since 1972
Binley, Thursday morning
Ride Leader: Alex Hanbury-Williams
Coach: Mary Childs
Riders The Mark Way School
Thursday during term time. 11am-12
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We had an excellent Autumn term with three new children and Faith who has ridden with us for a couple of terms now. They all progressed amazingly well, really enjoying learning how to play a simple version of Horseball, loving learning how to trot and play lots of other games during which they also learned some horse facts. It was really uplifting to see how these riders advanced from nervous children struggling to mount the ponies to confident, enthusiastic riders. They were all given well deserved rosettes at the end of term. I would like to give virtual rosettes too to all our wonderful volunteers, ponies and especially our coach, Mary Childs for all their hard work.
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Binley, Thursday afternoon
Ride Leader: Elizabeth Maclay
Coach: Mary Childs
Riders from Wolverdene Special School, Andover
Thursday during term time. 1.15pm
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Binley Ride Autumn 2025
We had a busy Autumn half term with seven sessions plus a first one with one patient pony to demonstrate tacking up and for fitting hats and boots and to acclimatise with the mounting block, the paddock and farm yard. This always makes the first riding session start more smoothly. Five ponies each week and five faithful helpers. Four children were completely new and the three who had had a few lessons in the summer were glad to demonstrate their skills to fellow classmates. Looking back in my diary we did lots of trotting and gymkhana games and they all progressed very speedily. All achieved the Grade 1 and a boy who had ridden in the summer richly deserved his Grade 2. We are looking forward to a new (probably) group of boys after Easter and so more fun and games and more trotting! Thank goodness for eager helpers! Mary and I share the coaching week by week but next term we have two newly qualified coaches to share the load!
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