Gawler River Park Equestrian Centre

Wear comfortable long pants and closed-toe shoes with a small heel. Bring a water bottle, sunscreen, and arrive a few minutes early for your lesson.

Like schools, our lessons run to term times, so we ask families to commit to either weekly or fortnightly lessons for the term. If you are looking for a one-off lesson, do get in touch. We can take height and weight details and let you know if an opening becomes available. Pony Days, which run over 3 hours during the holidays, are a great way to introduce children to horses. We do grooming and tacking up, riding time, fun and educational puzzles and sheets and finish with horse themed games, treasure hunts or on foot showjumping competitions!

We have a range of well-trained horses and ponies to suit all ages, experience levels, and riding goals — from complete beginners to more confident riders.

Lessons may be cancelled or rescheduled with at least 24 hours' notice. Late cancellations or no-shows may incur the full lesson fee. In the event of unsafe weather or horse welfare concerns, lessons may be rescheduled at our discretion.

We teach complete beginners to experienced riders from age 3 upwards.

We teach English style riding in English style saddles.

Yes — lessons are paid for at the time of booking.

We would be delighted to schedule lessons with your own horse.

Riding isn't for everyone. If you want to book a taster session, book a 30 minute lesson and let us know in the notes that it is a trial session.

We have a 20 x 60 arena, a large 20 x 20 round yard, wash bay, on-site parking, coffee machine, comfortable lounge, spare helmets and spacious stalls available. Toilets are available on request in the main house.

Yes, for the sake of our equids' welfare we have rider weight restrictions in place, as per the policy set out by the British Horse Society (BHS). BHS recommends that a horse or pony is asked to carry no more than 10% of its ideal bodyweight if performing at an extremely high intensity, and 18% of its ideal bodyweight in other circumstances. At Gawler River Park the horse you will ride is chosen carefully, to reflect the rider's height, weight and ability. Riders (and parents) must accept that there are some horses that are not sufficiently robust to carry over a certain load safely. On occasion we may not have any horses suitable, or their current workload may mean they do not have availability at that time.