Picture This

Photo Album

Look here for pictures of students and horses! Browse our photo albums from lessons, class visits, and community days at the Marina Equestrian Center in Monterey County.

Featured Albums

Salinas Spanish Class — May 2003

Photos from a special riding session with a Spanish-language class from Salinas. Riders, volunteers, and horses in the arena.

View the Spanish class album

Summer Open House

An invitation to meet the horses, watch riding demonstrations, and learn how the program serves the community.

Visit the open house page

Around the Program

Moments with riders, horses, and volunteers across the years at STAR Riders.

A child on horseback sharing a gentle nose-to-nose moment with a therapy horse — **A quiet moment** — rider and horse getting to know each other

STAR Riders volunteers walking beside a rider on a horse around the outdoor arena — **Lesson time** — supervised riding in the arena

A therapy horse and its handler walking outside the barn — **Horse and handler** — the team that makes it possible

Riders, families, and volunteers gathered around a therapy horse — **Community day** — families and volunteers together

Lottie, a STAR Riders volunteer alumna, with a horse at the equestrian center — **Volunteer alumna** — Lottie, now a Mounted Patrol officer

A rider and horse at the arena, from the 2004 Spanish class riding sessions — **2004 class session** — one of the few photos preserved from the era

About this album: STAR Riders' website has been serving the community since the early 2000s. Many original photographs could not be preserved through the years — the photos you see here are the ones that survived. Every picture tells the same story: gentle horses, dedicated volunteers, and riders who never stop amazing us.

See what families say in our rider stories, or come experience it yourself — find out how to visit the Marina Equestrian Center.