Best Pony Ride Service Cary Near Me

4worldlovers: We are currently on a wait list for recurring weekly lessons. Visit our enrollment page to learn more about enrolling in weekly lessons and to get on our wait list.


At Ride the Sky stables we believe life is better with horses. Our riding school program focuses on building a relationship with your horse while learning to ride. This creates a safe, fun and valuable riding experience for your horse, yourself and your children!

Whether you want to be able to hit the trails or go for the blue ribbon, we can help you achieve your goals. Learn to ride on our school horses, learn to teach your horse new things, refine your riding to make you and your horse a better team. Just come and have some fun hacking around the trails or jumping in our arena!

Whatever your goals are, we will help you achieve them safely while always keeping it fun.

4worldlovers: Dead Broke Farm’s mission is to provide horses and trails for people who love horses and riding but can’t have horses of their own. We offer a safe environment where you can come to ride without having to register for a series of lessons requiring a significant investment in time and money. Our passion and love of horses in conjunction with our desire to share that experience with others has resulted in our use of many horses that we rescued from terrible conditions of neglect, abuse, and even death. We’d like to share some of those rescue horse stories with you. But if you've been dreaming of owning your own horse, we have some nice trail horses for sale right here in Raleigh, NC.

Located on 110 rolling, wooded acres in the Raleigh / Durham / RTP area, Dead Broke Farm offers you the opportunity to experience North Carolina's beauty in the most natural way - by horseback!

At our farm, you'll ride along winding trails through a shady forest with rolling hills. You can hear the rhythm of your horse, a lazy creek, and an abundance of wildlife. It's almost as if - for a while - you've stepped back in time to rediscover the natural beauty that surrounds you. But for those of you seeking a more adventurous ride, we can pick up the pace on sections of the trail where it's safe to do so. (Advanced riders may want to consider a private ride to ensure that we can cater to your level of experience rather the level of the least experienced rider in the group.) And...

Safety is an important consideration in all our riding programs. We provide experienced guides, riding instructions, and riding helmets at no additional charge. Ages 6 and up can ride at our farm and will get a horse of their own.


We want to make horseback riding available and accessible to everyone, so we have at least 12 draft horses (similar to the Budweiser Clydsdales who pull the beer wagon) to accommodate larger riders. We can take riders weighing up to 450 lbs because our draft horses are very large boned and weigh 2,000 to 2,500 pounds themselves. They are gentle giants and very well mannered. You can see one of our Clydesdales in the picture to the left. We have mounting blocks, and we will assist you in mounting and dismounting as we do all our riders.

Our draft horses eat more than twice the amount of a regular size horse, and the shoeing expense is more than double, as the shoes are more expensive and a forge must be used to heat the shoes so that they can be shaped to fit the horse's hoof. Due to the added expense of maintaining the draft horses, we charge an additional $10/person for anyone who needs to ride one, i.e. anyone weighing over 200 lbs. Please be honest when making your reservations, as we will have scales accessible to verify the riders' weights at check-in to ensure that we don't compromise the health of our horses. While we recognize that a person's weight may be a sensitive subject, we have an overwhelming commitment to preserve the backbones of our buisness - literally and figuratively.

4worldlovers: We are a small, family-run farm with a variety of horses and ponies, and a menagerie of other animals. We all live in the beautiful North Carolina woodland on the edge of Falls Lake -- in the middle of the countryside but still an easy drive from Raleigh, Durham and Wake Forest.

There's nothing we like better than to share our enjoyment of our animals and our farm with you and your family! We offer year-round camps, riding lessons, trail rides, birthday parties and much more. And we invite you to explore our site and learn all about our farm and activities.