Bestwood Country Park, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 8PD
The Beginner Rider
The Beginner rider will learn to:
- Lead a Pony safely
- Adjust Stirrup length from the ground
- Check and adjust the girth before mounting
- Mount and dismount safely
- Learn to steer
- Learn how to make a pony walk and halt
- Ride changes of rein
- Trot without holding on to the saddle
Work towards ABRS Equitation Tests 1 and 2
The Novice Rider
The Novice rider will learn to:
- Improve position in walk and trot
- Canter! You will practice and practice until you can canter without holding on to the saddle
- Do figures in the school in trot- 20m circle, Figure of eight & 3 loop serpentines
- Work over ground poles
- Learn the jumping position
Work towards ABRS Equitation Tests 3 and 4
The Intermediate Rider
The intermediate rider will learn to:
- Adjust your stirrups and girth before and after mounting
- Walk and trot without stirrups
- Work in open order
- Have an understanding of more complex school figures
- Small jumps
- Ride in walk, trot and canter in the open/out hacking
Work towards ABRS Equitation Tests 5 and 6
The Intermediate Rider
Now it gets serious! You will have progressed to a point where you will learn to:
- Tack-up and untack
- Ride with a good sympathetic position in walk trot and canter
- Canter without Stirrups
- Ride courses of jumps
- Rider lateral movements- leg yield, turn on the forehand and rein-back
- Have a deeper understanding of your mount
Work towards ABRS Equitation Tests 7, 8, 9 & 10
Weekly Riders Tests
Did you know we are now accredited by the Association of British Riding Schools, and can hold weekly riders tests?
Ask at reception for more details.
Licence Number: 18/03419/RIDEST
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