10/13/2025
**Room to welcome a new horse to Helios**
Now that Julep has a handful of rides under her belt, we are thrilled to be sending her home to continue growing up. That means we have a stall opening!
Send us a message if you are looking to
* Start a youngster
* Improve ground manners
* Enhance rideability leading up to the show circuit
* Develop more feel and harmony with your horse
* Get help with some behavioral challenges
* Hoof and body rehabilitation
Regardless of your discipline, regardless of how you dress your horse, fine riding is fine riding.
There’s no need to rely on the “hope and cope” strategy. Let education do the work for you.
Friends, if you would please share this post, we’d sure appreciate it!
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A not-so-brief overview of our program:
Our curriculum is groundwork and riding based and not necessarily discipline specific. It‘s about getting a horse soft mentally and physically, gentle to be around, handy on the end of the lead rope and handy on their feet. Under saddle we additionally develop a reliable seat connection and a horse that is willing, confident, and accurate. Essentially, we prioritize creating enjoyable riding horses that can go excel in any discipline. If you can ride artfully and harmoniously with accuracy, it doesn’t matter where you choose to specialize. Along that path, we incrementally layer in tools for horse and rider to empower both sides to confidently navigate the challenges that are a part of the horse experience for the sake of everyone’s safety.
The day to day care and handling is just as important to us. How the horses lead in and out matters. How they behave at feeding time matters. How are they about changing eyes? How they stand for grooming and tacking matters. How they stand for farriers, vets, and other professionals matters. All interactions are important (as they are either improving your horse or innocently teaching them undesirable behaviors) and ALL horses have the capacity to be a good citizen. It is not their “personality” when things go wrong. Their behaviors are a reflection of the sum of their life experiences. We work with their nature to encourage them towards relaxation and understanding their responsibilities or expectations we have of them.
A mentally soft, well adjusted, and educated horse stays healthier, copes better, and is safer to be around. The only people here handling horses are skilled horsemen and our care structure revolves entirely around the horses. “Whatever is best for each horse” is our motto. Maximal turnout, friends if possible, ad lib hay, concentrates as needed for body condition (we have various choices based on what’s best for each horse ranging from grain, to ration balancers to grain free options), and an environment that is quiet and soothing to the horses. Relaxed horses learn faster than those who are tight so we nurture a library environment here for all.
