Pony rides for pre-schoolers

Riding schools aren't insured to take children under 5/6 for riding lesson.
Cheshire Pony Parties can offer children as young as 2 the opportunity to sit on a pony and become confident around a pony. It's a fantastic introduction to riding, the usual reaction from parents being
"I wish I'd found you earlier!"
Visitors travel from all around Cheshire, Flintshire, Lancashire and the Wirral to thoroughly enjoy an introduction to pony riding (and some far further than that!).
So if you're struggling to find a Cheshire Riding School to take your child, come and enjoy a tiny riders session here-you'll have a wonderful time!

Keep the kids entertained this holiday

NEW 4 hour 'pony day' - leave your 6-12 year old with us for a morning of fab pony fun. £27.50 including snack and light lunch.

As well as our events and our ever popular hour long pony experience (can be booked at any time) we can also create a bespoke, exclusive visit-just let us know the number and ages of the children and your preferred duration and we'll come up with an unforgettable experience.

Tues 31st May open afternoon £5.50 per child ages 2-12
Wed 1st June fully booked
Thurs 2nd June am pony day £27.50 per child ages 6-12 (discounts for siblings/multiple bookings)
Thurs 2nd June pm-kids holiday activity £15.50 per child ages 4-10

Or simply contact us!

Hoping for foals in 2012

Well spring is here and my big horse, Kandi is away at stud and will hopefully return in foal. Kandi herself is a very good 'stamp' of a horse (she was awarded a coveted 'premium foal' status at a 4 month old) and is absolutely beautiful. The father is short listed for the 2012 olympics!! We're hoping for a stunning (preferably girl foal!!) that will be amazing to ride!

At the other end of the scale Maisie, our smallest pony is likely to go to stud towards the end of May-how small is her foal going to be? Prize for the nearest answer (in cms please)! Maisie is literally half the height of Kandi and Kandi's foal will be bigger than Maisie when it's born!

Easter activities for children-open all of April.

Come and enjoy our ponies over Easter- we've got some events listed on our events diary
but you can also come for your own private session! Just ring or email to arrange a date.

Easter activities will take place in our orchard at the bottom of our garden-you'll be blown away when you see our tiny ponies grazing happily in our orchard!

Parents and children love the warm welcome and personal attention they receive here-each child is treated as an individual and we make an effort to gently encourage those with less confidence and challenge more confident children.

Children thoroughly enjoy having the opportunity to groom and decorate the ponies with colourful ribbons clips and sticker before having a short ride. Other activities are available depending on what type of visit you choose.

We weave in lots of interesting facts about ponies plus lots of pony tales from my long life with horses and ponies-come and find out what's so interesting about ponies teeth!

'Can I come back every day' is a frequent plea to parents. One little boy left in floods of tears-did he hate it? No-he just didn't want to leave!

Cheshire pony centre open day success

Well our second open afternoon was a very well attended and everyone went away having had loads of contact time with the ponies.
My thanks to Lianne who very kindly stepped in to lead a second pony as we were so busy. This meant everyone was able to have (almost) as many rides as they wanted-some (Dominic) even left wanting more rides!
As ever all the riders received a 'well done' rosette and our open day guests all receive an attendance certificate.
As these have been very popular, we are considering offering them on a regular basis at week-ends during school term time as well as during the school holidays- watch this space!
For all our 'public' activities please see our events diary

Half term pony fun been very popular

Well, we're nearly at the end of a VERY busy half term week. All the ponies have behaved impeccably, as has the weather and all our visitors!
A number of people booked in for a private 90 minute holiday activity, one parent commenting how relaxing he found the session-even our parties are pretty chilled-I think the children pick up on the quiet nature of the ponies and our quiet way with them and act accordingly!
Our hour long pony experiences have been popular as ever.
We held an open morning for the first time- 2 1/2 hours of informal pony fun. Feedback was great and a couple of the mums have made suggestions which we will implement for the next one on 5th March. Fortunately everyone took my advice and pre-booked as there were so many visitors we would have had to have turned visitors wanting to pay on the day away-take note!!
We created a quiz for the open day which went down well and visitors had obviously listened to my ramblings as everyone got at least 10 of the 14 questions correct-well done!
We've been so busy that on some days all four ponies have been working-Maisie was worked for the first time since she arrived in October. She was pampered a couple of times and was quite happy munching the grass whilst children groomed and decorated her mane. We will continue her ridden training and hope that she'll be ready for visitors to ride as well as pamper at Easter.
Today's visitors were lucky enough to see the start of the change of coat for Poppy-her long winter hairs have started to come out to leave just the short hairs so she won't be too hot for summer. This is great for the ponies but not for me as I end up covered in horse hair!

Fab outdoor pony fun for the school holidays

For pony rides, pony petting and pampering for all those horse and animal mad children book now to come and visit Cheshire Pony Centre during the school holidays. Come and meet our 5 ponies, pet, pamper and ride one pony and take in the joys of the outdoors in our idyllic orchard. Our snowdrops are shouting that spring is here! NEW for 2011 is our open morning-only £5.50(online bookings) per child for 2 1/2 hours of informal pony fun. We still have a few places available on our kids holiday activities for 4-10 years. If you'd like to bring a group of 5 or 6 children aged between 2 and 12 you can have an exclusive 90 minutes of your own! Or book in for a wonderful hours experience for up to 3 children, with lots of pony contact and special riding tricks for more confident children. Ages 2-10. Pre-schoolers can develop their confidence with a tiny riders 45 minute pony session-a cut-down version of a pony experience. All hosted by horsey mums with oodles of fascinating pony facts, who also work with children. Do you know what's special about horses teeth? Come and ask me!