Beginner - Level Curriculum Goals
Campers will learn:
  • The parts of the saddle
  • The parts of the bridle
  • Five Major parts of the horse
  • Three riding aids
  • Basic grooming equipment used on a horse
  • The five basic coat colors
  • How to tell when a horse is adequately "cooled out"
Campers will be able to demonstrate:
  • The proper way to approach a stabled horse
  • How to groom, tack up, including picking up &
    cleaning hooves
  • The correct way to lead a horse
  • Mounting and dismounting techniques
  • Walking, posting trot, and halting
  • Riding a figure 8
  • Mucking out a stall
  • Haltering and unhaltering
  • How to properly turn out a horse
Prices
Monday - Friday
We have 2 camp options available:
Full Day Camp 8am - 4pm
$300.00 per camper
Half Day Camp 8am - 12pm
$150.00 per camper
During the full day camp
we will break one hour for lunch.
Please bring a sack lunch.  We will provide
refreshments for snacks.
Each camper will receive a Central Illinois
Equestrian Center t-Shirt and camp diploma
Intermediate-Level curriculum Goals
Campers will Learn:
  • The basic differences between and good and poor conformation
  • Basic horse rations
  • Inoculations that horses must have annually
  • How to take a horse's temperature
  • The difference between a stallion, gelding, mare, colt, filly, and
    foal
  • Two major parasites affecting horses and how to prevent them
  • The step sequence for the walk, trot, canter, and gallop
  • Cross-cantering and counter-cantering
  • The aids used to ask a horse for the right leads
Campers will demonstrate:
  • Bathing a horse
  • Pulling a mane
  • How to disassemble, clean, and reassemble a saddle and bridle
  • First aid for minor horse cuts
  • Taking a horse's temperature
  • How to braid a mane
  • How to give and accept a leg up
  • How to jump a two-foot course of fences
  • Riding a figure 8 and serpentine
  • Posting on the correct diagonal and cantering on the correct lead
  • Riding safely on the trail
  • Posting to the trot without stirrups
  • Blanketing and unblaketing a horse
Advanced-Level Curriculum Goals
Campers will learn:
  • Ten parts of the horse's musculoskeletal system
  • About floating teeth
  • The gestation periods of a mare
  • How many teeth male and female horses have
  • The age at which a junior rider loses junior status
  • How many hands high is a small, medium, and large pony
  • Four color breeds
  • The official birthday of Thoroughbreds
  • To identify a splint, a wind puff , and a bowed tendon
  • The initial treatment for colic
  • The amount of water horses require daily
Campers will demonstrate:
  • Braiding a tail
  • Fitting a saddle and bridle
  • Treatment for thrush
  • Treatment for abscesses
  • Longeing a horse
  • How to prepare a brand mash
  • Riding a three-foot course of fences
  • Simple and flying lead changes
  • Turning on the forehand
  • Jumping without stirrups
Typical Camp Day
8:00 am:    
Review of events of the day and explain or reiterate safety rules.  
Students get a short lesson based on the curriculum for their level.  
Students groom and tack up, with assistance from our instructors as necessary.
9:15 am:
Mounted hour-long lesson, starting with mounted stretching exercises.
10:15 am:
Students cool down horses, sponge if necessary.
Groom and put away tack.
Noon:
Lunch break
1 pm:
Listen to a ground lecture and watch a demonstration on subjects such as grooming for show or horse health.  
2 pm:
Students groom again and tack up.
2:30 pm:
Mounted games and activities
3:30 pm:
Students cool down horses, groom put away tack, and gather their belongings to leave at 4 pm.
Counter
At the end of the week on Fridays we will offer a
real mini-horse show (parents invited!) in which
campers earn ribbons for their achievement.
Central Illinois Equestrian Center
Youth Camps
reservation Deposit
$50.00 Classes
Limited to 15
WE WILL NOT BE RUNNING OUR
YOUTH CAMPS THIS SUMMER
DUE TO HIGH GAS PRICES.

WE WILL RE-OPEN THE CAMPS
SUMMER OF 2009

AFTER WE MOVE INTO THE
PEKIN AREA