Dedicated Parents: Is Your Child Getting Quality Equestrian Instruction?

You want to support your child’s passion for riding while ensuring they receive safety focused, quality instruction that develops proper skills and character. But navigating an unregulated marketplace of equestrian trainers can feel overwhelming and frustrating.

The Hidden Challenge Every Equestrian Parent Faces

An unregulated marketplace of equestrian trainers who may not meet recognized educational standards, yet they advertise their services with ribbons and credentials that don’t necessarily translate to quality instruction.

What You’re Dealing With:

  • Difficult to determine if your child’s instructor meets recognized standards
  • Safety concerns about instructors lacking proper credentials
  • No standardized way to measure your child’s skill progression beyond horse show ribbons or jumping height
  • Expensive lessons with questionable quality and results
  • Inability to track real progress when financial constraints, young horses not ready to advance, or older horses stepping down limit traditional progress markers

How This Makes You Feel:

  • Concern about your child’s safety during lessons
  • Frustration not knowing if expensive lessons are actually worth the investment
  • Anxiety about finding reputable programs and quality instructors
  • Feeling overwhelmed by the lack of industry standards
  • Guilt about potentially choosing instruction that doesn’t meet proper standards for your child
  • Discouragement when financial limitations or horse readiness prevent demonstrating your child’s skills through traditional markers

The Deeper Truth: Children deserve safety focused, quality instruction that develops not only riding skills but also character, responsibility, and confidence. Parents shouldn’t have to gamble with their child’s safety and development due to lack of industry standards, and every child should have measurable ways to track progress regardless of their family’s financial situation or their horse’s readiness level.

For Parents of Young Equestrian Athletes

Supporting your child’s passion with confidence, not anxiety

We Understand Your Challenge

We understand the challenge of wondering if your child’s instructor meets recognized standards and the frustration of not knowing whether expensive lessons are actually helping your young rider develop properly, especially when traditional progress markers don’t reflect your child’s true skill development.

Why Parents Trust EMES

With authors who have over 44 years of experience in the equestrian industry as farm owners, breeders, horse trainers, coaches, competitors, judges, and riders, we’ve helped students at all levels advance. Our standardized curriculum ensures consistent and effective learning for riders at every level. We’ve helped parents find confidence in their child’s equestrian education through EMES-credentialed instructors and measurable progress tracking that works for each individual family’s situation.

Our Three Step Plan

Step 1: Verify Quality
Find EMES internally credentialed instructors who remain growth focused.

Step 2: Track Progress
Follow our structured curriculum that provides clear milestones and measurable skill development for your child, regardless of show participation or jumping height goals.

Step 3: Connect and Thrive
Join our community of families committed to quality equestrian education and watch your child develop into a confident, skilled horseman with measurable achievements. Students will have access to our weekly webinars.

 

Without Verified Quality Instruction, You Risk:

Wasting Resources

  • Wasting money on lessons that don’t develop your child’s skills
  • Paying for “instruction” that may actually be creating bad habits

Missing Connections

  • Missing connections with other committed equestrian families
  • Losing access to quality barn communities and proper mentorship
  • Failing to build relationships with reputable trainers and industry professionals

Unfulfilled Dreams

  • Unable to properly support your child’s passion due to lack of quality options
  • Watching your child become discouraged by poor instruction or unclear progress
  • Missing the joy of seeing your child truly thrive in their chosen sport
  • Never having concrete evidence of your child’s skill development to celebrate their achievements

Picture A Different Story

Picture your child learning from growth-focused instructors in a structured learning environment where you can watch them develop not just as riders, but as confident, responsible young people. Imagine being part of a community of families who share your commitment to quality education, connecting with other parents who understand the investment in proper equestrian instruction, and having the confidence that comes from knowing your child is receiving education that meets industry standards.

See your child earning certificates and testing achievements that provide concrete evidence of their skill development, giving you measurable milestones to celebrate regardless of show participation or jumping height goals.

Don’t Let Another Day Pass

Stop wondering if your child is getting the quality instruction they deserve.

DISCLAIMER: Equestrian training and instruction involve inherent risks of injury or death that cannot be eliminated regardless of training methods or safety measures. EMES education credential represents internal educational standards and does not constitute regulatory certification, professional licensing, or guarantee specific outcomes, safety, or business success. Individual results may vary significantly. Participation in equestrian activities is at your own risk.