Eventing and boarding school

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How do you manage it? One of mine is leaving her prep school and wants to go to boarding school BUT we don't want her eventing to suffer! She'll only be weekly boarding but how do these riders like Pumbaa Goess-Saurau manage to board yet go out and win there events?
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They either have a good mum or groom at home to keep the pony fit and ready, probably have a lesson on the odd evening if near enough, or they have the pony in livery where it is produced for the rider by their trainer.
The other option is a school with quality riding facilities where the pony spends the week going home for weekends and holidays.

Parents need to be very committed as does the child, plenty of careful planning to avoid competitions during periods of high pressure at school.
 
If it's feasible, they're often allowed out on sports afternoons to have lessons.

Al rides for a family whose children are at boarding school- she goes up twice a week and schools/ does fast work, and then the children have a lesson weekly in one of their sports afternoons. The full time groom hacks out or lunges the other days.
 
Lolo said:
If it's feasible, they're often allowed out on sports afternoons to have lessons.

Al rides for a family whose children are at boarding school- she goes up twice a week and schools/ does fast work, and then the children have a lesson weekly in one of their sports afternoons. The full time groom hacks out or lunges the other days.
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How the other half, live, eh?!

Don't mind me, OP, I'm only envious :) I'm sure you can find a solution.
 
Take your horse to school with you! Therefore benefitting from good instruction on tap, great facilities and a nice break from normal school life.

There are 2 very good schools in the Southwest which I would recommend
 
Im friends with Pumbaa and have talked to her on many occasions. She comes from a family hugely backed financially and with horse riding in they blood. Pumbaa comes out of school twice a week to ride as well as weekends but now she is on study leave.
She has a groom to ride her horse and pony and I presume that her groom rides them when she's at school.
I am so envious of Pumbaa. She's such a succesful rider but I have to say, she wouldn't be in the position she is now without her parents or her groom.
I think the best thing to do for your daughter would be to find a school she can take her horse to, although schools like QE are expensive and aren't even very good on the academic side of things.
 
sez1 said:
I think the best thing to do for your daughter would be to find a school she can take her horse to, although schools like QE are expensive and aren't even very good on the academic side of things.
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Be careful not to generalise here.... QE has a terrible reputation but the other horsey schools are very, very good schools in their own right
 
Would just like to add that I went to QE and the eventers on our yard didn't have any issues with competing. They were allowed out several times a week, even missing academic commitments so that they could train/compete.

Yes, schools like QE are expensive (I was on equestrian scholarship and managed to achieve 4 A-levels A*AAB and my BHSAI in the 2 years I was at school there) so it isn't as bad as people make out! It doesn't have a great reputation but I think you should never rely on what others have said and form an opinion of your own rather than relying on other people's.
 
Thanks everyone! May look into getting a groom, as long as the money side is okay (anyone got any idea on the cost?)
Not snubbing anyone but not very keen on the equestrian schools as when we looked around millfield and stonar they were defiantly alot less 'smart' than the 'normal' schools, so we are going for second viewings of malvern st james and st marys calne :)
Isn't Pumbaa a lucky girl! Though no one can deny she is an extremely talented rider and one to watch for the future!
 
my older sister used to millfield (she's 19 now) and we got a groom to keep her two event ponios fit. but she says that it was really hard to go from the school pony she rode to her own ponies. plus she didn't have much time to get used to riding again as the school holidays didn't give her much time. i chose to not go to boarding school as i wanted to compete every weekend. i wouldnt recomend st marys.
 
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