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  Hello all! Happy New Year! Hoofbeats is excited to kick off a new year and new opportunities. Here is a tentative (mind you, we said tentative) road map of the upcoming seasons.     Jan. 23 Rockbridge Hunt Pony Club Horse Management Clinic Feb. 9 Board Meeting Feb. 21 TRAV Education Day March 7 Horses Come Back To HB March 12 Volunteer Training Day April 12 – June 4 First Session May 10 Board Meeting May 14...

Mark your calendars and tell your friends! Hear the Beats Horse Show is coming up on May 31st. Held annually at the Virginia Horse Center, it will feature both English and Western classes of all levels. All proceeds benefit Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center. For more information, please visit www.horsecenter.org.

When you’re a disabled veteran, you have lost everything, said U.S. Army staff sergeant Aaron Heliker. Heliker told his story in the 2014 award-winning documentary Riding My Way Back – an emotional film that Hoofbeats has screened multiple times for our volunteers and supporters. Heliker was only 19-years-old when he hugged his mother good-bye for his first deployment in active combat zone. He served several tours of duty...

This is a tentative schedule! There are many things that are not yet on the books, among them are the Special Olympics Equestrian Event, The Dinner Theater Event (Alice in Wonderland), and more expected Invitational opportunites! Jan. 8 Speaking at Lexington Sunrise Rotary Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30 Pony Club Quiz Practice Feb. 6, 27 Pony Club Quiz Practice Feb. 15 Old Dominion Horse management Clinic/ODR regional meeting March 3 Horses come...

Can it be November already? Hoofbeats finished another successful riding season last month. It was full of highlights. VA Special Olympics, the Baroque horseshoe, and the Therapeutic Horseback Riding Center of Virginia Show are just a few. Stay tuned for stories and pictures from all these events! More good news, we will soon be publishing a web series on the hearts and faces of Hoofbeats. Come meet the volunteers, staff, riders, and...

Make sure you friend Carol Branscome on facebook, and look for the Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center facebook group. We would love to  have you!