Livery at Rein & Shine EC

19/10/2025

We are always adding value to our centre, which gives our livery clients daily support from industry qualifed staff, prompt upkeep of the site, quality facilities, and a hub of activity to get involved in.

15/10/2025

A quick pop around the arena loop is always a bit of fun!

15/10/2025

Great to see our horses still out at night during this mild October

15/10/2025

Fantastic to see this essential turnout and fetch in walk way completed. Repairs are needed on every yard, we thank our kind liveries for their patience while this vital H&S work took place 😀

30/09/2025

Keeping our facilities in good working order is a full time job sometimes!

17/09/2025

Are you planning ahead for Winter?

Winter is the most challenging of times of for horse owners. Less light to get everything done, mud, extra feeding, cold, and flooding. We live in times of unprecedented weather.

We have clay soil here, its well documented winter clay depths can cause tendon injury, shoe loss, difficulty for freedom of movement, hardship for arthritic joints working harder to evacuate each foot.

Continuous wet skin creates an ideal environment for dermatitis (mud fever).
Horses get more thrush during wet times of the year because the bacteria and fungi that cause the infection thrive in the damp, dirty, and low-oxygen environments found in muddy fields where feet remain submerged. The constant moisture softens a horse's hooves, making them more vulnerable to infection, (you may see more abscesses).

Prolonged exposure to moisture can cause a horse's hooves to become saturated with water. This softens the horn and frog tissue, making it easier for the bacteria and fungi to invade and establish infection.

A healthy horse's hoof has a natural self-cleaning mechanism that is activated by movement. As the horse walks, the frog makes contact with the ground, expanding and contracting to help expel debris. In wet, muddy conditions, debris can become impacted in the frog's grooves, disrupting this natural process and creating an ideal pocket for infection.

It is important horses turnout every day, have forage, freedom, and friends. A "trash paddock" in winter can be a false economy in clay soil.

Horse's lymphatic drainage system needs regular movement to work effectively.

We have just finished another large hard turnout area for winter. These have forage stations, water tanks, and will be occupied by groups of horses- who have space enough to canter, mutually groom, play, and move eachother on.

We switch to our daily hard turnout in flooded months, to prevent horses being in water, and the damage of deep winter clay.

26/08/2025

Great write up about Rein & Shine Equestrian Centre in Horse and Horse & Hound online.

Britain has lost 84 precious riding schools since 2022 – but the rate of closures has slowed, and there is praise for the resilience of those who are surviving, and thriving. British Horse Society (BHS) research showed that 250 schools closed between 2018 and 2022, a 15% drop leaving 1,497 in Brit...

23/08/2025

Brilliant on site clinics held today

19/08/2025

We will have a livery space coming available in October....

Turnout: Year round (overnight in warmer months in small same s*x groups), day turnout rest of the year - switching to hard turnout in flooded months. Horses must go outside!

Livery Types: Full Livery (5 or 7 day), and Assisted DIY- we call Flexi.

Fantastic facilities for horses and owners.

Included in every livery type is grazing maintenance, poo picking, turnout and fetch in, foot pick, feeding, hard feed, forage, bedding, and use of all facilities.

You have access to 10 qualified BHS Coaches, bespoke horse development, livery only clinics, internal dressage, learning courses and opportunities, and a British Horse Society Senior qualified person on site to for support daily.
Excellent security with qualified owners living on site.
Www.reinandshine.co.uk
[email protected]
01666 860068
10min from m4 jct 16.
Rein and Shine Equestrian Centre, 1Buryhill Farm, Braydon, Wiltshire, SN5 0AD

18/08/2025

24/07/2025

Did you know that we are always developing horses..... livery horses, as well as school horses

23/07/2025

Confidence clinics / and inexperienced horse clinics! what a great idea!

We will be holding some adult only clinics for you to join with Johanna McDonald - APC & British Horse Society Senior Eventing Coach.

There are two clinic dates: 9th August & 23rd August. Should these prove popular we will consider more dates.

1 -Young/inexperienced horses - to get them out to a new and supportive venue, get some tuition and support in riding in the open, with a handful of others - working in open order, working through napping, going in water, popping small 30cm logs in our xc training field (jumping is not our aim - small 30 logs are optional). Our aim is helping horses to learn, accept working near others, and to have trust in the rider in a new venue - leaving with a positive experience behind them. (£45 per rider - max of 3)

2- Riders who need confidence building when riding on grass in the open. Suitable for the under-confident rider and those who do not take their horses out often or have never taken them out at all. Small 30cm logs are optional, jumping is not our aim, confidence building is; learning to trust your horse - read him better, and ENJOY him without the pressure of competition or fences. £45 per rider (max of 3).

Vaccinations must be up to date to take part, riders must wear current saftey standards skull caps and current saftey standards body protectors.

To book - register with EC-Pro (our online booking stystem) once registered search the EVENTS tab - look for UPCOMING EVENTS and book in.

With so little rain the ground conditions are not suitable to run any further hunter trials this year. We need a season of rain to undo the damage of the dry spring.

But we need to get our horses out away from base!! we still need them to get into new and busy environments - to learn and develop.

https://rein-and-shine.ecpro.co.uk/
https://rein-and-shine.ecpro.co.uk/events/8792