Cotswold Polo Academy

12/11/2024

All the way from China for some coaching from the best 🌟

12/11/2024

Success breeds success 💪🏻 Kulin Rock Baby

01/11/2024

🐎🐎🐎WE ARE HIRING 🐎🐎🐎 2025 Polo Season

What we offer:
Opportunities to learn to produce young horses, s and b, learn to coach, learn to umpire , learn to play chukkas, learn about how to work in a professional polo yard that incorporates liveries, a polo school and a professional player with a young horse programme.

We work hard, but we encourage learning, fun and we operate as a team. Our clients are wonderful and our ponies are the most important part of what we do. We are lucky to be based onsite in the glorious Bathurst estate.

We pay a decent wage, have purpose built stables, well fenced fields, exercise track or miles and miles of parkland to hack/exercise/school in, tack rooms, farm car, gaiter 4x4, 7.5 tonne lorry, trailer, yard loo, warm dry caravan (with a fridge for your packed lunch) where you can sit down or nap before chukkas. You can go on fun rides, pop logs in the woods, go hunting, possible year-round employment. We can plan for accommodation and you don’t need to drive a lorry (unless you want to)!

You can make the job whatever you want, if we grow you can grow! Come for a season, stay for a career, it’s up to you. We have fun and we want our team, horses and clients all to enjoy their time with us. The recruitment process will include a yard visit so you can meet us and see if you feel we are a good fit.
UK Right to work only please.

What you need to bring:

🐴 Senior Groom 🐴
🐎Polo experience or must be a confident rider with racing, eventing etc experience. Excellent wages for the right person.
🐎Ride fit professionals ponies, all safe but they are well fed and forward, leading 5 at a time, comfortable doing half chukkas etc. The applicant will have help at polo from another groom .
🐎5.5/6 day week. Rota’d days off/shift patterns for late evenings or early mornings
🐎The right attitude, integrity and ethic to work and enjoy your time at work
🐎Understand and be able to meet all the welfare needs of our horses (feed, veterinary needs, exercise, tack etc) and know when to tell someone there is a problem.

🐴 Junior Groom 🐴
🐎 Polo experience not needed but must be confident riding and handling fit sport horses and not phased by riding and leading more than 2/3 at a time
🐎Be comfortable with periods of sole charge of some ponies
🐎Be enthusiastic to learn about the sport and what that means for your job
🐎The right attitude, integrity and ethic to work and enjoy your time at work
🐎Understand and be able to meet the welfare needs of our horses (feed, wound care, exercise, tack etc) and know when to tell someone there is a problem.

🐴 Apprentice 🐴
🐎To meet the requirements to enrol on an apprenticeship
🐎Be hungry to learn about the working equestrian world
🐎Bring enthusiasm and an understanding of basis horses needs
🐎The right attitude, integrity and ethic to work and enjoy your time at work

Please send your CV and references to [email protected] applicants will be shortlisted and then invited for a yard visit and an interview. UK Right to work only please.

Message us if you would like anymore information.

29/08/2024

Exclusive deals for CPA clients with free coaching, discounted hires and great value teams.

25/08/2024

16/08/2024

🍂🍁🌟END OF SEASON DEAL🌟🍁🍂

A whopping 20% off a block of 10 Private Lessons with our head coach Olivia Lamphee. Perfect that cut-shot before the grounds at Cirencester Park Polo Club are covered in autumnal leaves or come for some last minute summer sun to tackle that wonky back-hand before you head to Sotogrande or Argentina or, last chance to get on a polo pony for the first time with an intensive block of private lessons before the ponies go on holiday.
DM us, Call us, Email us or to book a block of lessons.

Operating from the very heart of Cirencester Park Polo Club, Cotswold Polo offers the ultimate envir

16/08/2024

VAMOS! 🌞🇦🇷✈️🌞 Cirencester Polo Academy ON TOUR 🌞🇦🇷✈️🌞

The CPA team are delighted to invite you as guests of CPA to La Esperanza Polo Club for the miserable British winter. You can pick a combination of activities and levels - all can be catered for from chukkas and stick and ball with pool lounging and asado nomming to full-on tournaments and as many chukkas as you can handle at speed until your legs fall off…or a combination of both. DM us, Call us, or Email us and tell us what your Argentine polo playing goals are.

16/08/2024

***BOOK YOUR STABLES NOW FOR 2025***

CPA have available for the 2025 season 9 boxes in an American barn style set-up with rubber matting gangway, brand new exercise track, lorry parking, tack rooms, on-site at Cirencester Park Polo Club in the centre of the Bathurst Estate with off-road exercising, turn-out fields and even a loo with hot water (your grooms will thank you for that, and the convenience of never having to truck to polo).
Would suit a professional or amateur with their own set-up and grooms.
DM us, Email us or call us to book now. Available in 1 lot of 9 stables or split into a lot of 5 stables and 4 stables - to no more than 2 rentals.

09/08/2024

28/07/2024

Plans for this week -

4 g entries close tomorrow , please let me know if you’d like to participate.

Monday PM - private sessions , kids group sessions , s and b

Tuesday - children’s groups , beginner groups , s and b , group hack . Private sessions .

Wednesday - chukkas , children’s group

Thursday - chukkas , groups and private sessions

Friday - availability . S and b .

Saturaday - 4 g , children’s group , s and b , chukkas

Sunday - 4 g , , children’s group , s and b , chukkas

27/07/2024

27/07/2024

With the summer holidays now in full swing we have daily children’s group sessions for all abilities . Club chukkas , academy chukkas, private lessons and adult groups throughout the week and weekends . Plus the highest level of competitive polo on at Cirencester Park Polo Club open to all. Have a lesson, enjoy a 🍾, watch a game and make the most of our hospitality.

27/07/2024

Proud to be a part of this hosting and providing ponies . With all of our members being fortunate enough to be invited to participate. A huge thank you to Semper Anticus for your continued dedication to junior polo .

27/07/2024

July Fun 💓

27/07/2024

01/07/2024

We are pretty good at producing and breaking in ponies here too . 😜

17/06/2024

17/06/2024

Lexis first session, Arnav’s first ride , a win in the Archie David , winning the Gerald balding, Tyro 4 g win for Abi , 3 CPA team wins in sub finals . Inter schools day filling the club with thousands of spectators. Georgie now playing chukkas too fast ! Sub final win at Kirtlington 6g . May, you were a blast ! 💥