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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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11/09 - Welcome to the RLEC
family Amanda and her horse Vegas. Also new students
Lee and Emily B.
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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.
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10/04 - Welcome new riders
Cassie, Jolie, and Aryelle! Looking forward to helping
you achieve great things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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08/10 - Big Right Lead welcome to our
new riders Clara L. and Stephanie S.! Hope you guys
are ready to handle the heat!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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