Anchorage Horse Council at William Clark Chamberlin Equestrian Center

06/09/2025

🐎WCCEC 2025 events are up and running🐎

✅ First jumping show of the season
✅ First dressage show of the season
✅ First barrel races of the season

🔜 Dan Fowlie Memorial Rodeo this weekend

And thanks again to our members. Everyone who joins the WCCEC or has an event there helps make it possible to keep our special facility going, since 1984😊

See the links in the comments

06/05/2025

💐 WCCEC Spring Membership Drive Prize WINNERS! 🏆 - https://mailchi.mp/a9a25901b163/first-events-at-wccec-in-21164580

05/29/2025

We will do another drawing for three more winners on Friday May 30. If you have been thinking about joining now is as good a time as any! Check our current membership list in the comments, 67 members strong ⬇️

05/28/2025

There is a barrel race tonight and jumpers will start arriving this evening for their Thur-Sun show. Please be courteous when parking. Thank you!

05/14/2025

Anchorage Horse Council is seeking two additional board members:

1) someone with bookeeping experience who is familar with Quickbooks to help with our bookeeping

2) someone who could capably operate our website, which uses Squarespace and comfortably perform other computer type tasks

We are currently a board of 8 individuals, we meet monthly, and all feel strongly about keeping the WCCEC up and running and in good shape for equestrian users now and into the future! Message any board member with questions, I’ll put a couple of links in the comments ⬇️

05/12/2025

🙏Thank you to everyone who has joined over this last weekend, we are 58 members strong! All of your memberships DIRECTLY support the maintenance of the WCCEC and help it continue to exist. Current membership list in the comments 😇

05/09/2025

💐 WCCEC Spring Membership Drive Updates and T Shirts - https://mailchi.mp/175824d524ff/first-events-at-wccec-in-21164193

05/09/2025

WWCEC is open! 10AM - 10PM

MEMBERSHIP / DAY USE - Membership or day usage fee is required to use the facility.

WATER - We are on the Municipality’s schedule to get the water turned on and anticipate it being on by Memorial Day! Please plan accordingly until it is turned on.

COGGINS/EIA - We are in the process of updating our rules & regs…one notable change is Coggins/EIA certificates within 1 yr (vs 6 mo). Be sure to confirm if your various equine discipline requires 6 mos or less.

04/28/2025

🐎 Thank you to everyone who has joined the WCCEC over the weekend, we sure appreciate y’all 🤗

04/25/2025

💐 WCCEC Spring Membership Drive and T Shirts - https://mailchi.mp/b0838a4f8e73/first-events-at-wccec-in-21163918

02/27/2025

Given ongoing reports of confrontational behavior on the trails in Ruth Arcand Park over the last week or two we shall take this opportunity to state that this place, the Ruth Arcand Park, is a public park. It is there for the enjoyment and recreation of the public. That includes MANY user groups. Horses are included. For clarity’s sake, and in order to address confusion, horses do not, in fact, have exclusive rights to use these trails.

Everyone PLEASE simply treat one another respectfully and “internalize” the fact that these are shared trails and you can expect to encounter other humans, dogs, wild animals, downed trees, etc.

As we all know the last five years have been very hard on the Anchorage horse community and our opportunities are fewer than they once were. On that note I ask my fellow equestrians to bring their best selves when they interact with the general public. Also please read about Ruth Arcand below.

-Raena (Anchorage Horse Council volunteer board president)

🟢 Ruth Arcand was born in Lubbock, Texas in 1918, and graduated from Texas Tech University in 1941 with a degree in journalism. During World War II she served in the Navy as a WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). In 1947, she came to Alaska to work as a link trainer operator for Pacific Northern Airlines, and was one of the first homesteaders in the O’Malley area of Anchorage. Active in community affairs, Ruth Arcand served for four years on the first borough parks and recreation board, and also served as a board member to the Anchorage Ski Club, Hilltop Youth Inc., and the Huffman-O’Malley Community Council. She has also served as chairman to various civic groups including the Alaska State Federation of Women’s Clubs, Conservation Department, the Homemakers Club, and the O’Malley Road Clean-Up. Beginning in 1968, Ruth Arcand organized and ran the successful effort to have state land Section 16 in the O’Malley-Huffman area declared parkland and protected from development or sale. The effort succeeded in 1985 and the land was named Ruth Arcand Park in her honor that same year. Arcand died in 1997.

01/06/2025

We’ve had a lot of inquiries about use of the Equidome over the last weeks. Per our long time agreement with EATA, all Equidome arrangements and maintenance is up to EATA. Please contact EATA if you are interested in using the Equidome.

Equidome Rental Rental of the Equidome requires a rental agreement AND liability release for every user for each calendar year of use, prepayment, and scheduling with EATA for use time. Step 1: Click here to download the rental form. Click here for the liability release form (required). Forms may be...