Deshi Varga
Head coach
Twenty-two years on the national circuit. Will make you count strides out loud until you stop needing to.
Who will teach you
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The nine on the roster
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.
Start riding
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.
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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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.
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Find us9785 Southwest Vancouver
Springfield, CA
Springfield, CA
Yard office+1 (000) 575-898
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