York Horse Riding Club — Hotel in Checheng

We went to York Horse riding club with our friends. If your kids have not tried horseback riding, this place was very good (and safe). The ponies we put little kids on all had western saddles and were lead-lined so the horses would just walk with the trainer who took them. The 1/2 hour ride just takes you across a small stream but it is kind of exciting for the kids because they get alittle wet while crossing the stream. They do inform you that kids should have a change of clothes and shoes because they will get wet. When we went, they just had kids ride barefoot with leather chaps/leggings.

Kids will also get to feed the horses and ponies and they are patient in teaching the kids how to feed the horses (by making their palms flat when they feed the horses).

There are several dogs in the area but they were all very friendly and would lazily just lay there while you pet them. Even some of the horses were roaming around freely just eating grass.

When we went, one of the horses had a baby colt just 3 weeks before. It was a very cute colt and let all the kids pet it (it just breast fed and was laying on the ground completely content).

They provide helmets and leggings for the kids to ride. I think the kids had a great time here. They want to go back again the next time we...

Staff are friendly and the riding route towards the river and the forest which was very nice. Unfortunately they prepared a very old saddles for my 4-year old on a pony. The saddles leather strap broke 2 min after the river ride and she fell down the horse, luckily on the grass, and also luckily the pony stop and didn't drag her as her another leg was still connected to the broken saddle. What was not impressed was that the staff didn't even feel it was very dangerous and treated it as if nothing happened. They brought another pony over, didn't apologize and happily continue the trip.

What we concerned about was the professionalism of the staff on horse riding safety while the place positioned itself as a horse riding school.

It was a nice place and riding route was fun but we have doubt on the horse riding safety control in general. I suggest the school look into the safety control training...

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