
Eventing's national championships come to Lexington August 25–30
The USEA American Eventing Championships bring every level of the sport, Starter through Advanced, to the Kentucky Horse Park at the end of August.
Kentucky Summer Horse Trials runs at the Horse Park this weekend
Area 8 eventers head to Lexington July 17-19 for dressage, cross-country, and show jumping from Starter on up.
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