The Beginner Rider

The Beginner rider will learn to:

• Lead a Pony safely.
• Adjust Stirrup length from the ground
• Check and adjust the girth before mounting
• Mount and dismount safely
• Learn to steer
• Learn how to make a pony walk and halt
• Ride changes of rein
• Trot without holding on to the saddle

Work towards ABRS Equitation Tests 1 and 2

The Novice Rider

The Novice rider will learn to:

• Improve position in walk and trot
• Canter! You will practice and practice until you can canter without holding on to the saddle
• Do figures in the school in trot- 20m circle, Figure of eight & 3 loop serpentines
• Work over ground poles
• Learn the jumping position

Work towards ABRS Equitation Tests 3 and 4

The Intermediate Rider

The intermediate rider will learn to:

• Adjust your stirrups and girth before and after mounting
• Walk and trot without stirrups
• Work in open order
• Have an understanding of more complex school figures
• Small jumps
• Ride in walk, trot and canter in the open/out hacking

Work towards ABRS Equitation Tests 5 and 6

 The Advanced Rider & Advanced +

Now it gets serious! You will have progressed to a point where you will learn to:

• Tack-up and untack
• Ride with a good sympathetic position in walk trot and canter
• Canter without  Stirrups
• Ride courses of jumps
• Rider lateral movements- leg yield, turn on the forehand and rein-back
• Have a deeper understanding of your mount

Work towards ABRS Equitation Tests 7, 8, 9 & 10