Clonfert Maynooth Equestrian Centre

🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ ROAD RACE – SUNDAY 16TH AUGUST 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️
Just a quick heads up for our local residents and customers that St Coca’s Athletic Club in Kilcock are holding a 10-mile road race this Sunday, 16th August.

🏁 The race starts in Kilcock at 10.10am and the route will pass through our area.
There will be stewards and traffic control in place throughout the event, and the organisers have assured residents that the route will be cleared of litter afterwards.
Please allow a little extra time for your journey on Sunday morning and take care when travelling along the route. 🚗
We’d also like to wish all the runners the very best of luck! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💪
See you soon 😊😊

Almost time for our in house Bank Holiday Show 🐎 🐴 🎠 😊

The show will start at 10am in the back arena. Anyone riding in the Mini-Mini class please be at the yard no later than 9am. Please dont be late for your round 🙏😊 Don't forget to walk your course too 😉

BBQ will be in full swing 😋 all donations going to Jack and Jill Children's Foundation 🥰🥰🥰

Ice cream van will be here too so dont forget the pocket money.

Everyone welcome 😊

Looking forward to seeing you then 😊😊🌞🌞💛💛

We're all having a brilliant time at Pony Camp so far, hard to believe that week three is almost finished ! Flying by ! .... 🌞🌞🌞🌞

We'd like to let you know about our August Bank Holiday Show and BBQ on MONDAY 3RD AUGUST 🌞🌞

We're kicking off at 10am with Handy Hunters, followed then by ....
🐎 MINI MINI - 50cm
🐎 MINI - 60cm
🐎 MIDI - 75cm
🐎 MAXI - 85cm
Schoolies book fast, so book early 😊

€25 euro per round on a schoolie
€20 euro on your own horse

ALL ENTRIES CLOSE ON FRIDAY THE 31ST JULY - PAYMENT UPON BOOKING IS REQUIRED.

As always, all proceeds from the BBQ will go to the absolutely incredible Jack and Jill Children's Foundation 😍 🥰

The Ice cream man will be here too so start saving that pocket money 😉🌞😊

We also have some exciting news re a couple of brand new lead rein lessons 🦄 😊

From the weekend of Saturday the 8th and Sunday the 9th of August ( New term A ) we will be starting two BRAND NEW LEAD REIN LESSONS - These lessons are for anyone thats been on our waiting list for more than 6 months and has ALSO done pony camp with us in the past.
If you meet this criteria and you are interested in a place please get in touch on 0879322909 no later than Friday the 24th of July.

We're so excited to welcome everyone back for four days packed with ponies, riding, games, laughter, new friendships and memories that will last a lifetime 😊😊💛💛

Please take a moment to read through the poster for everything you'll need to bring, along with our camp times and Friday Show Day details.

🌟 Fridays are always extra special .... families are invited to join us as our campers show off everything they've learned, followed by rosettes, a visit from the ice cream van and our BBQ.
As always, all donations from the BBQ will go to the wonderful Jack & Jill Children's Foundation, helping families caring for children with complex medical needs. Every donation, big or small, will be so appreciated 😊💛🙏

We can't wait to see lots of familiar faces and welcome some new ones too. Roll on Tuesday... it's going to be a brilliant few weeks! 🐴🌞💛

Tuesday mornings are the busiest 😅 so pleaae arrive a few minutes early 🙏🙏😊😊🌞🌞

Please get in touch on 0879322909 if you need any more info 😊 see you soon 😊

What a weekend !! 😊😊😊😊🌞🌞🌞🌞💛💛👏👏👏

Absolutely amazing and so heartwarming to welcome everyone back again. After the longest few weeks, having the yard full again, hearing the laughter, seeing all the happy faces, kids chatting away excitedly, parents catching up, schoolies being fussed over and everyone just back together again… it was SO special.
The sun shone for us all weekend and the whole place just felt happy again 🥰🥰🥰

Watching lessons back in full swing, seeing our amazing staff family back doing what they do best 🙏☺️🫶 and our beautiful schoolies looking after everyone so perfectly was honestly so amazing ... .my face is actually sore from smiling 😅

We have missed this SO much. Missed all of you so much 💛

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the kindness, support, patience and love while we got through the last few weeks. Seeing everyone back this weekend reminded me exactly why we do what we do 💛💛🌞🌞😊😊🙏🙏

Onwards and upwards and its like it was all just a bad dream .. 🙏😊💛

WE ARE FINALLY REOPENING 🥳🥳🥳🥳

I honestly don’t even know where to begin !!! The words we have all been waiting to say for many many weeks ......
from this weekend ( SATURDAY 23rd/SUNDAY 24th MAY )lessons are officially back 😊😊😊💛💛💛

To say we are happy would be an understatement. We are relieved, emotional, grateful and so unbelievably excited to have our riding school coming back to life again. We have missed our riders, families, pony cuddles, lessons and busy yard days more than you could possibly know 🥰

The last few weeks have been incredibly difficult behind the scenes, but from the very beginning our absolute priority was making sure everything was handled properly, carefully and with the horses welfare at the centre of every decision made.
We also want to say a huge heartfelt thank you to the amazing people behind the scenes who supported, guided and helped us through all of this, their professionalism, advice and support were incredible and we could not have done it without them. We are so greatful 🙏🙏

Most importantly of all, our precious schoolies remained happy, healthy and completely well throughout everything and honestly that is the greatest relief of all and something we will never take for granted 💛🥰💛🥰🐴🐴🐴

Lessons will restart slow and steady to make sure horses, ponies AND riders all come back happy and confident again, I know that everyone ( two and four legged 🤣 ) might be feeling a bit rusty so we'll take our time and enjoy ourselves while we slowly come back to getting used to the saddle 😊 There’ll be lots of gentle uncomplicated flatwork, walking the track, mounted games and some on board learning for the younger ones. 💛😊

Today was and continues to be a busy day getting the schoolies back in, groomed, spoiled rotten and very lightly reintroduced to the walker, the lunge ring and the bridle and saddle again .... and to be honest they all seemed really happy and relaxed to be back doing what they do best 😊😊😊

I honestly cant thank our incredible Clonfert staff family 💛💛💛💛 enough for pulling together so quickly and getting stuck in straight away. We’ll continue preparing the horses and ponies throughout the week ready for lessons to resume this weekend 😊😊

We are just SO happy, SO relieved and SO excited to finally welcome everybody back .... we cant cant cant wait to see you ! 😊😊

Thank you all so so much for all your encouragement and kindness and well wishes and support and patience 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

WE'LL SEE YOU SOON 😊😊😊💛💛💛😊😊😊🙏🙏🙏🐴🐴🐴

SUMMER CAMP UPDATE 🌞🌞🌞

Although lessons are still paused for now, we’re busy behind the scenes getting everything organised and ready for when we'll be able to reopen ( hopefully soon !! 🤞🤞🤞 ) and for summer pony camps ☀️
If anyone is hoping to do camp with us this summer, we’d really appreciate getting bookings in early while we organise ponies, groups and staffing 🙏🙏💛

Our Lead Rein groups and Leasing groups are now FULL 🙏🙏😊
But we still have availability in:

🐴 Off Lead Wobbly Groups
🐴 Intermediate Groups
🐴 Advanced Groups

We also have just a couple of spots remaining in one of our very popular Cross Country Camps 🐎
(Suitable for Intermediate & Advanced riders)

Our summer camp weeks include:
☀️ Helpers Camp
🏅 Clonfert Awards Challenge
🐎 Cross Country Camp

Thank you all so much for the support over the past few weeks 😊💛 We honestly can’t wait to have the yard busy and full of happy faces again, the thought alone is brilliant and giving us something to look forward to 😊😊😊

Please get in touch on 0879322909 if you need any info/to book in.
Thanks again 💛🌞😊

We’ve had so many lovely messages asking when the yard will reopen for lessons, so I just wanted to share a little update 💛
The honest answer is .... we don’t know just yet, and I know that’s not what anyone wants to hear but things are looking good and we're PRAYING that it wont be too much longer 🙏
What I can say is that all of the horses and ponies continue to be happy, relaxed, and in great form, which is the most important thing to us right now.
We’re taking things day by day, following all advice, and making sure everything is done properly and safely before we reopen for lessons again.
We promise we’ll reopen as soon as we can.
We miss the yard being full of you all just as much as you miss being here !! it’s very quiet without you 💛
Thank you so much for all the kindness, patience and support over the past while, it really does mean more than you know.
We’ll keep you updated as soon as we have any news at all. 🙏🙏💛💛

Second round of testing done today for all liveries, another long day, but a really good one. Everyone behaved brilliantly, mostly ! 👀🤣 … although they were far less impressed about it this time around 🤣😅 safe to say they all knew what was coming this time 🤣😅🤪 but honestly they were brilliant 👏 👌😊

Delighted to say all horses are still looking bright, well, in great form and most importantly showing no symptoms 😊🙏😊

Our school horses are up next for round two this Monday so by the end of next week we should have a much clearer idea of where we stand.
We'll let you know the minute we can about reopening.....
But for now, we remain closed ..... no lessons, no liveries, no visitors.

Thank you all for sticking with us and being so patient 🙏 💛💛 it really doesn’t go unnoticed.
The messages, check-ins and support over the past while have honestly kept us going 💛 We can’t wait to get back to some sort of normal and see you all again.

We’ll keep you updated as always as we move through the next steps.

Huge thanks to Robbie Collins from Royal Equine, and a very special thank you to our very own Lia and Emma K for helping us today ..... putting up all the steps, getting horses in and out, and helping with the testing 💪 would have taken alot longer without you, we really really appreciate it 😊😊💛