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A riding school run
A riding school run
on the horse's terms
Windrose began as a dairy farm with two ponies and a borrowed field. The cows are long gone. What stayed is the way the place is run — quietly, unhurried, with the same three families still doing the morning feeds.
We cap group lessons at six riders, because seven is a queue and not a class. Every horse works a maximum of four hours a day and takes two full days off each week.
Individual lessons
Your seat before
Your seat before
your speed
Nobody here is put on a horse and told to hang on. Beginners spend their first three sessions on the lunge with no reins, because balance comes from the body and not the hands.
When a coach says you are ready to move up a group, that is the only reason you move up a group.
See lesson blocks
Qualified coaching
Improve your riding
Improve your riding
with people who ride
Every coach on the roster is qualified, insured, and rides the school horses themselves at least once a week. They know exactly what you are sitting on, and how it behaves on a cold Tuesday.
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Years on this hill
The yard
Everything here
Everything here
earns its keep
No feature walls and no trophy cabinet in the entrance. The money goes into footing, fencing and forage, in that order.
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Two floodlit arenas
Silica and fibre surface, harrowed twice daily, ridden in all weathers.
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American barn, twenty-six boxes
Rubber matted, ventilated ridge, an individual feed board on every door.
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Heated tack room
Locked and alarmed, with a saddle fitter on site the first Thursday of the month.
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Solarium and wash bay
Hot water year-round, plus a rubber-floored bay for loading and unloading.
Qualified trainers
Nine coaches,
Book with a coach
Nine coaches,
one house style
Deshi Varga
Head coach
Twenty-two years on the national circuit. Will make you count strides out loud until you stop needing to.
Rowan Adeyemi-Fitch
Senior coach
Eventing background, endless patience with nervous adults. Runs the confidence clinics that fill first.
Ines Brackwater
Dressage
Trained in Warendorf. Teaches from the ground with a long whip and a longer memory of last week's homework.
Tobias Ngata
Juniors
Ran the pony club branch for a decade. A child who can catch, lead and tie up is already halfway there.
In their words
I started at forty-six having never sat on a horse. Nobody made me feel late to it.
My daughter came for six weeks and stayed four years. She can tack up faster than I can find my keys.
They matched me to a horse who forgives a bad hand, and then taught me not to need forgiving.
The hacking is the reason I moved my mare here. Three hours out and you never cross a main road.
Nobody rushed me into a canter. I asked for it myself, in week nine, and by then I was ready.
Coaches who ride the school horses themselves give completely different advice. You can hear it.
Come and see
Book a taster ride
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Find us9785 Southwest Vancouver
Springfield, CA
Springfield, CA
Yard office+1 (000) 575-898
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