Young people in Philadelphia's Work to Ride program, which allows underprivileged youths to experience horsemanship, are helping redefine the typical image of polo players.
Philadelphia students are learning life lessons on horseback and they’re ready for their closeup. They are the new faces of a major fashion designer’s new ad campaign and they said [...]
The nonprofit teaches equestrian sports, but it also teaches life skills. Current and former students from their program recently modeled for Polo Ralph Lauren.
Polo Ralph Lauren, not exactly the first brand name that comes to mind when you think of West Philly, launched a new ad campaign this week in collaboration with a [...]
What images immediately come to mind when someone mentions polo matches? Most likely horses, women dressed to the nines in frilly floral dresses and men in dapper spring-themed suits.
It is said that polo is a playing field for the privileged. In Philadelphia, one organization says otherwise. Work to Ride, an educational non-profit founded in 1994, offers children and [...]
A quarter-century ago, a woman named Lezlie Hiner thought a novel way to help at-risk city kids might be to teach them to ride horses. Hiner’s idea seemed kind of [...]
On a quiet Monday in January, Lezlie Hiner is getting the frozen pipes fixed at Chamounix Equestrian Center. It’s the one day a week Hiner is able to do paperwork [...]
If your dream as a kid was cleaning out stables and learning how to gallop on thoroughbred horses, you might have pictured yourself in the countryside. But that’s all part [...]
Nestled far back amongst the trees on a dead-end road, a stone’s throw away from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, sits Chamounix Equestrian Center, the home of the indomitable Work to Ride [...]
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