Expert tuition for all ages & abilities
Carol Starkey, the owner of Lyford Stud, offers training in all disciplines to riders of all ages and abilities on their own horse or pony at Lyford Stud, at their own premises or other yard locally.
Carol is an enthusiastic and sympathetic trainer dedicated to improving both horse and rider, helping them to become more confident and reach their maximum potential. She is happy to teach individuals, group lessons and clinics.
What we can offer
Why learn with us
Tailored tuition and ongoing training
We help you with all aspects of your riding development, from beginners to advanced riders of all ages across flat work and jumping. We regularly teach at Pony Club, Scarlett and Lily are both members of and regularly representat the Old Berkshire Hunt branch at competitions, while Carol is a senior instructor and team trainer
Which means:
We help you find the right balance, progress through your paces and achieve your goals.
What are the advantages of learning with us?
Expert tuition and first-class facilities.
- Weekly program: Allround
- Weekly program: Dressage
- Weekly program: Jumping
- Weekly program: Sport and Leisure
- Lyford series: Summer calendar of competitions including Dressage league
Testimonials
What our clients say
Livery: There are several methods of horse identification, some natural, some manmade. Regardless of the methodology, each has its proper application.
Though some may be fallible in specific circumstances, the proper choice is the one that is most useful, convenient and easily recognizable not only for equestrian specialists but also for horse owners.
Tuition: Long before there were any other methodologies for horse identification, there were the natural characteristics of signalment, the visual markings that distinguish one horse from another.
Though many of these features are not as distinctive as chestnuts or DNA-based information, they do represent genetic phenotypical characteristics.
Pony Club: More distinctive, as are human fingerprints, are the oval plates of horny epithelium called chestnuts.
These callosities growing like the hoof from enlarged papillae of the skin, are found on the inner face of the forearm, above the carpal joint in all species of Equidae, and in the horse, occur near the upper extremity of the inner face of the metatarsus.