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Thacher’s Horse Program is about so much more than learning to ride. Tenacity, self-confidence, humility, patience, and so much more are gained as students face the challenge of a new riding technique or a stubborn horse and take full responsibility for the animal’s care.
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Walk on the Thacher campus and you’re bound to encounter a pretty unusual sight: Students saddling horses and heading out for an afternoon ride, dust trailing as they hit the Gymkhana Field or a nearby mountain trail. This is the Horse Program, one of the School’s most unique educational experiences—and one of its oldest traditions.
Oct 25, 2016 · W alk on the Thacher campus and you’re bound to encounter a pretty unusual sight: Students saddling horses and heading out for an afternoon ride, dust trailing as they hit the Gymkhana Field or a nearby mountain trail. This is the Horse Program, one of the School’s most unique educational experiences—and one of its oldest traditions.
Thacher’s Horse Program is about so much more than learning to ride. Tenacity, self-confidence, humility, patience, and so much more are gained as students face the challenge of a new riding technique or a stubborn horse and take full responsibility for the animal’s care.
Horse Program Requirement. Unique to Thacher is our Horse Program—designed to complement the learning that takes place in our classrooms with real-world experience and responsibility in our barns. All new students are required to learn to ride and care for a horse—ninth-graders for an entire year, transfer students for one trimester.
The current issue of Eclectic Horseman magazine (#81) profiles Thacher’s horse program. This Web extra provides additional information and interviews about the history of the school and its uncommon integration of equines in high school education.
The most obviously unique aspect of Thacher are the horses. Every freshman is assigned a horse for the year. The freshman must then care for the horse as well as spending most days after school riding.
