Jim Toon - Owner, Trainer and Rider

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Jim Toon, owner of JT Farm, oversees the education of all the students at the farm. His extensive horse show experience as a rider and the keen eye he has developed as an AHSA "R" judge enables him to determine the best procedure to be taken with each rider and horse. He then works very closely with his staff to attain the pre-determined riding goals
of each student as well as the training of each horse.

Jim Toon or his students have been champion or reserve at most major horse shows on the East Coast:
The Pennsylvania National Horse Show • The Washington International Horse Show
• The National Horse Show •The Devon Horse Show • The Capital Challenge Horse Show • Palm Beach
• Fairfield • Ox Ridge • Lake Placid • The Hampton Classic • The North Fork Classic • Old Salem Charity
• Vermont Summer Festival • The Hampton Classic • The North Fork Classic • Old Salem Charity
• Vermont Summer Festival • HITS Catskills

Always in demand as a judge, Jim has judged at the following horse shows from Florida to Oregon, California to Maine and Canada:

The AHSA Medal Finals • The ASPCA Maclay Finals • Zone 1 and Zone 2 Maclay Regionals • The Southeast Regionals
The New England Medal Finals  • The Rhode Island Medal Finals • The New Hampshire Medal Finals • The Hampton Classic  • Palm Beach • Indio • Ocala

Horses Trained at JT Farm
In Disguise in the Top Photo Banner

_Whiz Kid • Clyde Barrow • Arrivederci • Imbibing
• Out of the Blue • Another Legend • Wise Disguise
• Pearlsetter • Pushkin • Season Ticket • Capture the Castle
• Sign of the Times • Bonnie Parker
• Elan Vital• Complete Surrender • Be a Pepper
• No Problem • Night Errand • Winwood
• Lambert • Essence • Onyx • As We Speak
• The Party's Over  • Repeat Performance • Nicolas
• Strike Force • Ice Palace • Dust Pan • Nimbus
• Classy Chassis • Up North • Fine Print • Fade To Black
• In Disguise • Pearl Gold • Storyteller... and others.


Whiz Kid

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Photo: Devon, 1993, Ellen Howard riding
Among the many years that Whiz Kid competed successfully, none was more significant than in 1986 when he won:
* AHSA Horse of the Year -A/O Over 30 (r/Patti Kelly)
* Zone 2 Champion A/O - Over 30
* Zone 2 Champion Reg. Working Hunter (rider - Jim Toon)

JT Farm Past Winner Highlights

_ In Disguise - scored 100 at Capital Challenge, winner Gray Slipper award in 2011. Horse of the Year 2004 Regular Conformation, Chronicle Horse of the Year, Hunter Hall of Fame "Horse of the Year" two years in a row, winner WCHR A/O Challenge, winner Jr/AO Challenge NHS with a score of 96, and WEF Circuit Champion many times.

Spock - NEEC Finals Winner, winner best equitation horse by judges NEEC and George Morris Night class at WEF in 2009.

I Toon - Winner of WIHS Finals, and many other wins with Maria Schaub, Champ Eq at Capital Challenge with scores of 98, 98, 96. 

In Pursuit - 6th at Medal finals with Emma Lipman first year shown in the equitation.

   

_Invincible - 2008 & 2011 Champion and Grand Champion A/O hunter PNHS, 2011 winner WCHR A/O Challenge & Reserve A/O Champion, 2010 NHS Reserve Champion & Capital Challenge Reserve Champion, many WEF Circuit Champions, 2011 leading horse going into $500,000 Diamond Mills Hunter Prix - 9th place finish,  Hunter Hall of Fame A/O  Hunter Horse of the Year 2008 and Champion at Devon Horse Show. Zone II Champion 2011.

Attache - Champion PNHS 2010 3'3" A/O hunter, WEF Circuit Champion

Tigger - owned by Jane Clark shown by Jim Toon 2011. Champion Hampton Classic & Lake Placid.

Onyx 66 - Grand Prix winner and winner USET Finals with Michael Morrisey.
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