HARTPURY_LIVERY_GUIDE_2023_ENTRY

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What to expect when you first arrive On arrival you’ll be met by a member of the yard team or a barn mentor. A visual health check of your horse will be carried out along with yard registration paperwork and a passport inspection. We’ll issue all student liveries with a welcome pack that includes lots of information, a hi-vis hacking tabard (£20 deposit required) and tack disc. Also included will be forms to register with the veterinary practice. In your first week at Hartpury you’ll undertake an induction on yard policies, led by a member of the yard team, within the induction we’ll go through our yard rules, regulation and guidelines, and a riding hat check for all. Stabling The yard is split into American-style barns and outdoor stabling. All stables benefit from rubber mat flooring. Designated areas are allocated for livery horses in the following barns: C, D, E, F, G, I, J and K with some livery stables in B Barn, the loan horses are stabled on the Front Yard and in A and B barns. Livery students can also use the hot water wash bays, solarium and clipping box. Just pop to the yard office and book in with a member of the yard team. Stable allocation takes place one week before the start of term. You’ll be given your stable number on arrival at the yard office. All of our stables are of a similar size, but if you have a horse over 17hh please let us know and every effort will be taken to allocate you a larger stable. Swapping stables or subletting stables is not permitted.

Tools and storage All liveries will need to bring their own mucking out tools and a wheel barrow. You’ll also need to bring water bucket(s) along with feed bucket(s), feed scoops, hay nets etc. Please ensure your tools and equipment are clearly labelled with your name or postcode, kept tidy and stored in the designated area allocated to each barn. Please try to keep the amount of tack, rugs and general horse care equipment you bring with you to a minimum. We recommend that any storage boxes are lockable and no bigger than 100 litres. All feed rooms are equipped with metal feed bins that maximise the space available and help keep the areas tidier and less of an attraction to vermin. This means that you won’t have to provide your own.

Livery package summary

The Equine Centre facilities are available to student liveries without pre-booking and around timetabled sessions. This includes two horse walkers, four indoor arenas, two outdoors arenas, one covered arena, lunge pen, limited turnout and an all-weather hacking route. Students can take advantage of bedding and horse feed offered on preferential rates. We encourage visits from riders and instructors who hold clinics, lectures and demonstrations. We offer livery students a discount on entry fees at all Hartpury unaffiliated shows. We regularly run student and staff only competitions. Students who work at shows that are additional to their course requirements will be rewarded with free entry to classes on alternative dates. The Equine Therapy Centre facilities can be accessed by prior arrangement, including water treadmill, high-speed treadmill, weighbridge and solarium. All facilities are used at the horse owner’s own risk. Horses that are signed up to the demo horse scheme get three free sessions on the treadmills, thereafter it is offered at a reduced rate.

There is on-site veterinary provision at the Equine Centre from Monday to Friday, 9am to 12pm during term time; any veterinary call-outs within this period are not subject to a visit fee. Vets are on call outside of these times. Many Equine Therapy Centre services are offered at reduced cost to livery students treated on an out-patient basis. There is also the opportunity for livery owners to use their own horse in lessons in order to help with the schooling and development of their own horse, as well as improving their riding on a variety of Hartpury loan horses. Student livery is subject to availability as demand is always high. Stabling must be rebooked every year, even if you are on a course longer than one year. Limited spaces for full livery are available for international college-level livery students during the half-term holiday periods for an additional charge. There are no livery spaces during the Christmas and Easter holidays. Hartpury has a lot to offer, enjoying your studies while having your horse here with you is a wonderful experience with lots of opportunities.

Barn mentors Each of the barns has an allocated barn mentor to advise all new and returning livery students. The barn mentors are students themselves, normally in their second or third year of university or may have been at college and are now starting their university careers. They play a key role on the yard, they put together the sweeping and turnout rotas for their barns plus maintain the barn noticeboards and communications with their liveries. The barn mentors are here to help and support as well as ensuring the excellent yard standards are maintained.