You can be a Foster Friend to one of our horses
in our Therapeutic Riding Program!

Thank you for sponsoring the Annual Therapeutic Riding Show
The Swinerton Foundation
Ms. Norma Goodnight

Helen Woodward Animal Center thanks "The Country Friends" and The "Menard Foundation" for their support of our Therapeutic Riding program!

Special thanks to Linda Pfleger Edwards and the Harriet E. Pfleger Foundation, Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation, Elizabeth and Donald Dickinson Foundation, and the Toby Wells Foundation for making our weekly riding lessons possible

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"Derby Day," our annual Therapeutic Riding Horse Show, was held on Saturday, May 2, 2009.

See the photos!

See the story reported through the eyes of North County Times photographer Bill Wechter and reporter Renee Haines.

Another glimpse of the 2009 Therapeutic Riding Horse Show as told by Del Mar Times correspondent Hector Trujillo

We have found a new location for our Therapeutic Riding Program at a private training facility. This location is in the Del Dios area near Lake Hodges and is called Oakridge Farm. We are incredibly grateful for the warm welcome from the property’s owner, Jacqui Grande. 

This new facility provides a setting that is both quiet and secure. We look forward to being able to progress with our program’s goals. We anticipate being able to stay at this location until the Center has completed its renovations and is ready for our return.

We will be taking the next few weeks to get the program set up and let our horses get comfortable with their new home. In January we will have the clients return for Session 1 of 2009.  

We extend our gratitude to the Weinberg’s for the opportunity to conduct our program from the gorgeous property known as the Rocky Mountain Warmblood Farm over the past few years.  

A very big thank you to the volunteers who helped us move and let us use their vehicles to get the equipment to the new facility: Sarah D., Donna O., Michelle C., Laura H., Barbara B., Cori M., Anita B., Wendy R., Norma G., Mary., Dana D. Sean S., Megan S.,  and Pippa R.  

We would like to extend a gigantic thank you to Mandy Porter and Craig Starr.  Their generosity of time and use of their trailers to haul our horses to Oakridge Farm got all of them over there safely and smoothly.  You have been a absolute pleasure to work with and we will miss watching you ride!  

The therapeutic riding program would like to also give a huge thank you to Dr. Vasquez for donating most of the vaccinations and pharmaceutical supplies that our therapy horses have needed. We also appreciate all the surgical procedures and follow up care on the special cases he has worked on for us.  We are extremely grateful for all of the support he has given our special equines over the last few years. 

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