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After Decades Of Hoping, Work To Ride Finally Has New $15 Million Facility In Philadelphia
After decades of hoping and years of planning, McCausland Arena, a new 45,000-square-foot, $15 million facility, is now theirs.
September 23, 2025
For more than half her life, Chamounix Equestrian Center in West Fairmount Park in Philadelphia has been a second home to Samantha Rahe-Krick.
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The space is the heart of Work to Ride, a nonprofit organization that has given kids, including Rahe-Krick's own son, access to horse riding for the last 32 years.
But as Rahe-Krick will tell you, little had changed since she started here when she was 10 years old.
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Samantha Rahe Krick holds the bridle leading two horses, one of whom is named Will Smith/CBS News Philadelphia
Inside McCausland Arena, a new indoor horseback riding facility at the Chamounix Equestrian Center/CBS News Philadelphia
Work to Ride founder Lezlie Hiner/CBS News Philadelphia
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