Horse Tales N Trails Equine Play Park

Horse Tales N Trails Equine Play Park Private Boarding Facility & Equine Play Park with Km's of Trails and 4 acre Mountain Trail Obstacle Course.

(We do not offer public trail rides or lessons without your own horse) Play Park with Km's of Trails and 4 acre Mountain Trail Obstacle Course. We hope to help people develop an understanding of the horse first and how to become better communicators with them. You may join our herd and board your horse here, attend our clinics and special events with your own horse. Lessons and training for both

horse and rider on how to create willing partners and become better communicators with horses are available.

Have you wondered what a horse health check is?  Do you know how to perform one on your horse? Knowing how and doing reg...
01/15/2025

Have you wondered what a horse health check is? Do you know how to perform one on your horse?
Knowing how and doing regular routine health checks on your horse will empower you with the knowledge of what is normal for your horse and can likewise alert you to a pending possible health event, catching it earlier then if it was left to present on its own.
The more we know about our horses health the better we can provide proper care.
These methods of examination are the same ones that are used at distance rides during vet checks to determine if the horses are 'fit to continue'

These photos have been shared with permission from the author Arthur King

Beautiful morning 🥰 but a bit too chilly for me 🥶
01/10/2025

Beautiful morning 🥰 but a bit too chilly for me 🥶

🐎🐎Our 2025 Ride Season Line up!! 🐎🐎Mark your calendars! 📅 ✨️Week days open by appointment for training rides (10 km dail...
01/09/2025

🐎🐎Our 2025 Ride Season Line up!! 🐎🐎

Mark your calendars! 📅

✨️Week days open by appointment for training rides (10 km daily), practice rides & guided rides

✨️Open weekends by appointment for training rides (10km daily), practice rides & guided rides

✨️Open Sunday’s HTNT Boarder’s trail ride

✨️June 1st > Sept 30th - Virtual 100 Mile Trail Challenge Registration Opens April 1st - online form link https://forms.gle/qQ2yj1HmVmpzr4bq5

✨️July 26th - HTNT cross country challenge in the park Registration Opens April 1st 2025 - online form link https://forms.gle/G8rdF2tPjcmvTpm89

✨️Aug 9th - Full moon ride

✨️Aug 16th - HTNT cross country challenge in the park

✨️Aug 23rd - 5 km, 10 km & 15 km Extreme Trail Challenge

✨️Sept 6th - 5 km, 10 km, & 15 km Extreme Trail Challenge

✨️Sept 7th - Night in the Park & Full moon ride

✨️Sept 13th & 14th - OCTRA CTR & Set Speed weekend online registration form link https://forms.gle/kPqBhA2CM7Pv76e16

✨️Sept 27th - 10th Annual Games Day online registration form link https://forms.gle/oTQyKcT2wH2Kd34WA

✨️Oct 4th - 5 km, 10 km & 15 km Extreme Trail Challenge

✨️Oct 5th - Night in the Park & Full moon ride

✨️October 31st - Halloween Town Ride

Hay! 💥 Check out this great little write up about Deer Run Farms, our 🐴 hay provider of over 15 yrs. ✨️ We have always a...
12/29/2024

Hay! 💥 Check out this great little write up about Deer Run Farms, our 🐴 hay provider of over 15 yrs. ✨️ We have always appreciated thier knowledgeable haying experience and every load of quality hay delivered, more importantly our horses do too!




The sun was shining in Kenilworth and as the saying goes, three generations of the Culp family and 500 horsepower worth of machines were making hay. Sixty-nine-year-old patriarch Paul, having previously knocked the field down with a composite...

Some trauma is deep enough to damage a horse for life, and while Catch A Cloud is OK now most of the time, little things...
12/20/2024

Some trauma is deep enough to damage a horse for life, and while Catch A Cloud is OK now most of the time, little things---little to us at any rate---can trigger instant fear reactions, one being throwing her head straight into the air.

I think that mouth fear is one of the worst, because mouth pain is easy to inflict with strong bits, strong hands, and the mouth is a sensitive part of the body. After we got Cloud someone told me that she’d known her during her showing days, and, direct quote, “They had everything in her mouth but the kitchen sink.”

If you ride horses, it makes you wonder why anyone would do something like that? There are so many better ways, and it’s not that common sense doesn’t tell us that fear is not training.

Anyway, Cloud does have her softer moments. She hasn’t had any rough riding or handling now for six years, but that thin line still remains, and it doesn’t take much to cross it. It is so much better to never instill fear than to try to get rid of it later. Try to be constantly aware of how easy it is to make a horse be afraid of rein and bit contact. What’s the saying---“Just don’t go there.”
Credit Tamarack Farms
https://www.facebook.com/share/QVLTptAWu2YXkj22/

🐴Outdoor board with one hybrid option available 🐴 ✨️ 48 km from Parry Sound, 38 km from McKeller, 26 km from Sundridge, ...
12/19/2024

🐴Outdoor board with one hybrid option available 🐴

✨️ 48 km from Parry Sound, 38 km from McKeller, 26 km from Sundridge, 24 km from Burks Falls and 37 km from Emsdale.

✨️ 82 acres with on property trails for hacking and training, 5 acre mountain trail and obstacle course, 50' outdoor sand ring

✨️ 4 stall barn with place for feed and tack and grooming.

✨️ 16 +/- acre paddock with a mixed herd 14 horses max, where horses are kept as naturally as a domesticated herd can be. Paddock consists of varried terrain with both foraging and grazing options when in season, bush sections and 3 water sources - spring fed pond, geothermal well and seasonal creek

✨️ quality small square bales, loose salt and minerals, supplements/grains fed if provided

Text or call HTNT @ 249-995-006 to arrange a visit 🐎

Wonder what are they talking about, standing in a circle like that? 🤔
11/21/2024

Wonder what are they talking about, standing in a circle like that? 🤔

Good morning ☕️
11/10/2024

Good morning ☕️

Sunsets n horses 🥰🐴
11/08/2024

Sunsets n horses 🥰🐴

Another beautiful autumn day 🍂🍁
10/22/2024

Another beautiful autumn day 🍂🍁

Beautiful Saturday to be outside with the horses 🍂🍁🥰🐴
10/19/2024

Beautiful Saturday to be outside with the horses 🍂🍁🥰🐴

Full moon 🌝
10/17/2024

Full moon 🌝

10/12/2024

Thankfull 🥰🍁🍂🐴

Address

85 Nipissing Road South
Magnetawan, ON
P0A1P0

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Our Story

We have been developing a horse of our own understanding for the last 20 plus yrs and have been allowing the horses who spend time here, to be horses first. We have built our way of keeping and tending horses in our care with the horse, its mental and physical state being at the forefront of our endeavors. We have a large pasture where the horses can achieve their 10 km daily walking needs, they drink from the seasonal creek and spring fed pond, have access to quality free choice hay and pasture when in season as well as free choice loose salt and vitamin mineral mix. They have varied terrain and a mix of treed areas as well as open field with hills and flat spots that they share with their mix herd of no more then 12 members. They live outside year round deciding for themselves when, where and with which pasture mate to do horsey things! For their humans, we offer a place to store your tack, the training barn for grooming, tacking and training as well as support if requested as they develop a horse of their own understanding. We seem to attract the horses who have been deemed with behavior problems or difficult to handle - we find the source of the issue and address it.

Come and join us for a horse experience! You may join our herd and board your horse here, attend our clinics and special events with your own horse or just come out and watch. Lessons and training for both horse and rider on how to create willing partners with horses and develop a horse of your own understanding are available. Bring your horse and explore our trails, guiding available.