2017 LOPE Benefit Horse Show is September 30. Learn more →
Take the 2016 No Stirrups November Challenge, and drop your stirrups for LOPE! Improve your riding position, get in shape and have fun with your horse — all while helping the LOPE horses. Here is how it works 1) Find supporters to pledge a dollar amount for each day you ride without stirrups during the [...]
Win a chance to meet American Pharoah and own the halter of famous Belmont Stakes winner! In support of the 2016 LOPE Benefit Horse Show, LOPE will have an exclusive Kentucky Triple Crown themed package for raffle on Nov 19 at Scissortail Hill Equestrian in Austin, TX. The raffle package includes: Tour for up to [...]
LOPE is very excited to be a part of Amplify Austin Day starting on March 8, 2016. Amplify Austin is an annual day of online giving for Austin-area charities. Please help LOPE achieve our Amplify Austin fundraising goal of $15,000! It’s easy — you can either give a donation on Amplify Austin Day or you [...]
Take the 2015 No Stirrups November Challenge, and drop your stirrups for LOPE! Improve your riding position, get in shape and have fun with your horse — all while helping the LOPE horses. Here is how it works: 1) Find supporters to pledge a dollar amount for each day you ride without stirrups during the [...]
The LOPE Open House on October 4 will feature the terrific Austin band Hot Club of Cowtown, horsemanship demos, cool education booths on racing and retraining racehorses, delicious BBQ food from J Bar B Foods, several friendly ex-racehorses to meet and a silent auction at LOPE’s Wimberley location at the gorgeous Foothills Farm.
We are happy to announce that LOPE’s Benefit Horse Show will be held at Scissortail Hill Equestrian in Fall 2014! Scissortail Hill Equestrian has just renovated their newly acquired facility in Buda, TX and it will be a terrific venue for the LOPE show. The facility includes a covered arena, a cross-country riding course, ample [...]
Peter Campbell is an exceptional horsemanship teacher and mentor. His credentials as a horseman and clinician are too numerous to easily list. Peter studied directly with Tom Dorrance and has focused his clinics on the art of working with the horse’s mind. Because of that, Peter is able to teach people the most effective ways [...]
LOPE is excited to announce that we will be holding a unique holiday fundraiser (and party) on December 14 in Spicewood, TX (3pm-6pm). The host of the event is Westridge Farm, a lovely hunter/jumper facility located on over 400 gorgeous acres on Highway 71. Shopping Inventory and Silent Auction The event will have an upscale [...]
LOPE would like to thank Kate Tweedy (author of Secretariat’s Meadow) and Macleod Pharmaceuticals for their support during the AAEP Annual Convention. Ms. Tweedy (daughter of Secretariat’s owner, Penny Chenery) had a hugely popular book signing at the convention — and she donated a generous share of the proceeds to LOPE. Macleod Pharmaceuticals sponsored the [...]
MAGGIE MAE DESIGNS® is teaming up with LOPE on September 17th for a very special silent auction fundraiser. MAGGIE MAE DESIGNS® is committed to racehorse welfare and milliner Sally Faith Steinmann of MAGGIE MAE DESIGNS® has created a one-of-a-kind couture Derby hat for the silent auction with 100% of the proceeds to benefit LOPE (similar [...]
We are saddened by the loss of LOPE supporter Penny Chenery. She was such a grand lady in every respect! Her contribution to racing was beyond measure. Her legendary horses Secretariat and Riva Ridge will forever be part of American and racing history. But most of all, she was a horse lover and advocate. As she put it, “The horse can't talk – but I can.” Rest in peace, Penny Chenery.
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