Sponsorship Opportunities
We offer several different ways to support our facilities, events, and horses here at the Stables at Frederica. As a female-owned small business, we take pride in supporting community events and other organizations and small businesses.
Horse Show Sponsorship
Businesses, individuals, and families can take part in the competitions hosted by the Stables through division and class sponsorships. We offer three methods to sponsor:
Division Monetary Sponsorship ($150) - Sponsorship includes prime name placement in announcements during sponsored divisions and logo printed on sponsorship banner at awards station.
Division Prize Sponsorship (retail value $150) - Sponsor to provide four (4) prizes with a retail value of approximately $150. Three prizes (of roughly equal value) will be awarded to the winners of division classes, with the fourth prize (of equal or greater value) will be awarded to the division champion. (Prize examples: three water bottles/tumblers/drinkware, one mini-cooler). Sponsors should consider that most recipients are minors. Sponsorship includes prime name placement in announcements during sponsored divisions and logo printed on sponsorship banner at awards station.
Jump Sponsorship ($1000) - The Stables maintains a full jump course year-round in one of our four riding arenas. Sponsored jumps will display logos on a set of jump wings (11"x23.5") with coordinated or complementary fillers.
The Stables Retirement Program
The Stables is proud to offer retirement to our horses once they show signs of finishing their riding careers. Both our trail and lesson horses have given so much to local riders, the business, and the community, and we are happy to be able to provide a safe and happy few twilight years for our older horses. Most of our horses will continue to work into their older years. Currently Quincy and Rusty are vying for the oldest working horses, both being born in 1997.
The costs of retiring a working horse are surprisingly high, which is why unfortunately most working horses in the equine industry do not get the luxury of retirement. Many horses, once they are no longer useful to riding schools, are sold to another school and passed from place to place until they cross the rainbow bridge. Even more unfortunate are those horses that once lameness and old age prevents them from working are sold to unsuspecting buyers, and at worst end up in kill lots.
The Stables has retired several horses. Sometimes those horses are placed with riders that have always enjoyed that particular horse. Some horses have been retired on the Stables grounds. Currently the Stables is supporting one of our most beloved and successful lesson horses, Pocahontas, at a retirement facility in North Carolina. We maintain a fund to cover the substantial cost of our retirees, and rely on donations to help alleviate those costs. Read more about our most recent retiree and help these horses live their final years happy and healthy.
Pocahontas retirement fund (gofundme)
