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    No whispering, just horses and city kids, learning on a farm

    Sep 18, 2018 5 minutes
    Dale Perkins of the nonprofit City to Saddle teaches Schneider, age 11, how to trot on a horse named Derby in Rutland, Mass. The program allows inner-city children to experience what it’s like to work on a farm and to interact with one of its largest animals.

    Jacqui is a draft horse with hoofs the size of dinner plates. Matthew, age 10, is working to balance himself on her broad back as she clops around in a circle. 

    “Great job, Matthew,” says Dale Perkins, who’s holding Jacqui’s lead line and giving gentle instruction to the young rider. “You’re doing much better than yesterday.”

    Mr. Perkins is president of City to Saddle, a riding program that allows inner-city children to experience what it’s like to work on a farm and to interact with one of its largest animals: horses. He’s helping Matthew at Mesa Farm in Rutland, Mass., which is one of six sites in the state currently hosting the nonprofit’s activities. (A seventh site is in the Appalachian region.)

    This program isn’t designed to produce Grand Prix riders. But for the participants, the experience of learning to work with

    A history with horsesA confidence builderThree other groups with a focus on animals

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