Holiday programme coach Charlotte Besse was looking forward to using the indoor arena.
"It will be great. First of all we'll be able to run it in all weather and we will be able to have two groups at a time going.
"The whole programme will be able to be in one place. We're really privileged to have it," she said.
Ten-year-old Cliona Whyte had attended the last four Own Your Own Pony programmes along with younger brother Nathan, eight, who has mild autism, and was introduced to Tauranga RDA two years ago.
"It's nice that he can do this on his own but with his sister looking over to a certain extent," said their mother Maxine Whyte.
Mrs McMillan said the able-bodied children on the holiday programme would be helping to get the horses ready and training them to get used to the indoor arena before the start of the school term and the return of the riders with disabilities.
This will include familiarising them with the large mirrors, using props, games and playing hoofball inside the arena.
The Oscar-approved holiday programme will run in late January and bookings are available by contacting Tauranga Riding for the Disabled on 544-1899.