The City Ranch Inc.

12/07/2024

The City Ranch Inc. is in urgent need of students for our winter lesson programs. On weekdays, we will be offering discounted pricing on what are already reasonable, competitively priced lesson rates!

We are looking to fill up our weekdays with lessons, mommy and me sessions, group pony rides, horsemanship programs, and so much more! Use your imagination and we will work with you to create exactly what you need for yourself, your friends, children, and/or homeschool learners.

We also offer therapeutic riding and equine-assisted activities. Our ranch wears many hats 🤠 and, well, I like to think we look pretty good in all of 'em!

Please email Candice at [email protected] or give a call at 443-416-7595. Let's keep this amazing nonprofit alive *AND* thriving! Community, respect, hard work, and accountability. Building up confidence and character - one student at a time 💫🙏💗🐎

12/02/2024

Attention English riders, or those just wanting to learn:

Beginning on Friday, January 24th, Monday *and* Friday lesson slots will be available from 6:00-8:00pm! Take this opportunity to have two private or semi-private lessons *per week* - perfect for adult re-starters, a child and their best friend, or any beginner to beginner-intermediate rider who wants to purchase a discounted lesson package and stay fit and busy during the chilly winter season. What an exceptional holiday gift!

To learn more or to schedule your lessons, please contact The City Ranch at 410-456-2195 today!

11/30/2024

We hope all of our new friends and family, old friends and family, and friends and family who are yet-to-be had a lovely Thanksgiving! We still have openings for our Turkey Trot - schedule your guided trail ride with friends and family through Patapsco State Park *today*!

11/23/2024

We've had some inquiries about winter riding... we teach, ride, and train year round! Hard work, respect, accountability, and education do not hibernate here at The City Ranch 💫

11/04/2024

The Turkey Trot Trail Rides are coming soon. Make sure to call and RSVP.

10/12/2024

We are *SO* excited to invite you to the ranch's OPEN HOUSE this weekend! On October 12th and 13th, from 12:00pm until 6:00pm, we'll have games, food, pony rides, a learning/grooming station, and MORE!!! All for a suggested donation of just $5.00 per person.

Come see why so many are talking about our community and non-profit... Respect, resilience, accountability, and communication are the foundations of what we continue to build. Building up while building each other up... and we'll never stop aiming higher 💪💫🤠

We can't wait to meet y'all. Here is one of our lovely school ponies, Ophelia, taking her young rider for a walk ❤️

07/21/2024

03/30/2024

- When my instructor repeats to me: ′′Straighten your shoulders and open your chest!” He’s not just teaching me how to stand up. He's teaching me that in life we should always walk straight and face problems head on.

- When my instructor asks me to lower my legs and keep them close to the horse, he teaches me that in life we do not allow distractions and that little is enough to deviate from his path.

- When my instructor tells me "Too much hand, don't hang on to the reins! "He teaches me to give and not to take, with the greatest respect of others.

- When he yells and repeats endlessly: "Look forward in the direction you want to go!” He teaches me the importance of setting goals and never losing sight of them to achieve them.

- When I ask to move up or do more and my instructor says I'm not ready, he teaches me that in life you must always respect your rhythm and never skip the steps.

- When I fall and get back up, I learn that there are always setbacks, times when we back up, but the important thing is to get up more determined than before.

- If I hold my breath during a ride and he jokingly tells me "breathe! You are purple!” I understand that you have to let your emotions flow in order to get rid of them.

- When at the end of the course I am happy with the work done and my instructor says to me′ ′Well done, thank your teacher′′ I know he is not referring to himself but to my horse.

- Now you, you who are watching a rider pass in the saddle, keep saying that riding is not a sport because it is the horse that does everything. I agree. Horse riding is not a sport. It is a life lesson.