Black Copper Equestrian Center

12/18/2024

Saturday Lessons!

Christmas Trivia and Dress up Day!

Wear your favorite Christmas sweater or outfit to ride!

12/17/2024

I’m gone for 10 minutes..

12/16/2024

Shall we go?

Mark your calendar to join us here in Tyler for the Texas Rose Kick-Off Horse Shows!

texasrosehorsepark.com

12/15/2024

Heads up!📢 Jumper classes below .90m for Juniors, Amateurs, ponies, or Opportunity Jumpers can’t be scored under Table II, Sec. 1 or Table III and can’t include combinations.

🔗Learn more at ushja.org/knowbeforeyoushow

12/15/2024

What did you do today?

12/14/2024

Tiz Time to Shake

12/14/2024

Peace out

12/14/2024

Horses make everything better

12/12/2024

A small stab in the heart is what you feel when you put up the day's riding list and you see riders sinking heavily in their shoulders when reading which horse they are assigned for the lesson. A small stab in the heart for that horse that for an hour will carry around a rider who has already decided that he does not like his horse. A small stab in the heart for the horse that did not choose the rider himself but still does his best, lesson after lesson.

Riding is a privilege and something you have chosen to do. If you chose to ride at a riding school, your instructor assumes that you actually want to learn how to ride. The instructor's highest wish is that you get good at it.

Often there is a plan and a thought as to why you are assigned to that exact horse. Before you mount up next time, ask yourself "what can this horse teach me today?" All horses have something to give, a feeling or a new tool in the box.

The art is actually in being able to get a lazy horse to move forward, to get an uncertain horse to gain confidence, a naughty horse to focus or a tense horse to be released. It takes work. If you think a horse is boring, it's more likely that you don't ride the horse as well as you think! It's not easy to be confronted with your own shortcomings, but it is in that very situation that you get the chance to truly grow as a rider.

The excuse that "it's not my kind of horse" is actually a really bad excuse. A good rider can ride any kind of horse. A good rider has trained many hours on different types of horses to become a good rider. A good rider can find and manage the gold nuggets in every horse.

If we absolutely want to ride, it is our duty to strive to do it as best as possible, even if it's only for fun. We owe it to every horse that carries us upon it's back.

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12/12/2024

Christmas Cookie Exchange is cancelled

12/09/2024

12/09/2024

Kinda glad to see this! More of an equitation and dressage show with fair pricing.

12/08/2024

https://www.udjc.org/

​The United Dressage And Jumping Club is an equestrian organization offering affordable, well-organized, and fair dressage and jumping shows modeled after European standards. It emphasizes proper development for riders and horses of all levels and ages through a structured qualification system for...

12/08/2024

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