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WE STILL CANNOT OFFER TRAIL RIDES, SORRY
We are now accepting names for
a LESSONS wait list,
in case we resume.
Please click
here
to email Miss Barb!
No lessons during heavy rain, lightning or extreme heat.
After you're scheduled, we'll keep in touch via cell phone/text.
Come to Blue Rock Horse Park for the complete
"equine experience":
Intensive, hands-on learning of all aspects of horseback riding AND horse
husbandry. Learn how to do barn chores, train horses, be in horse shows, horse colors
& their genetics, grooming, feeding and other care, body language and horse
psychology, safety, and Western and English riding from rank beginner
through Intermediate Level.
Each session is 1-2 hours long, to
provide an unrushed, immersive experience, where many find they are entering
"Horse Heaven"!
Our students and their families often become our friends for life.
Registration is extremely limited... we can accept only one student per day,
only 3-4 days per week. Mothers and daughters are strongly encouraged to attend
together.
Lesson starting times range from 11 AM until an hour before dark.
Again, there are no group lessons or
recreational trail rides available,
though trail riding is one of the many skills that can be learned here.
DUE TO INSURANCE
REGULATIONS, NO VISITORS ARE PERMITTED,
UNLESS AN OWNER (horse or property) IS PRESENT.
VOLUNTEERS (to help with cleaning, grooming, and tack)
MUST BE OVER AGE 18.
Prices
WERE: $40 per 1-2 hour session, or a prepaid package of 3 sessions for $100
($33.33... each).
NOW the ministry will
underwrite your visit, so there will be NO CHARGE to
those accepted into the program.
If you or the student are not sure of their interest level, we offer a
half-hour introductory visit, where you will get a tour of the
facility and a description of what we do. You will be able to pet the horses and
feed them treats from behind a fence. Email, text or call for an
appointment.
Dressing properly means
following the guidelines in the lesson handouts
(SEE SAFETY )
... but also dressing WARMLY ENOUGH for winter weather.
This means winter coats, at least two layers on the legs
(snow pants with leggings underneath are ideal),
hoods or knitted caps (smooth on top to fit under a helmet, but
if yours have pompoms etc.,, we can provide the kind
of knitted cap that will work), gloves, warm socks (two layers, like wool hunting-type socks
with cotton crew-height socks underneath, is ideal) and boots
(rain or snow boots are fine).
We have disposable hand warmers
that can be put into gloves or boots!
(Miss Barb will be using those on cold days.)
Just ask about them if we forget to offer them.
AND if you/your student doesn't
have clothing like that, please just ask about
it, and we may be able to help!
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO
SEND STUDENTS HOME IF THEY SHOW UP
IN WHAT WE CONSIDER TO BE UNACCEPTABLE CLOTHING.
IF YOUR STUDENT "WON'T WEAR" WHAT YOU THINK THEY SHOULD,
DON'T BRING THEM.
"Blue Rock Horse Park"
is just the name we've given our equine ministry:
we board our two horses, minister, ride, teach, train, etc.
in the NW
Cincinnati suburb of Central Colerain.
WE DO NOT OWN THE PROPERTY,
AND IT IS NOT AN INCORPORATED BUSINESS.
You may click any of the links
<=== at left, at any time.
Just "take any saddle from the rack".
They turn into "Cowboy saddles" if you hover your cursor over them.
 It
all happens on a very gracious family's farm land, where
Galbraith Rd. dead-ends onto Blue Rock Road. We have the use of about 15 acres of fields
and trails, 3 walk-in stalls, 2-3 acres of pasture, and our 45' round pen.
Our home is just two miles away. We're the only ones boarding there,
happily, since June 1999!
The horses are kept very "naturally"; the stalls open into the pasture, and
are left open for them to go in and out as they please, most days.
Email us if you'd like to volunteer!
Please have a look around our web site
to
meet our horses and us, and marvel with us
at what God has provided right in this
northwestern Cincinnati suburb!
At this location, we offer:
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Eternal bible principles for living your life, including
dealing with horses, other animals, parents, children, and others
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Helmets, saddles, and all other necessary equipment
for your use here
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round pen (super-safe, small enclosure) lessons & training
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large grassy fields & wooded trails for more advanced lessons
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barrels, for learning barrel-racing or just horseplay
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cones, to learn pole bending, or practice
serpentines
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how to do ground training/round penning
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equine body language and behavior
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basic, SAFE horse handling
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equipment/tack use and care lessons
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horse grooming, health and care
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equine color genetics
(click to see
just one of Barbara's equine color web sites)
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trail riding lessons
-- and more
We
have never offered
trail rides.
We only have two horses right now, and are not insured
for that, or parties, etc. Just lessons.
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We consider every good thing in our lives
to be
a gift from God*,
and we thank Him daily for the privilege of being able to enjoy them all: our very lives, our health,
our
church, our horses, our family
and friends, and
the barn and land where we board and
enjoy our horses.
And you are
invited to enjoy all of them with us!
 We'd now like to share our fondest equine memory
with you:
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In Loving Memory
Amir Halam, 1980-2011
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This kind,
patient, and dignified Arabian gelding is
Amir Halam.
He was our
main riding and lesson horse for many years.
He's shown here freshly bathed (still wet!), with 3 of
that year's 8 horsemanship students
getting ready for the annual
Harvest Home Fair Horse Show. |
We're not
officially connected with the Fair, but we usually attend,
and we and our
students sometimes show there.
* "Every
good thing, and every perfect gift, is from above, and
comes down
from the Father of lights" --- James, chapter1, verses 16 & 17
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