We provide weekday lessons during the day and after school. Private and group lessons for both adults and children. Casual Saturday private lessons are by appointment only. Group lessons for adults or children are organised so that the level of experience is similar.
Riding School
Arena Hire
Our indoor arena is available for hire for clinics, groups and individual use. We have a brand new arena surface which is silica sand and GGT fibre mix. It is suitable for all disciplines. Its approximately 65m x 26m and has its own individual lighting.
School Holidays
Karren Bartley Riding Academy provides one of Auckland’s top School Holiday Programmes for both beginners and advances riders. The programme usually goes from 9am to 3pm and covers a wide range of horsie activities.
Riding School
We provide weekday lessons during the day and after school. Private and group lessons for both adults and children. Casual Saturday private lessons are by appointment only. Group lessons for adults or children are organised so that the level of experience is similar. This ensures that every pupil gets the best opportunity to learn at his or her own level. Ages of pupils is also a big consideration when organising group lessons.
Our riding school start pupils from 10 years of age so we can give them the best opportunity to learn correctly and a weight restriction of 100 kg as we don’t have suitable horses for heavier riders.
All Lessons are for 55 minutes riding time.We have a variety of horses and ponies to suit your requirements from beginners to advanced. Lessons are run in conjunction with NZ primary school term dates (usually 10 x lessons per term).
Students are expected to arrive 15mins before and leave 15mins after lesson time. During this time pupils are encouraged to interact with the horses. We provide helmets if necessary, but encourage all pupils to purchase the correct riding attire and safety helmet fitted correctly.
Lessons are available Mon – Thurs 11am – 7pm for group or private. Saturday casual lessons are by appointment only and restricted to 9am to 12pm. Please note that before any lesson a rider must have viewed the Terms and Conditions, Filled in an application and be aware of the price list. We’ll follow this up with an email. We are a small business and we attend the office only a few times a week but will endeavour to make contact at the first available time.
Arena Hire
Our indoor arena is available for hire for clinics, groups and individual use. We have a brand new arena surface which is silica sand and GGT fibre mix. It is suitable for all disciplines. Its approximately 65m x 26m and has its own individual lighting.
We have covered tie ups, outdoor yards, stables and overnight paddocks for the group and clinic hireages. We also aim to be flexible as possible to accommodate you around the day to day running of our riding school.
We have toilets and a kitchen facility available and are happy to discuss putting on additional specifications for an individual or groups requirements. Pricing for mounts starts at $25/hour and hireage is to be paid upon the time of booking, not when arriving at the riding school. Please contact us for additional information.
School Holidays
Karren Bartley Riding Academy provides one of Auckland’s top School Holiday Programmes for both beginners and advances riders. The programme usually goes from 9am to 3pm and covers a wide range of horsie activities. Students will have two riding lessons and spend the rest of the time learning how to handle and care for a horse in a fun, safe and group environment. We have a buddy system in which students are paired up with a helper to keep them safe at all times around the horses and facilities.
The holiday programme is a great way to start children off on their journey towards becoming a safe and skilled horse rider and learning what horse riding is all about. It’s also a really good opportunity to make new friends and be around others who enjoy “horsie time” and share in the experience of becoming a more skilled rider.
Gift vouchers for the programme are available and make great presents; just a reminder that the school is for children ages 7+
Please note that the School Holiday Programme falls under the same guidelines as the riding school therefore Terms and Conditions must be read, an Application must be filled out prior to arriving and you must familiarise yourself with the Price List as to avoid confusion.