Southern Blues Equestrian Center

08/07/2024

Ticket link to purchase for yourself or to be shared with the community!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/TributeFestivalRocks/2268/event/1372494

Do you 🧡LOVE🧡 GiddyUP, but you’re not in Memphis this weekend? You can still support!!! Buy tickets & we will distribute them through our community to ensure we spread the Memphis Magic as far & wide as we can!

06/26/2024

06/18/2024

Amazing Exhibit now open Morton Museum of Collierville History!!! It’s truly an honor to be a part of making history in the #901 ✨🩷🐎

06/02/2023

Proud to teach the classics of Riding & caring for horses!

12/17/2021

02/12/2021

"Both my parents were architects and worked from home, so they employed a woman named Lucille Hawkins from Whitehaven to help raise me. Years later when I was an adult, I wanted to figure out a way to give back to kids in the area she came from. My husband and I have owned an equestrian training and riding business for several years, so in 2013 we started the Lucille Hawkins Memorial Urban Equestrian Program (named in her honor) for any kid (age 10-18) who attends summer camp at the Whitehaven Community Center. We partner with the city of Memphis, and there’s no extra fee for the instruction. It’s just whatever the family already pays to send their child to camp. We don’t get any money from the city. We provide transportation, and the kids learn how to take care of the horses, how to keep them healthy, how to clean stables, how to ride, and how to get the horses ready for competition. It’s hard work, it’s demanding, and it takes a lot of patience, but for kids who do well and want to continue after the camp program, we provide them a lifetime of free year-round lessons (including transportation from Whitehaven to the stables and back). It’s not charity. It’s an opportunity. There will always be careers working with horses, and we want to help make those available to kids who really want them. Once kids find something that really motivates them, they develop the drive to succeed.

"I believe that when you’re excellent at something, you have to give back. You have to reach kids who are coming along behind, because otherwise there’s not going to be anyone to help you in your business later on. Everybody complains that the hardest thing about having a business is finding trustworthy, reliable people to work for you. If you give back and help younger people develop the skills they’re going to need, they’ll be prepared to step in and fill those roles. It’s a mutually beneficial effort. I love Memphis, and I especially love helping kids who may not have the same opportunities as those in other parts of the city." [NOTE: For additional photos and information, click the link below under Mckrell's name.]

--- Mckrell
See http://www.connectingmemphis.com/memphis/mckrell

01/23/2021

01/23/2021

WAIT....WHAT DID YOU SAY? Horsemen could learn & laugh a lot by joining our virtual talk with Joel Sartore February 25?
YEP! That’s what we said! As big brained primates ourselves, we’ve got a lot of work to do, and as big hearted horsemen we are in a great position to get ‘er done. Mark your social calendar: Thursday evening February 25 at 7pm CST, details and ticket link coming soon!
In the meantime, check out Joel’s massive project, National Geographic Photo Ark natgeophotoark.org
Helping us publicize our upcoming chat with Joel himself are these two snub-nosed monkeys, Rhinopithecus roxellana, at Ocean Park Hong Kong.
©️Photo by Joel Sartore/National Georgraphic Photo Ark

01/22/2021