MacNair's Country Acres

🐴 - Last call to consign!

Have quality saddles, tack, riding apparel, boots, or other equestrian gear ready for a new home? Enter your items online and drop them off at the Top Barn Lounge by 7 PM on Thursday, August 27.

Consignors keep 70% of the selling price!

Then join us for ice cream with Louie and Co Ice Cream and the MacNair’s & Triangle IEA Team Consignment Sale:

📅 Saturday, August 29
⏰ 9 AM–2 PM
📍 MacNair’s Country Acres

Learn more and enter your items:
https://www.macnairscountryacres.com/equestrian-consignment-sale/

🐴 Save the date! 29 August, 2026

MacNair's IEA and MacNair's Country Acres are sponsoring their annual consignment sale.

Sell a little, buy a little, contribute to the team.

This year, we are making it simpler to sell. For more information, go to: https://www.macnairscountryacres.com/equestrian-consignment-sale/

Louie & Co ice cream will be there too! Come for ice cream, hang out, and shop till you drop!

📅 Aug 29, 9AM–2PM
📍 2721 Dover Farm Road, Raleigh
Drop off deadline: 27 August, 2026 - 7PM

Prefer to donate?
Venmo

Welcome, 2026 MacNair's IEA Team. 🐴

This year, we wish you excitement, growth, and good sportsmanship. We wish you the wins you work for, and the lessons that come when you don't. We wish you a season full of the kind of friendship and support that only riders understand.
Some of you are back for another year, some of you just earned your spot for the first time; welcome to the team, all of you.

Thank you to Madison for coaching this group, and to every family who shows up early, drives far, and cheers loudly.

Save the date: August 29 - Support the IEA Team: Tack & Apparel Consignment Sale! Stay tuned. 👀

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This Memorial Day weekend, we pause at MacNair’s Country Acres to honor the men and women who gave their lives for our country – and the horses who quietly served beside them throughout our history.

Long before engines and airplanes, horses carried soldiers, pulled supplies, and helped deliver messages through fear, noise, and uncertainty. Today, our horses carry a very different kind of load: they help riders build confidence, learn responsibility, and find calm in a busy world.

As you enjoy time at the barn and with your families this weekend, we invite you to take a quiet moment of gratitude – for the freedom we enjoy, the people who protected it, and the horses who have stood by humans in times of both war and peace. From all of us at MacNair’s Country Acres, we wish you a safe and thoughtful Memorial Day. 🇺🇸

In observance of Memorial Day, there will be no lessons on Sunday or Monday at MacNair’s Country Acres. We look forward to seeing everyone back in the barn after the holiday, and we wish you a safe and thoughtful Memorial Day.

Thank you to all our amazing sponsors and riders for making the last two shows such a success. We appreciate you so much! 🥰🐴 Now, our focus is on getting the summer camps, show season, and IEA ready.

We’re **hiring** for our 2026 Summer Horseback Riding Camp staff in Raleigh, NC! 🌞

- Camp Counselors (paid) – oversee campers, lunch, crafts, and help keep riders on time 🐎
- Apprentices (volunteer hours) – help with horse care, tacking, grooming, and lessons 🤝
- Lifeguard (paid, certified) – supervise afternoon swim… we still don’t have this position filled 🛟
- Fill out the Summer Camp Staff Interest Form on our website under “Summer Horseback Riding Camp” → “Summer Camp Staff Application” 🖱️

Update on Horse Riding Summer Camps
- Kids camps are WAITLIST ONLY, except the last two weeks, which still have openings ✅

We still have availability for the Advance Camp. Camp Weeks are:

**June 15 – June 19, 2026 – IEA Prep Week (IEA Tryouts are June 20!!)
**July 20 – July 24, 2026 – Different Disciplines Week
**July 27 – July 31, 2026 – Fun in the Sun Week
**August 10 – August 14, 2026 – Lease a Horse and Show Prep Week

Tag someone who’d love spending their summer with horses, kids, and our MacNair’s barn family! 💚

Thank you to MsCucalon Photography for sharing these beautiful photos. We’re so honored to have her as our photographer. Reach out to her to book your photos at the upcoming schooling show on May 9.

Offsite riders 📌 Sign up today to waive your ground fees.

Also, visit our website for details on the May Covered Ring Derby, Showmanship questions, and updated point standings. If you have any questions about signing up, please reach out ASAP.

The Derby for the front ring will be a traditional jump course with a song in honor of Mother’s Day weekend. Moms get to choose the song for their rider; don’t forget to send in your song choice.

Our Leadline class was a big success last month! If you have a little one (a younger sibling, child, friend, or grandchild) who’d love to earn their first blue ribbon, let us know, and we’ll get them signed up.

And don’t forget our Rusty Stirrups division for adult riders and boarders who want to get in the show ring in a fun, low‑pressure environment.

Come for the ride or come to watch the show and have a bite. Louie & Co ice cream will be there to satisfy your sweet tooth.

See you Saturday!

📌🏇MacNairs Schooling Show - 9 May 2026 🏇📌

It feels like it was just yesterday we had our April Show. So much fun!

👉Off-site riders- Register by Monday to have the Grounds Fee Waived.

For our feature class, we will honor all of the moms who work hard behind the scenes.

Come hungry, come thirsty, and don't forget to bring your sweet tooth! We'll have concessions and ice cream from our sposor Louie & Co, while Maria captures all the best moments.