sally2008
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Can anyone let me have names / details of anyone in these areas who can offer lessons in western riding to both beginners and more experienced riders? Any help would be much appreciated. Thankies in advance.
Western Riding in East or West Sussex / Hampshire
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ironhorse
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Bob Mayhew is near Petersfield and is great for beginners and more advanced (international judge and competitor) but don't think he has a schoolmaster horse any more. (RIP Tewy, still doing sliding stops in heaven)
Quite difficult to find an instructor that has, but he may be able to lend you a saddle for a lesson to try it on your own horse.
Quite difficult to find an instructor that has, but he may be able to lend you a saddle for a lesson to try it on your own horse.
PennyJ
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Burley Villa down in the New Forest near New Milton do Western riding, I do appreciate however that is a long long way for you to travel.
sally2008
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Thanks to you both. I will check both contacts out. Anyone else know of someone closer to me?
oliviacharley
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Western riding is great and I do it all the time - You can go online at WES - Western Equestrian Society and they have a list of all instructors over the UK. They are sparce but its good fun...you can come and ride my horse anytime ;0)
http://wes-uk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=28
Catherine Wight is good but she is up in oxford. You can take your horse or ride hers I think. If you take a horse it can be stabled up there after a morning lesson, have lunch and then carry on into the afternoon with lessons - therefore making a day of it....the workshops are also really good too if you can get on those - Bob and Catherine do those ;0)
Have fun with it - its a fab style of riding and I only wish more people would get into it
http://wes-uk.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=28
Catherine Wight is good but she is up in oxford. You can take your horse or ride hers I think. If you take a horse it can be stabled up there after a morning lesson, have lunch and then carry on into the afternoon with lessons - therefore making a day of it....the workshops are also really good too if you can get on those - Bob and Catherine do those ;0)
Have fun with it - its a fab style of riding and I only wish more people would get into it
oliviacharley
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Sussannah Anderson** Tel. 01435 831656.
Geldridge Town, Punnetts Town, Heathfield, East Sussex, TN21 9JA
This is a closer one I think....and there is riding school near guildford which I know does it too...you dont need your own horse either...
http://www.rendersoft.net/cwwesterntraining/cindy.htm
Pic of my quarter horse too - couldnt resist :0)
Geldridge Town, Punnetts Town, Heathfield, East Sussex, TN21 9JA
This is a closer one I think....and there is riding school near guildford which I know does it too...you dont need your own horse either...
http://www.rendersoft.net/cwwesterntraining/cindy.htm
Pic of my quarter horse too - couldnt resist :0)
sally2008
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Thanks Herringbone - much appreciated. Punnets Town is not far from me so I will give that one a try. Whereabouts are you? I might take you up on your kind offer!
I have been invited to join a 2000 mile trek across the US (gulps!) and in all my 40 years of riding have never tried Western so some lessons look like a very good idea!
I have been invited to join a 2000 mile trek across the US (gulps!) and in all my 40 years of riding have never tried Western so some lessons look like a very good idea!
Rambo
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Thanks to you both. I will check both contacts out. Anyone else know of someone closer to me?
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Have you looked at Court Lodge Farm in Bodiam ? They are one of the biggest western centres outisde the US. Not sure if they have any horses for you to train on or not...but worth a look i'd have thought
http://www.sterlingranchuk.com
Thanks to you both. I will check both contacts out. Anyone else know of someone closer to me?
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Have you looked at Court Lodge Farm in Bodiam ? They are one of the biggest western centres outisde the US. Not sure if they have any horses for you to train on or not...but worth a look i'd have thought
http://www.sterlingranchuk.com
oliviacharley
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Im in berkshire and western riding is very comfortable and you will be longing to get back into it once home....you ride much longer, have hardly any contact with the mouth and use mostly your body for direction....
oliviacharley
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what kind of trek is it...? I would be interested in doing that myself :0)
sally2008
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Thanks Rambo. Thinking about it, I have heard of them so they are definately on the list for checking out.
sally2008
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Herringbone - have PM'd you.
Happy Horse
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Bob Mayhew is great! I used to work with his wife at the vets in Liphook and I rode Tewy once, she was a great horse!
The Zara Stud also does lessons for beginners http://www.thewesternshop.com/websites/zarastud/ I went with Robin of Loxley and it was great fun!
The Zara Stud also does lessons for beginners http://www.thewesternshop.com/websites/zarastud/ I went with Robin of Loxley and it was great fun!
sally2008
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Wonderful! Thanks Happy Horse. I have lots of options now.
Fransurrey
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Is Ockley in Surrey too far for you? Cindy at Standon Lane stables (I think it's called that! Might be Park) offers western riding and lessons.
lucemoose
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Cindy is amazing, also Jackie Marsh in Burgess Hill
sally2008
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Surrey is do-able. Thanks for your replies everyone. I'm all fired up to get started now.
