South Coast Equestrian

South Coast Equestrian Livery yard with indoor/outdoor arenas for hire. South Coast Equestrian is a livery yard in Chickerell, Dorset. Full time staff on site 7 days a week. Solarium.

DIY to full exercise cover and everything in between. Tailored packages to suit you and your horse or pony are available by arrangement. Facilities include an indoor (with mirrors) and outdoor arena with full set of show jumps. Barn stabling. Individual, pair and small herd turnout. Private off-road hacking. Toilets and kitchen. WiFi. Washing machine. Cctv. Lorry/trailer parking. Instructors welcome.

Happy Birthday Claire Oakley 🎂
15/05/2026

Happy Birthday Claire Oakley 🎂

We've changed the PolyJumps course. Available to hire 7 days a week. £15 an hour. Message to book in 🤠
12/05/2026

We've changed the PolyJumps course. Available to hire 7 days a week. £15 an hour.
Message to book in 🤠

Jessy with Liv and George and Louis with Alannah competing in the showjumping at Moreton Equestrian Centre today. 5 roun...
10/05/2026

Jessy with Liv and George and Louis with Alannah competing in the showjumping at Moreton Equestrian Centre today. 5 rounds with placings from 2nd to 4th in each class. Well done! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

We have space for a full or part livery. Gelding, 14.2 and under. Indoor and outdoor arenas, off road hacking field, ful...
07/05/2026

We have space for a full or part livery. Gelding, 14.2 and under. Indoor and outdoor arenas, off road hacking field, full set of polyjumps, solarium, individual turnout, barn stabling, trailer/lorry parking, staff covering 7 days a week, lovely yard family, child and geriatric friendly. Instructors welcome, Steph Geran is based next door. Regular clinics with Gilly Wheeler. Variety of vets, physios, saddle fitters and farriers attending regularly. All livery is inclusive of adlib hay. Preferably out overnight all year round (weather dependent). Suits good doers.
Please message to register your interest.

Who remembers Mabel? 6 years old today! 😍
01/05/2026

Who remembers Mabel? 6 years old today! 😍

30/04/2026

Happy Birthday, Denni 🎂

28/04/2026

I almost didn’t go round this course. Not because I couldn’t, but because I was embarrassed.

Embarrassed that, after years of riding and competing at bigger tracks, here I was at 29, jumping a 60cm. I watched kids half my age walk the 1m course without a second thought, while I sat in my car, shrinking into the seat, asking myself, “Should I just withdraw?”.

I was embarrassed about what people might think. Would they judge me? Here I am, speaking out about performance horses, competition, and welfare… and yet I’m quietly trotting round a 60cm. Handing anyone who disagrees with me the perfect ammunition for critique: "Until you ride at that level, you can’t comment.”

But if I’m honest, the deepest part of that embarrassment came from somewhere else.

It felt like I’d failed.

Twelve-year-old me, who started out at 60cm, had such big dream, such certainty that I’d be further along by now. She had belief, determination, and this unwavering vision of where we were going to end up.

I felt like she would be so bitterly disappointed that we hadn't continued chasing those dreams, but instead regressed back to where she began.

And that’s the strange part, isn’t it?

Somewhere along the way, we start treating our hobbies like career ladders. Like we always have to be climbing. And if we step down a rung, or two, or ten, it must mean we’ve failed. That we’ve gone backwards. That we’re somehow less than we were before.

But this isn’t a career ladder.

This is supposed to be the thing that gives us joy. The thing that lets us breathe. The thing that takes us away from the noise of everything else, no matter what level.

And the truth is, the horses don’t care. They don’t care about the height of the fences, the level of the class, or whether you’re moving up or stepping back. They don’t measure success the way we do, they don't measure it at all.

That expectation? That little voice saying 'more, bigger, better'? The weight of that internal pressure?

That’s all us.

And maybe that is a weight we just don't need to carry.

21/04/2026

South Coast chill out sessions. 😴

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Cliff! 🥕🍎
16/04/2026

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Cliff! 🥕🍎

Address

537 Chickerell Road
Weymouth
DT34DL

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 6pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 8am - 6pm
Saturday 8am - 6pm
Sunday 8am - 6pm

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