Our next horse

Can you help us find our next horse?

We’re looking for a new horse to join our horse and pony team here at Scropton Horse Centre

We provide a great home for our horses with the best of care, catering to each individual horses needs. We have high welfare standards with regular physio, dentist, saddle fitters & more.

We are careful to ensure each horse has an appropriate workload with plenty of downtime.

What type of horse are we looking for?

We’re quite flexible about size; looking for a horse between 13hh and 16.1hh. Ideally we’d like them to be between 8 and 16 yrs old, but we would consider a younger horse if it has been well broken and schooled.

For the variety of work we do at our centre we are looking for a horse that is:

• Great on the ground and has been well handled by a variety of people.

• Happy to work in a school/arena as we do not hack out.

• Well schooled; able to do a basic dressage test and pop a small course of jumps

• Patient and sensible. 

• Able to work on and off a lead rein

The following horses are unlikely to be what we are looking for:

• Green horses with little schooling 

• Horses that nap or are unsafe to handle

• Horses that come from a sole hacking home

We don’t mind manageable health conditions if this does not affect the horses working life. 

We are happy to consider a loan or purchase, and have a good budget for buying.

We will want to asses any horse ourselves prior to purchase, and to have a vetting carried out

Although we have quite a long wish list, we would be very happy to talk to any potential loaners/sellers about their particular horse and whether it would be suitable for us.

If you have a horse to sell/loan that you think we might be interested in then please get in touch with us:

Thank you for any help you can give us in finding a new horse for our centre. Your help will enable us to pass the benefits of time with horses onto more participants, both those with additional needs and mainstream.