Excalibur Training and Boarding Facility

08/05/2025

We have begun to upgrade our fences, there is still so much to do but Eli and Richard have been such good sports getting it done😂

04/23/2024

Hello everyone,
Coming into summer everyone is gonna wanna start riding again. Excalibur is going to go ahead and open up our arena to allow haul ins Sunday, Tuesday and Friday for a open ride type arrangement 9am-9pm $10 a person per day or you can do a $95 a month pass. we are limited to parking so if you are thinking about stopping in to ride a heads up would be mighty appreciated we will have sign in sheets and of course your first time here we will need to go over arena and barn rules and sign papers. Thanks again and hope this helps the horse community out.

06/14/2022

This. Always

05/05/2021

Unlike humans, horses are designed to run on a full stomach. Feeding your horse 2-3L of chaff or a biscuit of hay prior to exercise has two benefits :
1️⃣ The chaff will form a ball of feed in the stomach, which will help prevent acid from splashing up from the lower part of the stomach to cause gastric ulcers.
2️⃣ Blood is normally diverted away from the stomach during exercise, which reduces some of its normal protective mechanisms. Research has shown that feeding your horse before exercise actually reduces the amount of blood that is shunted away from the stomach and also increases the amount of blood delivered to the skeletal muscles and muscles of the chest. So not only are you helping to protect the stomach, you also might be improving your horse’s performance.
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02/10/2021

02/02/2021

Yes

01/22/2021

Hahaha

01/13/2021

01/02/2021

Greetings all. Happy New Year.
Excalibur has 2 self board stall available. 503 791 9110...503 792 5508

12/01/2020

"Am I a good rider?" she asked, pensively, sat upon her 14.2 cob, covered in poo stains that she couldn’t quite get out before her lesson, that she had persuaded her mum to buy a year ago for just £400 as he wasn’t wanted any more.

"Why do you ask that?" her instructor replied, for she knew how this young girl felt - her eyes often lingered somewhere in between her horse's ears or the other side of the school when teaching.

"Because I want to be one."

Her instructor pondered on this for a good few minutes, whilst reassuring the nervous cob in front, and then said:
"A good rider is not someone who buys flashy horses and competes every Saturday and makes it to the top within a year.
A good rider is not someone who jumps the highest jumps or owns the fastest horse.
A good rider isn’t made just because they’ve been riding since they were 3.
A good rider is not someone who can move their forward horse forward...

No..........

A good rider is that pony clubber you see fall off every time she gets on something new, yet still gets back on with a smile on her face.
A good rider is that girl who cries in the tack room because of how her horse behaved and how hard it’s been to cope watching everyone else be successful, but to her it seems like she is the only one failing, yet still rewards her horse with a treat and a smile because at least he was better than last time.
A good rider is the boy with the angel horse, yet doesn’t claim any of its successes for himself. 'It was all him,' he would say, 'I just sat to it.’
A good rider listens.
A good rider is soft.
A good rider makes sure the horse is always happy,
As a matter of fact, a good rider often has nothing to do with the riding.
If you love it, and you try, and you try again, even when you fall off and it was your fault, even when people point because your seat isn’t quite as deep as they’d prefer, if you never give up, that’s what makes a good rider."

by Daisy Henderson