ATTENTION ALL WILD MUMS & DADS!

A few of you have been asking what our plans for this winter are and I can confirm that we are staying open. The way that we plan to manage riding around the weather is to give the kids pony care lessons on the days that it is too wet to ride. At least 50% of being “horsey” is on the ground, and we don’t want the kids to lose interest over winter and find themselves back at the beginning with riding in the spring. The other part that is beneficial to parents is that once the kids realise how tough it is to care for a horse every day they usually think twice about asking for one of their own!

Pony care lessons are half the price of a riding lesson.

However, there will still be days when it is just too rotten for small kids to be out at all or weather which is too dangerous to be on the yard such as high winds when the horses become spooky. On days like these we will post a cancellation on our website www.highlandwildrides.co.uk on the events calendar under the relevant date. We would also be able to send you an email if you can provide us with your email address. This would also be very handy to keep you all up to date on upcoming events such as the Halloween parade and the open day once the new barn is built.

We are hoping that the new barn will be fully functional this side of Christmas and will provide the kids with an area that is completely covered to enjoy pony care and indoor activities such as tack cleaning competitions, quizzes and talks. It will house a petting zoo as well as the horses, the feed, the tack and a reception.

Work on the barn begins this week and in order to make it as speedy as possible we will be closed from Friday 14^th November until Tuesday 25^th of November.

So we hope to see you all soon and look forward to playing more mounted games!

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