Riders/Parents Expectations
Please arrive for your lessons at least 15 minutes early to allow time to get yourself and your horse prepared for the lesson and allow time after the lesson to take care of your horse if needed. Riders will receive a riding lesson per week that aligns with the tuition you have selected, this lesson will be a private 30-minute session in the beginning until the instructor recommends the rider is ready to join the appropriate group. All riders eventually will move to a semi-private group once ready.
Terms & Conditions
- Unmounted Horsemanship Lessons are a required part of our program and will be given at least once a month.
- The rider will receive access to a 30-minute goal-setting session every 3 months upon request.
- If you are late to your lesson please be advised you will have only the time left in your time slot to ride. This does not grant a make-up lesson. Please pick up riders on time. Please inform us if you know you will be late picking up your Rider.
- If a Rider is being picked up by someone other than the parents the Instructor must be notified
- Riders must be coachable, positive, and have a good attitude!
- Rider agrees to show up on time (15 minutes prior to scheduled ride time)
- No Guarantee -The company does not warrant or guarantee any specific level of performance or results. The results of your riding progress are largely based on the efforts of the student.
- Please take into consideration that our Riders may include young children and we have dogs on the property. PLEASE DRIVE CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY. We do have a stop sign at the entrance PLEASE STOP at it - it's there for a reason.
- Friends & Family Members attending for the lessons must stay in the designated area for safety reasons
- We ask that there is no coaching or assisting from a parent during the lesson time.
We expect our riders to take responsibility and pride in themselves and how they walk out and into the arena for each lesson. This includes the rider being responsible for their belongings and their horse - NOT the parent. Any boot with a one-inch heel, long pants, and one of our helmets are acceptable for the first month of lessons. After these initial lessons, riders must purchase the correct riding attire listed below:
- Zip-front paddock boots (not cowboy boots)
- Properly fitted ASTM/SEI-approved helmet
- We require bootcut riding jods (Not Hunter style jods)
- Underpasses (elastic tie-down that holds your pants down while riding)
- We recommend shirts to be tucked in or Semi form-fitting tops (NO crop Tops)
- Riding gloves are recommended for all seasons
- Hair pulled back in a neat ponytail or braid
- Purchase of your own stirrups and leathers is recommended after 3 months of lessons
Apex Riding Academy expects payment prior to your ride time. If you are a new student you will need to pay for your introductory lesson prior to your ride; this is a $40 fee. Once you decide to join Apex you will then choose a Monthly Tuition of your choice and be set up. All customers must have a current credit card on file with our secured system. We do offer a discount on all Cash payments for all tuition memberships if requested. To receive this discount you must pay prior to the 28th of the month to be billed. We do not offer any cash discounts on short-term packages or single lessons. Current lesson rates will be available on the Apex website, lessons fees are subject to change.
Compensation & Payment Terms
Iffy days
There are times when the weather is ‘iffy’ and could turn into a great day to ride or could be horrible. So to not waste your time or ours, we have lesson plans for those ‘Iffy Days’...
Iffy Day's gives your rider the chance to still come out and have a lesson regardless of the conditions here. If the weather clears and it is safe to ride, we will teach on horseback. If the weather holds in an iffy state, we will have ground-based lessons. This could be grooming and tacking, it could be clipping or lunging. There are endless topics we would love to teach our riders, and with this format, we won't be wasting your time and you or child will learn excellent horse care knowledge. We have the right to decide if the weather is permitted for these lessons, Cancellations WILL NOT be accepted for last-minute weather cancellations by the Rider.
Social media can be a fun and useful tool to communicate with barn mates, friends, coaches, instructors, and more. Social media can also be a dangerous tool if you are not careful. Every picture, link, quote, tweet, status, Snapchat, or post that you or your friends put online is forever a part of your digital footprint. You never know when it might come back to hurt or help your reputation during a showing, team tryouts, college acceptance, getting a job, receiving awards, or any other important area in your life. A negative social media image also reflects negatively on your sport and Apex Riding Academy.
Social Media Acknowledgement Rules Must Be Signed
Our reputation always precedes us. Please remember that people will share things with others. The resulting perceptions and exaggerations can lead to misinterpretation. Protect yourself and your barn by thinking before you post anything on social media.
Violations of our rules will result in a one-time warning. After that, a parent meeting will follow.
Social Media Acknowledgement