CLYDESDALE HEAVY HORSE RIDING, THE EXPERIENCE, IN AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND

The Experience... from £35.00 per person

On arrival at the centre you will be greeted by one of the Blackstone family where you will discuss what you will be doing on your unique time with us, conduct the essential safety briefing and get you kitted out with hi-vis waistcoat and a safety hat if required

Our aim is to give you the chance to get a taste for what life is like looking after and preparing some of our amazing Clydesdale horses and other farm animals by getting hands-on.

This is a very individual experience and will vary depending on your requirements, weather and the farms needs.

Your Experience is tailored for you.

With your time you can enjoy interacting with all the farm animals, work with the Clydesdales in harness on the land, ride in saddle or drive with our carriage. Halter Carlos and Hayden our Alpaca boys, Henrietta and Bubbles the Mischievous Donkeys or Bachy and Claudia the feisty Highland Coos and take them a walk. Assist in washing, grooming, mucking out, tacking up and feeding the animals, giving you an insight into their lives.

For experienced riders why not try your hand at herding on horseback or bareback riding

We are very flexible and try not to have a set routine as everybody has a different idea of what fun is!

If you don’t like something while visiting, we can mix it up.

All participants are accompanied by an experienced handler whether on farm, off farm , beginner or experienced.

Farm Trek

Farm Trek...    

A leisurely trek over the beautiful and relaxing farm land, amongst the highland cattle, up and over the old iron ore works following the winding burn to the woodlands enjoying the varied riding terrain available, you may even be lucky and spot one of the many wild animals, local to the area. Oh.. and this doesn't include John!

 Park, Woodland & local Estate Trek

OFF Farm Trek

Park, Woodland & Local Estate Trek

Two, Three or Four hour experience only.

A leisurely trek along the public Woodroad Park walkway, into our local town of Cumnock, following Auchinleck burn into our local and beautiful Dumfries Estate grounds making your way back to the farm through Knockroon Woods, enjoying the beautiful scenery as you go.

Family Time is a fun filled shared two hours experience using two Riding Clydesdales and Diggers from DIG-a-Day, with everybody getting up close, John is on hand to give guidance and answer all you questions when Interacting will all the animals, meet, touch and feed them. Fun for children and adults alike.

Children can be of any age as parent/guardian hold responsibility on the day. Standard Family Time is a maximum of 4 children with two supervising parents or guardians.

Children must be able to support their own body weight, and be properly fitted with a safety hat. We have the smallest hats available and our priority is to keep your child safe. If the hat does not fit, unfortunately they cannot take part. 

Please call for more information on our Family Time package

Family

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Family Time

FUN Time

Beach Ride £70.00 per person

Ayr Beach

Beach Time with Alfie

Greenan Beach

Two Hour experience only

Enjoy your Clydesdale Experience at an Ayrshire beach with one of our beautiful Blackstone heavy horse family.

Please note the beach experience runs all year but we a guided by the tides and weather

"Love My Clydesdale" - from £330.00 per person

Spend Four, Six or Eight days to love your chosen Clydesdale at Blackstone, starting at 10.30am, lunch with the family and finishing at 3.30pm

Our aim is to give you hands-on experience of what life is like looking after, preparing, showing, working, riding and driving one of Blackstones amazing Clydesdale horses.  Your unique time with us can be scheduled to your interests and requirements or you can just leave it to us... Use your days through-out the year or make a holiday of it...  Booking dates are under the same principal first come first served with the option to reschedule without losing your time.