Pegasus Riding Academy sponsored a St.Paddy’s breakfast yesterday at a wonderful location on Bull Street. It was more of a FUNraiser, as a great time was had by all. Many thanks to Alison & Rob Sutter for their support and hospitality!
Students Excel in Winter Session
PRA is so proud to have completed another riding session with happy, productive children! Great progress was made such as sitting up straight in the saddle to wearing sunglasses for the first time in years. Remember folks…it is the little things. There are children that I would love to serve, but we need support to complete our mission. If your […] Continue Reading
Winter Session 2014 Volunteer Training
Volunteer training takes place next Saturday Jan 18th, please come along, all welcome! Pegasus Riding Academy is a therapeutic riding program providing equine assisted activities for individuals in Savannah with physical, mental or emotional disabilities. Winter session is starting January 27th and volunteers are needed to assist these special children. Experience with horses not required. Volunteer orientation will be 10:30 […] Continue Reading
PRA in Savannah Morning News Story
Great story in the Savannah Morning News today. Please read it and share it. Perhaps it will touch the heart strings that are attached to the purse strings. Horses are expensive. However, to quote a friend, “you can’t do this with golf carts”. Thanks Savannah Morning News & Clea Hernandez. The title of the article is “Pegasus Riding Academy Gets […] Continue Reading
PRA Completes First Riding Session
Pegasus Riding Academy is proud to have completed its first riding session. Six students soon bonded with nine volunteers for a truly productive experience. In addition to better riding skills, we saw our students challenged in social skills make eye contact with other riders, they began to mouth the words or make sounds to queue the horse and they showed […] Continue Reading
Donor Gives Horse Trailer to PRA
Riding Centers could not exist without volunteers and donations. Mrs. Rhetta Yount made a generous donation of a horse trailer. This trailer will no doubt in the future carry riders to Special Olympic competitions. The trailer had been sitting waiting on repairs. Mike Cross is a one man army and volunteer extraordinaire! With assistance from Tom and myself (very little […] Continue Reading
Pumpkin Carving & Chili Cookoff
A great crowd of supporters, volunteers, kids, family and friends gathered for a gorgeous fall day of activities to celebrate the first special event to be held at Wicklow for Pegasus Riding Academy Savannah. Attendees learned about involvement opportunities, plus enjoyed pumpkin carving, delicious chili, bobbing for apples, pony rides and more. Robin Jenkins and I teamed up again for […] Continue Reading
New Facilities and Amenities for Pegasus at Wicklow
New amenities for Pegasus have been completed at our Wicklow Farms location. A new mounting ramp to allow wheelchair bound riders to safely mount a horse, a wooden training horse to get riders used to adopting the correct posture before trying the real thing, and our own dedicated access directly on to the arena, wide enough for the horse and […] Continue Reading
Parelli Donates to Pegasus
Pegasus is proud to announce support from Parelli Education Institute, an independent, non-profit organization for the natural horsemanship community that focuses on education. Their purpose is to support an advanced natural horsemanship education for students with the skills and aptitude to become extraordinary horsemen, educators, or both. They offer educational assistance to those focused on youth horsemanship, therapeutic horsemanship, and […] Continue Reading