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 begins with reviewed stories from one community and leaves room for every careful, permissioned chapter that follows.
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People and horses
Names, relationships, and memories appear only when the public record is ready.
Kaleb Alden
A bounded, text-first founding profile supported by official Kentucky 4-H results.
Rylee Eilerman
A bounded, text-first founding profile supported by official Kentucky 4-H results.
Arthur
Arthur — show name Waterfall Des Negres — is a warmblood hunter/jumper ridden by Setting Sun Equestrian riders, with sourced 2022 Kentucky State 4-H hunter and jumper results with Kaleb Alden.
Carrie Virginia
Carrie — show name Carrie Virginia — is an easygoing palomino Quarter Horse mare, a trail-and-pleasure favorite at Setting Sun Equestrian with a sourced Kentucky State 4-H ribbon of her own.
Cattleman's Five-O
Cattleman's Five-O is Rylee Eilerman's games-division partner on the Kentucky State 4-H circuit, with sourced 2026 speed-event results.
Field notes
From the Commons
Recent approved stories, results, and notes from around the barn aisle.
2026 Kentucky State 4-H recap
Rylee Eilerman's 2026 State 4-H results, drawn row by row from the official placings.
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How to get anything on this site corrected or removed.
The Horse Commons manifesto
Why Horse Commons exists, and the rules it keeps.
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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