Services offered
Backing
Sending your horse for backing livery is a major milestone in their training and shapes their future ridden career. At GO Equine, we have extensive experience backing horses with a focus on confidence, strong foundations and your horses welfare at heart to ensure long term success.
Starting
Strong foundations build confident horses and good groundwork and early experiences produces long term success. Starting your young horse with George's groundwork experience sets them up with a positive and clear start to their education. Be that with basics such as good handling, desensitization and picking up their feet or moving onto to their first experiences of work, learning to lunge, long-rein ect.
Problem solving
GO Equine specialises in behaviour-led training for horses with behavioural challenges. We look to understand the reasons why problem horses exhibit the behaviour they do, then train with consistent ethical approaches to rebuild your horses confidence and resolve any issues you have with them. George also offers follow up lessons at your own yard to ensure continued success and consistency with your horse.
Liberty / trick training
With his team of horses GO Equine has performed around the country showcasing liberty and trick training. On livery with us, George has the consistency to work with your horse to develop these skills and with unlimited visitation and bookable lessons you will be able to replicate this training.
Groundwork
Confidence building
GO Equine believes that good groundwork is the foundation for all training with horses being a vital start to a young horses education and an important area that shouldn't be neglected with more established horses.
Confidence building
Confidence building
At GO Equine we produce happy and confident horses which creates happy and confident riders. We aim to train horses to give their rider confidence and trust in their abilities so that you can enjoy your partnership again.
Whats included
Full care
At GO Equine we truly love horses and when they stay with us they become part of our family being cared for as if our own.
Daily individual turnout
We believe horses should be horses and that means spending time outside daily around other horses. Individual turnout is required for biosecurity but your horse will always be near friends and spend a good amount of their day on quality maintained grazing
Ad lib hay + basic feed
As standard, hay is provided ad lib or to your specifications and a good quality chaff and balancer feed is given twice daily. You're welcome to provide any specialised feeds.
Training
Training horses is our life's passion and our yard provides the perfect facilities to do so. A surfaced arena, fields to ride in and immediate access to incredible hacking gives us the tools to train your horse. Along with slow and quiet roads for introducing your horse to roadwork
Arena hire trip (6 weeks+)
Included in stays 6 weeks+ or available at an extra cost. Your horse can be taken to a local arena hire to transfer skills learned with us into a different setting, helping to build their confidence and experience.
Handover lesson
All stays no matter the length include a handover lesson with you in the last week so that you can continue training them with consistency and full understanding of the training they've achieved with us.
Visiting your horse
Whilst your horse stays with us we welcome you to visit as often as you wish via appointment. This can be to watch their training, have a coffee and a chat with us or even just to give your horse a hug and a scratch!
Extras
Farrier
We use a selection of highly skilled farriers at our yard, when your horse is due a trim or new shoes we will facilitate this at cost.
Specialised feed
A basic chaff and balancer feed is provided as standard but per your horses requirements you may provide other feed or we can source at cost.
Saddle fitting
George is a trained saddle fitter and although we require horses to come with tack, a free saddle check will be given. Any alterations required (flocking, gullet bars) will be made following your approval and charged
Equine sports massage
George is also a qualified equine sports massage therapist and treatments can be provided at an extra cost on your request.
Competition experience
Days out for your horse to gain competition experience can be requested for an additional charge
Veterinary care
If we agree your horse needs veterinary investigation and they have to be out of training for this time, a reduced livery rate will be applied or the horse can be returned home. You will be liable for all vet fees. In the event of an emergency we will attempt to contact you but a vet will be called at our discretion and you will be responsible for any fees
Lessons
One hand-over lesson will be included with every stay. Additional lessons can be booked with us at a cost