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Help Keep Blueberry on His Feet


Posted By on Apr 6, 2016

https://www.youcaring.com/fundraiser-widget.aspx?frid=540528 Please help one of our favorite therapy horses stay on his feet! Meet Blueberry. He is a therapy horse like no other. In fact, search for “Therapeutic Riding” and you’re bound to see this 14.3 hand Appaloosa gelding’s picture on the first page! Blueberry works at Hoofbeats Therapeutic Riding Center in Lexington, Virginia, where his calm strength and...

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TRAV Show 2015


Posted By on Oct 20, 2015

Thank you to all of our riders and volunteers who made the annual Therapeutic Riding Association of Virginia show such a success. Our riders took home a lot of blue ribbons. This has been a wonderful season full of growth and fun and friendship.

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Baroque Show


Posted By on Sep 21, 2015

Hoofbeats is a community that seeks the well-being of the entire individual — mentally, physically, and emotionally — explained the announcer to a waiting audience at the Baroque Horse Show on Saturday. To open the show, we have a special treat: the Hoofbeats drill team! The double curtains at the end of the ring parted, through which a proud parade of children, adults, and ponies filed. They lined up on the ring master...

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Loss of a Dear Friend


Posted By on Aug 31, 2015

This is a tribute and a farewell to one of our dear friends, Cathy Simmons, who passed away last week. After she was diagnosed with brain cancer, Cathy came to Hoofbeats to check “ride a horse” off her bucket list. But as they usually do, the horses found a permanent place in her heart. Cathy loved riding and she stayed with the Hoofbeats program for a year. She often brought her grandchildren with her as her grooms. Cathy...

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