Lucky 7 Stables — Local services in Londonderry

My daughter is 3 years old and recently diagnosed with autism. For the past year or so she’s had a strong attachment to horses, from afar. Never met a horse. Watching horses on TV or wanting every horse toy invented.

I scheduled her very first encounter with a horse at the Lucky 7 Stables. We just moved to New Hampshire and we weren’t sure where to go then I found this place on the internet. Boy am I glad I found this place!!

The moment we walked in we were immediately greeted by a lady working in the registration office, I feel terrible for forgetting her name but there was so much excitement with my daughter that forgot. She was so helpful and made my daughter, Addison and I feel so welcomed.

Later on we were greeted by a lady named Donna (made sure to remember her name LOL) who was going to be giving Addy her riding lesson. She told Addy and I to hangout in one of the stables to visit with the other horses while she got the one we would be working with, Glory, ready for the ride.

The horses in the stable were so beautiful and docile and my daughter quickly approached the horses with no fear. She first met Maxine who later became my favorite - she likes to give armpit nudges, haha!!!

Addison hopped on Glory for the first time and looked like she’s been riding horses for years aside from her favorite rocking horse she has at home. 3 years old and she grasped some of the handling gestures (to get the horse to move or stop) right away!

Donna was so pleasant and my normally socially resistant daughter warmed up to her fast. I liked her a lot, too!!!

The lesson was finished and I knew immediately that we would be coming back - I even want to volunteer to brush the horses hair after they finish rolling around in the mud to give Donna a break before she rides them lol. They like to give Donna a hard time. 🤣

As we were leaving the lady from earlier that works in the registration office brought me over some contact information to get my daughter started in a program for autistic children so Addy can ride horses more for therapeutic lessons. I wish I remembered her name she was so helpful to do that for me.

I think I just wrote a book!! That just goes to show you how excited I was after leaving Lucky 7 Stables...they made my daughter feel special and that makes this mommy extremely...

My family and I had a terrible experience. We weren't properly trained on handling the animals in case of emergencies. The ride started smoothly, but when a plane flew too low, it startled the horses and they began running uncontrollably. Because we lacked proper training, we couldn't control the horse, and my mom suffered the worst of it. She fell, and the horse she was on trampled her, injuring her arm. To worsen the situation, a staff member handed her another horse to hold while injured, so they could assist someone else. Despite explaining the situation, the staff insisted she pay. One staff member even said, "We can't control the plane," which is true, but they didn't offer proper safety training or first aid; all they did was provide an ineffective ice pack. Additionally my 10-year-old sister's horse went wild, and with only two staff members for seven people, it was a terrifying situation. It's clear their priority is profit over customer safety. I would not recommend this place but if u do go, go with your own first aid incase...

Staff were amazing, and the horses are lovely. The trail was fairly nice, No real views so if you aren’t looking for a view you’ll enjoy it that much more. Only reason I am not giving it more stars is because they are not so understandable. Family member was scared to go on trail because they were frighten by the horse at first. Not once did staff offer to switch or guide the horse for my member. We didn’t even know that was an option until I asked for a refund. Then I got a run around excuse along the lines “you made a reservation so we were not able to hold that spot for others” I was unaware of my reservation since when I called in they just asked for my name and time I was planning to arrive and card. Being my first time going I assumed this is what they do. On the trail ride there was only me, family member, and two others. I overheard one of the staff members say “this is a very small group” meaning they were not expecting more and more were able to come if...