Dairy Farm Equestrian

🌟 FREE Ride Safe Demo! 🌟

Spring is nearly here — lighter evenings, warmer weather, and more time to enjoy hacking out. It’s the perfect opportunity to refresh your road‑riding skills and help keep both you and your horse safe and confident.

🚦 Join us for a 1‑hour Ride Safe taster session on Wednesday 22 April at Bishop Burton Equine College, 6.15pm - 7.30pm.
Designed to improve confidence, skills, and knowledge when riding on the roads.

✨ Open to everyone
• No need to be a BHS member
• Everyone welcome
• Attend and take part on foot

🐴 What to expect
A qualified Ride Safe trainer will deliver a fun, practical, and confidence‑boosting session covering key road‑safety principles, rider awareness, and best practice when sharing the road.

✅ Friendly and supportive
✅ Practical and interactive
✅ Ideal for riders of all levels

Come along, learn something new, and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with riding safely on the roads.

Suggested donation: £5 per person, to include a goody bag when booked online
https://buytickets.at/bhsyorkshire/2155402

The Five Domains Model is used to assess animal welfare through identifying key areas that influence an animal's ability to survive and thrive in their environment 📋

The four physical or functional areas of environment, nutrition, health and behavioural interactions all feed into your horse's mental state – in other words, how they're feeling and responding to a situation.

World Horse Welfare has a handy guide to the Five Domains Model and how you can apply it to your own horse's care. You can access it, plus test your knowledge on the model, here 👉 https://bit.ly/WHW_FiveDomains

Courses completed and I am now also able to offer training as a BD Youth Coach and Youth Assessor.

Quality over quantity. So important to remember. 😊

⭐️Mindset Monday⭐️

“Am I doing enough in my training?”

It’s one of the most common worries I hear from riders — and it’s often the thing that creates more tension than the riding itself.

We all put pressure on ourselves…
To ride more.
To train harder.
To stay consistent even when life, work, darkness, weather and horses have other ideas.

And with social media showing everyone else’s “perfect” routines, it’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind.

But here’s the truth, just remember:
Your horse doesn’t need a 7-day training week. They need consistency, clarity and calmness — not constant intensity.

You don’t have to do more to make progress, focused, purposeful training will always take you further than doing “more for the sake of more.”
You have to do the right things for where you and your horse are right now.

Some weeks will be great.
Some weeks will be messy.
Some weeks will be full of life’s chaos.
That’s normal — and your horse doesn’t judge you for it.

Quality matters far more than quantity.

3 focused rides will always beat 6 rushed ones.
And rest days can be just as productive as schooling days.

So if you’ve been asking yourself
“Am I doing enough?”

let this be your reminder:
You are doing more than you think and you are doing enough.

Your progress comes from showing up with intention — not perfection.
And your horse feels the difference.

⭐️⭐️ Spaces available for SJ training with Caroline Peatfield on Thursday 6th @ Riseholme (Indoor!)
Please text me on 07863124501 if you’d like a space 🐴