OUR PROGRAMS:
Seven Oaks Farm is one of the happiest dressage barns in California. Whether you hope to train at the FEI level or to have the best seat and position possible or to spend hours each week around horses, we provide a safe and friendly environment to help you achieve your goals.
We have dressage schoolmasters, school horses for beginners, and offer dressage training and horseback riding lessons, as well as low-key farm visits. You can train on your horse, or take lessons on ours, to get the feel of a new movement or to borrow when your horse needs some time off. You can learn to handle a horse, ride a horse, or just hang out with one.
As teachers, we want you and your horse (or our horse!) to be safe and happy. We assume that "happy" includes making progress in dressage, so we work you fairly hard. However, we never yell at you and we also assume that you are doing the best that you can do. The atmosphere at our barn is positive and encouraging; even the international-level riders remember that they were dressage beginners once and are as friendly as everyone else you will meet.
We require our mounted students to wear SEI-ASTM approved hard hats with the most recent safety standards, breeches, gloves, and riding boots (tall or paddock, the latter with half-chaps). If you don't currently have that equipment, we can loan you whatever you are missing for a few lessons.