06/12/2024
Any day with Parlor Doughnuts and horses is a good day!
Thanks to Anna (one of our boarders) for sharing these delicious treats with us! Everyone approves of Richmond's newest doughnut shop (including Pancho!) 🍩
Earlham Equestrian Program
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Welcome to our student-led equestrian program, serving Earlham students and the surrounding community
Whether “horse” is to you a hobby, a sport, a lifestyle or a mystery, here is the community to pique your curiosity and sustain your passion. The only entirely student-run cooperative collegiate equestrian program in the country, Earlham College Stables offers affordable lessons and boarding to students and the community. With recreational riding on school horses and a competitive hunt seat equest
rian team both available to our Co-op members in addition to the lesson program, we are in the unique position of being able to welcome new members from the full spectrum of equine experiences. It is through the collective wisdom of that diversity that our program flourishes.
05/08/2024
Happy horses live at Earlham ✨
05/02/2024
We are looking to part with some equipment - reasonable offers entertained. You must pickup here in Richmond.
6' Rotary arena drag, 3 point hitch in great usable condition
6 freeze resistant livestock sun tanks. Solar heated bottoms prevent freezing and have a float on top to keep water clean and free of debris. All but one are in great shape, one has cracked front plexiglass. Perfect for keeping water out where you don't have electricity during the winter months.
Message if you are interested!
04/26/2024
It's time to enroll for summer riding opportunities!
Check our website for detailed information:
https://earlham.edu/student-life/student-activities/equestrian-program/lessons/
04/19/2024
What a beautiful week it has been for some trail riding!
We are fortunate to have miles of lovely trails right out the back door for students and boarders alike to enjoy!
03/28/2024
Do you have an old plastic water trough that is cracked or leaks sitting around? We'd love to have it!
We turn them into hay feeding stations for our pastures and would love to find a few more that need a new purpose in life. Please message us if you'd like to donate one!
*Rubber/plastic troughs only please, no metal, any size is fine
03/18/2024
Alright - you've been asking and we are finally ready to open registration for community lessons! Please find session dates below as well as the link to our enrollment form.
We appreciate your patience!
6-week Spring Session (starting 4/1-5/6)
6-week Early Summer Session (starting 5/20-6/24)
You can find the enrollment form and further details on the website here:
https://earlham.edu/student-life/student-activities/equestrian-program/lessons/
03/15/2024
We would like to extend our deepest condolences to those in the surrounding area affected by last night's tornadoes. We are fortunate to have missed any major damages, all of our animals and property were safe but there are many in the region for which that is not the case.
If you have horses or livestock and need a temporary place to house your animals due to storm damage, we have a few stalls available and could accommodate you.
Please message us if you are in need!
03/11/2024
Q: What is something only horse people get excited about?
A: A brand new manure bay!
This has been a long waited project for our facility, and it's finally complete 🥳
Thanks so much to Jarrett Trucking for the completion of this project! Jarrett Trucking and Excavating
03/11/2024
Our school horses are enjoying a proper start to spring break week - rolling in mud, munching hay and relishing a break from the rain!
12/14/2023
A beautiful frosty morning ❄️
12/13/2023
Happy National Day of the Horse!
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We want to give a big thanks to all our amazing school horses and our boarded horses! The barn wouldn’t be here with all of our amazing horses and they deserve all the love🫶
12/05/2023
Tonight was our last co-op meeting for the fall semester. Students in the 109 course presented their educational posters while everyone enjoyed pizza, a hot cocoa bar, and cuddles with visiting goat babies!
Congratulations to all of our students on a successful semester!
11/03/2023
Granny, one of our resident lesson horses, says "Good morning!"
10/30/2023
Calling all barn alumni!
After the success we had homecoming weekend, we would like to invite barn alumni to join our FOES (Friends of Earlham College) weekend (Nov. 4th) We will be doing a pizza lunch at the barn with the FOES, barn staff and co-op members at 12, and then a business meeting from 2-4 in the Richmond Room (on Earlham’s campus). If you are unable to make it in person we would love to have you zoom into the business meeting. Attached to this is a google form where you can put if you’d like to attend either of these events. We’d love to see you all there!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScW0imJFtAI_LpBrJDzg3fFRyyMSQrvQyEqEkniVCmyHqLQoQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
10/17/2023
We want to give a huge "THANK YOU!" to all of our friends and alumni who donated show clothing to outfit our IHSA team!
Many of our riders will be attending their very first show this weekend and it wouldn't be possible without your support! Don't they look great?!
09/20/2023
📣 Calling all alumni and local horse friends 📣
Do you have show clothing or show-friendly schooling clothes that you no longer use or need? The Earlham IHSA team would love to give your unused show clothing a new purpose by supplying show clothes to our incoming riders in need!
We have many new faces on our IHSA team this year, most of whom have never shown horses before. As you all know, it's an expensive sport which can prohibit many people from participating. Earlham's generous community allows our team members to show for free, but show clothing can be another expensive starting investment. Our goal is to build out a 'borrowing closet' of show clothes for our riders to have for years to come.
Can you help?
We will happily accept donations of the following:
🔹 Dark colored hunt seat jackets
🔹 Tan breeches
🔹 White or light colored collared hunt shirts
🔹 Black riding gloves, nylon or leather
🔹 Black show helmets
🔹 Black tall hunt show boots
🔹 Men's ties
If you'd like to donate items, they can be dropped off to the Suzanne Hoerner Jackson Equestrian Center anytime or if you'd like to make other arrangements please message the page or text 937.570.0396
We appreciate the support of our community!
09/18/2023
1st IHSA Show Weekend ✔️
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What an amazing weekend at our first IHSA show of the season! Thank you Saint Mary's of the Woods for hosting such a great show for our riders! It was great to be back in action!
Alex ended the weekend with a 3rd and 4th in the Limit flat and Briana ended with a 3rd in Limit jumping and a 2nd and 5th in Limit flat!! Great job ladies!
Our new riders were also able to come up to support the team and join in on the fun!
Congratulations riders and don’t forget to check out for more team updates!
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09/15/2023
The equestrian team is back in action!!
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Riders Briana and Alex were preparing today for their first IHSA show this weekend! Make sure to follow to keep up with all the team updates this weekend and wish our riders good luck!!
This will be the first competition for our IHSA team since 2020, we are glad to be back in the ring!
08/15/2023
Wrapping up the end of our summer lesson program means our students got to do some fun things like trail ride and try some ba****ck!
We want to thank everyone who enrolled and came to ride with us. 🐴 We hope to continue offering community lessons through the school year on a limited basis, details to come!
07/25/2023
As many of our barn friends and supporters know we recently lost our previous outdoor arena to make room for the new softball stadium at Earlham. While this was not the ideal choice of anyone here at the equestrian center, we have chosen to make lemonade out of lemons in this situation 🍋
One of the glasses of lemonade we get to enjoy out of this is the chance to repurpose the old arena base into new all-weather pads at the front of each pasture. This means no mud during the rainy season for our horses, and a dry area for their hooves to take a break from dew-ey grass. It looks amazing!
We are grateful to Jarrett Trucking for doing all the excavating and rock work for our laneway, dry lots, and new arena!
07/17/2023
We had the honor of hosting the Hoerner family last week, some of whom had never seen the Suzanne Hoerner Jackson Equestrian Center before! Thank you guys for coming out- we had a blast.
07/15/2023
If you've been by the stables lately, you've probably noticed a lot of activity. It has been a busy summer in the barn completing projects while the students are gone!
A few of those projects were completed this past week including haying our alfalfa field and relocating the manure pile so we now have a lovely all-weather laneway to our pastures. Construction has also begun on replacing our pasture water spigots (we have fresh water access in each pasture, did you know?) and installing all-weather pads in the front of our fields.
There's even more updates to come, stay tuned! 🚧
07/13/2023
It’s been a long time (if ever?!) since we’ve had little ones running around the barn! A local nonprofit, Girls Inc, is visiting twice this summer with groups of girls from the community coming to learn about the healing powers of horses. We’re so excited to have them!
07/07/2023
Skye is pretty excited about our new bulk sawdust supplier, almost as excited as we are! 😂
07/07/2023
The summer is heating up 🔥 and so is our lesson program!
This is the first summer in many years that the ECEP has been able to offer riding lessons to community members and we couldn't be more excited! Thank you for coming to ride with us 🤠
06/29/2023
Great weather is for trail riding!
Did you know we have on-site trails for both students and boarders to enjoy?
06/28/2023
Glory, our favorite giant school horse, heading back out to pasture after evening lessons last night
Glory is an imported warmblood enjoying semi-retirement from the competitive life by teaching the next generation of horse lovers.
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