Ride High Equestrian Centre

🎉Whoop it's Half Term!
This morning we welcomed lots of children to our 2 Pony Hour sessions - Tommy very much enjoyed his grooming session with the children - here's a little clip!

#halftermfun #ponyhour #weloveponies

🥣Eclipse and Aurora were sharing their breakfast in the paddock this morning... Like most toddlers, Aurora enjoyed playing with the bowl afterwards!

#loveponies #familybreakfast

😃Today is World Smile Day!
Here's Mannie, Apricot, Indiana and Mouse, sharing their smiles (Indie might need to work on his a bit!) Have a super Friday and remember to wear your waterproofs if you're visiting the Equestrian Centre today!

#WorldSmileDay #loveponies

🐴Our next Horsemastership session is on Friday 31 October at 3 pm and we'll be finding out how to design and build a show jumping course!
⭐This session is open to graded riders aged 11 and older. More info and how to book:
bit.ly/HorseMasters...

#loveponies #horsemastership

🦖 The RHEC salon team have been busy and Gunner's got a new look!

#fridayfun #dinopony🦕

Pony & Activities Camp returns during October Half Term!

⭐ 28, 29 & 30 October
⭐ 10.00 am – 3.30 pm | Age: 5 – 12 years | £60

This activity is suitable for total beginners (ponies will be led) and children who can already ride independently.

More: ridehighequestriancentre.co.uk/pony-and-act...

🐎This October Half Term we have 2 Pony Hour sessions on Monday 27 October: 10.00 am - 11.00 am | 11.30 am - 12.30 pm

Pony Hour is suitable for children aged 4 - 12 years and costs £38.
All places must be prebooked! Please visit our website for details: www.ridehighequestriancentre.co.uk

🐎 If you missed this month's newsletter, why not take 5 minutes and catch up on all our news here?
👀https://bit.ly/RHEC_SEPTNEWS25

📢Frances Murray, our Alternative Education Provision Manager, was interviewed by MKFM this week about our exciting new Aim High AEP - you can listen in here: bit.ly/AimHigh_on_M...

Find out more: ridehighequestriancentre.co.uk/rhec-alterna...

#alternativeeducationprovision #level1horsecare

📢 We're excited to announce the recent launch of our Alternative Education Provision, Aim High, for young people aged 14-25 years with an existing ECHP.

📢 Our next intake is ⭐3 November ⭐, so act now to secure your place!
Find out more: ⬇️
ridehighequestriancentre.co.uk/rhec-alterna...

🐴 After a busy summer holidays, the Equestrian Centre is currently closed until Sunday 7 September and the horses and ponies are enjoying their week off out in the fields whilst our team are hard at work - Here's a little clip...

#HorsesOnHoliday

At Riding Camp this morning our riders were learning about how we body condition score horses and everyone had a go at scoring their pony and guessing its weight before seeing how accurate they were on @spillershorsefeeds weighbridge - here's a little clip...
#lovehorses

🐴 The sun is shining and it's a lovely day for hacking - heading out on a horse is a great way to start the week! Here's our two Walk, Trot, Canter hacks from earlier this morning...

#lovehacking #loveponies #summerholidayfun

📢 Advance notice!
Our horses will be enjoying their annual summer holiday in September while our staff deep-clean their stables. This means we'll be closed from Monday 1 - Sunday 7 September & there'll be no lessons that week. We will reopen on Monday 8 September.
#loveponies

🐴 If you missed our July newsletter, why not grab a glass of something cold, find some shade and catch up on all our news here? ⬇️⬇️

bit.ly/RHEC_JULY_NE...

#lovehorses

Here's a little update featuring our two smallest residents, Aurora and Hazelnut : They're both doing well and Aurora had her first visit with the farrier this week, she was a very good girl!
#foalwatch2025

⚒ 🐴 It's #nationalfarriersweek and we'd like to give a big THANK YOU to our farrier Matt of Fox Farriers for the fabulous job he does looking after our horses and ponies' hooves!

#farriersweek #healthyhooves

🐴In the early hours of Wednesday morning we welcomed Bramble's new foal to the world, her name's Hazelnut, and isn't she adorable?
Mum & baby are doing well & have now joined Eclipse and Aurora in the Nursery paddock by Reception.

Our thanks to Equifocus for the lovely photographs!

🚜 Hey, Hey, Hay!
🐴 The ponies are very pleased because our hay delivery arrived this morning - Horses eat a lot of hay and this stack will all be gone in about 4-6 weeks!

⭐️⭐️WIN A BIKE WORTH £400!!⭐️⭐️

We've a Ridgeback Terrain 2 Open Frame Hardtail Mountain Bike up for grabs as part of the Ride MK Cycling Festival! 🚴

➡️Raffle tickets are on sale in RHEC Reception⬅️

The winner will be announced at the Ride MK Cycling Festival, this Sunday, 29 June!

#charitybikeraffle

🐴This Summer we've 4 Pony Hour sessions on:

⭐Friday 25 July ⭐Monday 4 August
⭐Thursday 7 August ⭐Thursday 21 August

Pony Hour is suitable for children aged 5-12 years - please visit our website for details:
ridehighequestriancentre.co.uk/summer-holid...
#summerfun #loveponies

🐴 Our Summer Holiday activities are now available to book - socanter over to our website to find out more!
➡️ ridehighequestriancentre.co.uk/summer-holid...

#summerholidayfun #loveponies

🐴 As we've had lots of foal-related questions about Aurora this week and we're still on #foalwatch awaiting the arrival of Bramble's foal, we thought it'd be a great time to share some Fun Friday Facts about foals!

#FunFactFriday #lovehorses #foalfacts

Buddy's back!
Buddy the miniature pony has returned for his annual summer holiday with us. He's already teamed up with Indiana and they've been happily mooching round the paddock together. ❤️

#summerholidays #loveponies

Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating Eid-al-Adha, from all of us at Ride High Equestrian Centre!

⭐ Our next Horsemastership session is on Friday 20 June at 4.30pm - we'll be finding out what makes the perfect paddock for horses & designing some of our own!
🐴These sessions are only open to our graded riders.
More info: 👇
ridehighequestriancentre.co.uk/horse-master...
#loveponies #horsemastership

It’s #VolunteersWeek and we’d like to say a big THANK YOU to all the dedicated volunteers who regularly help at the Equestrian Centre, in all weathers, we are very grateful for their enthusiasm and dedication🙏
#volunteersweek2025

🐴 It's been a busy end to Half Term today!
This morning we enjoyed watching our Combined Training competition & this afternoon in our Horse Mastership session, Matt from Fox Farriers showed us how he trims & shoes our horses' hooves - Moana was a very good model!

#halftermfun

🐴 Treacle had lots of fun at Pony & Activities Camp - she's been groomed & decorated & practiced her leading skills, as well as enjoying lots of kisses and cuddles! - She REALLY liked her apples at the end of the day!
Despite the wet weather everyone had lots of fun!

#loveponies #lovetreacle

Children attending the Ride High charity, holding copies of the charity's 2024 Impact Report

The Ride High charity's 2024 Impact Report is here!
The report shines a light on many of the charity's highlights from the last year, including words from the children themselves, alongside sharing exciting plans for the future.
Find out more:
ridehigh.org/ride-high-pu...

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