Horse lessons, horse boarding, trail rides, horse hotel, and lay overs welcome.
Attention homeschool parents. We are vendors for these schools. If you would like for us to add your school, reach out to me and I will sign up with them.
1. Shasta View Academy.
2. Stellar
3. Red school of the arts.
4. Lakeview Charter.
5. Sequoia Grove charter.
6. Evergreen Institute of Excellence
7. Feather River charter school
We also offer lessons to Adults ❤️
English and Western
Wishing everyone a fabulous
2024-2025 school year
What a beautiful evening last night.
Comfortable trail rides throughout the Northern California area Beautiful Ride. At NorCal Trail Rides we offer safe, comfortable trail rides throughout the Northern California area No matter your experience level you can enjoy a scenic ride by the Sacramento River, where we often see lots of wildlif...
SUMMER CAMPS ARE BACK!!! 6 weeks of camps over 3 months. We will also be having a Thanksgiving Camp and Christmas Break Camp. Flyer down below has all the details. Please feel free to share. 😊
Horse lessons, horse boarding, trail rides, horse hotel, and lay overs welcome.
Another great day for a ride to the Sacramento River.
WE OFFER GUIDED HORSEBACK TRAIL RIDES here, in Shasta County, along the Sacramento River since 2008!. We also give western and english lessons, provide horse boarding, recommend and actively perform horse training, and service travelers with overnight boarding. Our quality and safe lesson program to children as young as 4 years old, have made our facility one of the finest in the Northstate. Last but not least, all levels of riders and ages are welcome. Check out our website or give me a call today to make a ton of fun memories.
Located In Anderson Ca 96007
2 miles east of the outlets
Happy Trails!
From The NorCal Riding Stables
and NorCal Trail Rides Family
I have a couple of saddles for
Sale.
1. TexTan/Herdford brand
16 inch seat
Full Qrt bars
Great condition
Ask $650 obo
2. Vaquero saddle (custom made)
15.5 inch seat
Extra wide QRT bars
Beautiful tooling
Great congratulations
Comes with a matching Brest collar
$1200 obo
I did not write this beautiful peace of work.
This is great read for all level of riders
The Seat Explained
The seat has two meanings.
One is the specific area of contact that extends from the lumbar
back down to the knee, in other words, whatever moves from the lumbar area down to the
knee is the rider's seat.
But in a broader sense, the rider's seat is everything because its influence is entire, from the top of the head, which should be the highest point, of course, to the bottom of his heel.
The seat should be a cohesive unit that comes to the horse as a communication medium and as a transformation medium, one that is communicating cohesively and as a unit rather than in bits and pieces. I would like to say that even when a teacher gives specific directions to the rider to do something with his arms and with his legs, those directions
influence the rest of the rider. Because the rider is one person, he must communicate as one unit, one seat.
Riders should have balanced, deep, adhesive seats that allow them to make independent aids. Riders who remain adhesive to the saddle and their horses do so because they
understood and they learned that when the horse impacts on the ground the two points of
absorption are in the lumbar back and ankle. Riders who stiffen the ankle paralyse the toe
outward or downward, or push themselves away from the saddle to some degree. Riders
who cannot absorb the horse's movement in the lumbar back will, of course, pop loose of
the saddle and part from it.
Correct riding is done with the abdominal muscles, not with the back.
The rider's lumbar back should always remain relaxed. It should act as a hinge that allows
the pelvic structure to float forward with the horse's motion. The lumbar back allows the rider to remain isometrically toned - not tense -- in his torso while letting the buttocks and thighs remain adhesive to the saddle. The buttocks, the pelvic structure, should not slide on the surface of the saddle. Nor should the buttocks wipe or buff the saddle but rather "stick to it to allow the pelvic structure to surf the “wave" produced by the motion of the horse's back.
In contrast to the loose and supple use of the lumbar back, the torso above it should be
turned into one isometrically toned "cabinet." The rider's “cabinet" is a complex isometric unit.
For its formation, the rider should circle with the points of his shoulder back and down until
both shoulder blades are flat in the trapezius muscle of the back. This action will stabilise the posture of the torso. It will allow the front of the rider to lift the rib cage high, out of the abdominal cavity. It will broaden the chest, straighten the shoulders, stretch the front of the rider, and give him the feeling that the lowest ribs have been lifted, and the waist is more slender.
The rider's upper arms should then hang from his shoulders perpendicular to the
ground. This, importantly, stabilises the arms, hence the hands of the rider because in this
position the upper arms and elbows hang weightlessly. The earth's centre of gravity places
them. The direction of the upper arms and elbows will point to the rider's seat bones, and past them, to the ground. The stability provided by this upper-arm position is at the heart of riding - from the seat to the bridle, rather than wrongly, riding with the hands. For the vertical position of the upper arms is, indeed, responsible for the transferring of the seat's effects to the bridle.
Extract from Dressage Principles Illuminated by Charles de Knuffy p.140
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To understand how to use your lower back to develop an adhesive seat, sit at the edge of a chair, and place
your feet on the floor in line with, and under your hips.
Thrust your pelvis forward so that you lift the back legs of
the chair off the ground. Then rock the chair forward and
backward to various different tilting angles and at different
rhythms without dropping the chair's back legs to the floor.
As you ride the walk, trot, and canter, this action simulates
the movement of an adhesive seat by emulating the pelvic
activity necessary to follow the horse's movement.
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Good day Facebook friends. I am looking for a new cover page for my website. I know so many clients take pictures of the views, barn, horses and their loved ones. I’m looking for one for the front page and a hand full for my website. If we choose your photos, I will be handing out some Apparel to you as a thank you. Please share your photos in the comments. You can also PM.
I’m So excited. Can’t wait to see what you all send me.
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Happy New Year Peeps…. This week is beautiful and the trails are open. We offer trail rides 7 days a week. Please give me a call
To set up a day and time or visit our website for more info at
TRAIL RIDES Horse Hotel lessons Outdoors RIDES INDOOR ARENA Boarding Norcal Trail Rides +1.000 kids started here. Learn more about before your ride. NorCal Trail Rides and NorCal Riding Stables have been offering lessons to the public since 2008. We have safe and gentle horses. All of our instructor...
Good morning NorCal. I have three older horses that are free to good homes. They are all geldings. They just got their teeth done, trimmed and wormed. These boys are so sweet. Little on the lean side. They could all use grocery’s. If you know me, you know I like mine on the thick side. Pony ride for littles would be okay.
Please pm me If you have a sweet home for them
Thank you 🙏 ❤️
Sell pending
This is Loretta. She’s a newer member to the herd. We were told that she can drive. She goes down the trail as chilled as they can be. He’s half draft and easy going. Had great ground matters. She’s a plow rein horse. Doesn’t know anything about legs.
She’s a little head shy. But have been working with her and she’s a fast learning and is already dropping her head. It’s the only thing that I noticed about her that needs work. The kids in my barn enjoy brushing and riding her.
13 years old
Half draft
Shod on the front sep 29th
Great with her feet
Wormed sep 1st
UTD
Stands between 16-17 hands
14-15 hundred pounds
Temp 1
8 five zero zero
Located in Anderson
If you’re looking for a good solid trail horse please reach out to me. As Coffee Creek Ranch is selling their herd. Here are some photos of some of them for sale.
Pm me or call me for prices.
Hi, this is my family resort/ranch. This is the place, that I rode horses from sun up to down down. Knowing that my grandchild will never experience this magical place called Coffee Creek Ranch is heartbreaking. 
NorCal Trail Rides is hosting all of the ranch horses. Is your looking fir a good trail horse pm me. As we have a lot to sell
Thank you for sharing
The River Complex Fire and The Great Loss of Coffee Creek Ranc… KaetheJo Binder needs your support for Coffee Creek Ranch Destroyed by
Hi, would any of you have or know someone who has room for three goats. They are being Evacuated and need a place to stay. As my barn is not set up for goats and they need to find a place ASAP. Please let me know. Call me or text me is the fastest way to get a hold of me as I’m busy with helping people. Thank you in advance
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