NIA Department of Agriculture and Animal Science

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06/16/2026

Horsemanship Camp 2026🏇

We had a blast at the Horsemanship Camp last week.
Can't wait to do it again next year!

05/18/2026

Join us for an exciting three-day horseback riding experience designed for riders of all skill levels — from first-time beginners to experienced young horsemen and horsewomen! Campers will build confidence, improve riding skills, and learn hands-on horsemanship in a fun, safe, and encouraging environment. This camp is open to the public! 🏇

When? June 11-13
Where? Newman Cedar Hill Campus Arena
Time: 9am-11am
Fee: $260 for 3-day camp
Grades: Incoming 2nd-12th

What You'll Learn:
Riding instruction and arena skills
Horse safety and proper handling
Grooming, tacking, and daily horse care
Fun riding games and team activities
Leadership, responsibility, and confidence-building experiences

Register today!
https://newmaninternationalacad.regfox.com/2026-summer-camps-fun

05/07/2026

Friends, Parents, Faculty, and Staff,

Please give it up for the return of our Junior Ag/Animal Science student/ eq. team member, and 500+ hour volunteer hopping back on a horse this week after recovering from an unrelated injury and surgery….

So thankful to have our NIA Top Hand back in action! Next time you see him, give Jason Walker a pat on the back, a hand shake or a hug. Was cleared to ride this week and has already logged 6 hours on horseback volunteering with our elementary student lessons in just 2 days!

Young man is going places, WELCOME BACK JASON!

04/21/2026

Due to significant rain riding lessons for today and tomorrow will be canceled. Will see everyone next week!

04/09/2026

Classy Tails LLC that did our Christmas sweaters has a couple of dry fit t-shirt options and a hat option put together for us for spring. Will have them batch an order on April 15th so they will be here for May. So be sure to submit the order form before the 15th.

04/04/2026

When the crowd saw Chris Antley fly off Charismatic's back in 1999, nobody understood what they were witnessing. They thought it was a fall. It wasn't. It was one human being making a split-second decision that would echo through every corner of sport for decades.

Charismatic had just run his heart out chasing Triple Crown glory — and something had gone terribly, silently wrong. Most jockeys would have been swept up in the chaos of the finish line, the adrenaline, the noise. Most jockeys would never have felt what Antley felt in that fraction of a second.

But Chris Antley felt it. He leaped from the saddle and dropped to his knees, cradling that injured front leg with his bare hands, holding it steady so the c**t couldn't bear weight and shatter what remained. His competitors galloped past. The cameras zoomed in. And sixty thousand people fell completely silent.

This was not a calculated act. There was no rulebook for it. There was no medal waiting on the other side. It was pure instinct — the instinct of a man who had fought his own battles with addiction and near-career collapse, who had clawed his way back to ride in the 1999 Belmont Stakes, and who in that defining moment showed the world that greatness isn't always about crossing the finish line first.

The NTRA named it the Moment of the Year. Historians of the sport still place it among the most emotionally powerful scenes ever captured on a racetrack. But what they often don't say is how rare that kind of courage actually is — the courage to stop, to kneel, to hold on when everything around you is still running.

Charismatic survived. And the image of Antley on his knees never left.

What does it take to be that present in a moment of chaos? Drop your thoughts below — and share this with someone who needs a reminder that true greatness sometimes looks like letting go of the win.

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1114 W FM 1382
Cedar Hill, TX
75104

Website

https://linktr.ee/NewmanInternationalAcademy, https://www.newmanacademy.org/students/department_of_agriculture___animal_

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