2025 Dates
Sunday 16th November
2026 Dates
Saturday 14th March
Saturday 11th July
November (date TBC)
Join us in November, March or July for Emmetts Equestrian's dressage training days with coach Colleen Hoekstra Knox. Limited spaces are available so advance booking is essential. We offer riding and non-riding places and include two training sessions during the course of the day. They are aimed at all levels of ability and will provide a fun and supportive environment for enjoying some quality training with likeminded people.
A homemade seasonal lunch is provided and our comfortable threshing barn (fully central heated with a fantastic wood burner!) will form the 'social hub' throughout.
Please email hello@emmettsonexmoor.com to be added to the mailing list for future dates.
PRICING
Riding - £135
Non-riding - £30
£30 deposit payable online at time of booking. You will then receive a booking information sheet to select your options. Final payment invoices are due for payment six weeks prior to the training day date.
BOOKING
Click here to reserve your space with £30 deposit
Click here to book an overnight stable
Click here to pre-order Bedmax shavings
Click here to reserve a non-riding space
TIMETABLE
Arrival - tea & coffee available in the Threshing Barn
Group/pairs pole work session
Lunch and educational talk
Individual training session of your choice - flat work or in hand
Optional - guided hack across Exmoor
Departure (or book an overnight stable)
ABOUT COLLEEN
Colleen is an international level Grand Prix rider, has trained to FEI Grand Prix level and currently has students competing to Inter I.
She teaches clinics around the UK and in the USA, is a Pony Club certified coach, BDCC Level 2 coach, BD trainee judge and certified judge in the USA. Find out more about Colleen and her training methods via her website.
FULL LIST OF INCLUSIONS
Individual training session
Pole work session OR guided hacking across the farm & Exmoor National Park
Opportunity to watch all other sessions throughout the day
Homemade seasonal lunch served in the Threshing Barn
Educational talk
Day stable
OPTIONAL EXTRAS
All of these optional extras can be reserved at the time of booking:
Overnight stable on Saturday and/or Sunday
Guided hacking across the farm & Exmoor National Park
Onsite accommodation
Rider massage
Shavings
Haylage
Use of solarium (coin machine)
PAST LUNCHES
Tea, filter coffee, squash & biscuits always available
Braunton asparagus & whipped feta tart
Wild rice & summer ratatouille salad
Tamarind & apple Emmett's rare breed ham
Coronation chicken with tomatoes & pickled red onions
Roasted miso squash & sweet potato soup with sourdough
ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS
A) Included in the camp cost - parking space for your horsebox/trailer & use of the onsite loo and shower facilities (see photos below)
B) The Linhay - click here for more information - £89 per night - one king size bed, bath with overhead shower
C) The nearby Exmoor Forest Inn - click here for their website
MORE ABOUT EMMETTS
Emmetts on Exmoor is a private agricultural and moorland estate and at 1250 feet, it is the highest farm on the moor. Emmetts sits within the curtilage of the ancient village of Simonsbath (TA24 7LD) and is very easily accessible from the A361 North Devon Link Road.
There are a total of 18 stables onsite which are split between the traditional courtyard at the rear of the main house and a state of the art livery yard (developed in 2020) with 12 Monarch stables within an American style barn adjacent to the indoor arena. The indoor arena is 20x60m and features an Andrews Bowen ProWax surface.
