Mottingham Farm Equestrian Centre

21/08/2025

🌞🐴 With summer drawing to a close, here’s a little update from us! 🌞🐴

It’s been a summer of ups and downs 🥺⬆️⬇️
We’ve had pony days 🐎, pamper sessions 🧼✨, woodland rides 🌳, pole work ➕, cross country 🌿, jumping 🦘, picnic rides 🧺, Mottingham Farms Junior Riding Club 🎉 and so much more — it really has been a busy few weeks. 💕

Delilah has (mostly!) resisted escaping with her friends 🙈, which is definitely an improvement… though Ugly Annie seems to have taken on the role of chief escape artist now 🤣🙊
Ebony and Olive are both doing brilliantly 💖. Olive is already around 16 weeks old 🍼 and absolutely massive! 🐴💨 We were lucky enough to have the wonderful Megan Blake 📸 come and take updated Mumma & Bubba photos🐴, which really shows how much she’s grown. She’s fantastic — even if those little temper tantrums 😅🙄 still make an appearance now and then!

📸✨ If anyone would like a photo shoot with their favourite horse or pony 🐴❤️, I’d definitely recommend dropping Megan Blake Photography a message!

💔 Sadly, I do need to share some heartbreaking news. On 8th August, Peter Gillam unexpectedly passed away 🕊️. As a yard and as a family, we are devastated . Peter was the proprietor of Mottingham Farm for over 30 years, and I had the privilege of being his yard manager from 2020 to 2024, when I then purchased the business from him 🤍.

I will always be grateful to him — not only for encouraging me and George together 💞, but also for trusting me with this place 🐴🏡 that meant so much to both him and us. His support and belief in us will never be forgotten. There truly are no words to express the sadness we feel 😢💔. He will be deeply, deeply missed. 🤍🕊️
Wednesday 3rd September we will be shut for the day to pay our respects.

31/07/2025

Summer holidays have started!! ☀️😊
Week one we started strong with our annual inspection of the horses, of course naturally I get a little stressed!! I like them all to look there best, groomed, trimmed, bathed, feet oiled, tack cleaned the list goes on! I try not to over think the day but it can be a tad stressful! I can't thank everyone enough who came to help us staff and friends! We kept our 5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This week also had our Mottingham Farm Junior Riding Club (MFJRC) start, this is aimed at our junior riders to learn how to care for a horse, they also get to ride during the session. This runs once a week for 5 weeks and they have a little test on the last session, if this is popular we may run this on weekends and possibly do an adult version!
We've had a pole work with Michelle, intro to jumping with Amber , pony morning with Amber and a woodland walk with Julie and Joe! It's been all go!

We still have spaces on events and 1-2-1s throughout the summer! Don't forget to get booking!!! ☀️

Chloe 🤍

22/07/2025

🩷🩷POLEWORK!!!!🩷🩷

20/07/2025

02/07/2025

☀️🍉SUMMER HOLIDAY EVENTS!!!🍉☀️

01/07/2025

☀️☀️ WEATHER UPDATE ☀️☀️
Due to the crazy temperatures due later today we've cancelled lessons!
We had a 9am and 10am that's it! The humidity and feel like temperature is insane. The welfare of the horses is paramount.
Thank you to everyone who has been understanding during this heat wave!!
I will never moan about being cold!! 🤣

22/06/2025

2025 is rushing by! I can't believe it, May went in a blink of an eye and now June is almost over! Where has the time gone!

At the beginning of May we welcomed Olive, she's been a ray of sunshine in a pretty awful month.
I waited 10 weeks since the scan for her to arrive, we had sleepless nights, camera malfunctions, late night checks, false alarms for what seemed like forever, then I missed the whole thing! No joke I didn't even see the foal on any camera checks even once it was born!!! 🤦🏼‍♀️ I've obviously played back the camera and it was all done and over in 20mins....Ebony was brilliant no stress and she's continued to be the best mother to Olive!
Ebony has always been nervous and a little worried about new people and this worried me about how protective she'd be with her baby, she thankfully has let George and I be present and we've had the pleasure of plenty on baby cuddles. Olive is now finding her feet and being very mischievous! She's almost 7weeks old now and I'm still not sure what colour she is going to be!! 😮

I try and keep everyone in the loop of the good and bad sides of here and in May we said a really sad goodbye to Megan, each one of theses horses means the absolute world to me and every time one goes a little part of my heart goes with them 🥺 it's crazy because I've had to say so many hard goodbyes but it's never an easy decision. Megan had a lovely retirement here and hasn't done any work for the past two years! She's been my favourite old lady for the longest time!

Over the past couple of months I feel like so much has happened!! We've welcomed some new horses, had mare and foal photoshoots, round two of the equine dentist, vets visits, swarms of bees and the usual escaping ponies!! 🙄

Megan Blake Photography did another fantastic job of photographing Ebony and Olive, the photos are unreal and such a lovely thing to have to look back on as she grows up and changes. 🩷
We had the arrival of Buster, Ronnie, Merry and Bee who I will post some pics of below, I will do more about each of them once they are ready to join the riding school. I like them to have time to settle and get used to the environment here, some take more time than others to adapt to the riding school life. 😊

Delilah has another recruit to her escaping habits! Honestly it's like being in the New Forest but with fat black and white cobs roaming! It's always Delilah, Diamond and Annie! Although this morning Prince joined them, he's in a completely different field and
accompanied them in free roaming the yard! Prince isn't about the living out life! He jumped out the paddock and wanted back to bed! Anyone who knows him knows he's a bit of a Princess!

We've had some extremely hot weather the last week or so, thank you to all our understanding riders who have been great with taking the lessons a lot slower. We've been washing horses off, feeding electrolytes and they've all had recovery mashes for lunch! Also I've used countless amount of suncream on all the pink noses! 🐽

The team here have worked super hard to make sure the welfare of the horses has been the upmost priority! ☀️

Chloè 🤍

23/05/2025

Such incredible photos! 😍

07/05/2025

On Monday at 1:20AM Ebony had her baby! FINALLY!!!
IT'S A FILLY (GIRL) and I believe she will be black with four white legs..... but foals can change so still could be a surprise! We've named her "Olive".
Everything so far has gone smoothly, Ebony is being a brilliant mum although a little foal proud. She's not over keen on people near her but is getting better.
She had the vet out yesterday for a full health check, Ebony had to be sedated to allow us to have a proper look. Foal had bloods taken and a full health check which was all good and as it should be. Bell Equine Veterinary Clinic

I hope over the next few weeks Ebony will become more tolerant to people looking at her baby, so please bare with us with being able to see her.

Here some photos that I've taken but also some Megan Blake Photography has kindly done (obviously they are better ones!!)

05/05/2025

WE HAVE A FOAL!!!
Have a guess of colour and s*x!? 💓💙

02/05/2025

🌸🌷🌼 MAY HALF TERM 🌼🌷🌸
Please book via the office, email and contact number are on the post!
Some of these events have limited numbers.