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About Us
Mission Statement
At Bear Creek Equestrian Center our mission is to promote a healthy and safe environment for people and their horses. At BCEC our goal is to encourage both horses and riders to achieve their fullest potential.
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Polly Lucy, our program manager and trainer, grew up on a farm in New Hampshire. She has been around horses since she could walk and has had many different types of equestrian experiences including Pony Club and working for a Hall of Fame Cutting trainer in California. She spent several years galloping and training racehorses at Fairhill, Delaware Park and Keeneland race courses on the East coast.
Polly currently focuses on foundation work with her students, both equine and human alike! Her seat lessons will help you develop a balanced and flexible seat in your English or Western saddle. She enjoys working with young horses and also helping correct problems in older horses. Polly lives on-site with Bollo, her perpetual puppy, two cats, Tara and Mariah, Columbia, her 13-yr old gelding, and Anisa, her 3-year old Lipizzan filly. Come take a seat lesson with Polly – your riding will never be the same!
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Polly with Bollo in their newest training adventure, "Skijoring"
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Eric Hough, a third generation Methow valley resident, is our facilities manager extraordinaire. Eric grew up in the agricultural industry around horses as well as other farm animals, and he can fix anything at BCEC. Eric was an active member of the Future Farmers of America, and also participated in Knowledge Bowl during his high school years. He is our groundskeeper, snow plow driver and super repairman and he can build you the most spectacular rock wall or fireplace you’d ever see. As we often say at BCEC, “he is out standing in his Field!”
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There is nothing like a Deere!
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Sandie Haase Stone, our office manager, is a fifth generation valley resident. She grew up with her family in the Upper Rendezvous area of the Methow where they raised cattle and hay. “I really enjoy working with the horses here at BCEC,” says Sandie. “It’s like I have come full circle. My Dad put me and my brothers on horses about the time we learned to walk. As kids, our summers were spent on horseback moving cattle in the Paysaten Wilderness where dad had a range permit.” When she’s not billing and ordering products for BCEC, you’ll find her “lovin’ on” her favorite little buddy, Puck, a 2-year old Morgan gelding. Sandie lives with her husband Rick, their two cats, Trouble and Uh-Oh, and too many ducks to count! Rick calls her “the mad duck lady of Twin Lakes.”
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Sandie and her best buddy, Puck
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Deb Prentice, our ranch owner, discovered the Methow Valley in 1985 when she visited for a cross country ski trip. She and her husband, Arnie, have lived in the Valley part-time since completing their home here in 1997. They purchased the ranch land in 2004 and started BCEC in 2005. Deb’s dream of owning a horse began when she was a child in New York but did not become a reality until 2000 when she purchased “half-a-horse” with a girlfriend who quickly sold her the other “half.” To say that Moochie, a buckskin quarter horse, and Deb have had many adventurous times together is an understatement!
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| Deb riding her Morgan mare in the Teton Valley |
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