Acton Hall Equestrian Centre

15/08/2025

Relatable??? 🤣🤣

14/08/2025

🌞 Perfect weather this week for a shady woodland ride 🌞

Book now 👇

No need for riding on the roads, we have direct access to miles and miles of off-road woodland riding. Stunning scenery and plenty of tracks and hills, great for fittening work or just a leisurely amble round public woodland. Tea and coffee making facilities, Toilet and wash off all included. Once y...

10/08/2025

🥳Full/part livery stables available 🥳

🦄 Our stables include all these facilities:-

💕Indoor school with waxed surface and mirrors

🦄International arena 80mx50m with:-
💕60x20 Dressage arena
🦄80x30 Showjumping arena

💕XC Track with over 20 fences

🦄Direct access to over 1000acres of woodland

Plus:-
💕Showjumping and dressage training
🦄Professional schooling available from the smallest pony to the largest Shire
🧼 On site Rug Wash
🛍️ Feed and Tack Shack

Whether you’re a happy hacker or competing every weekend, we have something for everyone!

www.actonhallec.co.uk

24/07/2025

🐴 Are you looking for a safe, fun pony to loan?🐴

🖤 Jeremy, 8 yr old Fell pony
🤍 12.3hh (also 12.3hh wide so is suitable for lightweight riders up to 5”5
🖤 Hacks out in company and alone
🤍 schools nicely with balanced transitions
🖤 Perfect young teenagers pony
🤍 Jumps a small course
🖤 great round our XC track and jumps all the logs, tyres etc
🤍Barefoot

Jeremy is just the coolest pony, known to us since a 4 year old and taught many children to be great riders but above all have fun along the way!

He’s a unit so no one under the age of 11 please!

He must remain at Acton Hall EC where we have great facilities, check out our website.

To loan all his costs will be incurred by you so please do not enquire if you are not prepared to pay for his livery, hay, bedding, feed and insurance.

PM or call me on 07810 263786

17/07/2025

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The most common riding flaw I see among today's riders, including pros, is that they look down. To maintain correct balance, we need to ride with our head up and our eyes forward. I see riders posting images all over the internet of them riding that show they are looking down. This might seem a minor issue, but it is not.

When your eyes are down, your horse can feel that your balance is more forward to varying degrees over their horse's forehand. This might seem like a minor issue, but it will put your horse onto their forehand. When your eyes go down, your head that weighs 15 pounds (7 kg) goes down and forward, and usually your shoulders begin to close. All of this together causes a horse to fall forward onto their forehand. The fact that your head is up high at the end of an effective lever, that is your upper body, multiplies the forward weight of your head and shoulders significantly affecting your horse's balance.

The negative effects this has on your horse show up in several ways. It makes both upward and downward transitions more difficult for your horse because this imbalance interferes with your horse's need to engage their hind to reach under themselves. Simply said, when you shift your weight forward in this manner it becomes more difficult for your horse to use its hind. The same is true in lead changes. Rider weight over the forehand, even a little bit, makes all movements that depend on hind engagement more difficult for your horse.

This common riding flaw also affects the rider. Looking down makes it more difficult to develop "feel". To develop "feel" a rider must be centered in unity with their horse's balance. Being forward, ahead of the horse's center of balance creates an obstacle to feeling the horse's balance.

If you look down when riding, just stop it. If you have to look down for a reason, move your eyeballs, not your head. If you keep your eyes and head up and your shoulders open, many improvements will follow. You will sit the canter better because your head and neck position will no longer interfere with your hips swinging to the beats of the canter. "Eyes up". It's simple and fixes a lot of things.

16/07/2025

Order feed by Thursday for collection on Monday!!

https://www.actonhallec.co.uk/feed-supplements

Click and collect horse feed and supplements from Acton Hall Equestrian Centre, ST5 4EF Orders by Thursday for delivery every Monday.

04/07/2025

Team Acton hacking to the local 😎🥰😎

03/07/2025

🧡 this App!!!

06/03/2025

🐎Park & Ride 🐎
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No need for riding on the roads, we have direct access to miles and miles of off-road woodland riding. Stunning scenery and plenty of tracks and hills, great for fittening work or just a leisurely amble round public woodland. Tea and coffee making facilities, Toilet and wash off all included. Once y...