Mystic Meadows Equine Centre

🥰 courtesy rules in a barn are the easiest to remember.

For most horse owners, the barn is their happy place. The place they go to take a deep breath, spend some time with their horse, and catch up with their barn friends.

While the barn can act as an escape from day-to-day obligations and chores, it’s important to remember that there is a whole staff behind keeping the barn a clean, functional place so that you and your horse are able to spend time together and enjoy each other’s company.

While barn staff doesn’t expect riders and boarders to chip in on the big things, like blowing the aisle or dragging the arena, small things can add up, and are much appreciated! Take a look at our list of “little thing” that make all the difference.

Sweep Up After Your Horse: Did you pick your horse’s feet out in the aisle? What about if you clipped your horse and now there is hair everywhere? A quick sweep will clear the aisle and make work for staff a little easier.

Close The Gates: When you take your horse in from the paddock, make sure you close and secure the gate behind you. When gates aren’t secure they are more likely to break, which can be a costly expense for a barn owner.

Leave Things Where You Found Them: This applies not only to any items that you use around the barn, but also to any open or closed doors. Remember, there is always a reason for the way things are at the barn so yes, you have to put those scissors back in the same spot!

Make Sure You Put Your Things Away: Whether it’s tack, brushes, or your boots, make sure that you put away all of your items before leaving the barn.

Fold Your Blankets Neatly: There’s not much worse than stuffed blankets in front of a stall. Neatly fold your blankets and sheets before hanging on your horse’s stall. Don’t know how to fold a blanket? Just ask!

Turn The Lights Off: When you’re the last one leaving the barn or arena, make sure you shut the lights off. It’s also important to really make sure you need the lights on. If there’s natural light, maybe think twice! Electricity bills add up fast.

And For Goodness Sake…Pick Up Your Horse’s Manure!: …I don’t think we need an explanation for this one.

Next time you’re at the barn, keep this list in mind. Chances are that just by doing one of these “little things”, you will make your barn staff’s day!

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Our mares field has room for 1-2 more that can be on full time pasture with mix of alfalfa hay ☺️

Our TB geldings pasture is FULL following the arrival of the last one July 1st.

All pastures have 2 shelters.
Fresh water & mineral/salt provided.
Physical hands on checks everyday.
Blanketing options are offered.

Requirement to board is min 1 lesson or 1 training ride per week.

Private facility, mainly adult boarders with a few mature older youth sprinkled in! Everyone here is very much a team and we take great joy in that 🥰

We enjoy a variety of different outings- trail riding, obstacles, will be doing some dressage and open shows this year for non HJ riders!

Safe, supportive environment for developing young horses with guidance.

EC certified Comp Jump Coach.
EC certified IOB as well on site!
and.. an excellent youth/beginner adult instructor that has been brought up under Celine with the same values for safety & foundation 🙌🏼

🧐 Have you ever been told you’re doing it wrong?

Your half pass aids aren’t correct.
Your flying change isn’t how it’s taught.
That’s not what the book says.
That’s not how I was shown.

Trust me, I hear it all the time.

Now here’s a little news flash… horses don’t read the textbook. 🐴

Yes, there are fundamentals to good training. The training scales exist for a reason and the basics matter. But beyond that, we’re dealing with individuals, not machines.

I’ve ridden horses that needed me to be quieter. I’ve ridden others that needed me to be clearer. Some need more support, some need less. The aid that unlocks one horse can completely confuse another.

If there was only one correct way to ride every horse, we’d all be producing identical results. But we’re not. We’re working with different minds, different bodies, different strengths, and different challenges.

Sometimes I think we spend too much time worrying whether we’re following the rulebook perfectly and not enough time asking the horse in front of us what they actually need.

The best riders I’ve met aren’t the ones who can recite every aid from a manual. They’re the ones who can adapt, listen, and communicate with the horse they’re sitting on.

So I’m curious…

What’s the best piece of advice you were ever given that completely went against what you were originally taught? 👇

Our horseback riding camps are not full! Want a fun summer plan? Let us introduce your kiddo to riding with some great school horses and teachers!

Our diet pens get low sugar hay in slow feed nets, loose straw to pick at throughout the day and keeps them happy and picking with no long feeding gaps!

(Super important if you’re trying to prevent feed stress, and still lose weight- starvation diets do not work…)

We have 1 space in each IR pen. Max of 4 per pen.

Loose salt and bedding provided.

$525+gst

Horse Riding Lessons for Kids & Adults in Leduc

Summer camps, riding lessons for youth and adults, competitive and recreational recreational programs!

Western and English.

Ethical Lesson program (Horses & safety first)

Certified and insured coaches.

Year-round, semesterly and short term offered.  Drop in lessons and pick five available for summer!

CR Horsemanship - Training & Lessons

780 819 0975