Archive for the ‘Horseback Riding Vacations Ireland’ Category
Playing in the snow
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Clonshire in the snow
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Clonshire in the snow
This is Lydias pony Diego not minding the snow one bit.
Visitors this week
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
We have a lovely lady Kim Pierce with us this week and Kim is all the way from the US. Faith has been Kims favourite mount and these are some photos of them enjoying themselves today.
Team Clonshire
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
This is a new heading and one you are hopefully going to see alot of !
Any of our riders, livery owners and riding club memebers who are out competing both on their own and school horses will be kept up to date with on our blog under this heading.
Today Team Clonshire were out in force headed by Sue Foley. They were out with the County Limerick Foxhounds to make both the riders and horses braver and to let them all have some fun. The best way to get junior and amature event riders and their horses ready for the season is to have a couple of days hunting.
Sue rode out on Kelso from the school yard and Neringa took Bruce Basheers TK. Bruce offered Neringa TK for the day as it is going to be her last chance to ride him as she is going back home to Lithuania and as TK has always been her favourite, it was very nice of Bruce to give him to her. TK looked great and was surprisingly calm! Olivia Downes was also out on her horse Dollar – it was the first time Dollar went hunting and he came home minus this back shoes but safe and very happy. Olivia had a great day. Clodagh was out on Sienna, another first and Lydia Foley took out her eventing pony Robbie for a bit of fun.
Andrea, our Spanish visitor spending the school year with us.
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Andrea and Guinness
This is Andrea from Spain who is living at the centre and improving her riding skills as well as her English. Andrea is taking part in our immersion program. This is where secondary school students come and live with us and go to one of the excellent schools in the area. Andrea is like part of the family and Beanz follows her around like she does Alice!
This program is great if you love horses, want to get a feel for living in another country and become fluent in English. It is a great way to spend your transition or gap years as you dont miss out on important grades. Living with the Foley family and riding at the centre as often as you wish as well as going to competitions, heaven for pony mad girls or boys!
The only downside is that we all become so attached to our long term guests that we miss them terribly when they go back home.
Andrea and Guinness
This weeks visitors
Monday, October 25th, 2010
- Riding Baltimore and Augustus
This is Allison who came to ride at Clonshire this week while on holiday in Ireland. She is with Lorraine who rides with us all year round and who owns Baltimore.
Equitrekking’s first visitor to Clonshire
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Allison Bond
This week saw the start of a new venture for Clonshire. Equitrekking Travel provide equestrian vacations to discerning travellers. Allison is our first guest from Equitrekking.
Allison is very friendly and easy going and had struck up a great relationship with Tristan and Kelso and had made great friends with the staff here.
These are photographs of Allison on Augustus out on our cross country course.
New York Lady rider visits Clonshire
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010We have had the most wonderful lady with us this week at Clonshire Equestrian Centre, Anne Putzell who fell in love with the centre, Karena and Laughton.
New York Lady Rider visits Clonshire Equestrian Centre
Anne, a native from New York and learned to ride when she was sixty. Anne now has her own horse and came to visit us to try out the Irish Sport horse and our cross country course. Anne loved our friendly busy atmosphere and stayed around to groom the horses and even gave Giselle an energy healing session! It was amazing to watch. She is going to come back to us for a longer visit next time.
Clonshire Horseriding Ireland
Visiting lady horseriders
Monday, September 13th, 2010We have a wonderful lady from America staying with us this week Lisa, and she is having a blast on River one of our younger horses. Lisa is staying with us on our “adult camp” and as a she wished to travel alone this option suited her very well. As guests are staying on site at the centre with the Foley family and other like minded travellers they are free talk horse as much as they like and to people who know that a rug is not something you put on the floorJ We have been introducing Lisa to some of our regular riders as well as some of the other guests who have visited the centre during the week.
In the photo with Lisa (who is on River by the way) is Susan from the UK who is staying in the village but riding at the centre (on Faith).
We have also had three lovely ladies from Portugal visit us this week to ride at the centre while passing through the village.
Horseriding Ireland
Horseback Riding Ireland
We have a wonderful lady from America staying with us in Clonshire Equestrian Centre this week Lisa, and she is having a blast on River one of our younger horses. Lisa is staying with us on our “adult camp” and as a she wished to travel alone this option suited her very well.
As guests are staying on site at the centre with the Foley family and other like minded travellers they are free talk horse as much as they like and to people who know that a rug is not something you put on the floorJ We have been introducing Lisa to some of our regular riders as well as some of the other guests who have visited the centre during the week.
In the photo with Lisa (who is on River by the way) is Susan from the UK who is staying in the village but riding at the centre (on Faith).
We have also had three lovely ladies from Portugal visit us this week to ride at the centre while passing through the village.
Horse Riding vacation visitors from USA
Sunday, August 29th, 2010As the days are getting shorter and things are starting to settle down after our youth camp we have been thinking about some of our visitors from the USA who were with us this summer.
Of course no summer at Clonshire would be the same without Suzie and Bill Adams – they come to visit us every year and this year Suzie was trying out her new hip! It stood up well to both her schooling sessions and her cross country work on Bruno. Suzie and Bruno got on very well together, it was a great partnership. Suzie and Bill also brought the first ipads to Clonshire and we were all very impressed with these sleek machines. Unfortunately they had to cut their stay with us a bit shorter than usual this year as they were going to the World Equestrian Games to work as stewards this year also. Nice for some 
Another great friend Jennifer Pingeon came not once but twice to ride with us this year to improve here riding – Jennifer loves Augustus and Franklin and spoils them terribly.
Andrew Wiesner
Andrew Wiesner came to visit us early on in the year and was the best house guest one could wish for because when the big freeze damaged the plumbing he just laughed saying it was nothing – he was used to things like that where he was from. He came out and played with the Foley girls in the snow and was just like a member of the family here. Andrew went hunting while with us and had a great time – another great thing about Andrew is that he keeps in touch with us during the year sending us photos of his home, family and of course, horses.