McFarlane Riding Academy is the perfect place for you to have a fun and safe horse experience! We specialize in meeting the needs of every beginning rider with solid foundations before advancing to the next level.

OUR FARM:

Goldenfields Horse Boarding Stables is a boarding, horseback riding and trail riding farm on a beautiful private 31 acre Farm in Jackson Twp, NJ 3 miles from 195. We are a family oriented, horseback riding stable and farm located Central New Jersey. We offer a fun yet safe horse experience or all who visit the farm. 

Lessons and Training

Private Lessons:  

In your one hour private lesson every beginner will be taught to groom the horse as well as how to tack up with all the proper equipment. You will then have about 30-40 minutes of one-on-one instruction that ends with cooling out the horse, un-tacking, and grooming before we put your horse back in the pasture. As students gain experience and confidence with tacking, grooming, steering, walking, trotting, and cantering they will be eligible for our semi private lessons.

Semi Private Lessons:

In your semi private lesson there will be a maximum of 3 students in each one hour lesson. Students are required to have the horse groomed and tacked up by the lesson time so we can take advantage of the full one hour session. Therefore, I would allow about 20 minutes before and after for the student to groom, tack/untack, and cool out the horse.

Little Tike Lessons:

Our Little Tike Lessons are for children between the ages of 3 and 5. They are  45 minutes long and we teach each child one-on-one how to groom, what each item is and how to tack up. Once we are all tacked up and ready to go we have about  20-30 minutes of instruction before we un-tack and groom the horse to put back in the pasture.

Training:

Training sessions are for your own personal horse. They are 45 minutes to an hour of professional training. We work with young horses, ex-race horses, problem horses, yearlings etc.