19th - 21st September 2025
Join us in March, May or September 2025 for Emmetts Equestrian's dressage training camps with coach Colleen Hoekstra Knox. Limited spaces are available so advance booking is essential. We offer residential riding, non-residential riding and non-riding places. These camps include four training sessions, with the option to add one more, totalling five sessions across the weekend. They are aimed at all levels of ability and will provide a fun and supportive environment for enjoying some quality training with likeminded people.
Delicious homemade meals are provided throughout your time at Emmetts and our comfortable threshing barn (fully central heated with a fantastic wood burner!) will form the 'social hub' for suppers, yoga and downtime.
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PRICING
Riding options:
Residential £395
Non-residential £375
£100 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 camp date.
Non-riding options:
Half day watching sessions & lunch £25
Evening talk & supper £25
TIMETABLE
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FRIDAY ALL Friday activities are optional! Afternoon - horse yoga, mounted or un-mounted, core strengthening exercises (ONE of EITHER horse yoga OR test riding on Sunday included in the price - option to do BOTH for an additional £25 giving you a total of five training sessions) Guided hack across Exmoor Evening - welcome reception - settle in and order a woodfired pizza & cocktails in the threshing barn |
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SATURDAY Breakfast All day - nutritionist & weighbridge on site Morning - individual flat work session Lunch Afternoon - pairs or group pole work session Evening talk with Amy Cox ACPAT vet physio & supper |
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SUNDAY Breakfast Group human yoga session with Miranda Taylor (renowned True Yoga tutor) Individual training session of your choice - flat work or in hand Lunch Optional - test riding session (ONE of EITHER test riding OR horse yoga on Friday included in the price - option to do BOTH for an additional £25 giving you a total of five training sessions) Optional - guided hack across Exmoor Departure (or book an extra nights stabling) |
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
Four training sessions:
1. Individual bespoke session - Saturday morning - ridden and/or ground work
2. Individual bespoke session - Sunday morning - ridden and/or ground work
3. Group pole work session - Saturday afternoon - ridden or in hand
4. Horse yoga or guided hack - Friday afternoon - OR - test riding session or guided hack - Sunday afternoon
Group human yoga session with renowned True Yoga tutor, Miranda Taylor
Evening talk with Amy Cox, ACPAT vet physio
Session with nutritionist & weighbridge
Guided hacking across the estate and Exmoor National Park (optional!)
All meals on Saturday & Sunday
Stable on Friday and Saturday night for residential bookings
Day stable for non-residential bookings
Overnight lorry parking & use of the onsite loo and shower facilities (see photos below)
OPTIONAL EXTRAS
All of these optional extras can be reserved at the time of booking:
Additional nights stabling on Thursday &/or Sunday
Do both horse yoga and test riding (giving you a total of five training sessions)
Shavings
Haylage
Friday night supper
Onsite accommodation
Rider massage
Use of solarium (coin machine)
PAST MENU
Tea, filter coffee, squash & biscuits always available
Breakfasts - Emmetts rare breed bacon bagels, fruit salad, freshly baked pastries
Lunches - Braunton asparagus & whipped feta tart, wild rice salad, summer ratatouille salad, coronation chicken, tomatoes & pickled red onions, sourdough
Suppers - Ottolenghi lasagne, salsa verde & lemon posset
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) Hangley Cottage - click here for more information - two double bedrooms, one bunkbed room, bath with overhead shower
D) 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.
