Right Lead Equestrian Center

Your Center for Equine Excellence

Right Lead Equestrian (RLEC) is located in St. Gabriel (Sunshine) near Baton Rouge Louisiana, and offers pasture board, horseback riding / ground lessons, clinics, horse training, leases, sales, horsemanship and training clinics, and transportation. RLEC specializes in Combined Training, Eventing, beginner Dressage, Sidesaddle, and training for Pony Club events. We are a training facility and do not offer "pony rides" or lease horses by the hour/day. Please email Michelle if you would like more information.

STAFF
Michelle Bergeron (owner/manager) has over thirty years experience with horses, and is actively showing today. Michelle has a wonderful coaching disposition and continually challenges riders of all ages and skill levels. Click on "About RLEC" to the left to learn more.

FACILITIES
RLEC is situated on 15 acres in St. Gabriel, Louisiana. The property is fenced and cross fenced with 5 foot tall doweled round pole fence. We have many jumps and are planning several cross country jumps as well. We have a PVC Dressage Arena from Premiere Equestrian set up on some great Bermuda grass turf. Rick built a two story 12 x 24 air conditioned tack room and most recently a concrete covered wash rack. There is ample room to ride and it is only a short distance to the Mississippi river where long levee rides are possible. Visit the "About RLEC" link to the left to learn more.

LOCATION
Right Lead Equestrian Center is located on Bayou Paul Lane, just south of the University Club on Hwy 30 (Nicholson Extension). From Baton Rouge take Bluebonnet down to Hwy 30 and take a left towards Gonzales. Approximately 3 miles down you will come to a traffic light which is the Bayou Paul, Hwy 30 intersection. Take a right towards the river. We will be 1 mile down on your right. Map to RLEC. Click on Satellite for an aerial view. If you are interested in coming out to view a lesson or for a better view of the place please call Michelle to schedule an appointment, or if you're feeling lucky just drop by and you might find us there.

WHAT'S HAPPENING (6 months rolling)

►	11/04 - Michelle is in the news again. This time she was lucky enough to win a drawing from the Horse Radio Network and a new 2010 World Equestrian Games saddle pad. You can listen to the phone interview HERE.
►	10/25 - Flashy goes home. Over a year ago we borrowed Flashy to be the recipient mare for our first Cleveland Bay foal. She has become a much loved part of the RLEC family, and we really didn't want to give her back, but it was time for her to go back home. We'll miss you Flashy!
►	10/19 - We packed up Emily/Ally, Jessica/Lightning, Katie/Journey, and Katherine/Spirit and made the trek over to Folsom for the Serenity Dressage Show. HERE are the photos we shot during the event.
►	09/10 - IN MEMORY OF SCARLET - It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of another of our great equine friends. Seventeen year old Scarlet (owned by the Fenners) started showing neurological signs on 09/06 so we took her to the LSU vet school for care. Unfortunately she did not get better and had to be put down on Wednesday 09/10. We've erected a memorial page HERE. All photos are free for download.
►	09/07 - A big thanks to Tina Cope's husband Ben Cope and his friend (sorry I didn't get your name). Rick was called back to the plant (Oxy) starting on the 4th and wasn't able to clean up around the house or farm. Michelle was up at vet school with Scarlet who was sick. Ben and his friend came out to the farm and cut and stacked several downed trees. We wish we could have been out there with you guys... but we owe you a big big Thanks!
►	09/03 - Hurricane Gustov was the worst hurricane event on record here in Baton Rouge with sustained winds in excess of 65 miles per hour and gusts to 91. There were trees and power lines down everywhere. Michelle and I hunkered down in our house through the whole thing. We lost several trees but the house sustained little damage. As soon as the winds died down enough we drove out to the farm. What a mess, but no one was hurt! We had power poles and lines down in the front paddocks (the power was out long before the poles fell). Every tree at the farm sustained damage, several were down, and a couple managed to take out sections of fencing. Fortunately the trees blocked the horses from getting out. All indications were that we would be without power for 6 to 8 weeks, but to our surprise and only a couple of hours after hard wiring a generator into the house three days after the storm (thanks mom and dad in Shreveport) the power came on! Thanks for the thoughts and prayers.
►	08/22 - We packed up Emma, Lightning, Ally, and Journey and the girls and made it up to Holly Hill for a cross country schooling clinic by Amy Connor. Unfortunately Emma was slightly lame when we got there so we decided not to work her for the weekend. Michelle and Emma audited, but everyone else had a great time. HERE are some photos we shot today.
►	08/05 - Welcome Spirit! In our search for a new lesson horse we came upon Spirit at Rosebud Farm in Starkville, MS. After some long discussions with Betsy Ball and Bill Mann, Michelle made the trek to MS to check him out. He has worked in hunters, has evented, and was a jumper. More importantly he had also spent time as a lesson horse. Michelle brought him back to RLEC where he is fitting into the program nicely.
►	07/26 - Although the heat was almost unbearable we packed up Emily and Ally, Rachael and Scarlet, and Katie and Journey and traveled to Storeybrook farms in Gonzales for a schooling show. The girls did well and the horses did good to get off-site for a change.
►	07/05 - Thanks to Denise Clausen who graciously donated use her horse TJ to our lesson program. We let TJ go back home on the 11th. Thanks again Denise!
►	07/05 - A Big Right Lead welcome to our newest boarder Diana Tooley and her horse Tucker. Diana is from right here in Baton Rouge and Tucker is a 5 year old TB who retired from racing for about a year now.
►	07/03 - IN MEMORY OF CUE - It is with a heavy heart that we report one of our Right Lead family members has passed. On July 3rd during the morning feeding Michelle noticed Cue Ball was unable to come up from the field to eat. He had been kicked only minutes earlier and sustained a compound fracture to his right front leg. It was just above the knee and the injury was non-repairable. We have erected a memorial page for Cue HERE. All photos are free for download.
►	06/29 - Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Melting Pot for a short notice barn party. It was kind of weird seeing everyone dressed in something other than breeches, but we definitely had a great time.
►	06/11 - Michelle got only one day of rest from the Upperville show before hitting the road again. This time she gave a multiple day clinic in Little Rock Arkansas for the Rackensack Pony Club for ratings.
►	06/09 - So what do you do when gas is approaching $4 a gallon? How about traveling over 3,000 miles round trip to compete at the Upperville Colt & Horse Show. Michelle and Rick packed up Emma and a ton of stuff and took the 20 hour drive up there. Thanks to Tracie Traver at Ridgemor Farm for letting us overnight at her place so we could break the driving into roughly 10 hour treks. Tracie/Tally packed up two of their CBs and we all made our way to Upperville. We arrived at Upperville late Friday and spent Saturday watching some jumper classes, the sidesaddle classes, and visiting all the shops. On Sunday we competed in the three Cleveland Bay classes open to partbreds. Michelle and Emma didn't place in the in hand class, but they took second in the under saddle class and fifth in hunter hack. Rick played around taking a couple of pictures of the jumpers and sidesaddle classes on day one. On day two Rick took pictures of the Cleveland Bay classes. HERE are the photos. HERE are the CB class results.

CONTACT INFORMATION

	Email:	Michelle Bergeron Rick Bergeron
	Phone:	225.964.7222 - Michelle (call her first... she's the boss!) 225.964.7223 - Rick
	Mailing Address:	10303 Springdale Ave. Baton Rouge, LA 70810
	Physical Address:	2174 Bayou Paul Ln St. Gabriel, LA 70776

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