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| 24* 4thAnnual MTRA Golf Tournament at 8:30 am |
25 | 26 | 27 | 28* HITS Family Weekend all day |
29* HITS Family Weekend all day |
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Calendar by Kieran O'Shea
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Have you heard? Are you one of the avid Oscar Mayer Wienermobile fans tracking their tour sites? Well, look no more... the Wienermobile is coming to Ocala March 7th to the Habitat Strawberry Festival! Over 100 vendors, car show, live music, contests, kids zone, fresh strawberries... and yes, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile!
And when the day wraps at the festival, you can drive just up the road to the Ocala Downtown Square area for the The Horse Capital Parade, presented by Live Oak International to see the many beautiful horse breeds right here in Marion County! It will be a day full of fun and new memories!
And when the day wraps at the festival, you can drive just up the road to the Ocala Downtown Square area for the The Horse Capital Parade, presented by Live Oak International to see the many beautiful horse breeds right here in Marion County! It will be a day full of fun and new memories!
We want to share going into this final week of voting for the MTRA Therapy Horse of the Year... we have been overwhelmed and so very grateful for the love and attention shown to our herd through this campaign with 3,534 votes coming in between February 1st through the 22nd... as we enter our final week of voting, we simply thank you for supporting MTRA and especially supporting our herd!
If you have ever wondered what being a therapeutic horse entails - we can share a little now. Therapeutic Horses face different challenges than many of their counterparts in various disciplines. They are asked to accept and remain quiet and calm despite being placed in unusual or unnatural situations. They are often crowded with a leader and sometimes two sidewalkers on either side. They are asked to walk between ramps, align with wheelchair ramps and mechanical lifts. They sometimes wear adaptive equipment and accept their riders and support team utilizing their own adaptive equipment. Therapeutic Horses are asked to remain calm and quiet, even if their rider is a little or becomes unbalanced, even if their rider goes into a seizure, no matter what kind of face their neighbor horse makes at them, and no matter what type of energy their support team brings to a class. We all harbor emotions, from the volunteers to the staff to the riders and to the family members. Sometimes our energy comes out as frustration, or sadness, or maybe extreme hyperactivity, or mistrust... the list goes on, and these very special horses absorb that emotion. They watch and they listen and they feel and they connect... and they feel what we all put out, and at the end of the day - they heal us all in ways we never imagine while they carry all that they have absorbed with them back to their paddock to rest!
With that being said, if you would still like to place a vote, please feel free to stop by the barn and vote in our breakroom. Or, you may also pay via PayPal at https://www.mtraocala.org/donate and enter "Horse of the Year" and the Horse's name in which you wish to vote. If you donate via Facebook, we ask that you notify us either by calling (352) 732-7300 or send us a message on Facebook Messenger so that we can ensure notification of your vote and counting toward the final tallies this Saturday!
Thank you all again for your support!
#MTRA #MeettheHerd #MTRAHorseoftheYear #TherapyHorses #HorseCapitaloftheWorld
If you have ever wondered what being a therapeutic horse entails - we can share a little now. Therapeutic Horses face different challenges than many of their counterparts in various disciplines. They are asked to accept and remain quiet and calm despite being placed in unusual or unnatural situations. They are often crowded with a leader and sometimes two sidewalkers on either side. They are asked to walk between ramps, align with wheelchair ramps and mechanical lifts. They sometimes wear adaptive equipment and accept their riders and support team utilizing their own adaptive equipment. Therapeutic Horses are asked to remain calm and quiet, even if their rider is a little or becomes unbalanced, even if their rider goes into a seizure, no matter what kind of face their neighbor horse makes at them, and no matter what type of energy their support team brings to a class. We all harbor emotions, from the volunteers to the staff to the riders and to the family members. Sometimes our energy comes out as frustration, or sadness, or maybe extreme hyperactivity, or mistrust... the list goes on, and these very special horses absorb that emotion. They watch and they listen and they feel and they connect... and they feel what we all put out, and at the end of the day - they heal us all in ways we never imagine while they carry all that they have absorbed with them back to their paddock to rest!
With that being said, if you would still like to place a vote, please feel free to stop by the barn and vote in our breakroom. Or, you may also pay via PayPal at https://www.mtraocala.org/donate and enter "Horse of the Year" and the Horse's name in which you wish to vote. If you donate via Facebook, we ask that you notify us either by calling (352) 732-7300 or send us a message on Facebook Messenger so that we can ensure notification of your vote and counting toward the final tallies this Saturday!
Thank you all again for your support!
#MTRA #MeettheHerd #MTRAHorseoftheYear #TherapyHorses #HorseCapitaloftheWorld
