This form is required to participate in all activities.

Equest, its officers, members, employees, and agents (including volunteers) will not be responsible for any damages to person, animal or property at the Equest Riding Center or its grounds, nor will they be responsible for any property lost or destroyed.  The undersigned rider or parent/guardian hereby releases Equest, its officers, members, employees, and agents from any and all liability and claims of any nature whatsoever, including taking any action to control, restrain, or confine the undersigned, for the safety or protection of the undersigned or others and any damages whatsoever (including costs, expenses, and attorney's fees) that might result from damages, injuries, or losses to their person or property during, or in connection with, or arising out of, any class, lesson, demonstration, show, clinic, event or other function, whether or not such damages, injuries, or losses result directly or indirectly from the negligent act or omission or of any intentional or willful act or tort of such released parties or of any invitee of any released party,

WARNING:  UNDER TEXAS LAW (CHAPTER 87, CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE), AN EQUINE PROFESSIONAL IS NOT LIABLE FOR AN INJURY TO, OR THE DEATH OF, A PARTICIPANT IN EQUINE ACTIVITIES RESULTING FROM THE INHERENT RISKS OF EQUINE ACTIVITIES.

In exchange for the use of property owned by Equest and other valuable consideration, I agree that my use of the premises and any animals, facilities, or equipment owned by Equest is at my own risk.  I further agree to indemnify and hold harmless Equest, and its respective officers, members, employees, and agents, from any and all suits, actions, or claims of any type arising from my use of the premises or participation in an equine activity, or of such use or participation by my guest, whether or not such claims result directly or indirectly from the negligent act or omissions of the indemnified parties or otherwise.

I acknowledge that riding, and involvement with horses, is a high-risk activity.  I have read this agreement and fully understand its content.

For valuable consideration given and which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned hereby grants to Equest permission to take, or have taken, still and moving photographs and films of the above named Rider, including television pictures, and consents and authorizes Equest, its advertising agencies, news media, and any other persons interested in Equest and its work, to use and reproduce the photographs, films or pictures, and to circulate and publicize the same by all means, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, newspapers, television media, brochures, pamphlets, instructional materials, books, and clinical materials.  Please note that your presence or participation in a public event at Equest or event involving Equest constitutes a tacit waiver of this non-consent.  Electing the non-consent option will not necessarily prevent a subject from being photographed or filmed at any such event by Equest or the general public

With respect to the foregoing matters, no inducements or promises have been made to secure this signature to this release other than the intention of Equest to use, or cause to be used, such photographs, films, and pictures for the primary purpose of promoting Equest and its work.