Boarding

Horse of Course Stables offers “full” board for $550/month.  The horse lives in an individual paddock.  This allows individualized care. Your horse can still have friends over the fence but we can cater to your horse’s individual needs. All have access to a shelter, stall, or shade sail.  Horses are fed grain/feed twice a day and hay 2-3 times per day.  Alfalfa can be fed for additional cost. Paddocks and water troughs cleaned regularly. Full board also includes a blanketing service when it’s under 32 degrees and will fly spray and feed supplements. We have a couple pastures as well. $500/month, horses fed grain twice a day, coastal round bale supplied as free choice hay. Knowledgable owner lives on site. Come set up a tour of our beautiful facility.

Horse Training

 

 

 

Alexa uses natural horsemanship to start the communication and develop a relationship with the horse.  Under saddle the same principles apply.  She then also uses her centered riding methods and basic classical dressage to the horse no matter what breed or discipline.  Therefore she trains for many disciplines: dressage, hunter, jumper, reining , and gaited horses, such as Paso Fino and the Tennessee Walker.

Birthday Parties

 

 

 

Call to Book a Party!  Let your kids have the best birthday of their dreams! We have a large covered carport with a fridge and freezer, as well as a bathroom. Time slots are 2.5 hours, and we provide a decorated horse for the riders to have what is called a pony ride. A pony ride can be on a horse, it’s just a term for being lead! Our horse Sparky, is the best horse for the job!  Themes such as Unicorn and Dinosaur are available at your request! Prices start at $300!  Contact us for more information and how we can help!

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Horsemanship and Riding Lessons

 

Horsemanship Lessons are $75 for a private 55 minute lesson.  Monthly packages are available $220 for 4 lessons done within a month.  Lessons are taught by the owner, Alexa Kapp.  She has certifications through Meredith Manor in teaching.  Not only will students learn how to ride, but they will also learn how to develop a relationship with the horse by learning how to groom, tack, free lunge, heed and much more!  Meet our lesson horses below.

 

Lesson Horses

 

 

Sarge

 

Unfortunately we lost our dear Sarge in August 2019. He will be forever missed by so many students! Rest In Peace Good Boy!

Meet Sarge! He is a 2006 model, appendix gelding.

  • Color: Chestnut
  • Height: 16 hh
  • Facts: He’s the best babysitter horse. Anyone can ride him. He stops when the rider gets too off-balance.
  • Favorite speed: Halt – “woah”
  • Favorite treat: Range cubes

 

 

princess

 

Meet Princess!  She is a 2004 registered paint mare.

  • Color: Black and white paint
  • Height: 15.1 hh
  • Facts:  She is an intermediate/advanced lesson horse.  She’s blind in her left eye, but that doesn’t stop her from all-day trail rides and learning to jump!
  • Favorite speed:  Fast.  Walk fast, trot fast and canter fast.

 

 

 

Meet Honeybee is a 2010 Paso Fino mare.

  • Color: Dun
  • Height: 14.2 hh
  • Facts:  She was born and trained by Alexa in North Carolina.  They both ended up in Texas.  Honeybee is now part of the lesson program.  Once students learn how to canter and control their seat, they then learn how their body weight affects the horse. HB is sensitive and if you shift weight into one seat bone more than the other, she turns. If you tuck your bum and breathe out and sit heavy, she tucks her butt underneath her and halts! The students enjoy riding “the smoothest breed in the world!” She really love hitting the trails and swimming with students in the river!
  • Favorite speed:  Largo – or as fast as you let her go
  • Favorite Treat:  Apples

 

 

Jazzi

 

Meet Jazzira Bint Rafiq! “Jazzi” is a 2008 Fleabitten Grey Arabian mare

  • Color: Fleabitten Grey
  • Height: 15 hh
  • Facts: Jazzi is great on a lunge line, for beginners as well as jumping and trail rides. She has become a favorite among the students beginners through advanced.
  • Favorite speed: Trot or slow walk
  • Favorite treat: Range cubes and getting scratched and loved on!

 

 

 

Meet BASKE AFIRESPARK CA (aka Sparky or Squirt)! He a 2008 Model Gelding

  • Color: Bay
  • Height: 15.2 hh
  • Facts: Sparky is our goofy Arabian gelding! He is calm for an Arabian and will pack around beginners as well as jump and is learning to be a trail horse.
  • Favorite speed: Walk
  • Favorite treat: Anything he can get his hooves on!

 

 

 

Quizno was put to rest in fall of 2021 🙁 He was old and had some health problems that would have been too hard on him in the winter. He was laid to rest with a belly full a treats and surrounded by the people he loved.

He was a 2002 model gelding

  • Color: Leopard Appaloosa
  • Height: 15.1 hh
  • Facts: Quizno came to us as a headshy horse but with lots of love and training, he is turning into be a good intermediate horse! He loves going on trailrides and swimming!
  • Favorite speed: Canter
  • Favorite treat: Watermelon

 

 

Jazzi

 

Meet Lilly! She is a Thoroughbred/Arabian 2012 Model

  • Color: Fleabitten Grey
  • Height: 15.3 hh
  • Facts: Lilly is a spirited mare that requires a confident rider. She enjoys being lazy but for the right rider she really shines!
  • Favorite speed: Stop – “Whoa!”
  • Favorite treat: Grass and Naps

 

 

Meet Sonny! Sonny is a 2009 Paint Gelding

  • Color: Brown/White Pinto

  • Height: 14.3hh

  • Facts: We have been lucky enough be able to borrow him in lessons! He was used in a drill team, and has many miles of trails under his belt. He’s now learning how to be a lesson horse for young riders. There’s not a mean bone in this guy’s body. This is him at the 2021 Horse of Course Stables Christmas Party. He’s posing with his smallest rider so far. (He was doing reindeer rides!)

  • Favorite Speed: Depends on the day! He likes them all, as long as he is being told “Good Boy!”

  • Favorite Treat: BBQ Chips and Ice Pops

 

 

 

 

All About Horses Class

We offer 2 class options. “Colts & Fillies” is recommended for children between the ages of 5 and 7.  “All About Horses” is for ages 8 and up, exceptions can be made.  The students learn All About Horses in an outdoor classroom setting. They will be provided weekly handouts we will go over the new information together, then put our learning to the test by applying it to a horse. The students will cover a variety of topics such as, Safety, Horse Body Language, Grooming, Breeds, Disciplines, Colors, Markings, Toxic Plants, Feeding, Equitation, & much much more!