An opportunity for you and your family to ride a horse for free!
Operation Free★Ride is a program that we created to give active duty military personnel, returning combat veterans, wounded warriors and their families the opportunity to ride a horse for free! We want them to ride a horse or experience the special bond and friendship of horses!
This program serves military families with a deployed family member, as well as families who have a family member with a disability or serious illness. While our program is not able to serve the needs of the developmentally disabled or those with serious or terminal illnesses, we invite the other family members to enjoy the distractions and benefits to body and soul that only a day with horses can provide.
How does it work?
Fill in our Operation Free★Ride registration form, locate a facility near you from our map and contact them to schedule your ride! Don’t see a facility near you that is already in our network? Then submit a Facility Referral. We will contact them on your behalf and invite them to join!
“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Membership in Horses4Heroes is your “All Access Pass” to affordable recreational, instructional, and health & wellness equestrian programs and activities for every member of your family. We welcome all active duty military personnel, Reservists, veterans, First Responders, critical care and hospice nurses and special needs school teachers.
Operation Free★Ride is just one of the programs that help Horses4Heroes fulfill its mission to make horseback riding affordable for, and accessible to, the families of the heroes in our community including, but not limited to: active duty military personnel, Veterans, law enforcement officers, fire fighters/EMTs, critical care and hospice nurses and others.
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS INCLUDE:
- OPERATION FREE★RIDE
- 20% Discount at Sheplers on all in-store purchases
- Free, one-year paid subscription to Blaze Kids
- Free T-Shirts for every member of your family
- Access to deeply discounted horseback riding lessons from local instructors, camps, clinics and horse shows
- National network of kid-friendly, family friendly facilities
$25/Family (one-time enrollment fee)
Membership is FREE to Gold Star Mothers/Families!
For more information about Operation Free★Ride and our other programs, contact:
Horses4Heroes Inc.
(888) 9US-HERO (987-4376) | (702) 645-8446
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