When: Seven days a week
Contact: 725-8009; oppfarm.com; Opportunity Farm Facebook page
Erin Rayner was 8 years old when her Girl Scout Troop in California planned a camping trip that included horses.
To prepare for the trip, she took three lessons so she would at least know how to be safe on horseback. She fell in love from the very first lesson she took at Opportunity Farm, so much so that she now uses the stable’s name for her own business.
Rayner’s old trainer gave her permission to use the name for her own Opportunity Farm, a stable in east Bradenton where Rayner and assistant trainer Ali Wilcoxson teach those from age 3 to the 80s how to ride, jump and take care of horses.