We have a 6 furlong straight woodchip gallop, this is used for the horses fast work with a very small incline it’s great for younger horses that don’t necessarily want to be trained on a stiff hill gallop.
We have a 2 and a half furlong deep sand round gallop. This facility is very good for building up the horses core fitness and is used on a daily basis. It also helps to regulate the horses breathing and is very good for building and strengthening, whilst also ensuring the horses are relaxed.
Croxton park is an old racecourse, it is 2miles round on beautiful old free draining turf. The perfect place to educate young horses and prepare them for their first racecourse experience.
We have 6 schooling fences in a line with two ditches and 3 flights of hurdles. We have a small jumping lane with barrels and tyres to get the young horses jumping. We also have a double sided hurdle in our ménage with barrels and poles to enable us to jump the horses, when the grass isn’t suitable.
We use the school on a daily basis, when using the round gallop we warm up in here. We believe it’s important for the horses to learn to balance themselves and do flatwork. This is also vital when we break young horses in, we also have a mesh pen that we pop up in the school if needed.
We feel that plenty of airflow is excellent for horses respiratory systems, equally it’s good for horses to interact with one another. This keeps them calm healthy and happy. The horses enjoy the pens so they have more freedom to behave naturally.
With most of the horses living in outdoor pens, the need for turnout is not as essential, however we do try and get the horses in the field as much as possible, to get their heads down and enjoy some freedom and doctor green.
