Aberdeen Area Ranch Riding

Aberdeen Area Ranch Riding This page is to help keep everyone who wants to participate in the loop when practice is!

Good afternoon everyone! The tentative plan is to hold practice on Thursday, June 11 at 6:30 pm! Set up at 6pm! Plans ar...
06/09/2026

Good afternoon everyone!

The tentative plan is to hold practice on Thursday, June 11 at 6:30 pm! Set up at 6pm! Plans are subject to change should we get too much rain!

The plan is to practice this pattern, and also some cone work! As stated before, please help set-up and take down at the end! The more help we have the more time we have to enjoy the evening and practice!

Check back to page for any changes to this week’s plan!

06/03/2026

Not looking good for riding tomorrow night showing heavy thunderstorms today and Tomorrow night .. maybe next Thursday night will work .. let me know your thoughts…. Cathy

05/26/2026

Thinking about putting together a Ranch Riding night June 4 th at 6:30 if your interested please let me know .. Cathy Ivey

Good afternoon everyone! A couple things I want to chat about! 💥 First off - group admins for the 2026 season!💥 I have a...
04/15/2026

Good afternoon everyone! A couple things I want to chat about!

💥 First off - group admins for the 2026 season!💥
I have a couple of people who have volunteered to help lead the practices! If there are any more people who would like to help spread out responsibilities that would be fantastic! Your job is simply to:
1. Let everyone know if there will be an organized group practice. I will add other admins to this page to use! ( and as always arena is still always open to anyone to ride at any time).
2. Post what practice layout will be. Last year I stuck to patterns, ranch trail in particular, and everyone seemed happy! But it’s always open to other structured ideas!
3. I typically tried to greet all newcomers.
4. Help set up and take down any patterns related set-up.
The goal of this group was to create a positive space for people to ride with others, feel confident to try new things, and get some show practice with our horses! This was not designed to be a structured lesson taught by one person, but where everyone can help everyone out… a community effort you could say. Please take some time to consider helping out so this group can continue and offer more for everyone! Most likely will run week of June 1 to when school starts!

💥 Second discussion: CLINIC IDEA 💥
Everyone seems very interested in a ranch riding clinic. Would anyone be open to doing one during the fair? I have several clinicians in mind I could contact.

Would you be interested in a clinic during the Brown county fair week mid August? (Thinking that Tuesday. Or maybe the weekend just before fair week kicks off.) would you just flat out want another time?

🤔 Please feel free to share your thoughts on this! It’s the middle of April so if we want to have a clinic we should get someone scheduled very soon!

Good morning, everyone! I hope everyone had a good winter! Although spring is making its appearance very slowly I though...
04/07/2026

Good morning, everyone!

I hope everyone had a good winter! Although spring is making its appearance very slowly I thought this would be a good time to chat about our ranch riding get togethers for the 2026 season!

This season I (Allisa) am not going to be able to participate much and I want to put some feelers out there for adding more admins to our page and to help organize our weekly ranch ridings! Also, that way the responsibility is not on one person to manage all season. I always thought it would be great to see this group continue to grow in what it offers for everyone. A few fun ideas I’ve had were a local ranch show, or having clinics that is specific to ranch riding as a couple of examples!

Last year was only our first year and I had a lot of feedback from many who really enjoyed coming to this. We always had between 10-15 people. About half who always came, and half were new! I feel the ranch riding discipline is something many feel like they can relate to, enjoy and can accomplish with their horse. And unlike many other disciplines this is an inviting discipline for horse & rider from most any walk of life. We had such a great group of people who were helpful, and many others who felt comfortable to try something they hadn’t done before. I’d love to see this continue again. If you enjoyed what we did last summer please take some time to think about helping organize it this year for others to enjoy again! Message me here or my personal page if you would like to help this season!

10/27/2025

If anyone would like to get the judges perspective in ranch trail watch this video to see how they scored this horse and rider!

Hey everyone! Sorry for the late post! It seems like everyone has mostly had their fill of the ranch riding practice for...
09/09/2025

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the late post! It seems like everyone has mostly had their fill of the ranch riding practice for the season, or others I’ve talk to have other obligations going on. So we will table this practice until next spring! As always the arena is still available to all until whoever is in charge decides to lock the gates for winter. (I don’t know when that will be) over the winter I will share ranch riding posts I see that offer tips or how-to’s pertaining to ranch riding so keep an eye out for those!

Hope everyone has a good winter, and we will reconvene next spring!

Just two of us decided to go ride tonight, but man was it ever a beautiful night! Really nice breeze to keep bugs down, ...
09/03/2025

Just two of us decided to go ride tonight, but man was it ever a beautiful night! Really nice breeze to keep bugs down, nice temps, and real good company! We kept it simple and worked on some of our own things tonight.

Big question to ask… Is anyone interested in gathering to ride weekly still? Would changing to a Saturday entice anyone to come? Or Is everyone over hauling for the season? We still have good sized group every week, but I know with school back in session, and it starting to get dark earlier that can change who is able to attend! Would love some feedback! I thought we could continue through September, but if everyone has other things they’re doing we can table this until next spring/summer!

Ranch riding practice tomorrow at 6:30pm! Here is our pattern for the night! See you tomorrow!
09/02/2025

Ranch riding practice tomorrow at 6:30pm! Here is our pattern for the night!

See you tomorrow!

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