Secret Pride Stables, LLC.
Welcome to our Bulletin Board!
We are one month into summer and we have been having a blast so far! This July heat has us taking a break for a couple of days and letting our horses relax and revamp. Our June campers enjoyed their specialty camps. In Dressage Camp our riders learned about tempo, rhythm, and the dressage pyramnid ending their month with a quardrille that they choreographed themselves! Our Cross Country Campers focused on adjusting stride lengths, the safety seat, and different jump elements like banks, ditches and corners. They completed their month by attending an Event at Layfield Sport Horses and everyone competed amazingly. Our Beginner Camp learned about basic horse care, how to clean a stall, colors and markings, parts of the tack and how to clean tack. We have one more month of beginner camp in July as well as Mounted Archery Camp, Horse Training Camp, Working Equitation Camp and Hunter Jumper Camp. All camps currently have availabilty!
Aside from camps we have been busy particapating in CESHS/MHSA shows, Eventing at Layfield Sporthorses, Jumpers at Snapdragons Spring Fling and Barrel Racing at Millville Acres. We still have a few more venues we plan to add to our show schedule for the summer.
Our Mounted Archers are looking forward to an August clinic with Erin Erickson and I personally can not wait!
Believe it or not, we are already working on our Fall schedule and have already came up with a plan for this years After School Riding Club.
I'd like to add that Nova and Rainer made it to their first off farm shows since they've been with us! Nova went eventing and had a blast and Rainer went eventing one weekend and barrel racing the next! Lily is learning to jump and Tember is back in the archery ring. We are looking forward to our Horse Training Camp in July...if you'd like to take part in our horses progress and training, now is the time!
Finally, we are getting ready for a new season of IEA with try outs being held on July 11th at 4:30 p.m. Please let us know if you plan on coming or joining our team this year!
Check our other pages for more information on day camps, shows and what else we have to offer. We are looking forward to enjoying a fun summer, making new memories and enjoying the outdoors!
We would love to welcome more Mounted Archers - if you would like to give it a shot, please contact us! Our Secret Pride's Mounted Archers are doing great things in their training and gradings. We are looking forward to completing a new 90 meter mounted archery track alongside the creek/paddock woodline but for now we have moved on from our 30 meter track in the indoor to 50 meters alongside the dressage ring! .
Check in again soon as we continue into this years adventures!
Our first edition riding journals are ready for purchase just $15.00!
Some other fun patches in the works include:
From Tail to Mane
Roam and Ride
I stuck the Buck...earned not purchased
Perfect Course
Rise and Fall with the Leg by the Wall
We are looking forward to the future production of these great steps in our riding Milestones! In the meantime, we have Milestone Patches available for purchase for rider levels True Beginner - Intermediate 3. If you need to set some riding goals for the New Year, the time is now!
Horse Boarding oppurtunities available at this time: (CHECK BACK IN, WE ARE FULL!)
Full Care: $700/month
Field Board: $450/month
80 x 160 Indoor Arena!
Rent it by the hour for your personal riding for only $30/hr!
Horses for lease:
Several nice horses available for lease $30 - $400
Check our our Horses for Lease and Sale page!
Earn your Patches in our Milestone Program:
"True Beginner": New to horses and ready to learn from the ground up. Learning how to control a quiet school horse at the walk and trot and can stop the horse. The beginner rider is still finding their balance and getting comfortable with the horses movement.
(Milestone 1)
"Beginner": understands common safety practices while working around the horse. Is balanced to walk halt and trot while applying correct riding aids and maintaining position. Able to sit and post the trot in rhythm with the horse and is understanding posting diagonals.
(Milestone 2)
"Advanced Beginner": this rider can mount and dismount unassisted. Can ride independently at the walk, and trot the shapes of the ring while maintaining rhythm. Is comfortable with and can maintain position at the halt, walk, trot (sitting, posting, and 2 point). Can trot a ground pole course. This rider is ready to canter!
(Milestone 3)
"Novice": this rider knows basic parts of the horse and tack. They are comfortable tacking and untacking the horse without assistance. They are learning to canter while remaining balanced and in control of the horse. They are understanding their leads and can walk, trot, canter in both the full and half seat position. This rider has been introduced to small jumps.
"Intermediate 1": this rider shows seriousness in their riding and has sound equitation skills. Can ride w/t/c with ring shapes and simple changes, knows what diagonal or lead they are on and can correct quickly. can stop the horse from any gait. This rider has an independent seat and can ride without stirrups and is ready to be introduced to the basic principles of dressage and jumping. This rider is gaining knowledge in stable management and abides by the rules of the ring and emphasizes safety on and around horses.
"Intermediate 2": this rider can perform flying lead changes on a school horse, can apply variations to the gaits, turn on the forehand, turn on the haunches, and lateral movements. This rider also understands basic concepts of jumping as well as related distances and stride lengths for jumping, can hand gallop lengthen and shorten strides and understands lateral and longitudinal bending/suppling
"Intermediate 3": this rider is capable of riding basic dressage tests correctly and/or jump a course while maintaining a steady tempo and being able to negotiate strides and distances. This rider can spend a long time in the saddle and can canter for prolonged periods of time and has galloped in a controlled situation. This rider can ride the horse forward from leg to hand with impulsion, rhythm, regularity and evenness of pace.
"Advanced 1": this rider has experience with green horses. They understand training principals and how/when to apply them. They have a good sense of balance and timing. Has knowledge in different disciplines, can show successfully and works in harmony with the horse with invisible aids to the audience. This rider recognizes true quality of movement and can influence the horses way of going.
"Advanced 2": This rider understands sophisticated concepts of horse movement and has sound methods of training and can perform advanced maneuvers in their riding style. This rider is capable of riding/training green or difficult horses.
"Advanced 3": This rider can compete successfully at upper levels: dressage, hunters, eventing
Test out of your current riding ability and move up a level! Private Patch Lessons $55....If you are already past the levels - Patches are just $10.00
Purchase your SECOND EDITION Milestone Book Today! Have a way to review and check off your riding milestones as you complete them with this fun new book! Also a wonderful addition to your equestrian library giving you many tools and exercises to help improve you and your horses training! ~ $30.00
Memories made:
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Looking forward to making new memories!!!
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