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Riding Right® Equestrian Center in Cambridge NY Dressage, Jumping, and Eventing Lessons - Training - Boarding 334 CR 59, South Cambridge, NY 1-518-677-5148

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Lessons for Young Riders at Riding Right Farm

For information aboiut lessons for adult riders, please go to the 'Lessons for Adult Riders' web page.'

Riding Right provides a fun, exciting lesson experience for the young rider. We work hard to make sure your riding is both safe and fun! We love horses and riding, and we want to share that with you.

And, most important of all, our welcoming attitude make this a great place to learn.

Who Do We Teach?

Riding Right is great for lots of different types of riders. All we ask is that you care about horses and riding, have a sense of fun, and want to learn.

• Ages: our youth riders are teen-aged down to six years old. If you're older than a teen, please look at our adult riders page.
• Experience: our young riders range from absolute beginners to very experienced competitive riders. Our students have successfully competed nationally in both dressage and show jumping.
• Areas of Riding: all areas of English riding, including dressage and jumping. We also offer advanced and specialty lessons.
• Our Emphasis: fun, safe riding; on building the relationship between horse and rider; and making sure that both horse and rider have a positive experience. Riding is supposed to be a fun, exciting, and satisfying experience, and we do our best to make it that way.

What Happens in a Riding Class?

When you first learn to ride, we'll have you in a private lesson for the first few lessons. That's so we can see you ride, get you used to the farm, etc., before you're riding in a group. And if you're an absolute beginner, we'll spend part of the time in the first lessons teaching you how to lead a horse on the ground, groom him and get him ready to ride, and the other parts of horsemanship which aren't actually on horseback.

Once you have your feet in the stirrups, so to speak, we'll find a group of other rides with similar abilities and interests, almost like a private riding club. Lessons are a mix of working on specific riding skills - like sterring your horse or learning how to approach a jump - and playing lots of riding games to practice those skills.

Who Does the Teaching?

Riding Right has qualified, highly trained, and experienced instructors who have spent years studying riding and teaching as a serious endeavor. Our instructors are internationally trained and certified professionals, and we pride ourselves on their high qualifications.

Lesson Formats and Costs

We offer group and private lessons. (For reasons of safety and skill assessment, a rider's first lessons are always private - see above.) Once you have some experience - and we have some experience with you, too - you may join one of our group lessons, or continue to take private lessons.

Riders who want to trailer in their own for a lesson are also welcome. Again, the first lesson with any horse which is new to the farm is private, as a matter of safety.

For lesson costs, see our rates page, please.

Clinics, Shows, and Teams

We have much more than just lessons:

• Clinics: We frequesntly have clinics on all variety of riding topics, ranging from body-awareness for riders (Balimo program) to sports psychologists to national-level riding clinicians.
• Shows: We have four or five shows on the farm every year, plus we take our riders to other shows, too. If you want to show casually or seriously, we have opportunities for you.
• Teams: Our very popular youth dressage team works together to go to shows, develop and perform quadrilles, etc. For example, every year the team attends Lendon Gray's Dressage4Kids competiton. We're always one of the biggest, strongest teams at this event - plus we have lots of fun.

For Parents and Other Adults

We have lots of extras for parents and other adults who want to watch a young rider. When lessons are indoors, you can take advantage of the heated viewing room, usually with a pot of hot coffee and wifi, too. When the lessons move outdoors, we have a shaded viewing balcony with some relaxed chairs to spend a quiet hour with your child.

To schedule a lesson, please contact us.

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