The Students at Encore Stables range in age from 10 to 72 years old, coming to us as rank beginners to seasoned riders, and all levels in between. They may come from different regions, backgrounds, experience, and goals, but they share a passion for horses, a quest for learning, and a devotion to becoming better horsepeople.
Encore offers the unique opportunity for those without their own horse to experience riding as though they are training their own horse by participating in each horse's own education. Our horses are not stagnant in their learning, so riders are exposed to learning how to recognize improvements in the horse's physique, how movements are used to benefit both horse and rider, and how to build plausable training goals.
Some of our horses are a year off the race track, while others have long, long histories of showing in dressage, eventing, or hunters. Some have fox hunted and hunter paced. Regardless of where they were in their training when they arrived, at Encore we are enhancing and improving each horse through individualized training plans.