Payson Riding Lessons

USAWE is proud to officially announce that WE are a sponsor of the USPC Convention in Reno, Nevada January 24-28, 2024!

The USAWE board, with support from several committees, recognizes the significance of outreach to youth organizations. This year we hope to increase our youth membership as well as expand opportunities for our youth members.

If you are interested in the upcoming convention, here is some information on how you may attend.

Registration:
You don't have to be a member of Pony Club to attend! We have weekend and day passes available. Check out the registration options here:
https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEEXYQCYOBEO/registration

Convention information:
https://www.ponyclub.org/Events/Convention/

Event Website:
https://site.pheedloop.com/event/EVEEXYQCYOBEO/home

Stay tuned for more upcoming opportunities and announcements as they develop.

Please feel free to contact Kasey Riddle, Youth Development Chair at [email protected]

Spring and Summer Kids Day Horse Camps at Patterson Training, Payson, AZ.

Spring (All Levels)
18th-22nd March 2024
10am-2pm each day.
Bring packed lunch
$375 on school horse
$350 on own horse

Summer (Beginner/Intermediate)
3rd-7th June 2024
8th-12th July 2024
Drinks/snacks provided.
$395 on school horse
$370 on own horse

6 years and older. ESA Funds accepted.

Our 5 day Kids' Camps are designed to improve children's riding skills and knowledge of horses. Through riding, children will learn respect for animals, confidence, responsibility, fairness and high achievement and standards that will carry over into other facets of their lives. This program combines fun, safety, fitness and sportsmanship.

Questions or to sign up: Text/call Pam Johnson on 206 920 9840 or email [email protected]

More info at: www.paysonridinglessons.com

Adult Working Equitation Practice
Sundays 1.30pm-3pm. $40
If you are interested in practicing your Working Equitation skills, learning more, getting ready for your next show - this is the place for you! Levels start with Introductory (walk/trot). We cover both Dressage and Ease of Handling (Obstacles) phases.
Questions or to sign up: Judy Mackenzie 303 358 6118, or email [email protected]

New Year, New Sport!
Ladies Riding Lessons - 4 Week Special!
Saturdays at 1.30pm. Starts January 2024.
$200 for four 1 hour lessons!
Beginner, Intermediate, rode a long time ago, haven't been on a horse in years - these lessons are perfect for you!
To sign up, contact Pam Johnson on 206 920 9840 or email [email protected].

Merry Christmas to all our students and families!

STORY OF THE DAY:

If you give your child a pony, they will want to ride. You’ll buy them the best pony you can find, followed by a helmet, boots and all the other things pony.

You look for a local barn to ride at where you start to socialize with the equestrian community…………And then life as you know it, will end.

Before you know it, they want to show so you find a circuit …..There will be no more lazy weekends watching tv. You will see more sunrises than you ever thought possible.
Every spare minute of your time will be spent hauling campers, horse trailers and horses and enduring a crazy addiction to practice for the next show.

Your house may be a mess, and your car will be dirty. All because you gave your child a pony. Your weekends will be spent freezing or burning to death on a fold up chair. And their weekends will be spent gaining confidence and friends, learning new skills and having fun and getting dirty!!!!

You will be there the day he or she takes the first few steps of canter, the first taste of a jump, first ribbon, first championship. And they will make you SO proud. Other parents will congratulate you, but you feel weird saying thank you because it's not you on the pony, it’s your child. It's everything that they did, they achieved. And right before your eyes, your little boy/girl will be transformed from the baby who bounced around on their rocking horse into an exceptional young horse enthusiast on the hunt for the next pony finals or maybe even the Olympics!

When you give your child a pony , you give them more than just something to ride. You give them a sport, a talent, hope and dreams. Friends, a new family, a place to learn about life, room to grow as a person where they can push their limits, and bravery, and courage, and memories. And they will have ALL of these things, simply because you gave your child a pony.

Because you gave your child a pony, you too will develop new/lifelong friendships, developed solely from the same passion for the sport. You will have a equestrian family because you gave your child a pony.

Then one day, many years from today…they will be in their room and a certain trophy will catch their eye. And they will pick it up and realize instantly that when you gave your child a pony, you also gave them a childhood that they would never forget, at this point, you realize that everything you gave up along the way and sacrificed was totally worth it…..
All because you gave your child a pony📷 📷📷
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Turquoise Working Equitation Schooling Show - 10th Dec 2023
Location: R and R Ranch (Chaparosa Ranch), 15030 E Chaparosa Way, Rio Verde/Scottsdale, AZ
Judge: Hon Tessa Nicolet
Come and start earning points for 2024 AZWEC Awards/qualify for AZWEC Finals, or just practice your skills! Levels 1-4 available.
Entry Fees:
Level 1: $90 Adult/$70 Youth
Levels 2-4: $115 Adult/$95 Youth
Overnight stalls: $40/night
Dry Camping Available
Clinic with Judy Mackenzie on Saturday 9th Dec. To sign up for Clinic, contact Sam Walker on 480 577 1165.
For more information and to sign up: https://form.jotform.com/231980350392153
Show Manager: Judy Mackenzie 303 358 6118

This is hilarious!

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Funny for the day....

Have a bad ride? A client driving you crazy? A saddle you want just financially out of reach?

I'd like to take this time to remind you that...

Driving: We weren't content or are too old to ride the horse, so we thought attaching a flight animal to a wheeled vehicle would be a good idea.

Hunter/jumpers: we ride horses in circles and jump sticks for a living and then we let some person tell us our horse did, or did not, jump the sticks as pretty as another horse.

Dressage: we trot in circles and let someone tell someone else to write down whether or not we are circley enough for the circle club

Eventers: we decided jumping out of an airplane without a parachute wasnt exciting enough, so we run at mach speeds towards walls, ditches, and small lakes to see who can do it fastest.

Barrel racers: we spend all of our time fine tuning our ability to turn 3 times faster than anyone else

Ropers: we catch calves that are technically already caught

Steer wrestlers: we wrestle an animal that didnt even know there was a wrestling match coming their way

Team Sorters: even on our worst day, we didnt spend as much as the cutters.

Reiners: see dressage, add speed.

Cutters: we let several people tell us were better, or worse, at not letting calves hang out with their buddies.

Team penners: we take caught calves, and make them a little more caught

Mounted shooters: because we've used this skill ever in the last 200 years

Endurance: we take 10 times as long, and 10 times more money to get somewhere an ATV could've brought us.

Western Pleasure: we poke around at wine sipping speeds in the equestrian equivalent of a ball gown.

Trail riders: cheers. Y'all have it figured out 🤣

It's not that serious y'all, so just have fun!

Payson Riding Lessons Christmas Party - FREE!
16th December, 10am-Noon

Location: Patterson Training, 272 S Sprague Drive, Star Valley, AZ

Cost: FREE

Horse rides, carriage rides, Meet the Minis, refreshments - and a visit from "You Know Who"!

To sign up: https://form.jotform.com/233198412376157

Turquoise Working Equitation Schooling Show - 10th Dec 2023
Location: R and R Ranch (Chaparosa Ranch), 15030 E Chaparosa Way, Rio Verde/Scottsdale, AZ
Judge: Hon Tessa Nicolet

Come and start earning points for 2024 AZWEC Awards, or just practice your skills! Levels 1-4 available.

Entry Fees:
Level 1: $90 Adult/$70 Youth
Levels 2-4: $115 Adult/$95 Youth

Overnight stalls: $40/night
Dry Camping Available

Clinic with Judy Mackenzie on Saturday 9th Dec. To sign up for Clinic, contact Sam Walker on 480 577 1165.

For more information and to sign up: https://form.jotform.com/231980350392153

Show Manager: Judy Mackenzie 303 358 6118

Really excited about our Working Equitation Schooling Show yesterday!
Not only the first show I have ever been at where we had actual 'livestock' in the Pen Obstacle - thank you to Dwayne and his turkeys, that added a great Thanksgiving theme to the Show - but this was the first Show I have put on where we had more Youth Riders than Adults! Maybe in 2024, we could put on a Youth only event - that would be fabulous progress for the future of this sport!