Brandi

Brandi loves to teach beginner lessons, especially with her best friend Ava!  She also helps our Show Team riders improve their strength and balance with lunge lessons.

Ava is one of the first horses our new students ride when they begin riding lessons.  Ava takes smooth, quick steps which helps new riders learn to post at the trot.

Grace is a Morgan mare whose specialty is teaching beginner riding lessons!  

Lira is a beautiful Arabian mare.  She loves to teach riders how to canter, help our Riding Program and Academy Team students learn to ride with quiet hands, and her very favorite - Tiny Tot Lessons!

(photo by Howard Schatzberg)

Butters is the cutest little Haflinger pony!  Butters was found and purchased at auction and has found a new life he loves as one of the best lesson ponies!  Butters teaches all riders, from beginners to advance to bareback to lunge lessons, Butters does it all and is always happy!  Butters is always the first to greet you as he whinnies to everyone who walks by his stall!

Viper is one of our biggest lesson horses!  He can be a bit of a pickle in his stall, but it's all an act - he is fun to ride!  Our Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced riders all enjoy a lesson with Viper!

Peaches is 1/2 Percheron, 1/2 Welsh Pony and is as cute as can be!  Peaches is helping Ava, Brandi, Lira, and Info with beginner lessons, and especially likes tiny tots and bareback lessons!  Peaches also loves to drive!

Teddy is a Morgan gelding who Is as sweet as he is cute!  Teddy Likes to teach intermediate lessons and travel to horse shows with our academy team, but his very favorite job is No Reins Lunge Lessons!

Poncho is a favorite with our students not only because of his gorgeous color, but also because he is  one of the sweetest horses at CCEC.  Poncho is very good at teaching finesse to our advanced riders, and is a standout competing with Academy Team at horse shows!

SOS is one of the fanciest lesson horses at Cape Cod.  In the summer, she goes to almost every horse show, whether it is to compete with Academy Team, or to help our Show Team practice.

Sparkles has been teaching lessons at  Cape Cod for almost her entire life.  She loves to compete with our Academy Team, and teach our lesson students what a Show Horse feels like!

Marvin is the "Gentle Giant" of CCEC.  He is a kind soul who is a favorite with our intermediate riders.  Marvin is also gaited, and teaches our students to Slow-Gait and Rack!  

Duke is an American Saddlebred who was generously donated to CCEC's lesson horse herd by Melissa Moore.  Duke is "Mr. Personality", and he loves to teach Intermediate and Advanced lessons as well as compete with Academy Team.  He keeps his riders on their toes! 

Prince is our resident “Frackney” (He is half Friesian, half Hackney) .  He looks just like a Friesian, but little!  Prince loves teaching riding lessons, but his true passion is driving!   

Steve is one of our biggest lesson horses, and even has his own fan club with CCEC's Students (Team Steve). Steve is a gaited horse, and helps Marvin teach our riders how to Slow Gait and Rack! He can also be found at academy shows in the summer with CCEC's Select Academy Team.  Steve can do it all!

While her owner Maddy is off at College,  Summer is enjoying her life helping to teach our Show Team riders valuable skills,  and Summer is perfecting her pattern work!

Nemo is one of the first faces to greet you when you enter CCEC!  In his younger days, he was a World's Champion with owner Aleia Brown.  Although he has retired from the show ring, Nemo still loves to occasionally teach our students how to ride a show horse!  See if you can find Nemo's picture on CCEC's Wall of Champions!

 Smiley is a goofy guy who has a lot to teach!  His owner Sue rides him every week to keep her skills sharp for her show horse, but kindly lets our students learn from Smiley as well!  

Treasure definitely lives up to her name!  She is a big, kind American Saddlebred mare that you can't help but love.  Treasure enjoys teaching students of all abilities, and loves going to horse shows!

Hailey is a 1/2 Dutch Harness Horse 1/2 American Saddlebred mare that is as cute as she can be!  She is very kind, but also fancy!  One of Hailey's favorite things to do is go to horse shows and compete with Select Academy Team!

Magic is a very sweet but  sensitive American Saddlebred mare.  Magic particularly enjoys teaching intermediate lessons but is also quite good at pattern work!  If you want Magic to be your best friend, just bring her a peppermint!

Heather is a beautiful, sweet Fell Pony mare who loves people!  Heather is learning to become a great Beginner lesson pony, and is very popular with her long, luscious mane!  We are so grateful to 5R farms for letting us love Heather!

Dancer is a 1/2 Dutch Harness Horse 1/2 American Saddlebred gelding who has lived at CCEC since he was a yearling.  Dancer has just recently begun his job as a lesson horse and attended his first Academy show!

James is a very sweet Morgan gelding who has lived at CCEC for a while, but just recently began his job as a lesson horses.  The kids have been having fun teaching James his new job!