Founded by Maria Bennett, avid horse lover, and long time resident of Oakdale Ca, Bennett Equine provides skilled assistance to multiple businesses, farms, ranches, organizations, and individuals in a variety of horse-related manners. Examples of services currently being provided are as follows:
-Woodbridge Farm
Mare watch during foaling season. Assisting in safe labor for mares and foals during
the most important time in their lives.
-Dependent Ranch
Ranch hand, exercise rider, trainer, retired racehorse recovery and let down.
-Equine Specialist for Equine Assisted Therapy at Second Chances Ca. As an equine specialist, Maria works alongside a licensed mental health therapist to bring healing to the hearts and minds of people who want to learn about themselves, through a relationship with horses. Known as Equine Assisted Therapy, learn more about one model here:
http://www.eagala.org/
-Retired Racehorse Project
Along with Julie Baker at Dependent Ranch in Escalon, the goal of this project is to find healthy, stable, loving homes for retired racehorses. Bennett Equine takes enormous pride in riding, re-training, and loving these animals who are so often overlooked when their racing career is over, and looking for their forever home.
-Groom Elite Instructor for Second Chances California http://www.trfinc.org/Second-Chances-California-c163.html
Through this program, Bennett Equine combines personal knowledge with the Groom Elite curriculum (http://www.groomelite.com/index.shtml), to teach proper fundamentals for professionally grooming horses at the racetrack. Grooms have a high-paced, very important job at the track. They must be able to handle horses in a high stress environment, and know what to do in case of an emergency. Second Chances Ca. provides these services to AB109 probationers. The goal and purpose is to teach participants a new way of life, a useful skill, the value of hard work, and essentially, how to maintain employment. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES AVAILABLE
-Hauling help for resistant or fearful loaders
-Training and consultation for horses in need of behavior correction or conditioning
-Equine Assisted Therapy for private practice
-Assistance in breeding, foaling, injury treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation
-Barn Management
-Exercise rider
-Barn staff education and furthering education: Seminars/Clinics (Contact Maria for more information, and a special offer!)
VOLUNTEER WORK:
-Bennett Equine loves to give back to the community! Participation includes, evacuation of livestock during the Rim Fire, time given to the Second Chances Ca. Program, weekly classes taught at the Stan Co. Jail for the SCCILS program, and much, much more! (Learn about SCCILS here http://nixle.com/alert/5047704/ )
AVAILABILITY:
-Bennett Equine is always open to hearing about new opportunities for work AND play. Rates and hours are to be discussed and constructed on a Terms of Service agreement. Please e-mail [email protected] or call 209-481-3993
OTHER PAST EXPERIENCE:
-C**t breaking
-Work with troubled horses, or horses suffering from prior trauma
-Certified Horsemanship Association:
Completed all 4 levels of the CHA written and skills test material
-A lifetime of experience riding and caring for horses.
-Riding Instructor/Horse Trainer:
Approximately 8 years of combined experience working with young horses, children, adults, and horses in need of re-training.
-Many years of horse shows, high school rodeo, vaulting, summer camp counselor and riding instructor. Please contact Maria here:
209-481-3993
[email protected]
