West Riding Group EGB
Welcome to the West Riding Group of Endurance GB Website
New Link for all Sports
This site has links to all types of sports in West Yorkshire as well as updates on news and events.
Endurance GB
The Governing Body of Endurance Riding in Great Britain:
The Scottish Endurance Riding Club:
The Irish Long Distance Riding Association:
Little Oak Complementary Therapies
A new business venture for our group committee members Kerry Dawson and Esther Young, Kerry will be available each day providing Swedish Body Massage, Indian Head Massage, Thai Foot Massage, Reiki or Sports Massage treatments to riders at the following Endurance GB events, providing on-site relief from the stress of competition.
For more information or to book your appointment time, please contact Kerry on:-
07818 283 144 (mobile) / 01977 514077 (home) or at littleoaktherapies@yahoo.co.uk
Please see www.littleoaktherapies.co.uk for more information
We are pleased to annouce that Kerry has also recently completed her practical training in horse and dog massage so you can how have treatments for the whole family!
Khazan Equestrian
SPECIALISTS IN ENDURANCE RIDING SUPPLIES
Our fellow endurance rider, Karen David, has recently set up her own business 'Khazan' supplying endurance products, offering a broad spectrum of products from basic to the more specialised. The products are also suitable for the discipline of BHS Trec, trail riders and the general pleasure hacker.
Karen's Trade Stand Tour is shown on the web site and they will be at the Haywood Oaks FEI Ride on the 7 and 8 April as well as at a number of prominent rides throughout the year.
For all your endurance tack needs
If you are starting off in Endurance, BHS Trec, Trail riding, going away on a riding holiday, or just looking for equipment that will let you face the elements successfully on those long hacks, Performance Equestrian has it all!
Steve is always happy to help and is just at the end of the phone, he's the entire reason I'm always skint 
The Leaders in synthetic tack, bringing you more and new webbing technology, making life easier & more comfortable for you & your horse.
Equisafety leads the way in quality high visibility, fluorescent, equestrian clothing throughout Europe. All of their garments are ergonomically engineered and fully field tested by Mounted Police Forces and a group of horse owners.
I can't say enough good stuff about this kit, I love it, I look like I'd not be out of place on the front in Blackpool 
The Goldfinch range of Jod's are designed primarily for Endurance Riding but are comfortable enough and available in suitable colours to be used in most spheres of Equestrian Sport. The jodhpurs are the pull-on variety with no buttons or zips to fiddle with or pinch you. They have an elasticated waist which is raised at the back to help eliminate the downward pull you often experience with traditional jodhpurs. The seated area is an extra layer of fabric which extends down to the lower calf for extra comfort and durability.
Barbara has a range of designs that can be added to your Jod's with co-ordinating Polo Shirts available to match, however outlandish your style.
Plas Equestrian specialise in making driving harness and endurance riding equipment. They also manufacture a wide range of made to measure goods for all horse riding and carriage driving activities and use only the best English leather and synthetic materials.
Doesn't matter what colours you want to ride in, Plas can do it for you!
Just Chaps design and supply halfchaps and fullchaps from their Cornwall Uk base to customers in the UK and worldwide. All of their chaps are styled and tailiored to a high quality finish. They have a complete range from tiny childrens to adult XXL which are made from a variety of materials. They have a style and size to suit every riding discipline.
What can I say, these chaps are simply fab! I simply can't recommend them enough. They even do them in hot pink! 
Myself and my lad Ffortune (Spider) modelling kit from all of the above!
The GG Centre, Raskelf, York - One of the finest horse and rider facilities in the UK!
1/2 mile circular rubber gallops.
1 mile grass gallops.
1 mile cross country gallops - use depending on weather conditions.
Indoor school with 20 metre dressage mirror and seating facilities
5 outdoor rubber arenas with showjumps.
10 acre grass showfield with upto 100 show and working hunter jumps.
Extensive concrete lorry, trailer and car parks.
Picnic area.
Horses and riders are welcome to use the gallops, jumps and the inside and outside arenas for as long as they like for £10.
Come and have a look around!
01347 821137
Harrogate Bridleways Association
The Harrogate Bridleways Association covers the whole of North West Yorkshire and is affiliated to the British Horse Society.
H.B.A. membership is open to anybody with or without a horse or pony.
Members will receive regular newsletters and are encouraged to attend the meetings.
Members are encouraged to take an active role in the Association which includes the monitoring of their local bridleways.
Harrogate Bridleways Association aims to:-
To keep open and maintain local Bridleways within the boundaries for the areas covered by H.B.A.
RideUK - The National Bridleroute Network
The British Horse Society is working to create a National Bridleroute Network. This will initially consist of existing strategic national routes (for example, The Ridgeway and the Pennine Bridleway), regional routes (Swan's Way, the Icknield Way) and promoted circular rides. Over time, it will build up into a comprehensive network of community circuits linked together by linear routes.
The first phase of creating the National Bridleroute Network has already started. The Society has:
- collected information about the existing strategic long distance routes and the circular rides
- discussed with DETR a national signing standard, including use of route numbers
- started to prepare proposals for new strategic and circular routes to fill the gaps in the network
- started to seek sources of funding from grants and sponsorship.
The National Bridleroute Network will fill the gaps. Community Circuits will ensure many riders have access to primarily motor traffic free routes. Regional Routes will link the Community Circuits, so allowing longer rides, and reducing the need to travel by horsebox or trailer to places of equestrian interest. The National Network will consist of strategic routes across the country, linking up the regions and, potentially, linking into Europe too.
The Network will promote active sport and healthy leisure. The Network will provide opportunities for quiet, outdoor activities in harmony with the environment. In a 1998/9 national survey [1], it was found that 53% of people said their main purpose in owning a horse was to go hacking.
The Network will increase access for all. The Network will be open to riders, cyclists and walkers. Money spent creating links will benefit the whole of society, not just horse riders. The development of Community Circuits will ensure that gaps in the rights of way network are filled. And by ensuring that there are circular motor-traffic free routes, parents need not worry about their children being run over.
Economic diversification can benefit rural areas. While most riders are located close to towns and cities, the development of the National Network will enable people to ride further afield. There is already a demand for riding holidays, and the provision of well signed routes through rural areas will bring money into the local economy. Cyclists spend, on average, £35 per day per person on cycling holidays [2], straight into local pubs, shops and bed and breakfasts - that's more than day trippers spend when they go to the Lake District. Riders will spend this on themselves, and more on their horses.
The Northern Equine Therapy Centre
Bridle Rides
Bridle Rides is a package holiday to help you and a few friends ride your own horses on the bridleways of England and Wales (there aren't any in Scotland). You ride 15-20 miles a day at your own speed, mostly off-road and stay overnight in farmhouse accommodation with coarse mix and grazing for your horse.
The Riding Diary
The most comprehensive free listing of horse shows & equine events on the internet. Fun rides, showjumping, dressage, showing, one day events, endurance and more...
Equine World UK
The Equine World UK site includes everything for the UK horse lover with equestrian articles and information about horses, buying horses, caring for horses, horse riding and equestrian sports in the UK. The site also includes classified adverts for horses for sale, horses for loan as well as other equestrian related adverts. Our Equestrian Directory contains links to companies offering products and services for horses and equestrians, horse riding clubs and more. Don't forget to sign up for the Equine World UK Newsletter to receive details of special offers on products for horses and equestrians for sale online, the lastest equestrian news and equestrian articles and to be kept up-to-date with the Equine World UK site.
