A Broken Spur Riding Academy

11/07/2025

A Broken Spur Riding Academy is proud to announce as our second purchase to aid the community with positivity of battling the opioid crisis and within or community Thanks to the New Direction grant awarded us by the Raleigh County Commission. We purchased our Horse Trailer with Tremendous thanks to Tri County Trailers of Beaver. This trailer will aid us in transporting our horses to community events, schools, nursing homes and can sometimes even aid in emergency veterinarian situations if one of our herd members gets sick. We cant wait to do more community events.... Ms. Sarah and Ms. Madison and our soon to be new employee to be announced are thrilled!

11/04/2025

Don't forget to come see us at the Believe in the Magic Craft & Vendor Christmas Show at the Beckley Raleigh County Convention Center
November 21 and 22
Presented by A Broken Spur Riding Academy and Captured Memories Photography By Tiffany Nicole Butler.

10/31/2025

We hope everyone has a Very Happy and Happy Halloween this year!

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

WEST VIRGINIA (WVNS) – The loss of funding for programs such as SNAP and WIC will be felt across the state as early as November, 1, 2025. Local organizers have encouraged residents to utilize…

10/27/2025

Supporting local. Thank you West Virginia Horse Coalition

Thank you to A Broken Spur Riding Academy for your membership and support! Check out their page to learn more about their wonderful organization. A link to their website will be listed on our website soon!
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Join the West Virginia Horse Coalition for member benefits, access to our monthly blog (starting in November 2025) and more! Memberships are only $10.00 through 2026.

10/22/2025

A Broken Spur Riding Academy would like to announce we finally purchased our barn and its on the way! We could not be more thrilled for the blessings including The McLaughlin's, the Board of Directors, those caretaking our herd of horses on their off time, Premium Steel Structures and all of our supporters for their patience. It won't be much longer before the herd, Ms. Madison and Ms. Sarah will be teaching... and some old friends Reno and Envy along with some new herd team members Stormy, Mazy and Shay will all be on our new site! We couldn't have done it without the help of the New Direction grant and support from our students old and new coming! We cant wait to start soon! .. We also may have one new teacher soon as we are in hiring phase and have completed some interviews, and some new programs in the works.. so we will be growing..... Stay tuned for more details!

10/13/2025

On Friday A Broken Spur Riding Academy was awarded $50,000 by the Raleigh County Commission from the New Direction grant to support our cause of assisting with the prevention of opioid addiction to the community! With this we are able to now get the 1st barn at the new location and essentials we need to keep running our equine assisted services and therapeutic horsemanship programs for all youth and adults to have a positive place to come and unique experiences bonding with the horses as an alternative to turning to drugs. A way to cope and learn new skills beyond traditional therapy! We are thrilled! We want to Thank everyone who had supported us and made this possible! We would also like to add with this grant several other nonprofits in the area were awarded funding too such as Raleigh County United for Prevention, One Voice, Brian's Safehouse, Raleigh County Horseman's Association and many others! CONGRATULATIONS 🎊 to everyone! It is a blessing to the community to have this support!

10/10/2025

Today we went and visited the Raleigh County Commission on Aging, Inc. collaborated with long term supporter of A Broken Spur Riding Academy, Felicia Sparks to take GOAT (Greatest of all time) Ms. Baby Annie to see the seniors at RCCA and tell them about our programs. Reno said he Was sorry he couldn't make it and gave his deepest apologies since hes waiting to be moved to our new restructured site home but he said Ms. Annie made everyone just as happy and he hopes to make it at the next trip! Great time had by all today. Thanks RCCA for having us!

10/08/2025

SAVE THE DATE! A Broken Spur Riding Academy and El Mariachi - Beaver will be teaming up January 26, 2026 from 5p-9p El Mariachi will donate 20% of their proceeds to benefit our equine assisted services and therapeutic horsemanship programs!