Poll: How much do you pay for lessons/how often do you have them?

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Depends on trainer for me - I will go up to £45 an hour for someone good, but only go once a month, currently using someone who is £25 and going every two weeks, had some super SJ training from someone who is only £20. Basically I won't go over £50 a month for lessons, and I am very sporadic about having them because all the people I've found who I really like are too far away, so I am trying different people out to see if I can find someone local who I like as much!
 
Agree with Spottedcat. I dont have them that regularly (could do with them!) but will pay upto about £40 if the person is good. I get some help from someone who is excellent for £25 an hour, and then every now and again will go to someone diffeent for a lesson/clinic which can be more.
 
I have a dressage lesson every 3rd week as trainer comes to a yard next door to do a clinic then - its £35 and is 45mins to an hour.

Also do the same SJ, as again trainer comes here to do a clinic every 3rd week and its £25-30 45mins - hour depending on how many people we get.

During the event season I have a local dressage person who i go to for £20 an hour if I cant get over to the trainer above as often (she doesnt come to do clinics as often in the summer due to her competing) and then I go to SJ person above every other week or the week of an event whichever comes up first which is £20 at her yard.
 
£15 an hour and I have one every week or one every other week.
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With one instructor (on own horse using her school) I pay £25 for roughly an hour.
With the other (on her horse or own horse, using her school) it's £20 for half an hour (I *think* it's double the money for double the time).
Half an hour is enough with the more expensive instructor but the other one is better by the hour. I think they're both fab and try to have lessons with each at least every two/three months if not more often. I haven't had my own horse to have lessons on for a while so haven't been to the first instructor for about six months.
 
I have a lesson each week with a trainer a 15 minute hack away, which is £15 for a very intensive half an hour, half flat work, half gridwork (suits my horse perfectly!) i also pay up to £35 for 45mins, just dressage, with a fab trainer, but again these are once a month at best, or for show jumping £20 for 45 mins! Group clinics are £15 through riding club, which i normally do for xc or water schooling and occasionally i will treat myself to a clinic with a recognised name!! Doing a Jeanette Brakewell one in January and that is £35 for 1 hour lesson for two of you...or £55 for indivual for 45 mins!
 
My regular trainer during the summer is £25/hour. But at this time of year I travel to an indoor school & have had some lessons with more well known Trainers & the general price seems to be £1/min
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Jumping lesson with Andrew Hamilton are £30 for 30 mins & last week I paid £45 for 45 mins with Ruth Edge. Fine & dandy & I know I live in the a**e end of no-where but it does mean I can afford lessons or competitions but not both!!
 
When in comp mode i have at least weekly lesson, but only half and hour - £10, dressage group lesson £13 and individual £25 - twice montlhy and monthly sj at £40.
Ouch ooooooo i spend alot!!
 
£30 with reg trainer, but also do clinics with Pammy which is £32 for 45mins and 4 of you sharing. I see pammy about once every 2 months and reg trainer about the same, on average
 
I have paid £60 for an SJ lesson in the past, but would not pay that much again! My regular SJ instructor is £15 for half an hour (but generally do as much as needed, so can be a bit shorter/longer depending on how its going).

I try to have lessons once a month, but this can depend on work committments etc - sometimes can go a few months without having any. I want to find a good (reasonably priced!) flatwork instructor, so if anyone knows any in North/West Yorks let me know
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£30 - either for a private lesson or shared with my sister.

Sometimes i will have a lesson more than once a week (before Aldon etc) sometimes not for over a month even up to 2/3. Depends whats going on competiting wise and exams and stuff.

Really suffer when i dont have one though - my riding is terrible!

Also for uni training between £27-£30 for an hour, which has risen from £23-24 two year ago... gulp!
 
I have weekly lessons with my regular trainer at £25 per hour. Monthly (ish!) I try to have a lesson with someone who is an international trainer and very experienced - they charge £45 per hour.
Most expensive lesson I've ever had was with Jennie Loriston-Clarke but my god was it worth it!!!
 
I have flat lessons with JL-C when I can afford it, which is about twice a year
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In between I mostly muddle along on my own for flatwork. Jumping, this year I have had lessons from Peter Murphy and Kenneth Clawson, £40 a pop but well worth it. Probablyt had a total of about 6 or 7 over the year.
 
I have regular lessons on the flat once a fortnight with an event rider £25 for an hour and about once every fortnight/ 3 weeks I have been going to Kitty for lessons which is a bit more money but still not particularly expensive. I have my 3rd lesson with her tonight.
 
Thanks for all the replies..
As some of you may know, i don't have lessons, therefore don't really know what the going rate is, (back in my pony days, i used to pay £10 a lesson, i realise it's a tad more than that now)..

Anyway, with regards to my post below, i rang Georgina Anstee-Marriott up, and got great vibes from her over the phone, she really sounded like she would be what Ernie and i need
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however, she charges £50 for 1 hour.. i can't remember what she said she charges for 45 min, but it was £40 something.. And i thought that was rather alot of money!!!
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and going by most of your posts, you'd all think it was too??
 
That is a lot of money! I train with a JRN co-ordinator and someone who has produced several 4* horses and she charges me 15 pounds for a 1.5 hour lesson!
 
i pay £40 an hour for andrew bennie he is definately worth the money! he has been fantastic i only have one every other week but i ride 2 what is really nice (and why i don't mind the money ) is he will help me at events if he is there he will make himself availble to come and help me warm up and just generally be really supportive so i find he is worth his weight in gold
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£1/minute is about the going rate for someone really good.
I generally have one 'good' instructor a month and at the moment I'm having a weekly lesson at the place I work with the staff riding club so it's only £6/hour
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Geez I must pay over the odds then, nobody round my way charges as little as some of you guys pay. I pay £35 for 45mins for a very good dressage instructor but probably costs me about £15 to get to her as she is 1.5hrs away. Also have a German guy that comes over to teach my yard manager and he charges £45 for an hour but doesnt' clock watch at all.
 
I've paid £40 an hour for really really good lessons and thats fine, but when you add up travelling costs its alot to maintain. So thats special occasions!
But I;m very lucky in that I have a brilliant local trainer who I pay £25 for, they come the few miles to my place, and usually have a lesson a week maybe more in winter with the youngsters and less in summer as busy competing.
 
£25 per half hour each week. It is getting results though so worht it. I've paid £15 for 1/2 hour and not really got anywhere so I may as well have put my £15 down a grid!
 
£37/hour with dressage orientated BHSI (though she has evented), 400yds from my yard and 200yds from my front door. I'm poor at the moment but I tend to go weekly or fortnightly for 3 or 4 sessions, then not again for a bit. She will school my horse for £15/hour and I can really feel a difference when I get back on so I may go with that a bit when I'm broke.

I do get some EHOA jumping lessons throughout the year with fantastic trainers but am struggling to find good jumping teaching locally. Having said that I am off to a Steven Hadley clinic on Friday so am quietly excited about that (£45, group of 3, hope it's worth it
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Blimey!
I charge 20 euros for as long as it takes,also usually ride the horse for 10 mins at the beginning of the lesson too.
But,I'm not a 'name' so maybe that makes a difference,also I don't have a formal qualification. (unless you count Pony Club 'H' test circa 1982!!!!)
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