OUR PRODUCTS

We offer the following:

Trail Rides

• One and two hour rides
• Full Day Rides (up to 6 hours duration including a picnic in the veld)
• Weekend Trail Rides (2 nights camping, 2 half days of riding and 1 full day of riding)
• Long Trail Rides (up to 5 days, you design the itinerary, which could include nights camping in the veld and stopovers at various guesthouses)

See our Sample Itineraries

Lessons

• Riding lessons (including tacking up)
• Horse handling lessons for horse owners (trucking, feeding, general handling, etc.)
• Basic carriage driving

Children's camps

• Riding camps, usually following a theme such as eventing, show jumping, trail riding or dressage.
• Activity camps including horse riding, abseiling, art, craft, making movies, making books, swimming, trampolining and whatever else we can think of.

Horse starting

• Backing horses (breaking to saddle). We make wild or untrained horses rideable and they can be groomed, washed, have their hooves trimmed, stand tied and be boxed.
• Schooling horses (Depending on the requirements of the owner, we train them to a more advanced level, including basic dressage, show jumping, eventing, endurance, gymkhana, cattle herding, trailing, packing.)
• Breaking to carriage

  (We use a pragmatic combination of Classical Riding methods and the so called "Natural Horsemanship" methods. Our emphasis is always on praise rather than punsishment and we prefer to take our time over training. Good training takes years not weeks.)

Liveries

• We have paddocks of up to 50ha
• Our horses run as a herd
• Social, open stable construction (3m x 9m per stable)
• 24 hour supervision
• Each horse has an individualy controlled diet
• Basic schooling facilities
• Lovely outrides

Spelling

• Colic operation recoveries including strictly regulated diets
• Smaller paddocks for horses needing individual attention due to lameness
• Controlled exercise programmes after extended lameness

Foal catching

• Ann is a qualified stud manager
• David and Ann have caught more than 60 foals
• Mares are under 24 hour observation prior to foaling and for 24 hours post foaling
• We have a good relationship with all our local vets