Riding
From a four-year-old on the lead rein to an owner with a horse that stops at the second fence, and the livery yard and the farm tracks in between. Each page says who it is for, how big the group is, who teaches it and what it costs.
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Lead-rein lessons from four, children's groups of four riders for walkers, trotters, canterers and jumpers, and private lessons for the nervous and the keen. The same instructor and the same pony each week. From £32 for thirty minutes on the lead rein.
From £32 for a thirty-minute lead-rein lesson.
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For adults who have never ridden, or who stopped at twelve and want to start again: a course of six thirty-minute private lessons on one of the school cobs, then adult groups of four on weekday evenings and Sunday mornings. £255 for the course, £45 for a group hour.
£255 for six private thirty-minute lessons, or £48 for one.
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Lessons on your own horse with one of our BHS coaches: flatwork, gridwork and courses, a horse that naps or rushes, or getting a young horse going. Bring your horse in the trailer or hack over from a nearby yard. £40 for 45 minutes, the arena included.
£40 for 45 minutes, the arena and the jumps included.
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In the school holidays: pony days from 9:30am to 3:30pm for riders from six to fourteen, with a riding lesson, a hack or a games session, grooming, feeding and mucking out, and a quiz on the bench at lunch. £85 a day or £375 for a five-day camp week.
£85 a day, 9:30am to 3:30pm, lunch brought from home.
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Eighteen stables in two blocks, summer grazing in post-and-rail paddocks, winter turnout on the hill fields, the floodlit arena and the covered school, and four miles of farm tracks. DIY £45 a week, part livery £115, full livery £185, with the spaces left shown live.
DIY £45 a week, part livery £115, full livery £185, all with stable, grazing, the arena and the tracks.
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Hacks on four miles of our own farm tracks and field headlands, with views across the Vale to the Bristol Channel, and no road to cross. An hour at walk and trot for riders who can steer and stop, or two hours with canters up the long field for experienced riders. From £50.
£50 for an hour at walk and trot; £85 for two hours with canters, experienced riders only.
Starting
Two questions on the lesson finder (the rider's age and what they can do now) give the lesson, its length and price, and the next day with a place.
The form takes two minutes. Sian confirms within the working day with a time, an instructor and a horse, and asks the rider's height and weight privately.
Every new rider has one private lesson so the instructor can see how they sit and choose the right horse. Then they join a group, or carry on privately.
The same instructor, the same horse until it is time for a change, and progress on the yard board. Nobody waits for a term to end to move up.
Once you can trot
Along the stream, through the wood and up the long field to the top gate, with Flat Holm and the Somerset coast on a clear day. An hour at walk and trot for riders who can steer and stop on their own; two hours with canters for experienced riders.
Tell us the rider's age and what they can do now and we suggest the lesson and the next day with a place. Every new rider starts with a private lesson so we can choose the right horse. Or ring Sian in the office.
