It's a surprise.

Oh, this is yours.

I mean, that's okay.

Thank you.

All right.

All right you guys.

We got new gear.

We got new gear.

Everybody riding today.

Can you all come up here real quick?

Here you go.

This is your first one.

So this is yours.

You can switch in the bathroom if you want.

And, yes, you're good.

And then here we go, honey.

Pu that on?

I think I like it.

I think I like it.

My mom said I got to look cute because I'm gonna be on camera.

So she made me.

She, like, comb down my hair and she washed it yesterday.

Oh right, we ended up from last time.

Oh!

- Remember popcorn that was on the floor.

The napkins.

Oh.

What you got, Rico?

Pancakes, eggs and sausage.

Riding Into The Future is a 4-H club that gets inner city youth out of the city of Pittsburgh, into the country for free horse riding lessons, and just gives them peace and quiet stillness.

You already.

Are you ready?

You can see some bunnies right here.

Look.

All that poop.

Look at the poop!

- Bunnies eat their poop.

That is disgusting.

I came to horses later in life.

After my parents had passed away, I needed that something.

You know, I didn't realize the state that I was in, but I needed something to help me get through my grief.

Whenever I was volunteering at a stables, I found this one horse that I connected with, and horse was like calling for me.

And the owners of the stables are like, wow, that horse has never done that.

So the energy I felt from the horse was amazing.

Horses for me personally have helped me heal.

They've calm me down.

It's my place of peace.

The one group with me and Dia and Avery, you're going to be riding.

Cadence and Lisa, you guys are going to start working on markings.

And then with Kristin over here which no one this is this Ms.

Kristin and her daughter Kennedy, you guys are going to be working on grooming and then parts of the saddle and bridle and tackle up today.

Everybody ready?

Yes hurray!

Is everybody, lets get a team.

Lets clap it up yall.

Lets clap it up.

The horse picks you.

You don't pick a horse.

The horse walks up to you, walks over to you know that horse has chosen you.

The energy that you're holding a horse can sense that and they can calm.

So a kid may be going through something at home, some type of stress, some type of peer pressure, something that nature that may be taking place.

They'll learn this through horses that they, you know, they can come out and escape.

Yeah.

Does anybody have any breakfast or anything?

These are leg markings.

Remember when we went over those?

This is what they look like.

So you have to make it like that.

See how it goes around.

Like a little.

Oh, no.

That's good.

Yeah.

A paint is a type of horse that have that have white and and and they can have like, like this, this color called like pink pinto.

You go this way, we go left your left back of your hip, then hands out, then right back to your hip.

Observing these kids on the horses, watching the transformation into the confidence and the uprightness.

I can't even describe this feeling, its just amazing.

- Can you look at that green flag down there?

Every week, I'm hearing from the parents.

They can't wait to come back.

The excitement living through a kid.

It gives me joy.

It gives me so much joy.

There you go.

Where you gonna go?

There you go.

Looks a lot better than when we started.

This is a huge difference.

- Gabby?

Yeah?

Tell me about it.

How did it feel to ride the horse?

It was fun.

Yeah, was it scary?

Gabby: A little bit.

I was like, kind of anxious, but it was really fun.

The funniest part was that he stopped and the horse had stopped to poop.

That was funny.

I was on it, and then it just stopped to poop.

Oh, it was an amazing.

Every time she just let go.

I just liked it because I wanted to do it by myself.

Alright, what do you want?

Pepperoni and sausage?

Yeah.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

- Why?

Bkause!

What was your favorite part of the day?

Riding the horse, I was scared.

But I got him to hold, and not, I thought I was gonna fall over, but I didn't.

I did really good.

I did feel amazing.

My hopes are that each child takes away from this confidence within himself.

And this will open up new doors for them to connect with somewhere outside of the city to go.

The sky is the limit.