GallopNYC is New York City’s only accredited therapeutic horsemanship center for children and adults with disabilities, seniors, and military veterans.

Therapeutic horsemanship is a combination of horseback riding, groundwork activities (such as grooming horses), and horse education designed to help people with disabilities gain measurable improvements in their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional skills. These improvements result in benefits that transfer to other areas of their lives.

Each day, GallopNYC’s horses help New Yorkers with disabilities:

● Improve their fine and gross motor skills,

● Improve their independent living skills,

● Make measurable progress on their skill goals (such as improved balance, muscle tone, attention span,

confidence, social interaction, and more), and,

● Experience a sense of accomplishment and independence GallopNYC offers accessible therapeutic riding programs to all, regardless of their ability to pay for services. Each year, GallopNYC offers its riders need-based lesson scholarships that help cover the cost of weekly therapeutic riding lessons.

In 2022, GallopNYC:

● Served almost 400 riders in 7,8022 therapeutic riding lessons – including 292 children and 106 adults,

● Served 135 New Yorkers who identify as having Autism Spectrum Disorder,

● Served 35 military veterans, offering them a total of 860 therapeutic riding lessons at no cost to them or

their families, and,

● Offered riding lesson scholarships to 61% of riders with disabilities.

This could not have been done without:

● 726 trained volunteers who offered GallopNYC a total of 15,827 hours of their time,

● A herd of 22 trusty horses, and,

● The invaluable support of the New York City community.

Please consider supporting GallopNYC's TCS NYC Marathon fundraiser. Your donation will help provide need-based riding lesson scholarships for children and adults with disabilities as well as essential care – such as hay, bedding, and veterinary services – for GallopNYC’s invaluable herd of horses.

Your support helps New Yorkers with disabilities saddle up!