Trail Rides
Please come out to enjoy a TROT trail ride and consider leading a ride yourself! TROT trail rides are fun and a great opportunity to learn new trails, meet other TROT members, and find a new trail riding buddy. To lead a ride, contact our trail ride coordinator, Trot Activity.
To participate in a scheduled ride:
- Contact the ride leader to sign-up and learn the ride’s starting time and other details.
- If a ride is postponed or cancelled, the ride leader will notify you.
- Check the TROT website and TROT and Maryland Trail Riders listservs for the most current ride information.
- All ride participants:
- Helmets are encouraged
- Provide appropriate documentation of current negative Coggins test for the horse, in compliance with Maryland state law.
- Be a TROT member – One-day TROT memberships are available at the ride for $5
If you need a ride to the event or can offer one, please email Trot Activity, so that this information can be included in an upcoming newsletter, or contact the ride leader.
Trail Maintenance
Anytime you are on a trail ride and if safe to do so, you can perform trail maintenance by clipping branches that impede passageway along a trail. In addition, you can participate in scheduled trail maintenance days.
Carolann Sharpe is the TROT Adopt-A-Trail coordinator and she has challenged all TROT members to perform two hours of trail maintenance a year. Please contact Carolann for additional information about participating in trail maintenance activities. She can be reached at president@trot-md.org.
Please report your trail work hours to Amy, who tracks this information for the state; these hours also help assess park usage.
Calendar
Also, come join Anne Arundel County horse lovers at “Horse Talk” gatherings. No membership/no fees. Just come, chat, and
hear a guest speaker or two. The third Tuesday of each month, 7 PM, at Glory Days in Edgewater; run your own tab. See the
Anne Arundel County Horse Network on Facebook or contact Jacquie Cowan (<jacquiecowan@comcast.net> or 410-215-4979).
Saturday, September 21, 2024 Rockin A Horse Show at Carroll County Equestrian Center
FMI: Lynda Arnold 410-984-1494
Saddlin’ Up for Breast Cancer Trail Ride
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Tuckahoe Equestrian Center – Queen Anne, MD
Lunch, Silent Auction, Raffles, Prizes, All Pinked Out Parade & Contest to benefit THE RED DEVILS a 501.c.3
Camping available with reservations
www.SaddlinUpForBreastCancer.org
for more info- capitalchallenge.org
September 28-29th 2024 Waredaca- Laytonsville, Maryland
Click Link to Register for ‘Adult’ Clinic (targeted to ages 12-60):
LandSafe Clinic- Waredaca (striderpro.com)
Click Link to Register for JR Clinic (ages 6-11):
JR LandSafe Clinic- Waredaca (striderpro.com)
Saturday September 28th – Sunday September 29th 2024
$375/ participant- ‘Adult’ Clinic
$190/ participant- JR Clinic
Location: Waredaca
4015 Damascus Rd
Laytonsville, MD 20882
For more information please contact:
Keli Warrington Keli@landsafeequestrian.com 484-459-4974 (text or call)
Katherine Rizzo korizzo@smcm.edu
To Officially Register for Clinics:
The LandSafe clinic is targeted to ages 12 to 60 years old. This is a physical clinic and participants may be asked to amend exercises based off of their physical abilities on the day of the clinic. Anyone over the age of 60 can audit the LandSafe clinic at no cost. The link will direct you to the Strider website to sign up or please do so here- LandSafe Clinic- Waredaca (striderpro.com) Please follow the prompts through the required fields, then use your credit card or pay pal to check out. You will receive an instantaneous email confirmation from Strider once your registration is complete. Please note there is still one more step past the ‘Payment Summary’ page to actually process your entry.
**https://youtu.be/9uaJCwivbto -Here is a short video showing what to expect in your first LandSafe clinic (ages 12-60).
An example of the clinic format for this venue: (morning or afternoon sessions may be requested OR to be grouped with friends. Please list requests in the ‘notes to organizer’ section at check out or send an email at least 2 weeks before the clinic date. Once the participant informational email is sent out the weekend before the clinic which lists session times, we can not make adjustments to your session.)
Friday September 27th
5pm-7pm- JR clinic
Saturday September 28th
8am-12pm- ‘Adult’ clinic Group #1
1pm-5pm- ‘Adult’ clinic Group #2
5pm-7pm- JR clinic returns
Sunday September 29th
8am-12pm- Group #1 returns
1pm-5pm- Group #2 returns
AUDITING IS WELCOME! Fees to LandSafe:
$25 for one day of auditing. $40 for two days
No charge for parents/spouses of participants to audit the clinic. Additionally anyone over the age of 60 years old can audit for free.
In general, LandSafe offers clinics for different age brackets:
-LandSafe clinic (targeted to ages 12-60)
-JR LandSafe clinic (ages 6-11)
-SR LandSafe clinic (ages 60-70)
Please keep an eye on LandSafe’s website to see where each clinic option is being offered throughout the country.
Participant Cancellation policy:
~100% registration refund to participant if participant registration can be filled up until clinic date.
~50% registration refund to participant (if participant registration can not be filled) if needing to cancel from 14 days before the start of the clinic to 48 hours before the start of the clinic
~No registration refund to participant 48 hours or less from clinic start date if registration can not be filled
~Handling/Payment processing fees are held by PayPal and are NOT refundable at any point in time from LandSafe
Tuckahoe Equestrian Center Celebration of the Horse
Saturday, October 5, 2024
10 AM – 4 PM
Join all for a day of celebrating everything equine
$3 parking fee per car- Free Admission
Multi Discipline Demonstration:
Jumping, Driving, Dressage, Western Pleasure, Western Dressage, Jousting, Mounted Shooting, Trick Riding, Natural Horsemanship, Mounted Archery, Therapeutic Riding, Mounted Search and Rescue
Food Available
Equine and non-equine vendors wanted.
Hats from Horses Ride- Woodstock Inn (Woodstock MD)
10:30 AM- 3 PM
For more info contact Carolann at Carolann Sharpe <blackandwhitecookieequine@gmail.com>
https://mdhorsecouncil.org/events/ for google link to the meeting
Also, come join Anne Arundel County horse lovers at “Horse Talk” gatherings. No membership/no fees. Just come, chat, and
hear a guest speaker or two. The third Tuesday of each month, 7 PM, at Glory Days in Edgewater; run your own tab. See the
Anne Arundel County Horse Network on Facebook or contact Jacquie Cowan (<jacquiecowan@comcast.net> or 410-215-4979).