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--Thrushbgone (talk) 22:40, 19 August 2012 (UTC)Sally Phillips Buffington is a USEA Certified Instructor located in Madison, Georgia. She owns Stone Creek Farm on Plantation Road just six miles outside beautiful, historic Madison. Sally has ridden successfully up through the FEI level. She is currently competing her ten year old thoroughbred Absolut at the Preliminary / Intermediate level. Together they have excelled at every level in his rise to Intermediate. He was the Walter Strauss Perpetual Trophy winner at Prelimiary in Area V. He has completed two AEC's double clear at Preliminary level. She is a member of the USEA, USEF, FEI, and GDTCA. Sally has successfully competed her thoroughbred gelding Absolut at the Intermediate Level as well as through the FEI CIC * level. Her students consistently finish in the top ten placings of their respective level in the USEA every year Sally and her five horses moved to Georgia from Texas in March of 2008. There she and her husband have built Stone Creek Farm where she instructs and coaches as well as breeding her Irish Thoroughbred lines. All of Sally's students have been very successful and most finish in the USEA Top Ten final standings each year. Her training is very deep, methodical and safe. She believes in teaching the horses a strong work ethic in each of the three phases. The results each year have been amazing. Sally has competed through the FEI levels of Eventing. She is a member of the USEA, USEF, FEI, and GDTCA. Sally has successfully competed her thoroughbred gelding Absolut at the Intermediate Level as well as through the FEI CIC * level. Her students consistently finish in the top ten placings of their respective level in the USEA every year. Most of Sallys Equestrain Friends do not know that Sally is an accomplished professional artist. She specializes in portraiture and also has a line of Limited Edition prints that have been in Southern Living Magazine as well as Coastal Living Magazine. She has painted such notables as General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Honorable Henry Cisneros, Mayor of San Antonio Lila Cockrell and Mayor Nelson Wolf among others. Her work has been covered by many television stations throughout the southeast and she has many portraits in private collections from North Carolina all the way down to Florida and across to California. Her Limited Edition prints are all from award winning paintings and complete with the story behind each painting. The famed Orange Beach, Alabama series received national attention and the Governor of Mississippi presented her with gifts from the state during an official ceremony at the un-veiling of the final original of the series, 'Dolphins!'.

Sally is available for Coaching at Horse Trials as well as training riders and their horses at Stone Creek Farm. Weekend informal clinics are available at your farm or one near you. Stone Creek Farm offers a cross country course with some jumps designed by John Wells. Riders also have a sunken road complex, a prelim trahkener and ditch and wall, a training trahkener and ditch and wall as well as a novice trahkener and ditch and wall. Steeplechase fences and a galloping track are also here as well as prelim and training level corners. Groups travel from other cities and have a weekend of in depth instruction in 'off' weekends during show season. She also meets some long distance students one day early at horse trials to give them help prior to the competition.