Services provided by Castle Ridge Keep:

• Complete Boarding      (click here for boarding fee schedule)

Facilities include: Indoor ring, Outdoor full size ring, Outdoor dressage ring and a cross country field and heated main barn

• Riding Lessons

• Horse training

• Driving lessons

• Rehabilitation - arthritis, structure problems, old or new injuries

• Therapy – abused, neglected or traumatized him horses

Riding instructor and horse trainer, June Pedersen’s, primary disciplines are dressage, eventing, and driving. She has shown successfully at rated dressage shows in Training through Second level. She events at Novice level, and has competed in combined driving at Preliminary level. In addition, she has won carriage horse classes, Class A trail classes, and her students compete in a wide variety of disciplines, including saddleseat equitation, hunt seat equitation, western seat equitation, and pleasure driving, as well as dressage, eventing, and combined driving.

Ms. Pedersen has over 40 years of professional horse training experience. June began training ponies professionally at age twelve! She has a BS degree in Animal Science with a strong emphasis on nutrition and biomechanics. Through the years June has developed a training program she calls the European Longevity Method (ELM). This training method is based on European principles, but includes a watchful eye on the symmetrical structure of both horse and rider.

Riding Lessons or Horse Training:
(novice through advanced): $35 /lesson

English:  dressage, jumping, eventing, pleasure

Western: show, pleasure (on your own horse)

Driving Lessons: $40 /lesson

Rehabilitation and Therapy: Price on a case by case basis

June’s reputation as a healer of damaged horses is second to none. She has presented programs and workshops for horse groups throughout the Upper Midwest.  Abused and neglected horses respond favorably to June’s slow and gentle training methods.  Horses with arthritis, structure problems, old or new injuries, are all part of the rehabilitation and therapeutic program she offers at Castle Ridge Keep.