Equestrian Team

The team has been competing in the IHSA (Intercollegiate Horse Show Association) shows for eighteen years and is now under Coach Maggie Boyle of Black Dog Enterprises. The riders learn and show Hunt Seat (an English style of riding).

Both male and female, the riders on the equestrian team share a love for horses and desire to increase their knowledge and ability of riding. We strive to glorify God through our riding and to exemplify Jesus Christ in our words, attitudes, and hard work. The team is open to all full-time Taylor University students, regardless of ability.

Requirements for the team include:

Taking lessons at least once a week
- $200/semester for lessons once a week
- $275/semester for lessons twice a week
Paying team dues
- $20/semester
- $30/year IHSA dues
Working at Taylor's home shows

Members are not required to compete. For those who do, each competition class entered is $25. It is not necessary to have your own show clothes - we share much of our apparel.

Stables

Black Dog Enterprises is a new hunter/jumper riding stables located seventeen miles from campus. It is a beautiful horse farm that boasts of a spacious outdoor arena, a heated indoor arena with large skylights and viewing room, stalls with individual turnouts, long rolling paddocks, and lots of black dogs. The stables are owned and operated by Ms. Maggie Boyle and is home to TU horses, Maggie's horses and other privately boarded horses.

Directions

Coming from the North
Travel I-69 South to State Road 218. Exit and turn west (right). Travel on SR 218 to 600 West, turn south (left). Travel to 550 North and turn west (right). Travel west approximately 3 miles. Black Dog Enterprises will be on the left side of the road.

Coming from the South
Travel I-69 North to State Road 18. Exit and turn west (left). Travel a short distance to 600 East, turn north (right). Continue on 600 East thru the very small town of Landess to 550 North. Turn left on 550 North and Black Dog Enterprises will be approximately 3 miles on the left side of the road.

Alternative Directions
Travel on State Road 9 to 550 North. Turn east on 550 North. Black Dog Enterprises will approx 1.5 miles on the right side of the road.