The Paddocks Equestrian Centre

14/09/2026

10/09/2026

Gone

Availability this Saturday (12th) at 1.40

10/09/2026

Availability next ween

10/09/2026

Horse riding provides many physical, mental and emotional benefits

🐴Physical benefits

🐎Cardiovascular health: Horse riding provides a good aerobic workout that can improve your heart health.

🐎Core strength and muscle tone: Maintaining balance and proper posture on a moving horse engages and strengthens your core, back, and leg muscles.

🐎Improved balance and coordination: The constant adjustments required to stay balanced improve your overall coordination and fine motor skills.

🐎Calorie burning: Riding a horse can burn several hundred calories per hour, comparable to running or jogging.

🐎Lowered blood pressure: The combination of physical activity and spending time with animals can help lower blood pressure.

🐎Better posture: Riding requires and reinforces good posture, which can improve your body awareness and alignment.

🐴Mental and emotional benefits

🐎Stress reduction: The calming effect of being around horses and spending time outdoors can significantly reduce stress.

🐎Increased confidence: Mastering a new skill and bonding with a horse can boost self-esteem and confidence.

🐎Improved mental well-being: The connection with a horse can provide a sense of calm, perspective, and companionship.

🐎Focus and concentration: Riding requires a high degree of focus to communicate with the horse and react to its movements.

🐎Social interaction: Riding lessons and stables create a social environment that fosters friendships and teamwork.

🐎Patience and responsibility: Caring for a horse teaches valuable life skills such as responsibility, patience, and discipline.

🐎Problem-solving: Adapting to a horse's unpredictable nature encourages real-time problem-solving skills.

08/09/2026

Availability this week

04/09/2026

September brings many new beginnings for alot of parents and children. Starting reception, starting secondary, starting collage, new school year or a new start with home schooling. Some children love school some children hate school, but all our children are tiny little sponges ready to learn and absorb knowledge. So let's all put our best foot foward and teach our children to the best of our ability to give them the best start in life.

Horsey, horsey, don't you stop,Just let your feet go clippety clop.Pack the bag and grab the rule,Giddy up, we're bound for school!

Horsey, horsey, down the lane,Time to see our friends again.The school bell rings, the sun is bright,We're going to learn with all our might.

We ain't in a hustle, we ain't in a bustle,Just getting back in the learning muscle!So clip-clop fast or clip-clop slow,Giddy up, horsey, off we go!

28/08/2026

Todays our adult pony day, all with a common end goal of ownership. So the only option for today is to see what ownership is really about.

28/08/2026

After getting caught in the rain on our hack we spent a cosy afternoon doing arts and crafts with our pony dayers yesterday 🥰