4-H Mini Day Camp August 8-10

In conjunction with Penn State Extension Service, GAIT hosted a three day camp for kids 10-18 in our 4-H Horsemanship Club and any other kids interested in horses. The first and third days were spent at GAIT doing games, bouncy horse “barrel races” and “stadium jumping,” crafts, demos and hands on with horses – grooming, leading, lunging, and even participating with a professional horse massage therapist. The second day, staff at the Extension Service organized a group tour for the participants at the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame in Goshen, NY where they got to see the track with horses being exercised, experience their simulator, and, an apparently memorable museum display, learn about a horse so important that it had A/C in its stall for the summer.