Placeholder — not this yardLearn to ride,
an hour at a time.
Group lessons on Saturdays and Sundays at two o’clock, from age five. Private and semi-private lessons through the week. Riding hats and boots are fitted on arrival and cost nothing.
- €50
- child · trial hour
- €55
- adult · trial hour
- Age 5
- and up
- 2 pm
- Saturdays and Sundays
Your first hour,
minute by minute
Nobody rings a riding centre to ask about the price. They ring to ask what it is like. This is what it is like.
Needs pro shoot
Needs pro shoot
Needs pro shoot- −15 min
- Park in the yard and find the office. Somebody will be expecting you by name.
- −10 min
- A hat and a pair of boots fitted to you. Long trousers and a rain jacket are the only things you bring.
- 00:00
- Meet your horse. Which one you get depends on your height, your weight and how sure you look — that is why the booking form asks.
- 00:10
- Walking on. Sitting straight, holding the reins properly, and stopping when you mean to.
- 00:25
- Steering on your own. Circles, changing the rein, keeping a sensible distance from the horse in front.
- 00:40
- Rising trot. Most people find it inside the first hour. Nobody minds if you do not.
- 00:55
- Back to the middle of the arena, feet on the ground, a hand on the neck before you go.
Is it a lesson you want, or a walkout?
It is the question the yard is asked more than any other, so here is the honest answer rather than a sales one.
A lesson
- You want to learn: seat, steering, stopping, rising trot, in time jumping.
- You are happy to be corrected for an hour, out loud, in front of four others.
- You would come back next week, and the week after that.
- You are five or over, and you can be here at two o’clock on a Saturday.
A walkout
- You want the trail and the view over Dublin Bay, not a technique.
- You have never ridden, or you have not ridden since you were a child.
- You are here for an afternoon, not for a season.
- You are content to be led: walk only, on a lead rein, always — no trotting, no cantering.
Pick the shape of the hour
Same arena, same instructors. What changes is how many people are in it with you, and how quickly you get on.
Start hereNeeds pro shootGroup trial lesson
Your first hour in the arena with a qualified instructor and four or five others.
Two or three of youNeeds pro shootSemi-private lesson
Two or three riders who already know each other, one instructor.
One to onePrivate lesson
Fifty minutes, one instructor, one rider.
All at onceNeeds pro shootBeginner intensive course
From never having ridden to riding independently, in a restricted group.
What a lesson costs
Euro, VAT included, nothing added at checkout. Riding hats and boots are provided free with every lesson.
| What you book | Price |
|---|---|
| Group trial lesson · childOne hour · Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm · from age five | €50 |
| Group trial lesson · adultOne hour · Saturdays and Sundays at 2 pm | €55 |
| Semi-private lessonFifty minutes · two or three riders who already know each other | €75each |
| Private lesson · childFifty minutes, one instructor, one rider | €80 |
| Private lesson · adultFifty minutes, one instructor, one rider | €90 |
| Ten group lessons · childUse within 11 weeks · €500 bought singly, so it saves €80 | €420 |
| Ten group lessons · adultUse within 11 weeks · €550 bought singly, so it saves €110 | €440 |
| Ten private lessons · childUse within 14 weeks · €800 bought singly, so it saves €50 | €750 |
| Beginner intensive courseSmall group · from never having ridden to riding independently | €490 |
Change or cancel free up to 48 hours before your slot. Inside 48 hours we do our best to offer a credit. Please arrive 15 minutes early so hats and boots can be fitted.
A book of ten,
and the sums behind it
Pay once, ride ten times, and the yard keeps count for you. It is the best value on this page — but it comes with a deadline, and you should read the deadline before you pay rather than after.
The window starts the day you pay
Eleven weeks for a book of group lessons, fourteen for a book of private lessons. That is the trade: the yard holds the same slot for you every week, and in return the book is used inside the season rather than left in a drawer. Ten weekly lessons inside eleven weeks leaves you one week spare, and no more than that.
So buy the book when your weeks are clear — not before exams, not the fortnight before a holiday. Single lessons are always there in the meantime, at the prices above.
Fifty minutes that are entirely yours
Wednesday to Sunday, by arrangement. Ring the yard if the diary looks full.
People book a private lesson for one of two reasons: to get better faster, or to get over a fright. Both work, and neither needs explaining when you arrive.
Bring the thing you want fixed. A canter transition that keeps falling apart, a horse that leans on your inside hand, a fall two years ago that is still in your shoulders — that is what the fifty minutes goes on. Nothing is shared with a group, so nothing has to be explained twice.
A semi-private is the same lesson with two or three riders who already know each other: siblings, a couple, two friends at roughly the same level. You keep most of the attention of a private lesson and pay €75 each for it. It is the quietest way to bring a nervous adult back to riding, because somebody they trust is in the arena with them.
- Private lesson · child€80
- Private lesson · adult€90
- Semi-private · 2 – 3 riders€75
- Ten private lessons · child€750
Fifty minutes each. The book of ten runs for 14 weeks from the day you pay.
From one hour to the pony club
Nobody is pushed up this list. Plenty of riders stop at step two and keep coming for years.
The trial hour
One lesson, one hour, nothing signed. Saturdays and Sundays at two o’clock, from age five.
The weekly slot
A book of ten holds the same time each week, so the instructor and the horse both know you by the third one.
Poles, then fences
Trotting poles first, then small fences, then out of the arena and up onto the hill for a change of scene.
Shows and pony club
Hunter trials, cross-country, pony club and the outings the yard runs through the year, including the beach.
What to wear, and what you never have to buy
Long trousers and a rain jacket. Riding hats and boots are provided free.
Bring
- Long trousers — jeans, leggings, jodhpurs. Anything without a hard seam inside the knee.
- A rain jacket. The arena is covered, the walk to it is not.
- Shoes with a small heel if you have them. If you have not, we have boots.
- Long hair tied back, and no scarves.
Provided, free
- A riding hat, fitted to your head on arrival — not handed to you in a size.
- Riding boots in your size, adult and child.
- Everything the horse wears. You never bring tack.
- Somewhere dry to wait, and parking at the gate.
Asked at the gate, most weeks
Anything not here, ring the yard. Somebody who teaches will answer, not a call centre.