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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 […]
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 […]
A Bronze Medal for jumping and dressage from the German Equestrian Federation, earned in Vechta, came out of Jaime Wickander’s years training in Germany, where she also rode under Egon von Neindorf; she studied rider biomechanics at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls and spent time at Flyinge, the National Stud of Sweden. She is […]
Twenty-seven large stalls, a heated 60-by-160 indoor arena and a 100-by-240 outdoor ring anchor this Highway 55 property in Medina, along with a grass racetrack, round pen and hot and cold wash rack. Brianne and Randy Olson have run the farm since 2016, with owners, managers and trainers on site around the clock. Brianne has […]
The equestrian complex went up in 2020 on an 1855 property at 3975 Lemons Mill Pike, where the restored Greek Revival main house is on the National Register of Historic Places and puts up out-of-town clients and horse shoppers. Twenty stalls carry European fronts, automatic waterers, fly-spray systems, fans and cameras; cross-ties sit under radiant […]
Stevie McCarron Wigley started this hunter/jumper operation on Lansing Lane in Midway in 2005, after riding for Willow Tree Farm, Wild Turkey Farm, Candice King and Anne Kursinski; she placed eighth in the 1997 Maclay finals and rode junior jumper and equitation finals at Madison Square Garden and Harrisburg. She teaches with one assistant trainer […]
Retirement horses and hunter/jumper students share the same barn on Tarr Road outside Paris. Michelle Shea, a second-generation trainer with more than 25 years in the horse industry and University of Kentucky degrees in business management, marketing and animal science with an equine nutrition focus, runs both sides. Full-care retirement board covers daily stall cleaning, […]
Family-owned since 1957 and sitting on the edge of Lake Benbrook, this Fort Worth operation runs guided trail rides, western lessons and board at 10001 Benbrook Blvd. Full-care board is $500 a month in the barn and $475 in a paddock, dropping to $425 and $400 where the boarder supplies grain and hay; daily turn-out, […]
The right trainer can transform your riding and your horse. The wrong one can set you back years or sour a good…
Read guideThe right trainer can transform your riding and your horse; the wrong one can set you back years or sour a good…
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