Cheshire Racehorse Retraining

Cheshire Racehorse Retraining Retraining and Rehoming of Retired Racehorses
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08/07/2025

Freddie had his 1st retraining session today. We wanted to show you all how we approach training a horse to stand at the mounting block, and Freddie is the perfect candidate to showcase this.

On the ground Freddie doesn't have respect for personal space so we literally did just 10 minutes of groundwork prior to the video being taken, making him yield away from us using just a tickle around the fetlock with a dressage stick. He picked this up super quickly, so we were then able to progress onto the mounting block work (all of this is explained in the video). As you can see, he is a quick learner and just wants to please. I can't wait to see where his retraining takes him.

Last week we had 2 new arrivals join the CRR team⚜️Freddie (Bedford Flyer) who is dark bay, 7yo and 16hh. Freddie has ha...
08/07/2025

Last week we had 2 new arrivals join the CRR team

⚜️Freddie (Bedford Flyer) who is dark bay, 7yo and 16hh. Freddie has had a successful racing career but has recently fallen out of love with the track so he's here to find him a new job that he will enjoy doing.

⚜️Clio (Clionia) who is light bay, 4yo and 15.1hh. We rehomed Clio last year but as she's matured she has become too much on the ground for her owner to deal with, so she came back to us last week.

Both horses have had their 1st assessments this morning (details and videos to follow).

We also have something very unusual but equally exciting to share with you all on Thursday. So stay tuned!

That's Morgan dropped off to start her new job at Roger Teal Racing. Thank you Sue Teal for giving her this amazing oppo...
29/06/2025

That's Morgan dropped off to start her new job at Roger Teal Racing. Thank you Sue Teal for giving her this amazing opportunity.

Good luck Morgan, we are so incredibly proud of you. Work hard and enjoy every moment ❤️❤️❤️

Today Barley left us for his new home with Emily. Barley has been an absolute joy and a pleasure to retrain. He now has ...
28/06/2025

Today Barley left us for his new home with Emily. Barley has been an absolute joy and a pleasure to retrain. He now has all the tools to embark on his new life after racing. We will all miss you Barley Boy.

Thats 3 horses who have found their new forever homes this month.

Very proud mum moment watching Morgan and Sunny at the Cheshire Show yesterday jumping in the 90cm and 1m. Absolutely ov...
19/06/2025

Very proud mum moment watching Morgan and Sunny at the Cheshire Show yesterday jumping in the 90cm and 1m. Absolutely over the moon and bursting with pride - these 2 have come such a long way together. Enjoy the photos x x x

10/06/2025

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Morgan and Sunny doing what they do best x
07/06/2025

Morgan and Sunny doing what they do best x

24/05/2025

Yesterday, Barley went out for his 2nd handwalk out in traffic, (nannied by Aidy and Harry), and he prooved to be both brave and ultra confident. We always like to take them out in hand 1st, so we can ease them into hacking gently, rather than throwing them in at the deep end, especially if they have never hacked before. We met tractors, motorbikes, horses and cows and he took it all in his stride like he's done this all his life. We ended the hack with a visit to our favourite stream for a play, and in true Aidy style, he provided all the entertainment! We blame you Sue Teal!

21/05/2025

Harry & Peanut went on their 1st trip around the Somerford Farm ride today. Both boys behaved brilliantly and took it all in their stride......apart from getting their toes wet in the stream! But Peanut solved this with his rather unorthodox approach to the water! 🤣🤣🤣

Both horses and humans had a fab day. I hope you all enjoy our mini video from today.

20/05/2025

Barleys retraining - 10 days in the making spread over 4 sessions.

The 1st 3 sessions were at home and solely focused on establishing his trot work. He really wanted to find that sweet spot in the contact, but he just couldn't quite get it - we never force a horse into a frame or contact. Instead, we let them work it out and find it for themselves.

His 4th session, we kind of threw him in at the deep end as we'd moved him over to our summer yard, and this was his 1st time seeing and being in the big arena. We also changed his bit to a comfy barrel, which is less mobile in the mouth so he can better establish his own contact. And we introduced a bit of canter work and popping a small cross pole. Cumulatively, these were all massive asks, so we fully expected we would have some regression, which we did but not as much as we expected. Overall, he took all the changes like a champ. He's such a quick learner.

He's now going to have 10 days of downtime with the odd hack so he can process everything that he's worked on.

19/05/2025

Harry & Peanut having a play in the stream.....although I did have to wade into the stream 1st before getting back on as neither of the boys were sure about taking the plunge (thank god its summer is all I can say)!

19/05/2025

Harry's 1st time hacking out alone until he hooked up with Rach & Peanut. I honestly couldn't of asked for anything more. He marched out brilliantly and wasn't bothered about leaving all his friends behind or being on his own - he was just ears pricked forwards and off we go. This lad just gets better and better. If I didn't already have 7 horses I would be wanting to keep him! We had a great afternoon followed by a play in the stream (video in a seperate post).

Roll on Wednesday for Harry's trip to Somerford.

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We are here to help racing yards who struggle to find the time to rehome their ex racehorses by finding and matching them with their new owners. We will do some basic groundwork with each horse and ride them and work out their individual personalities to allow us to rehome them to the most suitable person. Both of us (Vicki and Rhianna) have owned and worked with horses collectively for 40 plus years and have a passion for thoroughbreds we strongly believe outside of racing thoroughbreds make the perfect horses and can go on to any discipline if paired with their perfect owners. We will only rehome our horses to forever homes where they will go on to do a new job but also become someone’s best friend. We take pride in what we do and most of all we enjoy our jobs.