Hill Top Farm Stables DIY Livery Yard

21/10/2024

🎃🤖Don’t miss out on our spooktaculer activities this half term 🎃👻

09/10/2024

Instructor wanted for busy riding school, must be prepared to work weekdays, evening and weekends alongside our existing instructor.

Great rates of pay
Opportunity to work as part of a friendly team

Must be able to teach a wide variety of students

Contact myself with any CVs

05/09/2024

💔 Good night god bless our beautiful boy Rhumba 🩵 you have been my day one, our “go to” gentle giant, the best confidence giver and most beautiful boy 🩵 loved by everyone that met you 🩵 Hilltop will not be the same without you, run free our gorgeous Rockin Rhumba 💔

08/08/2024

👀Last couple of spots remaining 👀

08/08/2024

Fantastic effort from the whole team who make this annual event so amazing!! 🤩

05/08/2024

2 spots remaining for 13th & 27th 👌🏻

29/07/2024

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

📸 Max & Maxwell: Equestrian Photography

23/05/2024

The truest statement and one I was taught a long time ago, it can only work as a partnership with mutual respect 👌🏻

09/03/2024

We have some fantastic activities coming up for over the Easter half term 🐰🐣

There is limited availability and only a deposit will secure your place

20/01/2024

📣Updated post, thank you for all the interest in Tyson, he has now been loaned by 2 lovely families who can’t wait to start with him, I’m sorry if you missed out this time but please keep an eye on our page for our own a pony days and other potential loans 📣

Available for full £60 or part £30 loan

Meet Tyson our 12.2hh cutie pie, he’s looking for a little person to come and love him, ride, groom and take care of him.

If your interested in a new best friend for your little person please contact myself to come and meet him 🥰

21/12/2023

🐎Busy morning writing more gift vouchers out 🙏🏼

There’s going to be some very happy faces on Christmas morning after receiving their hilltop farm & riding school gift vouchers 🥰

All ready to use towards our lessons/hacks/pony days/clinics and camps! It’s going to be a busy 2024 here at hilltop and we can’t wait to get started 💪🏼👌🏻

28/09/2023

Instructor wanted for busy riding school, daytime/evening and weekend shifts

Must be experienced in teaching a wide variety of rider and have great people skills.

To cover arena lessons/hacks and stable management sessions

Send CV to [email protected]