Summer 2009 – 2010 Newsletter
Build a Bond Beyond Belief
This newsletter contains:
- Multi day riding
- Holiday programmes
- Saddle Club-What one parent says
- Livery
- Discounted rides
- Becoming a Horsey Parent Course
- Clinics coming up
- Handy to know Horse riding hint
Hello Everyone
Welcome to the Summer Newsletter. Summer brings with it our most pleasant riding weather with long warm days, holidays and plenty of feed to keep our horses looking sleek and conditioned. And they do! The horse herds are the best I have ever seen them. "Yeah. Come and meet us and we will take you on the best ride ever! " Amazing how our horses can talk huh
Read on!
Multi Day riding-Mt Lyford
We have several spaces for these fabulous rides going from Mt Lyford to Hanmer Springs and return. These rides are available through to 30th April. They seem to hit the mark with the right mix of affordability, scenery, ease and adventure. While a group of two or more can book any time I have some existing rides you may join. I suggest anyone interested in these rides book soon as they are proving to be popular.
I have been building in a warm up half day the day before as it sets us all up so well making the ride safer and giving riders more independence and capability with their horses. Cost for warm up half day $100.00pp. This can be done at Otahuna.
You may bring your own horses on these multi day rides. Fee is the same.
Upgrades for linen and alcohol are available from Sherwood Lodge.
Fees include all food, accommodation, horse gear and guiding, transfers of overnight gear, digital photo service and half day warm up session.
Mt Lyford to Hanmer Springs – Rustic Adventure 4 to 7 days
This includes an afternoon for the warm up session Places available on existing rides:
December 21-warm up riding 22,23,24 Hanmer Springs to Mt Lyford
3 spaces Cost $1070.00pp
January 31st-warm up February 1st, 2nd, 3rd Hanmer Springs to Mt Lyford
4 spaces Cost $1070.00pp
March 3-warm up 4th, 5th, 6th Mt Lyford to Hanmer Springs
5 spaces Cost $1070.00pp
March 7th-warm up 8th, 9th, 10th Hanmer Springs to Mt Lyford
6 spaces Cost $1070.00pp
Sherwood Huts to Mt Lyford February 25th One day
Here is an opportunity!! There is a one day ride from Sherwood to Mt Lyford for 6 riders on going for half price as we have to bring horses back from Sherwood. Why not ride them back! 5 to 6 hours riding.
Cost $100.00pp Bring your own lunch and enjoy a day out.
Sherwood Huts – Mt Lyford
Mt Lyford to Sherwood Huts and return via different trails. 5 to 6 hours riding a day. Karen has cut a fantastic new track through the native forest taking us down into the lottery River! I have ridden it since I wrote the last newsletter and Karen is right it is a beauty!
Cost $395.00pp
Plan your own dates everyone
The Over the Top Ride at Otahuna
This ride has a remote and spectacular feel while right on your back door!! (if you live in Christchurch that is.)And with birdsong and horse’s rythm all the way. This ride runs all year round, except during Spring lambing. We have our first Over the top ride going on 21,22 December Join us!
Cost $320.00pp Min two riders Accommodation in Governors Bay and food extra. We supply lunches, Gear transfer, horses and guiding, digital photo service.
Existing bookings you may join are:
December 21, 22 – 4 spaces available
Riding Weekends
We have Adult, womens and family Riding Weekends at Mt Lyford all year round. These riding weekends are excellent for confidence building and getting you ready for the multi day rides. Let me know your dates and we can add others to your weekend or you can fill your own two days with 6 riders. Cost $320.00 includes riding, accommodation, spas at Mt Lyford Lodge, lunches and photos ie everything except breakfast and Sat night dinner
Lead rides, half day and all day rides can be enjoyed by everyone at any time.
Saddle Club and Holiday Programmes for Everyone
With the next school holidays round the corner we have prepared these comprehensive riding programmes suitable for adults and young riders. These are being run at both Mt Lyford and Otahuna Horse Riding.
Here are some words from a mother describing how she sees the effects of saddle club on her daughter:
What have you seen saddle club develop in your child?
"She is a happier child. She is more confident with the horses. She has toughened up. It has developed her empathy towards animals in general"
Was it all you hoped for for your child?
"Yes and more. She cant get enough. She looks forward to saddle club all week"
What aspect of saddle club do you recommend to others?
"The whole concept. For a parent of an 11 year old horse crazy daughter its a dream come true. Thank you"
Otahuna:
Welcome to the holiday programmes we have on offer at Otahuna Horse Riding over the Summer Holidays. We aim to make all these activities fun, enjoyable and rewarding for those who take part. Family members are welcome to join in.
Two Day Holiday Programme
Open to all young riders and their families
You may join the first day only. Cost $120.00pp per day
Monday 28th/Tuesday 29th December 2009
Thursday 7th/ Friday 8th January 2010
Saturday 30th/Sunday 31st January 2010
Saddle Club Holiday Programmes
Open to saddle club members and their families
One Day saddle Club Programme Trekking
Cost $100.00pp per day
Sunday 27th December 2009
Wednesday 6th January 2010
Monday 25th January 2010
Overnight Camps –
Cost $150.00pp
Saturday 2nd/Sunday 3rd January 2010
Monday 18th/ Tuesday 19th January 2010
Tuesday 26th/Wednesday 27th January 2010
Challenge Days –
Cost $100.00pp per day
Monday 21st December 2009
Wednesday 20th January 2010
The next Saddle Club (term time) 6 week course will begin in the week of the 8th February 2010. Send your enrolment in promptly with payment so you get your first choice
Mt Lyford:
Holiday programmes are run on demand at Mt Lyford. Phone 3290160
Livery
We offer full livery for those of you who have your own horse, or wish to purchase one, and haven’t the lifestyle to be out tending to your horse each day.
At both Mt Lyford and Otahuna Horse Riding we have spaces for 6 more livery horses. We offer daily checks, hay, natural hoof care, worming, exercising if you wish, cover care, and annual dentistry all for $80.00 per week. Daily hard feeding $20.00 extra. Owners pay for vet bills.
Your horse is kept with the main herd in a free range environment with creeks, native forest, grassy open areas and hillside.
You have the opportunity to join our treks and activities, taking advantage of our support and instruction, knowledge and equipment and using our trails where we are able to offer unguided riding. Both our operations are off road, sheltered and have access to rides right from the base. There is room to park a horse float and store gear in a locked container.
We can help you find the right horse for you as well.
Call us on 3290160 if you or someone you know of is interested in this offer.
Discounted Horse riding
We rides available for 10% less if purchased at our stall at the Riccarton Market. We have a stall there most Sundays.
The Ride to the Maxxx card enables you and anyone you invite to a $20.00 discount on all half day rides and Natural horsemanship Clubs.
Look out for our specials and discounted rides eg Feb 25th Sherwood to Mt Lyford
Natural Horsemanship Presentations
Some of you have approached me to run a Natural Horsemanship presentation (or a Come Riding Presentation) at schools, at home with firiends and other interested riding buddies, which is really great. The host for these presentations is eligible to receive 10% of the money from rides I sell at the presentation. And rides are discounted by 10% if they are purchased at the presentation. It is a great incentive and a good way to raise funds for yourself to ride or your group.
A Natural Horsemanship Presentation is a presentation that I give with a stunning slide show that teaches the audience about the horse human interaction using natural horsemanship and how it effects us as people in many aspects of our lives. I talk from one to one half hours about the definition of NH, how it effects horses and people, what we do in our business to enhance this connection between people and horses, the effects on some of our riders and what we offer to those interested in riding with us. The purpose of the session is both for interest about this subject and promotion of our horse riding business, Kate Tapley Horse Treks Ltd. The presentation is free, no one is obliged to buy rides.
How:
Call Kate on 3290160 or email kate@katetapley.co.nz I require a DVD player and TV in a warm room that is all. I come free! So see what you can all do to make a Natural horsemanship Presentation happen, and I look forward to sharing with you the magic of horses.
Becoming a Confident Horsey Parent
Now is a good time to be looking at a parent’s course to be ready for the Summer. Babs takes these groups and with two horse crazy girls of her own she knows all the stories. These courses are simple, short, and enable parents to equip themselves to be involved in their children’s dream to be a horse rider! There is a special emphasis on safe handling. Take a look at the flyer on the Otahuna website. Cost $145.00pp
Clinics
Karen Weibel has a one day demonstration day from foal handling to riding your mature horse with Bryan McVicar at Snowden Mt Lyford about 1 km before the horse trekking base. Bring food and drink to share following the demonstration making this a full day out.
Contact Karen on 03 3156284.
Our annual Ken Faulkner clinic is being held near Otahuna Horse Riding on 19th to 22nd February 2010. Contact Kate on 3290160 or e mail kate@katetapley.co.nz to enroll.
Handy to know horse riding hint
It is an interesting time of year for horses. They all look to be in magnificent health, fat, shiny and full of energy. Iin fact they are often less healthy now than they were a little lean in the middle of Winter. I call this the "under worked and over fed syndrome". It is a genuine health problem for us and the horse, because it puts our horses and us at risk. Our horses cant desensitise and focus on us easily, which makes them a lot more dangerous. They have way too much energy for their lifestyles and this makes them prone to conditions such as laminitis, staggers, grass toxicity, hoof and joint problems and hence difficult to manage. What to do? Make up a paradise paddock which makes your horse walk more from water to hay while getting a lot less grass. Putting a fence along the inside of the existing fence works a treat. Offer your horse hay to stabilise the sugars, and toxicity from the grass right now. See Jenny Patterson’s work on grass toxicity. Feed toxin binders and magnesium. Find a rough hill block that is not fertilised and sown and gets your horse and you walking up and down. Work your horse a lot more on the ground before you get on to make sure your horse has burned off that extra energy, so they can think and respond for you when you get on. Get another person to help you work your horse more, and if you have to, bring them on one of our lovely overnight treks. Nothing better than long slow work all day to bring your horse into fitness both physiclly, emotionally and mentally. From Ken Faulkner, "The best cure-all is a sweaty saddle blanket"
From the team at Kate Tapley Horse Treks
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