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Free Spirit Equestrian, Bessbrook

Livery, lessons, approved Rda/pony club centre. Lorraine is a qualified, registered and insured BHS / RDA instructor. registered Irish pony society judge
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09/08/2024

Wonderful Cloud looking after his tiny jockey, Sienna🙌

18/07/2024

FROM A PARENT:
One of my friends asked "Why do you pay so much money for your kids to ride horses?" Well I have a confession to make, I don't pay for my kids to ride horses.

So, if I am not paying for them to ride, what am I paying for?

- I pay for those moments when my kids become so tired they want to quit but don't.

- I pay for those days when my kids come home from school and are "too tired" to go to the barn but go anyway.

- I pay for my kids to learn to be disciplined.

- I pay for my kids to learn to take care of their body.

- I pay for my kids to learn to work with others and to be good team mates.

- I pay for my kids to learn to deal with disappointment, when they don't get that score they'd hoped for, but still have to work hard in the grading.

- I pay for my kids to learn to make and accomplish goals.

- I pay for my kids to learn that it takes hours and hours and hours and hours of hard work and practice to create a champion, and that success does not happen overnight.

- I pay for the opportunity my kids have and will have to make life-long friendships.

- I pay so that my kids can be in the arena instead of in front of a screen...
..I could go on but, to be short, I don't pay for horse riding, I pay for the opportunities that horse riding provides my kids with to develop attributes that will serve them well throughout their lives and give them the opportunity to bless the lives of others. From what I have seen so far I think it is a great investment!

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09/07/2024

Monday Crew! 🤠

03/07/2024

DIY livery space available in our quiet, easy going riding school/livery yard. Herd turnout available 24/7 over summer months

29/06/2024

Great day at Newry Agricultural Show with the Free Spirits🥰 Everyone rode fab and done me proud and the ponies all enjoyed themselves!!
Thanks to James Hammond and family for running such a great show… the kids are all home smiling and that’s what it’s all about

29/06/2024

Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard…..every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.

2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to…

3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then your not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to…..

4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in awhile….they improve because they make riding a priority and give themsevles opportunity to practice.

5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what your AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...

6. Riding should be fun. It is work. and work isn't always fun.....but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.

7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important, too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.

8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.

9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others…..but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one.

📝 Kimberley Reynolds

📸 JRS Photography

19/06/2024

Sorting some camp dates. Drop me a text if interested and with dates that suit🥰

02/06/2024

Longterm DIY livery space available in our easy going friendly yard. Please contact me by text or call 07775724667. Please only get in touch if you love animals and are able to tend to them at least twice a day or can make alternative arrangements. Turnout available in suitable herds, individual turnout is not an option.

22/05/2024

My little helper Sienna, taking Mistletoe out to the field after her lesson

19/04/2024

"A young rider was lunging a horse when an old rider came close. After having observed him, the old man asked the boy: And the boy answered Yes. So the old man closed his own hand into a fist and said to him: Then the boy used his strength in any way possible by pinching, hitting, pulling, pushing...but he just couldn't open the hand. So he finally asked the old man:

16/04/2024

Very proud of Julia, Ben and Mary Rose for riding so well on Sunday at the Winter Woolies show in Gransha! Julia had a 3rd in the family pony and went clear in her first working hunter competition on her own pony, Tilly🙌🏼💕
Ben and Mary Rose rode their own young pony, Bruce coming home with 1sts, 2nds and reserve champion 🏅lovely to see all their hard work paying off

28/03/2024

So funny

17/03/2024

FOR SALE adjustable 16” Kent and Masters GP pony club saddle, great condition £600 Ono

07/03/2024

Top Tip Tuesday

I have said this before, and I will say it again... and again... and again... because it's so darn important AND it's so darn common!

🤓Check. Your. Leathers. 🤓

⭐️Don't check they're on the same number hole (these ones are!).
⭐️Don't presume because they're fairly new that they're ok (these ones were pretty new).
⭐️And don't think it's not important... because it IS.

Even the smallest amount of difference makes a HUGE difference to your horse.
Imagine you were giving someone a piggy 🐷 back, and they hung off one side, even just a little bit.... how much you'd have to brace and compensate for them being uneven.
🦄Think about your horse, as you ask for canter... you're expecting him to lift his inside limbs up to make a nice transition... that's a million times harder if you're hanging off that side - even if it's only by a few mm.
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The best way to check them? Take them off the saddle, put your feet in the stirrups and check to see if the buckles are level... just like I am doing in this photo!
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What can you do to help keep them even?
👌🏽Use a mounting block, don't mount from the ground.
👌🏽Make sure you ride evenly. If you mainly hack, change diagonals in trot regularly and change legs in canter, so you ride each 'side' evenly.
👌🏽Plus... swap them over (left to right, right to left) every time you clean your tack.

⭐️And, consider getting a really decent pair of non-stretch leathers. ⭐️

02/03/2024

Free Spirits 💕

08/02/2024

🐎🐎🐎LOAN HOME WANTED🐎🐎🐎
Reggie’s owner is hoping to go to Australia in September and is looking for someone to part loan now and then full loan from September.
Reggie is a fun loving happy horse approx 15.2hh who loves hacking. He has perfect stable manners
Reggie must stay at Free Spirit as this has been his home for years and we all know and love him and will be there to offer advice and help if needed 💙
Although Reggie is quiet he is not a novice ride as can be forward going.
Please pm his owner Isabella Frizell for further information.

05/02/2024

WANTED
Someone to supply and deliver approx 7bales of good quality haylage per week

01/02/2024

Happy birthday Lauren🎂🐾🐴🥰

20/01/2024

Imagine that.

20/01/2024

New lesson starting for novice/intermediate child riders. Riders must be able to walk, trot, canter and jump at least 50cm
Please what’s app 07775724667

18/01/2024

I will have one DIY livery space soon on a our animal loving,easy going yard.
Price will include stable, arenas,haylage in winter and use of the turnout paddock in photo. When weather permits fields will be open. Enquiries by phone call only please 07775724667

04/01/2024

Cara, Strawberry and Macie 🥰

04/01/2024

New children’s group lessons opening up within the next couple of weeks. Drop me a text if you would like to book in. Please include child’s age and previous experience (if any) 07775724667
I am a BHS accredited and registered coach

01/01/2024

Bringing the new year in with the horses doing our annual carrot run at Free Spirit🥰

25/12/2023

On Friday night we said goodbye to beautiful Molly. Molly has been a livery with me for longer than I can remember and so long that I sometimes forgot she wasn’t mine!! In her latter years Molly free ranged the riding school, stealing hay out of other horses stables and scratching on David’s new machinery 🙈🤣
Everyone loved her even Aurora the sheep, she was one of those horses you think will go on forever 😌
As most of you knew Mollys owners Caity and Lucy lived in Australia and London but kept in touch regularly either by FaceTime with her or with texts, photos and videos… she was so loved and I know they are both heartbroken I am just so thankful that Lucy got home in time to say goodbye 💔
Wherever you are Molly I hope you are with all your old Free Spirit friends galloping free 😢🌈🤍

24/12/2023

Happy Christmas everyone, from all the Free spirits 🎅🏼 JRS Photography will be coming to Free spirit Eq in the new year if anyone would like photos taken with their favourite pony🐴

14/12/2023

Today Free Spirit lost our very special livery pony, Sasha. Sasha taught so many children to ride and was my go to pony for children to have their first canter on. Up until about a year ago Sasha was also a very popular RDA pony.Any child lucky enough to ride or even know Sasha loved her… we will all miss you Sasha😢 I hope you galloped over the Rainbow bridge and are now with the rest of our Free Spirit ponies that are gone but never forgotten 🌈💔

08/08/2023

I’ve a couple of spaces at 11.30 this morning for children riding off lead. Text if you would like to book in 07775724667

01/08/2023

Any pony mad children should know who this is that Jocelyn got her photo taken with today!!

27/07/2023

Pony pamper day and they loved every minute!!🥰

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New lesson starting for novice/intermediate child riders. Riders must be able to walk, trot, canter and jump at least 50cm Please what’s app 07775724667

On Friday night we said goodbye to beautiful Molly. Molly has been a livery with me for longer than I can remember and so long that I sometimes forgot she wasn’t mine!! In her latter years Molly free ranged the riding school, stealing hay out of other horses stables and scratching on David’s new machinery 🙈🤣 Everyone loved her even Aurora the sheep, she was one of those horses you think will go on forever 😌 As most of you knew Mollys owners Caity and Lucy lived in Australia and London but kept in touch regularly either by FaceTime with her or with texts, photos and videos… she was so loved and I know they are both heartbroken I am just so thankful that Lucy got home in time to say goodbye 💔 Wherever you are Molly I hope you are with all your old Free Spirit friends galloping free 😢🌈🤍