Ballyskeagh Stables Riding school and Livery Yard

15/04/2025

Anyone get many photos from our Easter show 🐣 by any chance 🤔 I was a little preoccupied and didn’t even take one of any of the kids doing the egg hunt 🤦‍♀️ never mind jumping 🦄

14/04/2025

06/12/2024

Sorry for any inconvenience 🤦‍♀️ stay safe folks

05/12/2024

❤️ THE GOOD OLD DAYS ❤️

Riding your ponies bare back in from the fields. Without a hat.

Putting up a ‘Riding is at Your Own Risk’ sign and that sufficed.

Being dropped off at the yard first thing in the morning and not being picked up until the evening.

Only having a handful of feed options and ‘supplements’ consisted of vegetable oil, salt or garlic.

You filled your livery spaces with postcard sized signs in the local tack shop.

Livery contracts were just a vague verbal agreement.

Horses only had two rugs- a stable rug and a turnout rug. Maybe a string cooler if they were lucky.

The dedicated kids with ponies who had to catch two buses after school just to get to the yard.

Liveries had to speak to yard owners in person or ring the landline at reasonable hours.

The sum total of biosecurity was worming your horse.

Everyone wore Harry Hall jodhpurs bought from the local tack store.

Unsupervised child labour was totally acceptable and everyone mucked in.

The Robinsons catalogue was every horse owners version of Argos.

People just loved spending time with their horses.

The local farmers would be happy for you to gallop in their stubble fields once the crop was cut.

Lunch on the yard was a cup-a-soup or a pot noodle in the grubby tea room.

The kids would take over the arena at the weekend playing chase-me-charlie or gymkhana games.

If you have your horse it’s feed or water in a Tub Trug you were cutting edge.

Bedding options were straw or shavings.

Oil drums for jumps were the norm. Jump wings were for the professionals.

Our version of social media was writing on the white board.

Most horse owners generally only had a saddle, bridle and grooming kit on the yard.

Everything could be fixed with a poultice or purple spray.

If you fell off, you got up, dusted yourself off and got back on.

You could ride out or be at the yard for hours without needing to worry about your mobile signal.

🫶 original content from liverylist
🫶 photos my own ‘ Mr Hooley’ 🫶

04/11/2024

I am a lesson horse.

I am a horse that isn’t as recognized as the top hunter jumpers, the best western pleasure horse, or the 1D barrel horse, I am a lesson horse. I am the backbone of the foundation to do all of those things. I am a lesson horse.

I am not loved by one person. I am loved by several people. I don’t have my person, I have my people. I am a lesson horse.

I will teach your child and yourself more than just to ride. I will bring your child out of their shell. I will teach your child about life. I will be yours and their shoulder to cry on. I am a lesson horse.

I will bring my family the joy of teaching kids. I will bring my families business growth. I am so loved by my family, even if they don’t express it everyday. My family allows others to show me love and enjoy me. I am a lesson horse.

At the end of your childs’ journey on a lesson horse, they will out grow me. They will find one that jumps higher, a horse that is show quality, a horse much faster than me. But, I will never outgrow being a lesson horse. I will be the one that loved your child and helped your child grow into the rider and person they are. I am a lesson horse.

At the end of my time as a lesson horse; I will be covered in grey hair. Each grey hair came from each hour I spent as a lesson horse. I will be in a field of green grass, I will be taken care of as I was when I was a lesson horse. I will watch your child from across the pasture love her new horse. But, I will love your child more than any horse can. I will be the backbone of the business, the family, and your child. Don’t forget about me, I am a lesson horse.

21/10/2024

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06/09/2024

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16/01/2024

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27/12/2023

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and Santa was good to everyone 🤗 Show ready for tomorrow 😬 12 O’clock start with lead rein 🦄 look forward to seeing you all 🥰

17/12/2023

DATE CHANGE!!!!

I’m going to postpone the Christmas show this Tuesday until Thursday the 28th of December starting at 12 noon now as I’m sure we will have more time to enjoy the day between Christmas and the new year.
And all be busy enough this week getting ready for Christmas 🎄 and the big man coming 🎅
Anyone looking for lessons on Monday still please get in touch with me on my mobile 07707365954 and I will get you sorted.

11/12/2023

Everyone welcome 🥰