Revised February 2024
IV. EQUESTRIAN RULES AND ETIQUETTE
Stable Etiquette
1. Members are expected to clean up and remove their horse ’s “droppings” from any riding arena as soon as possible to preserve the footing. Members should also take precautions to minimize horses urinating in the arenas. 2. Grooming stalls are for grooming your horse and wash stalls are for bathing your horse. Please be considerate and use these stalls accordingly, and please clean up any debris or manure left behind in these areas. 3. Blankets, sheets, turn-outs, and boots should be hung neatly on your horse ’ s stall door or on grooming stall hooks provided for such purposes while grooming, tacking, or riding your horse. They should not be left in the grooming stall once you have put your horse away. 4. No feeding of any private horse (carrots included) is allowed unless the owner has given permission. School horses must have permission from stable management to be given treats. 5. Under no circumstances shall a non- owner enter a private horse’s stall without permission of the owner or trainer. 6. Petting of horses is risky business. Parents, please watch your children. Members, please watch your guests. 7. Stable hours should be observed. Members should complete riding in time to have their horses in their stalls by 10 PM. When lights are out, the Stable is closed, except in cases of emergency. 8. Members may decorate their horse's stall doors for various holidays beginning two weeks before the holiday. Decorations should be removed and put away no later than one week after the holiday. Decorating a school horse’s stall requires approval from stable management. Decorations in riding arenas are allowed only with trainer approval.
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