Grovespring Farm Riding Lessons and Summer Camp
Grovespring Farm, 11323 Grovespring Rd, Culpeper, VA 22701
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Grovespring Farm Riding Lessons and Summer Camp offers riding lessons, summer camp, and clinics that include ground work, mounted lessons, and confirmation clinics. Riders take part in activities such as schooling young horses, riding to hounds, hunter pacing, field trips to ride out, horse showing, obstacle courses, and trail riding. Summer camp sessions give riders the chance to ride every day.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: 2026 summer camps are scheduled for June 8–12, June 15–19, June 22–26, July 6–10, and July 13–17
Grovespring Farm Riding Lessons and Summer Camp lists Susan Deal and Kris Deal in its leadership. Susan Deal is a certified instructor with the United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA). Grovespring Farm is a Recognized Riding Academy (RRA) with the United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA). Some camps have a specific focus such as schooling young horses, horse showing, or riding to hounds. Clinics are a regular part of the program, with Oliver Brown teaching mounted lessons and confirmation clinics, and in 2021 Melanie Taylor Smith and Alicia Byberg-Landman leading ground work. The program states its mission as: “We help people connect to horses, learn, and have fun!” The program notes that its school horses are described as educated and safe. The program also notes that in 2005, Susan rode her horse Penn Park to the North American Field Hunter Championship, in 2019 she won the Hunter Division of the Retired Race Horse Project/Thoroughbred Makeover in Lexington, KY, and that Kris was the 2009 Virginia Point-to-Point Association Optimum Time Over Fences overall winner.
Last updated July 18, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: 2026 summer camps are scheduled for June 8–12, June 15–19, June 22–26, July 6–10, and July 13–17
Grovespring Farm Riding Lessons and Summer Camp lists Susan Deal and Kris Deal in its leadership. Susan Deal is a certified instructor with the United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA). Grovespring Farm is a Recognized Riding Academy (RRA) with the United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA). Some camps have a specific focus such as schooling young horses, horse showing, or riding to hounds. Clinics are a regular part of the program, with Oliver Brown teaching mounted lessons and confirmation clinics, and in 2021 Melanie Taylor Smith and Alicia Byberg-Landman leading ground work. The program states its mission as: “We help people connect to horses, learn, and have fun!” The program notes that its school horses are described as educated and safe. The program also notes that in 2005, Susan rode her horse Penn Park to the North American Field Hunter Championship, in 2019 she won the Hunter Division of the Retired Race Horse Project/Thoroughbred Makeover in Lexington, KY, and that Kris was the 2009 Virginia Point-to-Point Association Optimum Time Over Fences overall winner.
Last updated July 18, 2026.
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