Right Lead Equestrian Center (RLEC) is located in St. Gabriel (Sunshine) just minutes south of Baton Rouge Louisiana, and offers pasture board, horseback riding / ground lessons, clinics, horse training, leases, sales, horsemanship, and training clinics. 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 on lessons or boarding or would like to come out and take a look around or observe a lesson.

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 about her. 

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 do not have a barn, rather we have pasture turn out with run-in shelters for our horses.  We have a large air conditioned tack room, a feed room, and a concrete wash rack on-site.  There are many stadium jumps and a few cross country jumps available.  We also have a PVC Dressage Arena from Premiere Equestrian set up on some great Bermuda grass turf.  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 are 1 mile down on your right just across the street from Mt. Carmel church. 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)

►	12/22 - Michelle is back on the Horse Radio Network's Horse Tip Daily with a different way of saddling up with some tunes.  You can catch the show HERE.
►	11/25 - Michelle is back on the Horse Radio Network's Horse Tip Daily with advice on icy cold bits and the second most useful household appliance ever for your barn.  You can catch the show HERE.
►	11/18 - Michelle is back on the Horse Radio Network's Horse Tip Daily with advice on how to plug your water trough if you don't have the screw in plug.  You can catch the show HERE.
►	11/09 - Welcome to the RLEC family Amanda and her horse Vegas.  Also new students Lee and Emily B.
►	11/06 - Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Tina Cope Clinic at RLEC.  Our riders are sore and our brains are working overtime.  We'll try to plan another one in December.
►	10/04 - Welcome new riders Cassie, Jolie, and Aryelle!  Looking forward to helping you achieve great things.
►	10/02 - Schooling day at BREC's Cross Country Course. Absolutely georgeous weather and everyone had a challanging and very productive day. Congratulations riders Jessica, Laura, Nicole, Elisha, and Emily, not to mention the tag along crew! Hopefully we'll get a chance to do it again sometime soon!  Photos can be viewed HERE.
►	08/30 -  Welcome to your new home Hippolotya!  Hippolotya has shown training level dressage, low jumpers, and several hunter shows with great results.  She comes to us from Newtown Horse Farm in Benton, LA and is a registered Oldenburg (1999 15.3 h bay mare (Gonzo I x Der Radetzky)). Congratulations to Michelle on bringing home the newest member of our family.
►	08/28 -  Congratulations to Laura on the purchase of her new horse Emmaline!  She sure knows how to put those all those boys at the farm in their place.
►	08/23 -  Michelle is back on the Horse Radio Network's Horse Tip Daily with a tip on the many uses of spring clips for horse related things.  You can catch the show HERE.
►	08/10 -  Michelle is back on the Horse Radio Network's Horse Tip Daily with a tip on dealing with horse poop on the butt bars in your trailer.  You can catch the show HERE.
►	08/10 - Big Right Lead welcome to our new riders Clara L. and Stephanie S.!  Hope you guys are ready to handle the heat!
►	07/29 - Michelle is back on the Horse Radio Network's Horse Tip Daily with a few good pointers on trimming your horse's face safely.  You can catch the show HERE.
►	07/26 - Michelle is back on the Horse Radio Network's Horst Tip Daily with a good way to fix sqeaky bits.  You can catch the show HERE.
►	07/17 - Michelle packed up Ashley and Ferdinand and a couple of good fans and traveled over to New Iberia, LA for Knollwood Farm Jumper Show at Sugerena for their first show.  They earned two 6th place ribbons in the 2'6" jumper division.  Awesome work!  Bad news is Ashley is leaving for California next week with Ferdinand to follow in a few months.  We're going to miss you Ashley, and wish you all the best.
►	07/09 - All of the roll top jumps are complete!  Both the Beginner Novice (2'3"h x 3'3d") and Training (3'3"h x 4'9"d) jumps were constructed a few months back but Rick finished the Novice (2'9" x 4') jump today.  All three are 12' wide.  Now we need to move them out to the field and get some use out of 'em.
►	06/28 - The ditch complex consruction is complete!  Now all we need is a little rain to help the grass grow and the ground settle around the structures and they'll be good to jump!  At the bottom are the three jumps.  The first picture is of the schooling half ditch, the middle is Beginner Novice and at the right is the Novice.  More pictures are posted on our Facebook page.
►	06/22 - Michelle is back on the Horse Radio Network's Horse Tip Daily talking about how to keep your dark hoof polish off of your horse's white legs.  You can catch the show HERE.
►	06/18 - Thanks to everyone who came out for our Dressage Schooling Show and a big round of applause to everyone who helped us put it on.  We appreciate the support and are hoping to hold another show in the fall when it's cooler.  In the meantime enjoy the pictures.  Photos can be viewed HERE.