Vrolikheid Riding School

03/11/2024

What a life they had.

02/11/2024

If you haven't seen a capped tooth before...

02/11/2024

It's NO STIRRUP November!!!
Hope everyone is practicing their riding without stirrups this month.
We used to jump up to 70cm, do sitting trot on a circle and do round the world in a trot ALL WITHOUT STIRRUPS, all in one lesson. The next day we were broken, but we could ride a x country course without stressing if we ever lost a stirrup. Hard lessons make for good riders. Lets all go back to basics this month and practice NO STIRRUP NOVEMBER.

24/10/2024

22/10/2024

11/09/2024

“Don’t let your own garden wilt because you’re too busy looking over everyone else’s fence ”

03/09/2024

Only an equestrian will understand :-)

14/08/2024

"MORE INSIDE LEEEGGG, MORE OUTSIDE REIIINNN!!!“

12/08/2024

"Hustle beats talent when talent doesn't hustle."
~Ross Simmonds~

📸: Jared H Searcy

28/07/2024

Alexander Peternell rode the most beautiful round taking some serious lines on the young 9 year old Norman!! They are safely through the finish! Well done Team AP!!

28/07/2024

Well done Alexander Peternell!!! Phase one done! Now for the fun tomorrow! Norman deserves some huge pats!

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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18/07/2024

09/07/2024

"...we must never forget, every time we sit on a horse, what an extraordinary privilege it is: to be able to unite one's body with that of another sentient being, one that is stronger, faster and more agile by far than we are, and at the same time, brave, generous, and uncommonly forgiving." --William Steinkraus, Olympic Equestrian