Welcome to Bulby Equestrian Centre   01778 591186

The yard came back under home management in January this year

• BHS approved Riding School Spring 2001
• Pony Club Centre from Summer 2006 allows children to meet, have fun and learn to earn interesting badges
• Bulby Equestrian Centre is a friendly professionally run yard offering schooled horses and ponies.  All levels of riders are catered for, from beginners and tiny tots at the riding school to the more advanced who want to keep their horses on working livery.  
• BHS qualified instructors ranging from trainees and BHS AI up to BHSI have provided excellent instruction at the yard over the years and we are keen to continue the BHS tradition and standards.

• Please contact Iz at the yard on 01778 591186. She may be mucking out or schooling when you ring but she will get back to you as soon as possible!

The services which we have offered and continue to offer are:-

• Group lessons
• Private Lessons
• Hacking
• Own a Pony Days
• British Horse Society Examination Training
• Adult Training Clinics
• Stable Management Courses
• Specialist Dressage and Jumping Training
• Lease A Pony Options
• Working Livery
• Backing and Schooling Livery
• Lesson Vouchers please enquire in January 2008 when these will be reintroduced.

Everyone welcome!

LATEST NEWS

We have entered a team to take to the Pony Club Centre Championships on Thursday 21st August 2008, two junior riders and two senior riders from our regular riders who are also part of the Pony Club Centre at the yard. We wonder if any of the new ponies and horses who have arrived will be the ones we take with us.

MORE RIDING INSTRUCTORS NEEDED.  We need to find more freelance BHS qualified instructing staff for lessons at Bulby to support Avis and Izzy. We are delighted that Karen is joining us to teach clients, take out hacks and school the horses during the week.  We still need more week-end child (and adult) friendly teaching staff.  Please get in touch if you are interested. We are still looking for new horses for the yard including a 14.2.schoolmaster.

Iz and newly arrived Shadow	Avis and Crispin

Avis Senior (BHSAI) who has been at the yard since 2007 continues to teach and develop the yard teamed up with Izzy.  Avis is taking week-end lessons and will run BHS stage training on Tuesdays evenings. 

Karen has just joined the team	Jumping in the rain

Karen has just joined the team.  She is a keen showjumper with horses and brood mares of her own. She will teaching during the week which will suit the mum's who have time during school hours to dust down their boots and get back in the saddle and the children will enjoy her lessons during the school holidays.

Pony Club Centre activities and badge evenings will take place on the first Wednesday of the month in the evening between 5 and 6.30/7pm. Have a look at the Pony Club Centre webpage on the tabs top left and click on the links to find out more.  We need to know what the members want so please email us if you would like to.

Izzy manages the yard work and Steph continues to lead the Saddle Club Members. Emily looks after the junior saddle club run for 8-9 year olds and 'older' new starters. Emily came back into action at the end of February and her group is going well.

Buster has been given the thumbs up by the chiropracter. He has splashed through the ford with Abbi and his' new' saddle is comfy and he has rejoined lessons and is looking very pleased about it.  Penny has returned to stud, having finished the hunting season and she will be put into foal.  We hope her progeny have the same keen attitude she has.  Molly has come back with Wizz and they have both started work in the school.  Molly was a star on the May Bank Holiday Grimsthorpe ride, Jasper had an outing with Avis aboard and Mary went out with Karen.

Diana is writing a diary column for horsebuyer magazine, Annie who has been working on the horses backs inculding Buster's is featured in the same magazine.

Linda Pearce BHSI is back from New Zealand and is coming in to teach the senior team members so that they continue professional development at the yard.

NEW ARRIVALS

Mary, an Irish Draught, is sturdily built but 'floats'. She is a recent addition to the yard and has been joined by three new ponies called Co-co and Freckles and Shadow.  Have a look at them on our 'Meet the Horses' page.  Mary looks fabulous in her summer coat, Co-co is great fun and Freckles is sweet natured, mild, kind and a good allrounder and Shadow loves jumping. 

To book lessons please ring Izzy on 01778 591186

Click here for client registration form

Click here of Risk notice form

Please return the forms to Isobel Partridge, Yard Manager, Bulby Equestrian Centre, c/o Bulby Hall, Bulby, Bourne, PE10 0RU, or bring it along for your first lesson.

Wizz, Buster and Molly at the beach

General News

After a two year break when the yard and business were leased out the yard came back in hand in January 2008.  We began the year with four ponies, Buster, Hewy, Crispin and Emma.  We needed to add two school masters to their numbers.  Mary an Irish Drught horse has joined the line up as have Co-co, Freckles and Shadow.  Penny came home and has now returned to stud to hunt and then be but in foal.   Molly and Wizz are home.  Freckles and Co-co and Shadow have just arrived and we are still looking for a school master 14.2hh pony. Woody, and ex racehorse has come to the yard on loan to Izzy at the yard so we will see if he settles and joins in as a working livery.

Iz returned to the yard at the end of December to prepare for the new year. Our BHS approval and Pony Club Centre inspections went well and we have had the thumbs up for another year.  The yard first became a BHS approved riding school in Spring 2001.

Riders at Bulby have enjoyed huge success in 2007 and it is hoped that the yard will continue to improve and develop. Senior riders at livery have attended local competitions and junior riders have enjoyed success with the Pony Club Centre, most notably the training and badge nights and the great turnout and success of the team at the inaugural Pony Club Centre Championships held in Nottingham. The riders are grateful for the support and help they have received in the past year and it is hoped that success will be built on. Huge thanks go to the efforts of the management that made it possible in 2007, and thanks go to the parents who keenly support the activities and enjoy the opportunity given to the children.

The yard is in such a fabulous location to help riders enjoy taking or re-taking up the reins, and for those who have made progress to enjoy the Pony Club Centre Activities, or migrate to local pony club activities which take place in the area, or to take advantage of the competition opportunities at Sheepgate, Laughton Manor and Arena UK, which are all in such close driving distance. Watch this space for news of plans.

We all want the clients to be looked after well and think that we have found the right person to take the riding school forward and develop other areas of horsemanship.

Sue Bevan
Bulby Hall
Bulby
Bourne
PE10 0RU

Tel:01778 591382 or Mob:07791976044

WATCH THIS SPACE and in the meantime something to repeat in 2008????.........

***Pony Club Championships August 2007****

Alice, Stef, Diana and Lana all represented BEC with outstanding results. The teams had only had the chance to ride their mounts a handful of times before competing at a major Championships. See results page for their fantastic results.

The team in second place for the best turned out competition pictured on the podium in the burgundy pony club centre tops (from left to right) Diana, Lana, Steph and Alice.  Congratulations on such good turnout and three cheers for those who taught them.   The team came 7th overall out of 12 teams who took part.  Well done everyone.

Welcome to Bulby Equestrian Centre

The yard came to life in 1999 as a compeition livery yard with Jane Riley, a local event rider who took Mosey to Blair, for a two star three day event.  They were coached by BHSI Linda Pearce.  The yard continued as a BHS approved livery yard and then on the instigation of Sue Russell BHSAI became a riding school which gained approval from the BHS very quickly. It developed further with the help of Sally Harper BHSAI and Jo Holmes BHSII and helped hugely by Debbie Keefe BHSAI. The characters at the yard have been varied all contributed to its development.   The yard supported and ran the Bulby Horse Show in 2002 and 2003 raising funds for local charities and currently the yard supports St. John Ambulance by organising and joining in with the Grimsthorpe Sponsored Ride which many Bulby riders took part in in 2007 on riding school horses. 

Our thanks to all those who have contributed to the development of the yard as a facility which local children and adults can enjoy.

Buster in 2007 at the Buckminster Show

Telephone:01778 591186

Bulby Equestrian Centre, Bulby, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 0RU

Proprietor: Dr. Sue Bevan