$700 Monthly

Full-care boarding for your show horse with complete training.

Risë Jones has been breaking and training horses of all disciplines for many years. Her successess in all disciplines of riding is due in part to her extensive background of Classical Dressage and her desire to use it in techniques of cross training, which is the ability to carry on disciplines teachings to improve the horses balance and movement in another. Through the theory of balanced riding as with Classical Dressage, she prepares her young horse to be strengthened physically and prepared mentally. Her beliefs are that a horse with physical strength and balanced movement will have the confidence to move forward in most any fashion their physical build permits. Keeping this in mind, it's easy to see where this form of training in the early stages is beneficial to any horse or pony. As a result of the preparation, we rarely encounter one to buck, even the first time riding. Once they are ready, they are then progressed into a steady work program, gearing them for the hunter or jumper ring, whichever their capabilities show the greatest strength. Becoming a good hunter or jumper can take years to achieve. Helping the horse to maintain the balance they've just achieved from the ground, and then moving them balanced over a jump, then again to regain balance immediately upon landing, takes a vast understanding of the horse's movement. Also involved are the various "gymnastic" exercises to help encourage this without any excitement a horse would naturally get when he or she is put into a position of misunderstanding and confusion. There is much thought and planning put into each individual horse's training program to ensure them of sound mind and body.