Adult, Horse Lovers Having Fun
Welcome to the Brass Ring Riding Club website. We are a chapter of the National Old People's Riding Club. Our purpose is to ride, make new friends and have fun safely while sharing our knowledge, and those of others, on horse disciplines, care and activities.
Who We Are
Although our club is based in Unionville, PA, most Brass Ring members live in Chester, Delaware & Lancaster Counties in PA, New Castle County, DE. or Cecil County, MD. Members are in a variety of horse activities including trail rides, fox hunting, combined training, eventing, and dressage. All Levels of expertise are invited to participate and range from beginners to professionals and trainers. Some of our members do not have there own horses but lease or barrow a mount for activities.
We limit our membership to 45 so we can get to know each other, and have our meetings in each other's homes. Everyone is asked to participate in a number of our business meetings, and volunteer for one or more activities. We are currently accepting new members
What We Do
At our monthly meetings we first chat and mingle while enjoying a potluck dinner. Then we have a business meeting to discuss our recent and future activities. We usually follow with an interesting horse-related educational topic. In July we have our Picnic with a Tack Sale/Swap, November our Annual Elections meeting and in December we have a Holiday Dinner.
We've had talks by members, Vetrinarians and guests about topics including Classical Dressage, horse and rider medical care and emergencies, the Equine Heart, tack safety, Nokota horses, Tai Chi, Biomechanics, Nurology, Lameness and Foxhunting.
Mounted activities have included trail rides by the Brandywine River in Chester County, Unionville, PA, Valley Forge National Park, Fair Hill, MD, C&D Canal and Lumbs Pond in Delaware. We have conducted De-Spooking clinics, Centered Riding, OPRC tests, dressage and jumping clinics. We have also spent weekends at the Fair Hill Natural Resource Area and at away-camp for cross country training at Olde Hope Farms in MD.
