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.
2025 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 2-5
This camp will focus on the basics of Western riding. Students will learn to tack up their horse in a Western saddle, and they will learn to guide their horse with a neck rein and leg cues as their size allows. The Arena Expo this week will include pattern and pole work.
Day Camp 2 – Trail Obstacles – June 9-12
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 their trail pattern for parents during the Arena Expo the last afternoon of camp.
Day Camp 3 – Horseback Games – June 23-26
Gymkhana games will be our emphasis this week – fun, playday-style games that promote friendly competition. Our game patterns will vary, but may include a barrel race, pole bending and a flag race. Generally the students practice a variety of patterns through the week, and they choose which ones they do for the Arena Expo on the last afternoon.
Day Camp 4 – Horse Games Mini Camp – July 14-16
This three-day camp will follow the format of our full camp for horseback games. Students will learn fun, playday-style games that promote friendly competition. Our game patterns will vary, but may include a barrel race, pole bending and a flag race. Generally the students practice a variety of patterns through the week, and they choose which ones they do for the Arena Expo on the last afternoon.
Day Camp 5 – C Bracket Cattle Camp – July 21-24
Cattle Camp features rope skills and live cattle sorting! This camp is for students who are a little older and have some horse experience already. Students will learn how to handle a rope on the ground, and then move to work roping and tracking a dummy horseback. With the live cattle, our riders will learn about flight zones and how to influence a cow’s movement with their horse. They will learn to sort, box and drive a live cow. Our Arena Expo the last day will be in the format of a basic ranch horse versatility show, where each student will perform a reining pattern and then work a live cow one-on-one.
Day Camp 6 – C Bracket Bible Camp – July 28-31
Horse camp meets vacation Bible school! This week will include Bible-based instruction that ties directly to the horsemanship concepts students will see each day. Scripture memory and music will also tie into our horseback time. In this camp, students will receive the same amount of horseback time as our standard weeks.
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.
At minimum, a non-refundable registration deposit of $100 per child is required. The remaining balance is due at check-in the first day of camp. Use the code DEPOSIT 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 seven 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.
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.