Special Olympics!

We Can Ride had a number of clients compete in the Special Olympics Equestrian Event on August 24, 2007, up at Woodloch Stables in Hugo, Minnesota. These athletes have been training for ten weeks at Bunker Park Stables in preparation for the event. It was a beautiful day that Friday and the competitors did a great job; it was fun to watch them compete in classes that included on-lead and independent guiding! Photos will be arriving on the website soon – please check back to see them. Congratulations to all our winning clients!

Here are the results:

Anne Beckering (Age Group 22-29)
Working Trails, 2nd Place
English Obstacle, 7th Place
Western Equitation, 1st Place
English Equitation, 5th Place

Bryan Belknap (Age Group 16-21)
Western Equitation, 3rd Place
Working Trails, 1st Place

Jillian Groen (Age Group 22-29)
Western Equitation, 2nd Place
English Equitation, 1st Place
English Obstacle, 1st Place
Working Trails, 3rd Place

Michelle Mack-Bohnhoff (Age Group 16-21)
Working Trails, 1st Place

Taylor Mattice (Age Group 22-29)
English Obstacle, 2nd Place
English Equitation, 3rd Place

Laura Nelson (Age Group 16-21)
Working Trails, 2nd Place
English Equitation, 2nd Place
English Obstacle, 1st Place
Western Equitation, 1st Place

Nicole Raines (Age Group 12-15)
Western Equitation, 3rd Place
Working Trails, 2nd Place

post by Patti Franz (client coordinator)

horses rule

This is an art piece done of Rusty, the horse at the Minnetonka site. A client from my Monday night class made it. I love it. She has always been drawing her horse (no matter what horse she is assigned) but when this art piece of Rusty came it was just too much.

I think it's so neat the way that our clients connect with their horses. So many of them have their favorites. Each has a horse they look forward to riding each week. I'm convinced the horses remember them, too. Our horses have been expressed in many ways before, click here to see.

I think that's gotta be one of the best thing about his program, from instructors to volunteers to clients to horses back to the client and volunteers, it's just endless... it's beautiful.

I'm glad Rusty has got someone who loves him enough to make him into art.