Arkle Moor Riding Centre

06/02/2025

Beautiful crisp and sunny morning at Arkle Moor today - Little Miss Daisy enjoying all the views 🥰😀🐎

02/02/2025

Miss Daisy and Lucy silhouetted on the horizon this morning 😊

Great picture thank you Jay Casson 👍

24/01/2025

Well the storm has definitely stopped play up here today folks! Stay safe all! 😵‍💫 this wind is absolutely crazy 😱

12/01/2025

Booking update!

If you have reserved dates with us and received a confirmation email and have NOT yet responded to that or paid your deposit. Please get in touch.

Likewise if you are expecting an email confirmation and are yet to receive one please let us know and we can resend as there could have been a problem with our email 😀

If you no longer wish to book please let us know as we have a huge number of enquiries wanting to book in - so we can fill your dates no problem 😀👍

Thank you
Arkle Moor Riding Centre

10/01/2025

Day 6 of snow and Ice … beautiful but hard work! 🥶

09/01/2025

Have you always wanted to have a getaway with your horse but haven’t got a pal to go with?

We welcome solo riders and their horses or ponies to visit us and enjoy exploring the beauty of Yorkshire Dales National Park!

We offer equine B and B for your horse, onsite accommodation in our well equipped and cozy bell tents 🏕️ along with friendly and sensitive guiding to suit you and your horses capabilities!

We already have lots of repeat solo riders already booked in! So we could also pair you up with like minded folk 😀🐎 if you are looking to make more horsey friends 👍🐎

Drop us a line if you may be interested in planning a getaway with your horse!

(Alternative local accommodation is available, horse hire also available to over 16’s)

07/01/2025

UPDATE - ALL THESE JULY DATES NOW TAKEN
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07/01/2025

🐎Looking to improve your flatwork?
🐎Practice test riding?
🐎 Maybe switching things up with some pole work sessions?

TFD Coaching - Tracey Fox will be offering coaching sessions at Arkle Moor Riding Centre on the following dates:

Tuesday 28th Jan
Wednesday 12th Feb
Tuesday 25th Feb
Tuesday 11th March

(Currently all morning sessions - time slots will be confirmed once we know numbers)

Tracey will offer flexible sessions to suit your current horse and rider goals. Please message us for more information and booking.

(Payments for lessons will be made to Tracey Fox directly)

06/01/2025

*UPDATED POST

Here’s some July Availability 😀🐎

Midweek:
Mon 7th - Thurs 10th July (min. 2 night stay)

*Tues 15th - Fri 18th July (min. 2 night stay) *NOW BOOKED

Weekend:
Fri 11th - Mon 14th July (3 nights)

We offer guided trail riding on our own horses*, equine b and b for your own horse🐎, and you can stop onsite, and sleep under the stars in our cozy, well equipped bell tents🏕️

So what are you waiting for! Get out your diary and start planning your adventures for next year! 😀🐎🐎

(*Horse hire is available for experienced riders only, we have no suitable horses for beginners or total novices. We have a lower age limit of 16 and strict weight limit of 13 stone. We are not a pony trekking centre and only cater for small groups. We are a fully licensed and insured riding establishment)

06/01/2025

06/01/2025

Very Pretty - but not great to work in🤣🤦‍♀️🥶

Snow and ice is going to stop play for a few days here we reckon 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

13/12/2024

Explore the Yorkshire Dales on horseback!

Our diary is open for 2025! And dates are already filling up fast! 😀😱

We offer guided trail riding on our own horses*, equine b and b for your own horse🐎, and you can stop onsite, and sleep under the stars in our cozy, well equipped bell tents🏕️

So what are you waiting for! Get out your diary and start planning your adventures for next year! 😀🐎🐎

(*Horse hire is available for experienced riders only, we have no suitable horses for beginners or total novices. We have a lower age limit of 16 and strict weight limit of 13 stone. We are not a pony trekking centre and only cater for small groups. We are a fully licensed and insured riding establishment)

05/12/2024

Are you looking for a special Christmas gift for a horse riding friend or loved one... why not treat them to one of our vouchers!

Our vouchers offer the experience of exploring the Yorkshire Dales on horseback!

So why not help beat those winter blues and send someone something to look forward to booking next year!

Please contact us for more details either via messenger on our page here or via the contact form on our website 😀

NB: Trail Riding is for experienced riders only! We have a strict weight limit of 13 stone and a lower age limit of 16 years.
We are a fully licensed and insured riding establishment.

(Ride length is optional - with our shortest ride being 1 hour)

26/11/2024

The ‘A Team’ heading for home late afternoon with Denise and Lucy onboard

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First day out for these guys for over a week 🥶

23/11/2024

It’s been a rather snowy start at Arkle Moor today 😀🥶

17/11/2024

A rare opportunity to get out on ‘The Legend’ 😀… a cheeky hour for exercise in the late afternoon yesterday 😍

01/11/2024

😍🐎

Stroller the Olympic Wonder Pony

Stroller could jump as high as the world’s finest despite being much smaller…in many cases eight inches shorter than his closest rivals.

In the 60’s and 70’s, if you were a show jumping enthusiast in either England or North America, there was one equine name that got everybody’s attention. In the days before major league sports took over the cable stations and hockey, baseball, and hockey were shown 24 hours a day, the sport of show jumping, especially, in Great Britain had a following that was second to none. These were the decades when top show jumpers wrote books and “annuals” to the delight of their adoring public, company sponsored show jumpers had their company names as prefixes to horse names, and fans wrote for hairs from horse stars’ tails and manes.

However, out of this stadium full of the tall, long legged equine show jumpers, there emerged an oddball, albeit, an incredibly talented oddball. A pony named Stroller who was 14.1 h.h.; a Connemara / Thoroughbred mix that had been blessed by the gods of genetics and the wizards of wonder with confidence and scope. He could jump as high as the world’s finest despite being much smaller…in many cases eight inches shorter than his closest rivals.

Stroller was born in 1950 and was initially bought in a job lot from Ireland by a dealer and sold to a Ted Cripps for his daughter until he realized that he might just have a gem on his hands. He sold the pony to Ralph Coakes, a farmer near New Milton, who knew a thing or two about horses and the sport of show jumping. In buying the small pony, Ralph Coakes had just hitched his wagon and his daughter Marion’s even bigger wagon to a star that would explode into a supernova for the next 15 years.

Marion had two brothers, John and Douglas, who were members of the British Show Jumping Team but it was she who had the natural riding talent and ability to bring out the best in her pony. Eventually it seemed that graduating to a horse would be the natural thing to do but Marion knew that Stroller had more to give. They challenged the big horses and the big courses and won over and over again. There was nothing that this pair couldn’t tackle and jump whether it was a parallel, a spread, water, a bank or a ditch!

In 1964, this dynamic duo won the Hickstead Derby Trial, a grueling course founded in 1960 by show jumping great Douglas Bunn that tests the best of the best over a course of natural obstacles, a totally different event from the usual colourful stadium jumps. Stroller and Coakes placing second to Seamus Hayes and Goodbye on Derby Day in the actual event. A year later at the age of just 18, Coakes and Stroller won the Ladies World Championship at Hickstead. That same year they won the Queen Elizabeth Cup at the Royal International and won it again six years later.

Three years later Stroller was to show what he was really made of when he fought back from a stumble down the big Hickstead bank and achieved the only clear round out of 44 horse and rider teams. Stroller placed second in the Derby in 1968 and third in 1970.

In the 1970 Hamburg, Germany Derby, Coakes recalls: “When we sailed over the last fence, having completed the only clear round of the day, the crowd of 25,000 went crazy. It was one of the most exciting moments of my life. We had completed the 50th clear round ever achieved on the course — and it was the first by a woman rider.” Amazingly, Stroller was 20 years old at the time!

Stroller also helped Great Britain win three Nations’ Cups, the World team Championships and the President’s Cup.

27/10/2024

Up the Big Hill from Booze with the Old Rogue this morning 😀🐎 fab day for it 💪