Riders Up at Lake Fork Stables

Riders Up at Lake Fork Stables Lake Fork Stables is a 501c3 nonprofit. Home to Riders Up! Providing Free and Discounted Riding Lesson to East Texas Kids. Lake Fork Stables is home to Riders Up!

ARIA Level II Certified Hunt Seat & Dressage Instructor, Horse Powered Reading Certified, PEMF, K-Tape & Cranio-Sacral Certified. and a horse boarding facility located near Lake Fork in Yantis, Texas. Lake Fork Stables is owned by Troy & Valerie Mellema. Valerie has a BS in Equine Business from West Texas A&M University.

08/31/2025
Get your Queen of Hearts tickets for tonight's drawing! Visit Ridersup.org orBig Bass Bingo tonight!
08/30/2025

Get your Queen of Hearts tickets for tonight's drawing! Visit Ridersup.org orBig Bass Bingo tonight!

School is back, the temperatures are cooling and it's time to get back to riding! If you are a current student, feel fre...
08/26/2025

School is back, the temperatures are cooling and it's time to get back to riding! If you are a current student, feel free to go on our EC Pro calendar and book your lessons! If you're new, now is the time to get enrolled for an Intro Lesson! Visit us online at ridersup.org and click Schedule Your Lesson at the top to get started! We have a wide variety of programs, discounts and scholarships available for those who qualify.

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Riders Up! at Lake Fork Stables is a 501c3 nonprofit supporting the kids of East Texas. We are a Pony Club Riding Center offering English & Western riding lessons.

This Saturday, we will be drawing another lucky winner for our Queen of Hearts Raffle! The jackpot is up to $1352! As al...
08/20/2025

This Saturday, we will be drawing another lucky winner for our Queen of Hearts Raffle! The jackpot is up to $1352! As always, tickets are $1 per or 25 for $20. Get your tickets Big Bass Bingo on Friday and Saturday nights or online at ridersup.org!

After four online exams, several lengthy essays on teaching lessons and managing a farm/clients, as well as two extremel...
08/20/2025

After four online exams, several lengthy essays on teaching lessons and managing a farm/clients, as well as two extremely hot and humid lesson videos (with multiples redos), I am officially an accredited riding instructor in both hunt seat over fences and dressage! Thanks to Norah and Grace for sweating it out with me and riding in the videos and Madison for sending me a picture of the certificate! It was quite a task to achieve between the heat and rain in early July, but we got it done just in time!

Don't forget to order your tickets for tonight's Queen of Hearts Drawing! Congratulations again to Jerry for winning the...
08/16/2025

Don't forget to order your tickets for tonight's Queen of Hearts Drawing! Congratulations again to Jerry for winning the second jackpot of $1001! This could be you holding a great big check! Order online at ridersup.org or come play bingo and get your tickets in person Bass Bingo tonight! Drawing will be held after bingo. As always, tickets are $1 per or $20 for 25.

Barney's DNA results came in! He is NOT Pirate's Deputy after all. He is El Otro Regalo. No racing history and he is 15 ...
08/07/2025

Barney's DNA results came in! He is NOT Pirate's Deputy after all. He is El Otro Regalo. No racing history and he is 15 years old (not 20). So a bit of good news in that he's younger than we thought but also has none of the history we thought he had. His registration has no white markings recorded so he must have developed those long after he was registered and as he grew, which made it difficult to identify him as well.

08/05/2025
Well, that went fast! Congratulations to Jerry Creasy for finding the Queen of Hearts in just 4 weeks of the new board! ...
08/05/2025

Well, that went fast! Congratulations to Jerry Creasy for finding the Queen of Hearts in just 4 weeks of the new board! We will be kicking off a new Queen of Hearts board this weekend with a starting jackpot of $1000! Remember, this jackpot grows weekly, so the more you play, the more it will pay! Tickets are $1 per or 25 for $20 and can be purchased online at ridersup.org or at Bass Bingo on Friday and Saturday nights!

This has been a great fundraiser for Riders Up! We greatly appreciate everyone who plays and participates each week, as it helps us to fund our programs for kids and horses. ❤

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270 CR 1880
Yantis, TX
75497

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+19033663052

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Lake Fork Stables, a 501(c)3 public charity, is home to the Riders Up! Youth Mentorship Program, which offers free and reduced rate riding lessons to East Texas kids. We offer English and Western riding lessons to people of all ages as well as horseback riding experiences. All proceeds from paid riding lessons, horseback riding excursion and boarding go to support the horses and the Riders Up! Program. If you’d like to donate for just the price of a coffee, you can via ko-fi.com/ridersup. Every little bit helps!

Lake Fork Stables is owned by Troy & Valerie Mellema. Valerie has a BS in Equine Business from West Texas A&M University. She has been riding since the age of 5 with a short 7 year break after graduating college and starting a business. She then got back in the saddle in 2012 and a few years later Lake Fork Stables was built.