No riding experience required!

Rookie Riders is a program to introduce children (ages 6- 12) who have never ridden before to experience the joy of equestrian sport in a dynamic, fun-filled program.

Rookie Riders is specifically designed to teach all the skills necessary to safely mount and dismount a horse…before being introduced to a horse for the first time!  Much of the curriculum may be taught in after school programs in your community halls and schools.

• Horse inspired activities and games
• Ground-based skills
• A “barrel horse”
• A series of  systematic, progressive lessons

The progression goes from ground-based skills, to mounted skills, to mounted skills on a horse. The program uses a combination of barrel and ground-based activities and games as an introduction to riding.

Prepares riders for their first mounted lessons before ever stepping foot in a barn.

An appropriate progression that starts riders on their way to completing Equestrian Canada’s “Learn to Ride Program” – English or Western Level 1.