Bob MacKenzie, the Emmy Award-winning reporter for KTVU News, came to Xenophon last week to do a story on Autism featuring one of our students. It will be aired on the 10 PM News on Sunday, October 4th. Be sure to watch or set your Tivo.
This is the eleventh year that the Martinez Horsemen have held this fabulous event for Xenophon. Two of our students demonstrated their riding skills for all to see. It is always so much fun to show off our program and to be part of the "Battle."
Thank you Martinez Horsemen!
Melyssa and Izzy talking things over and Izzy and Matthew waiting to ride
Izzy and Matthew ready to ride
Thank you to Eric and Julie Thomas for their fabulous evening. Sixty enthusiastic horse lovers came to Thomas Ranch to learn about reining and other horse-helping topics.
Eric demonstrated how to work in partnership with the horse focusing on the value of allowing the horse enough time to process our requests.
It was a wonderfully informative event.
Eric demonstrating cutting with the cow, Matilda.
Julie and Eric and friends
Two of our students, Grant and Rebecca, enjoyed waving to the crowd gathered for the festivities. Instructor, Heidi Koch, rode Annie, who was happy and calm.
Our Students giving a demonstration of their riding skills
Thank you to all the hot people who ignored the elements to come to our Open House. It was wonderful to see so many brave souls. It was the hottest day on record so far. Our talented students demonstrated their riding skills on our fabulous horses. The hot dogs were delicious and the lemonade hit the spot.
A good time was had by all!
Xenophon volunteers worked hard to clean, dust, weed, paint and generally get dirty to get the barn and environs clean.
Our board president, Chris Legallet, thanked the volunteers for all their work and encouraged them to find new ways of fund raising in this challenging year.
The next day we had 55 new volunteers at our training.
It's a great start to a new year.
Thank you to Rupert Isaacson, Orinda Books and to all those that attended the event on May 19th.
Over 100 people came to hear his fantastic story and to support Xenophon.
We greatly appreciate your loyalty.
What a great evening! Festive, fun, frivolous and sometimes foolish but always fashionable - Xenophon's Gala Masquerade Ball was exactly that. We'd like to offer a heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended and made this year's gala such a success! View the rest of the pictures!
This year's NARHA conference was held in Hartford, CT and was attended by seven of our staff. The sessions were all very informative but the highlight of the conference was the awards dinner.
Anthony Fusaro was awarded the NARHA Youth Equestrian of the Year Award. Sadly, Anthony passed away earlier this year. His father was there to accept the award and gave a beautiful speech in his memory. Anthony’s spirit will always be remembered by those that heard the speech that night and all those that he touched at Xenophon.
Ken Bergstresser was there to receive his award as Region 11 Volunteer of the Year. Ken was awarded a beautiful belt buckle. He has been a Saturday volunteer since the very beginning of Xenophon & we are grateful for his continued service to us.
And, finally it was announced that our beloved Cocoa had won the 2008 Horse of the Year award! Jan Bindas accepted Cocoa's award for her as she could not be there! We received a beautiful painting of Cocoa and she received some extra carrots!
Congratulations to all our award winners!
Xenophon closed its sixteenth year with our annual student horse show. It was a beautiful sunny day filled with happy students, grateful parents and a score of enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers. Xenophon honored Bill Lange for his continuing support of Xenophon and our horses. It was a fitting end to another successful season.
View many more pictures of the day's activities here.
Xenophon is proud to announce the following awards that will be presented at the NARHA Conference banquet on November 1, 2008. It is unprecedented to have three awards go to one center. We are so proud of our winners. The national awards will be chosen from the regional winners on the night of the banquet.
2008 NARHA Youth Equestrian
Recognition Award
Anthony Fusaro - Xenophon Therapeutic
Riding Center, Orinda, CA
Region 11 Volunteer of the Year
Ken Bergstresser - Xenophon Therapeutic
Riding Center, Orinda, CA
Region 11 Equine of the Year
Cocoa - Xenophon Therapeutic Riding Center,
Orinda, CA
On Monday evening, Dec. 8th 2008, Christine Perry, owner of Iron Horse Equestrian, hosted a fun evening benefiting Xenophon at her store. Christine, an avid equestrian, invited the equestrian community to "shop for a cause" that evening and donated 20% of the evenings proceeds to benefit Xenophon. Downtown Danville looked very festive with all the Christmas decorations and it was a fun group that gathered for browsing, shopping and socializing. They enjoyed wine and cheese and holiday cheer. A video and poster board about Xenophon provided information about our center to the shoppers and inspired them to buy and at the same time support our cause.
Many familiar faces from Xenophon and local equestrian clubs can be seen in the photo album.
For more info regarding the store go to www.Ironhorseequestrian.com. Big thank you to Christine for hosting the event and to Mary Wunderlich for her help in putting it all together.
The 2008 Gala at the Orinda Country Club appears to have been a huge success. Thank you to all those who came to support Xenophon!
To see more pictures of the finest (and best-looking) group of people you'll ever meet, click here.
Date: Saturday, March 8
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Location: Orinda Country Club
Cost: $85 per person
Reservations are limited so please respond by February 23, 2008.
For more information on this fun-filled event click here.
If you would prefer to respond via mail, click here to download and print the response card and mail with your check to:
Xenophon
P.O. Box 16
Orinda, CA 94563
If you would like to purchase tickets on line, you may do so below.
INSTRUCTIONS:
You may support our Arena Restoration with the purchase of a $500 inscribed fence post for the arena.
...or a $250 fence rail for our arena.
...or a $100 brick paver.
Once again our end of the season horse show at Xenophon was a great success! A huge thank you to all who participated and our sponsors. None of this could happen without you.
View many more pictures from the event here!
The weather was just right on Sunday for our annual family BBQ. We had a great turnout with close to 100 people! We tried a new venue this year to accommodate our special guests - Access Adventure. Thank you to Michael Muir and his team of people and horses! They provided rides in a wagon pulled by their beautiful pair of Percheron mares - Ruby and Reba. Thank you to all that attended and we look forward to more events with Access Adventure.
View the rest of the pictures from the day's event here.
Once again we would like to thank Martinez Horseman's Association for putting on a great event for which we are the benefactor. Battle of the Barns was held on July 28th in Martinez with 9 teams from different barns around the area participating in fun games. Thank you to all that participated. And, a special thank you to Jonathan Carr for being a great Master of Ceremony and to our riders Rebecca Weston and Rebecca Shirley.
Thanks!
Thank you everyone for making our 15th Anniversary Open House a success! We were so happy to see so many people show up - we almost ran out of hot dogs!The weather was perfect and the horses behaved beautifully! It was good to see the community come out and see what we are all about. We also met many prospective new volunteers and new students. Again, thank you for your support - we couldn't do this without all of you.
We would just like to thank everyone who helped organize the gala and to all those that attended. I think a good time was had by all and we look forward to seeing you at the 2008 event!
View the rest of the images from this wonderful event here.
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