
Binley, Thursday morning
Ride Leader: Alex Hanbury-Williams
Coach: Mary Childs
Riders The Mark Way School and one independent rider
Thursday during term time. 11am-12
Starting from Summer Term 2025, we will be coaching the Mark Way riders on a Thursday and they will be joined by a rider from the former Golden Ride. We will be holding the sessions in Binley so that we can take advantage of the extra ponies there and hope to be able to accommodate more riders once our new pony has settled in.

Binley, Thursday afternoon
Ride Leader: Elizabeth Maclay
Coach: Mary Childs
Riders from Wolverdene Special School, Andover
Thursday during term time. 1.15pm

Autumn Term – each week 6 children from a class of nine, 6 ponies and 6 faithful helpers made huge progress. Mary and I share the coaching and the children responded well to the different approaches.
Six Grade 1 certificates were handed out for both Riding and Horse Care. Mary and I decided that a child must have had three lessons before taking a test as these children are up to standard from day 1!
We then had to say goodbye to Razzle and Bobby, as Jo Strong’s children no longer ride, and they have gone to another home. I really miss them both and huge thanks to Jo as we have borrowed ponies from her for I don’t know how long and chunky Razzle will be particularly missed. We also had to say goodbye to Poppy as she was outgrown by my grand daughter Gemma.