Frequently Asked Questions

Yes we supply horses, or you’re welcome to bring your own for lessons. Our school masters are highly trained horses and are great at confidence building, we have a range of types and sizes for all levels.
If you’ve ever thought of owning a horse our horse hire or part horse lease is a great option for the feeling of horse ownership without all the responsibility and stress.

We have no minimum age for our pony pats and pony familiarisation program. We have a minimum age of 4 years old for riding sessions.

The maximum weight is 90kg for the welfare of our horses.

Our lessons are conducted in our timber fenced sand dressage arena. We have a grass jumping paddock and under cover tack up area.

The most important focus is creating a connection between horse and rider, students learn how to read a horses body language so they know how their horse is feeling and how they communicate, this empowering our students too feel safe as they know what the horse is saying to them.
In our first lessons we are fitted with a correctly fitted helmet and learn the safety rules around the property. We meet our horse for the first time (very exciting moment this has been a long wait for many students), learning how to safely approach, brush and saddle up your pony. We mount for the first time learning to relax and we do some fun stretches, then feeling the rhythm of the walk and how to safely go, stop and turn your pony. Our future lessons go on too learning how to controlling your horses body with your legs and seat we then move on feeling trotting later progressing to cantering. We use fun games and riding exercises to build riders balance and confidence.
Group lessons are available we have achieved a good rise trot with control of your horse.

We tailor our lessons to riders goals. We cover a large range from building confidence to advancing your skills in dressage. Learning flexion, turn on haunches/forehand, leg yielding, half-pass, rein back, pirouette, shoulder in, travers, collected walk/trot/canter, extended walk, trot, cater, flying changes and riding dressage test. See a list of disciplines below and please let us know if there is anything in particular you are interested in practicing.

• Horsemanship
• Join up
• Flat work
• Dressage
• Pole and cavaletti exercises
• Showjumping
• Cross country training
• Fun games & sporting
• Camp drafting
• Challenges
• Archery
• Roping
• Trail rides
• Barrel racing
• Vaulting

Weather can be different at the riding centre compare to the coastal areas. We will contact you if we need to cancel/reschedule on the day with 4 hours notice. We ride in light showers so please bring a raincoat if necessary, we have a wet weather workbook program learning horse husbandry on very wet days. We cancel in severe weather storms with flooding or when lightning is around.

We are open Monday through to Saturday. Please complete our online booking form or contact Ness for availability on 0400 893 313

Lessons are pre-paid at time of booking via invoice with direct deposit, credit card or PayPal options. We accept cash on the day with a last-minute booking.