Riding Instruction

• Learn to ride or enhance your skills with our experienced instructors
• Dressage, Balanced Seat equitation, Eventing, Jumping, all levels and
  all ages.
• Evaluation Lesson (rider health form, PDF 41 kb) and (Release form,
  PDF 87 kb) Please bring both forms completed to your first lesson.

Riding with Barb Riffey

• Barbara Riffey - Hunt Seat Equitation, all levels, all ages
  B.A. Horsemanship/Teaching, A.R.I.A. Certified.

Riding with Cath Solan

• Cath Solan - British Horse Society certified instructor, FEI dressage rider, 35 years of experience, coached multiple junior/young rider to several regional championships, developed a dressage program with successful show teams and individual riders.

Scheduling Lessons

• New students please call the Elsa at 301-802-6584 to schedule an evaluation lesson.
• Once an instructor is assigned, their contact information is available at the barn. Any scheduling changes should be made directly with the instructor.
• A minimum of one lesson per week is required.
• The clients are responsible for paying fees monthly by the first Friday of every month.
• With advance arrangements one make-up lesson per month is allowed at the instructors’ discretion.

Lessons

• Please plan to arrive 15 to 30 minutes prior to your lesson to groom and
  tack your horse.
  
• In addition please allow 30 minutes after the lesson to put away tack,
  clean up, groom horse and return horse to their designated areas.

Instructors

• Insured Off-Site Instructors welcome, by appointment.

Lesson horses and ponies

• Meet the horses and ponies
• Showing with Hopkins Spring Farm - Policy - PDF 86 kb

Call (301) 802-6584 or
e-mail to elsab2003@verizon.net for more information