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Darrington Equestrian Centre DIY Livery Yard located in Darrington, Pontefract. 40x60m and 20x40m smaller outdoor arenas. Private off-road hacking with XC jumps. All year turnout.

20/05/2025
All year round turn out available here at Darrington Equestrian Centre 😁🐴
24/03/2025

All year round turn out available here at Darrington Equestrian Centre 😁🐴

Horses need turnout!

As we start to leave winter behind, those yards with restricted winter turnout are now starting to turn out again and with it comes the injuries, gut upsets, laminitis and other issues that come from restricting turnout and then returning horses to pasture.

When did it become ok to not turn horses out for months on end? Did I miss that memo? They aren’t hamsters! I’m pretty sure if someone kept a dog in a crate for 23hrs a day people would be up in arms. Why is it ok for horses?! 😵‍💫

Our foals are born outside and live outside until they come in to be backed. We do have sheds and they can come in if necessary in the worst of weather but most of the time - they enjoy free range living!

If yards can’t turn out because of wet land or overstocking, then investment needs to be made to provide some form of all weather turnout - track or turnout pens, whatever the budget stretches to - but keeping horses stabled for months on end is not ok. Those are our problems - not theirs, yet they are the ones suffering for it!

They are social creatures that evolved to travel miles a day and forage lots of different plants. We stick them in stables and small individual paddocks some without even a hedgerow and then wonder why they develop all kinds of coping mechanisms (vices) and ulcers….

There has not been one single day this winter when our horses have been locked in stables. We are on clay so we don’t turn out on the paddocks during heavy periods of rain in winter as it destroys the land. But we have a large loafing area, open straw pens and a 100m track that they can free range on days when the paddocks are closed up. And they are turned out together, not individually.

Happy horses ❤️ horse first, sport second

All year round turn out here at Darrington Equestrian Centre 😁🐴
19/03/2025

All year round turn out here at Darrington Equestrian Centre 😁🐴

Spaces still available, please whattsapp 07432 522461 for more information
11/02/2025

Spaces still available, please whattsapp 07432 522461 for more information

DIY Livery currently available. WhatsApp for details. 07432 522461
30/10/2024

DIY Livery currently available. WhatsApp for details.
07432 522461

26/10/2024

Showjump training with Ian Bennett at the yard on Sunday 3rd November. WhatsApp me to book.
07432 522461

17/07/2024

Due to late cancellation, there is now a 4pm space available on Ian"s Showjumping clinic this Friday. Message page to book.

05/07/2024

Ian Bennett will be back at the yard Showjump training on Friday 19th July. Message me to book or for details on 07432 522461 😁

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