We offer Birthday Riding Parties for all ages and abilities.

Our Party options are:

• Birthday Lesson
• Birthday Games
• Birthday Hack

Our most popular option is half an hours ride in the school followed by a half an hour hack out through the woods.

The cost is £21 per child. If 10 children attend then the birthday boy or girl ride for FREE!!

We also have a cabin available for hire at 35.00 for 2 hours.

The room is heated, has an electricity supply and many tables and chairs. You are welcome to use room before or after your ride for food or further party games. You may decorate the room and bring your own CD player.

Our own a pony day events are ran during the school holidays.

Own a pony days Start at 10am and finish at 4pm.

Priced at £47 per day our own a pony days are great value.

Our own a pony days make great gifts. We can provide personalised gift vouchers.

What happens on own a pony day?

Your day will begin by preparing your horse or pony's stable with fresh bedding, hay and water. Next, you will be taken to the feed room to prepare your pony's breakfast.

Once all of the stables are ready, you will be taken to the paddock to catch your horses and shown the correct procedure for doing so.

Whilst your horse or pony enjoys his breakfast there is time for a short break followed by a grooming demonstration.

Now, it's time to groom your horse or pony and get them ready for riding. If time you can add some plaits to your horses' mane and tail. Once all the ponies are sparkling clean we all head to the tack room collect your saddle and bridle and tack up our horses.

Once we are all ready we head to the school and mount up. Everyone will have a lesson and/or games in the school and hack out in the woods. We will have a lunch break in between the two riding sessions.

The day is finished off by untacking, brushing off your horse, giving him or her there tea and returning them to their paddock. Once all the horses are out it's then time to muck out the stables.

Don't worry if you're not sure how to do any of the above our friendly team of instructors and helpers are on hand to teach you help you care for your pony.

Our own a pony day events are ran during the school holidays.

Own a pony days Start at 10am and finish at 4pm.

Priced at £47 per day our own a pony days are great value.

Our own a pony days make great gifts. We can provide personalised gift vouchers.

What happens on own a pony day?

Your day will begin by preparing your horse or pony's stable with fresh bedding, hay and water. Next, you will be taken to the feed room to prepare your pony's breakfast.

Once all of the stables are ready, you will be taken to the paddock to catch your horses and shown the correct procedure for doing so.

Whilst your horse or pony enjoys his breakfast there is time for a short break followed by a grooming demonstration.

Now, it's time to groom your horse or pony and get them ready for riding. If time you can add some plaits to your horses' mane and tail. Once all the ponies are sparkling clean we all head to the tack room collect your saddle and bridle and tack up our horses.

Once we are all ready we head to the school and mount up. Everyone will have a lesson and/or games in the school and hack out in the woods. We will have a lunch break in between the two riding sessions.

The day is finished off by untacking, brushing off your horse, giving him or her there tea and returning them to their paddock. Once all the horses are out it's then time to muck out the stables.

Don't worry if you're not sure how to do any of the above our friendly team of instructors and helpers are on hand to teach you help you care for your pony.

Our gymkhana days are always a popular event, which offen run in the school holidays.

We run a variety of classes which can include:

• Beginners, Novice, Intermediate & Experienced Show Jumping
• Higher & Higher
• Chase me Charlie cans
• Handy Pony
• Riders ability
• Games
• And many other fun jumping classes

Everyone placed 1st 6th receives a rosette.

Special and Well Done rosettes are awarded for improvement, effort and other achievements.

Classes are priced at:

• 6 on a riding school horse
• 4 on your own horse

Our gymkhanas are great practice and preparation for you and your horse for shows.

We are situated in over 200 acres of off road hacking in the heart of Bestwood Country Park. Our team are able to cater for all riding abilities to enjoy a ride around the country park.

We can offer One or Two hour hacks either as a group or privately.

More information about our locality...

We are situated about half a mile from the Bestwood Lodge Hotel, the former ancestral home of the Dukes Of St Albans. The first Duke was the illegitimate son of King Charles II and his Mistress Nell Gwyn, although our surrounding woodland dates back to well before the Doomsday Book, and was a favoured royal hunting ground from Henry 1st onwards. Whilst we no longer have Red Deer roaming freely in the woods, we have a multitude of other wildlife living amongst the many Silver Birch and Oak trees, some dating back many hundreds of years. Our woodland once formed the southern edge of Sherwood Forest, but due to farming and more recently coal mining, has become a separate entity.

On our western edge of the woods are the old Bestwood Colliery spoil heaps or Pit Tops as they are known locally. From there you get a commanding view of the countryside which overlooks the Rolls Royce testing centre at Hucknall, where the Trent Aero engine is tested, but also known as the birthplace Vertical Take-off technology, or Flying Bedstead, now used with the Harrier fighter jet. Also visible is the Old Winding House which has recently received Lotteryfunding as a local Heritage site, where plans are afoot to turn it into a visitors centre.