Jim Toon: Owner - Trainer - Rider

James "Jim" Toon, owner of JT Farm, oversees the education of all the students and horses at the farm. His extensive horse show experience as a rider and the keen eye he's developed as a USEF R-rated judge enable him to customize the training program for each rider and horse to help them achieve their best in the show ring.

Jim or his students have been champion or reserve at most major horse shows on the East Coast, including: 

• The Pennsylvania National Horse Show
• The Washington International Horse Show 
• The National Horse Show
• The Devon Horse Show
• The Capital Challenge Horse Show
• The Winter Equestrian Festival
• Fairfield
• Ox Ridge
• Lake Placid
• The Hampton Classic
• The North Fork Classic
• Old Salem Charity
• Vermont Summer Festival 

Always in demand as a judge, Jim has presided over horse shows from Florida to Oregon, California to Maine and Canada, including:

• The USEF Medal Finals
• The ASPCA Maclay Finals 
• Zone 1 and Zone 2 Maclay Regionals
• The Southeast Regionals
• The New England Equitation Championships
• The Rhode Island Medal Finals and the New Hampshire Medal Finals
• The Hampton Classic
• The Winter Equestrian Festival
• HITS Coachella and HITS Ocala

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Horses Trained at JT Farm

_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

Whiz Kid and Ellen Howard

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)

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JT Farm Past Highlights

In Disguise - Scored a perfect 100 at the Capital Challenge, winner of the Gray Slipper award in 2011. The 2004 USEF Horse of the Year in the Regular Conformation Hunter section, The Chronicle of the Horse Show Hunter Horse of the Year, Show Hunter Hall of Fame "Horse of the Year" two years in a row, winner of the WCHR Amateur-Owner Challenge, winner the Junior/Amateur-Owner Challenge at the National Horse Show with a score of 96, and Winter Equestrian Festival Circuit Champion many times.

Spock - New England Equitation Finals Winner, best equitation horse awarded by the NEEC judges and George Morris Night class at WEF in 2009.

I Toon - Winner of the WIHS Equitation Finals and many other victories with Maria Schaub. Equitation champion at the Capital Challenge with scores of 98, 98, 96. 

In Pursuit - sixth at the USEF Medal Finals with Emma Lipman first year shown in the equitation.

Invincible - 2008 & 2011 Champion and Grand Champion Amateur-Owner Hunter at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show, 2011 winner of the WCHR Amateur-Owner Challenge & Reserve Amateur-Owner Hunter Champion, 2010 National Horse Show Reserve Champion and Capital Challenge Reserve Champion. Many WEF Circuit Champions and Show Hunter Hall of Fame Amateur-Owner Hunter Horse of the Year in 2008 and Champion at Devon Horse Show. Zone 2 Champion in 2011.

Attache - Champion 2010 Pennsylvania National Horse Show 3'3" Amateur-Owner Hunter, WEF Circuit Champion

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

Onyx 66 - Grand Prix winner and winner of the USET Show Jumping Talent Search-East Finals with Michael Morrissey.

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