Silver Reins 4-H Light Horse Club begins a New Year

Alex Russell – Club Reporter
Silver Reins 4-H Light Horse Club

The New Year is here and Silver Reins 4H Light Horse Club is ready to start riding and have a good time. Usually at about 8-9 am all the Silver Reins members go out to catch their horses, load and trailer them into town to get started on their busy day. When you first walk into the Pincher Creek Pavilion there is a schedule that you follow. On this schedule all your activities are listed that you will be doing throughout the day. The schedule consists of your ride time, when the meeting is, when you do your record books about your horse “project”, and craft and theory time.

The crafts that all the members do are great fun. The crafts that we have done in the past range all the way from making your own tack boxes, to decorating picture frames made out of horse shoes. Silver Reins riding instructor Karen Jarvie has been with our Club for the past two years and has been a huge help to all the members. She teaches us about ourselves and the horses. Karen can see the smallest details. Half the time you don’t even know it yourself that you’ve been doing something wrong, but when you take the advice that Karen has provided to you everything changes and your riding improves... no matter how small the adjustment is!

 Then there is theory time where you learn all about your horse; for example horse confirmation, information about tack or what to look for when your horse is sick and lots more. Record books are the part of the day when you record all the expenses of having a horse, the food your horse has been eating, the price to haul your horse to 4-H days or shows and all your 4-H activities that you have participated in, and their expenses. Then at the end of the day if it’s not too late some of the groups get to-do some fun exercises.

Billie Lowe helps Erica MacKenzie do an apple turnover flip

The Junior Silver Reins members are having some fun learning how to do an apple turnover flip at the end of their lesson. Pictured here, Erica MacKenzie is on her Welsh Mountain Pony Marry Legs doing an apple turnover flip with the help of Billie Lowe.

Alex Russell – Club Reporter
Silver Reins 4H Light Horse Club
Pincher Creek, AB