Saddle Club
Junior term riding with a stable-management hour built in. Children learn to pick out feet and tack up before they ever ask to canter.
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Every block
Terms that build
Terms that build
on the one before
Blocks run in six-week terms so a coach can plan properly. Miss a week and we carry it forward — nobody loses a lesson to a head cold.
Jumping ladder
Four graded groups, from cross-poles to a metre five. You move up when the canter is ready, not when the calendar says so.
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Ridgeway hacks
Two hours out over the ridge, one coach to four riders. Assessed on arrival, and yes, there are two river crossings.
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Beginners' guide
What actually
What actually
happens on day one
Roughly two hours from arrival to leaving. You will not be left standing in a yard wondering where to go.
Tell us your history
How long you have ridden, your height and weight for horse matching, and anything a coach should know.
Fit hat and boots
Arrive twenty minutes early. We fit and loan a hat to current safety standard, and boots up to a size twelve.
Meet your horse
Someone walks you to the box, introduces the horse by name, and shows you how to lead through to the arena.
Ride, then review
Forty-five minutes assessed, then a coach recommends your group and books the first block of the term.
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.
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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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Questions we answer
Questions we answer
every week
If yours is not here, call the yard office. Somebody who rides will pick up.
With a private assessment lesson. Forty-five minutes on the lunge, no reins for the first part, and a coach who tells you honestly which group to join. Most adults are in a group within three sessions.
Long trousers without an inside seam, a boot with a small heel, and a top you can move in. We loan hats to current safety standard and boots up to a size twelve at no charge.
Fourteen stone, or ninety kilograms, on the school horses. It is a limit set by the horses, not by us, and we would rather say it plainly than at the mounting block.
Yes — full, part and grass livery are all available, subject to a box coming free. Vaccination records and a current passport are checked before arrival.
Both arenas are floodlit and one is under cover, so lessons run in almost everything. Hacks are called off for high wind or ice, and the block simply carries forward.
Four-day courses every school holiday, capped at eight riders with two coaches and a stable-management hour each morning. They open to Saddle Club members first.
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Walk the yard before you book anything
Find us9785 Southwest Vancouver
Springfield, CA
Springfield, CA
Yard office+1 (000) 575-898
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