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Spark Equestrian Academy offers structured, level-based horseback riding lessons for kids and adults across Minnesota, with locations in Stillwater and Hugo. From a child’s very first ride to advanced horsemanship, their step-by-step curriculum builds real skills, confidence, and a lifelong love of horses in a safe, welcoming environment. Programs include Tiny Tots (ages 3-6), progression-based […]
More than twenty years of combined training and lesson experience back Ray Manahan and Kris Brutoco’s Saddlebred-focused programme at Manahan Stables, where horses they have worked with have gone on to national and world titles. The facility supplies its own lesson horses, so riders without a horse of their own can still begin instruction, and […]
Three McCaddens run this hunter, jumper and equitation barn half an hour from the Twin Cities. Liz McCadden trains and teaches, having co-founded Seventh Farm Riding School in 2007 and taught through the University of Minnesota, MCTC, the Science Museum of Minnesota and St. Paul community education; Tom McCadden manages the farm and the training […]
Boulder Pointe Equestrian & Event Center in Anoka teaches classic hunter/jumper riding and requires every horse kept there to be enrolled in the lesson programme or in training. Horses live in small herds of four to six per paddock with twice-daily grain, round-the-clock hay access, run-in shelters and auto-waterers, and riders use two outdoor arenas, […]
Breeding Arabians at 26125 Tucker Road since 1972, Regent Arabians stands the stallion Cairos+, a Legion of Honor winner, two-time US Sport Horse Top Ten and three-time Region 10 Sport Horse and Dressage champion, and offers brood mare services alongside boarding and lessons. The 18-plus-acre farm holds a barn of 35-plus stalls, a heated 66-by-125 […]
A weekly newsletter goes out to everyone on the board list, an unusual line to find printed inside a boarding package. Stalls are $750 a month and matted, pasture board is $400, and both tiers bring quality hay, tack rooms, a wash area, a lounge and use of the heated indoor arena as well as […]
Saddleseat is the discipline, and the stud page carries one stallion: Off Limits, a 2014 Saddlebred by My Secrets Out out of Majestic She Said, at a $1,200 fee. Three Mulligans run the place — Michelle as owner, Madison as trainer with World Championship status in hand and national titles under saddle, and Morgan as […]
Built in 2016 for hunters and jumpers, the Jordan facility puts a heated 110-by-200 indoor arena alongside two outdoor rings, 200 by 250 and 110 by 220, both with drain tile. Twenty-eight heated 12-by-12 stalls have mattresses and rubber paver floors over in-floor heat, with fifteen more at 12 by 10. Fifteen paddocks and ten […]
Shirley Svendsen has been training for over 50 years, has competed through Intermediare I in dressage and has schooled Grand Prix movements; she heads the teaching at this Annandale yard on Ireland Avenue NW. Barb Nelson coaches jumping and instructs at the summer camps, with years of eventing competition behind her. The lesson sheet runs […]
Golden Ridge Stables has offered hunt-seat riding instruction from its Lakeville facility since 1986. Lessons run in private or semi-private formats of two to four riders, with each hour-long session structured around grooming, tacking up, mounted work and cooling out, scheduled into late-afternoon, evening and Saturday slots. Golden Ridge Camp extends the same format into […]
Bunker Park Stable operates inside Bunker Hills Regional Park on County Parkway D NW in Coon Rapids, reached through the park’s Activities Center entrance. Guided, walk-only trail rides run about an hour through a mix of forest and open prairie, with an 8-year-old minimum age, a 52-inch height requirement and a 250-pound rider limit. From […]
Misty’s Mission Stables frames itself as an equine education and riding lesson programme rather than a straightforward barn, requiring every enrolled rider to work through grooming, tacking, ground work and leadership training alongside time in the saddle. Ashley Messer runs the Nowthen programme using natural horsemanship methods, now offering full western and English instruction after […]
Whether it is for you or your child, the first riding lessons set the tone for everything that follows. A good start…
Read guideWhether it's for you or your child, the first riding lessons set the tone for everything that follows. A good start builds…
Read guideLesson pricing varies with format, instructor credentials and whether a school horse is provided. Prices below are general ranges reported by owners…
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