Here he is! Profound is a 15.2 hand 12 year-old chestnut Oldenburg gelding. This will be his first year at Rockbrook camp and he’s excited to get to know all the campers. Profound was a show horse for several years before coming to St. Andrews College and still gets to do horse [...]

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Here’s a cool image from our equestrian programs at camp, not a photograph exactly, but a colorized sketch made from a photo. There’s a new website called befunky.com where you can upload a picture and turn it into something like this. It’s not available to the public just yet, but we were able [...]

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Here’s a set of photos taken one day last summer during our equestrian program. It was a particularly nice day, so we took quite a lot .

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This morning Rockbrook hosted its very own horse show, and many of the campers participated in the event. Parents were also invited and were able to watch their kids in the show. The show was optional, and some of the campers did some last minute packing instead. The other kids went to their scheduled first [...]

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It’s really getting exciting around here now because the horses are starting to arrive! Several have made it up from South Carolina, a few from Virginia, and a bunch from down in Laurinburg, North Carolina. It’s great to see them back in the Rockbrook fields. They’ll also be enjoying the latest addition to [...]

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Going to an equestrian camp, a summer camp that offers a quality horseback riding program, is one of the best things you can do to improve your riding skills. It gives you a chance to learn from new instructors, to hear about different techniques, and to simply practice everything in a new environment. [...]

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