Progressive Riding Program

Our Spring Session runs Feb 25-June 20th
Join us reach your riding goals for 2024.

January is here, it is time to plan your riding goals for the year 2024.

Tack room hen

Come join our high school Interscholastic Hunt Seat team.

All IEA riders need to pay attention to this if you would like some financial aid this year.

FINANCIAL AID Applications and HUNT SEAT Supplemental Rider Grant Applications are DUE TUESDAY, AUGUST, 15, 2023.

Find out details on the OPPORTUNITIES FOR RIDERS page on the IEA website: https://www.rideiea.org/opportunities/for-riders/

In addition to the IEA Financial Aid applications, IEA has TWO opportunities to apply for additional financial support through two generous individuals/families who have donated funds to assist our Hunt Seat riders.

The Colantuoni Family Supplemental Grant is open to Hunt Seat Riders in grades 4-12 that are registered for the 2023-2024 season and who demonstrate financial need.

The Lettie Teague Supplemental Grant is open to Hunt Seat Riders in grades 7-12 living in NY, NJ, and CT that are registered for the 2023-2024 season and who demonstrate financial need.

After reviewing the applications, if you still have questions about applying, email [email protected].

PRP is starting a team for the Interscholastic Equitation Association Program. We could use two high school age riders to round out that team. We also need a couple of grade 4-8 riders. We are in zone 3 region 6 .

Getting ready on the C train.

A quiet spot on the fairgrounds.

The Indian encampment part of the fairgrounds where the demonstrated games,dances,and dress.

One side of the Grandstand at the rodeo.

More of the stampede.

Calgary during the stampede

Give the reward for the correct response to the aid.

Bill Steinkraus told THM in 1983: “I cannot stress too much the vital importance of restoring all aids to their normal state as soon as the horse has complied with them. Once the horse has gone forward, ease up on your driving aids; once it has shortened, open your fingers again enough to reward. It is very common to see exactly the opposite: the rider gets the horse to come back once, but never releases his closed fingers again, and spends the rest of the hour hanging in the horse’s mouth, or, having gotten the horse to go forward, spends the rest of the day with his legs stuck halfway through the horse. The reason you want your aids to be effective is so that you can teach the horse to respond to them more and more sensitively – and so that you can use them less and less."
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/08/four-showjumping-masters-part-2-william-steinkraus/

'End Of An Era': Multiple Graded Stakes-Winning Millionaire Drafted Retired To Pursue Second Career - Horse Racing News | Paulick Report The well-traveled career of multiple graded stakes-winning millionaire Drafted has come to a close after eight seasons on the racetrack and visits to 10 race courses across three continents.

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Just a bit of history.

Since the first woman trainer to win the Belmont Stakes happened today, here is a piece on Mary Hirsch who helped blaze the way for women trainers.

This is an original 1938 photo of trainer Max Hirsch and his daughter Mary who also a trainer at Jamaica Race track.

Mary Hirsch was the first woman granted a license to train Thoroughbreds throughout America in 1935. She had applied in 1933 but was denied until the following year where she was granted a license to train in Illinois and Michigan.

Hirsch became the first woman to train a winner at Saratoga.

When her horse No Sir ran in the 1937 Kentucky Derby, Mary Hirsch became the first woman to train a runner in the Kentucky Derby. No Sir finished 13th to War Admiral.

Later Mary would train Thanksgiving to win the 1938 Travers under Eddie Arcaro.

Mary Hirsch trained for five years, 1935-1939, and her cumulative earnings were $104,285 representing 84 wins. Her best year was her first, when she won 29 races with earnings of $34,850.

These were earnings which came in the midst of the Great Depression when stakes purses were quite small.

Mary Hirsch ended her training career when she married Charles McLennan, a prominent racing official, in 1940.

What to expect as your horse grows old To keep your horse healthy and comfortable as the years pass, focus on the five areas of equine health most affected by aging. It’s natural to worry about your horse’s health as he grows older. Whether you’ve owned him for most of his life or he only recently joined your herd, you know that, w...

Zenyatta Delivers Her Fourth Filly Photo by Ann Holbrook VERSAILLES, KY — (June 10, 2023) It’s a girl! There was great joy last night in welcoming ZENYATTA‘s eighth foal, a beautiful filly by War Front. She arrived during sunset, 9:18 PM, at Lanes End Farm. The foaling was filled with ease and elegance and both mom and baby are...

Five Reasons Why It Takes Two People to Ride One Horse It’s not that two people should ride the horse – well, unless you want to do that too.

Dirt, Turf, and Synthetic by the Numbers After the TDN published two opinion pieces which recommended a return to synthetic surfaces, one by Earle Mack in the May 31 TDN and one by Bill Finley in this Monday's TDN, we have been inundated by comments, questions, and opinions about the relative safety of one surface versus another. Some of t...

What You Need To Know: 2023 Upperville C**t & Horse Show - The Chronicle of the Horse The 170th edition of the oldest horse show in the country, the Upperville C**t & Horse Show, kicked off Monday in beautiful Upperville, Virginia. The show still is held at its historic home on both sides of U.S. Route 50 at the Grafton Farm and Salem show grounds.