C Bracket Horse Barn is excited to offer summer day camps on the schedule of opportunities for our horseback riding students! Be sure to add one of these weeks to your kids’ summer activities.
2026 DAY CAMP DETAILS
C Bracket summer camps are week-long, horse-intense, beginner through intermediate wrangler day camps for youth, ages 5 to 18. The program runs from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., Monday through Thursday, wrapping up with an Arena Expo, a mini playday for students to show off their skills to parents and family. The Arena Expo will highlight challenges or patterns that relate to the week’s theme.
Participants in summer camps will learn how to ride horses or expand their current skills and learn equine behavior and essential equine care. There are multiple levels of day camps. Each class is designed to match your camper’s current proficiency and allow them to master specific skills before advancing to the next level safely. The summer camp’s instructors will take great care to place each rider at their appropriate level.
The summer camp week will end with an Arena Expo for parents and family at 1 p.m. on the afternoon of the last day. During the week, campers will receive print photos of themselves with one of the horses they rode during the day camp, as well as a 2025 C Bracket Horse Barn Day Camp t-shirt.
Day Camp 1 - Western Horsemanship - June 1-4
This camp will focus on the basics of Western riding. Students will learn to tack up their horses in a Western saddle. We will work on guiding horses with a neck rein and leg cues as rider size allows. Beginners will learn the walk and trot, while the more advanced riders will work on leads and loping. The Arena Expo for friends and family will include pattern and pole work.
Day Camp 2 - Trail Obstacles - June 8-11
In this camp week, students will learn to navigate a standard ranch trail course. There will be a simple course for our young beginners, and a more complex pattern for the older, advanced riders. The trail pattern may include working a gate, trot poles, moving a rain slicker, sidepass and back-through. Students will perform a trail pattern for parents during the Arena Expo the last afternoon of camp.
Day Camp 3 - Pony Spa Mini Camp - June 15-17
The pony spa includes all things pampering for the horse herd! We will begin with bathing techniques, including how to safely work around horses with a hose. Students will learn several different ways to braid manes and tails, and will be able to get hands-on practice. This week also includes an intro to equine massage, where students will learn basic stretching and massage techniques and why they matter. As time allows, students will also use hoof polish, clippers and leg wraps. All day camps including the pony spa include the standard two hours per day of fundamental skills in the saddle.
Day Camp 4 - Horseback Games Mini Camp - June 22-24
This three-day camp will follow the format of our full camp for horseback gymkhana-style games. Students will learn fun playday games that promote friendly competition. Our game patterns will vary, but may include a barrel race, pole bending and a flag race. Generally students practice a variety of patterns through the week, and they choose which ones to do for the Arena Expo the last afternoon.
Day Camp 5 - C Bracket Bible Camp - July 13-16
Horse camp meets Vacation Bible School! This week includes Bible-based instruction that ties directly into the horsemanship concepts students will practice each day. Scripture memory and music will also tie into our horseback time. All day camps including Bible camp include the standard two hours per day of fundamental skills in the saddle.
Day Camp 6 - Horseback Games - July 20-23
Gymkhana games will be our emphasis this week with fun, playday-style activities that promote friendly competition. Our game patterns will vary, but will include the old standbys like the barrel race, pole bending and flag race. Generally the students practice a variety of patterns throughout the week, and they choose which ones to do for the Arena Expo the last afternoon.
Day Camp 7 - C Bracket Cattle Camp - July 27-30
Our cattle camp features rope handling organization and skills both on the ground and from the back of a horse, as well as live cattle for sorting, boxing and cutting. This camp is for students who are a little older and have horse experience already. With the live cattle, our riders will learn about flight zones and how to influence a cow’s movement with their horse. Our Arena Expo the last day will be in the format of a basic ranch horse versatility class, where each student will perform a reining pattern and then work a live cow one-on-one.
Full Day Camp Pricing
$375Full Day
We offer a sibling discount! The first child is full price, each sibling after that is $50 off per student. Enter the code CAMPSIBLING at registration.
We’d love to have your student join us for more than one camp! Their first camp is full price, after that they get a $50 discount. Enter the code MULTICAMP at registration.
These fees are nonrefundable but may be transferred to another camp week.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
In addition to C Bracket’s instructors, qualified wranglers will be on hand to help ensure that each student receives the one-on-one attention they need.
When scheduling allows, we will bring in guest instructors for the equine education sessions, featuring those involved in the farrier, equine dentistry, equine massage, and veterinary fields.
Christy and Scott Martinez
Scott and Christy Martinez have owned and operated the C Bracket Horse Barn since 2014. They have both been horseback since they were kids, and Scott’s Wyoming ranching background and Christy’s Midwestern farming background has given them a variety of horseback experience between the two of them.
After growing up riding horses for her entire life, Christy Martinez has spent the last eleven years teaching students to ride. She enjoys spending time learning new skills herself that she can then pass on to students, and she finds that pairing students with the perfect horses to build their confidence and skills is one of her favorite parts of the job. She also enjoys colt starting, problem solving with project horses, training and driving harness horses and gathering cattle.
Scott Martinez was raised on ranches in Wyoming, and now passes his practical horsemanship skills on to students in the arena. His favorite subject to teach to students is the roping class, and he is known for being a reassuring presence for new students who might feel insecure during their first few classes horseback. His background with horses includes starting colts, ranch roping, ranch rodeo and managing cattle horseback.
Belle Johnson
Belle, who now lives in southern Utah, has come up through the C Bracket program, and is now in her sixth summer working at the barn. She enjoys detailed horsemanship, and has invested much time and energy in clinics and lessons of all disciplines, including jumping and dressage in an English saddle, and colt starting and cow work in the Western disciplines. She owns three mares, and enjoys the challenge of watching project horses improve with time and consistency.
Paige Kromenacker
Paige, an Ohio native, began at the barn in Spring 2025, and quickly made herself indispensable in day-to-day operations. Paige oversees the beginner riders during day camps, and loves to explore and add to her own horsemanship skills. She adopted our mascot C Bracket project mule Rooster, and is gaining much ground in getting him to trust her.
Emma Petrus
New to C Bracket in 2026, Emma also comes to us from Ohio! She is finishing her second year at The Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute, majoring in Horse Production and Management. Her horse experience includes handling and caring for young horses, breeding and foaling, and a racehorse groom where she cared for 15 horses daily.
Cancellation Policy
Payment in full for day camps is due at the time of registration. Reservation fees may be transferred to another camp week as availability allows.
Equipment List
C Bracket Horse Barn provides lesson horses, tack, helmets, and all other horseback riding equipment. Day camp students need to wear jeans or leggings and a boot with a heel. Shoelaces on footwear are not recommended. Riding helmets are not required, though students are encouraged to bring their own or borrow one from the barn. Bike helmets do not qualify as approved headgear. Students who are not wearing helmets should bring a hat for shade and sunscreen. All students will need a sack lunch with a water bottle.