Getting Started – Lesson Procedures
Get Back To The Basics with BHEC!
Our guidelines to make your time at BHEC as care-free as possible.
- Please drive slowly (5-mph) up the driveway and around the property at all times.
- We expect you to arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of your lesson so that you can groom and tack up your lesson horse as well as to take care of any additional needs.
- When you arrive, go directly to the office and sign-in.
- Late arrivals will get the remainder of lesson time allotted to them or lesson will be considered missed. We will try our best to accommodate you if the instructor has availability.
- Applying the procedures that you learned in the INTRODUCTION LESSON, you will then start preparing your horse for your lesson. For novice riders, you will have an Instructor or an Instructors aid assisting you. Students that are self sufficient, when your time is ready, walk your horse out to your designated ring and wait for your instructor to give you the ok to mount.
- After your lesson, you are expected to un-tack your horse, unless another student is using your horse in the next lesson. Plan to stay at least 30 minutes after your lesson to care for your horse. Weather conditions may require you to provide additional horse care — such as sponging down, walking a hot horse, blanketing, etc.
Scheduling Lessons
You may schedule lessons in person or by phone, call (239) 592-1033. We are open 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday and 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Sundays are closed to private owners and special make-up lessons. When calling, if you do not receive a live person, please leave a message and someone will get back to you with-in the hour. Your call is a priority to us.
Canceling Lessons
Please remember that your lesson time has been set aside especially for you. Cancellations due to illness are accepted with a physician's note. Since your lesson reserves time with your instructor and the exclusive use of a school horse, a 24-hour notice is required otherwise last minute cancellations will be charged and strictly enforced. An overwhelming amount of cancellations will result in probation and possibly taken off the schedule and back on the waiting list. We ask that you write out of town dates one month or more in advance on the vacation sign out sheet located in the office next to the sign in sheet, verbal authorization will not be accepted. No show charges are strictly enforced. All cancellations by Bobbin Hollow Equestrian Center, Inc. will be credited. All other missed lessons and no-shows will be charged. Bad weather lessons will be un-mounted and are mandatory.
Procedures for Rainy Day & Bad Weather
Please do not assume that your lesson has been cancelled. In place of your riding lesson you will have a mandatory hands-on horsemanship class. This is very important to becoming a better horseman and/or horsewoman.
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