Horse Riding.

The last thread has made me think...

Is there any good place in the London area to go that someone might recomend, and anyone care to join me for a little ride and get me re-familiar with it all?
As I haven't been on real a long ride since I went on a Equestrian holiday in southern Ireland. I did a few more weeks at centres in Portsmouth but never got back in to it. In fact if I find a good place I would even replace it with my gym membership as its much more fun and nice and physical activity.

I would suggest http://www.aldboroughhall-equestrian.co.uk/ they run higher level dressage shows and the "main man" there rides and competes at a very high level (not sure if he still does as Ive been out of the loop for some time now).

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Pretty sure they do riding lessons in Hyde park as well.

Ta, that's one I have e-mailed for some more information.

Originally Posted by Bear

Pretty sure they do riding lessons in Hyde park as well.

I'll try to have a search.

Found it, seems 'pricey' but then I might not be sure having not been for years, also I can't do it because of this -

Weight limit 12.5 Stone/175lb/80k

Originally Posted by Grinch

Found it, seems 'pricey' but then I might not be sure having not been for years, also I can't do it because of this -

Dont understand that at all...they should have some bigger heavier horses

Originally Posted by ArtyLady

Dont understand that at all...they should have some bigger heavier horses

Surprised me, maybe they only want pretty boney people riding round Hyde park, not fat munters like myself.

a lot of stables have weight limits for riders - tho that is fairly low (normally more like 14 stone)

I've actually been looking into this recently and the London options are pretty expensive. Personally I'd be more inclined to try some of the ones round Woking, but unfortunately the people I've been thinking of going riding with live in London and don't have cars, etc

These are some of the ones I've found previously in SW London (haven't tried them though):
http://www.kingstonridingcentre.com/richmondpark.html
http://www.ridinginlondon.com/
http://www.ridgwaystables.co.uk/hors...ng_london.html
http://www.wvstables.com/ (IIRC you need to join this one as a member though as there's so much demand!)

This is just North of London:
http://www.trentpark.com/TPEC/Content/About.asp

You may also find that they make you do a lesson before they let you out on a hack - the health and safety police are everywhere these days!!

I'd def be interested in joining you for a ride tho - let me know when you're planning on going along

Cheers Ness I'll have a look at those at lunch time.