Welcome to Balanced Dressage Horse Training, where our focus is on tailored services designed to meet your individual needs. Whether you're seeking private lessons or intensive workshops, we aim to instil confidence and trust from the very foundations of your training. Our ultimate goal is to unlock the inner softness and lightness within both yourself and your horse. Join us on a transformative journey towards experiencing the beauty of harmonious riding, where horse and rider flourish together in perfect unity. Horse And Rider Training—learning the Art of Balance. Our pristine facilities offer quality agjistment boarding packages, ensuring the care for your equine companion. With a covered arena featuring lighting for year-round flat work, we provide the perfect environment for training regardless of the weather. Get in touch with us today to learn more about our services and to schedule a visit.

Clarendon Forest Retreat provides accommodation and horse riding for the general public - people not staying at Clarendon are still welcome to take a horse ride through the rainforest and grasslands. All standards of horse riding are catered for. Clarendon Forest Retreat has been conducting horse rides for over 30 years with an exemplary safety record

Stud breeding & Training

Jessies Riding Academy, in the Port Macquarie Area - because we love horses too! Jessie is the principal at Jessie's Riding Academy and is an EA NCAS L1 Dressage instructor and also an assessor for Horseridingcoach.com and select Tafe courses Here we conduct riding lessons - with an emphasis on fun and safety - specialising in beginners, pleasure riders, pony club and competition level riders in dressage, hacking and western disciplines. We offer birthday parties, school holiday camps and agistment services, Equi-Skills groups and we also have high-profile guest instructors conducting clinics. We are conveniently located in Lake Cathie NSW between Port Macquarie, Laurieton and Wauchope and have been in operation since June 2000.

Located in Pembrooke in the picturesque Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Spirit Lodge Equestrian Centre is a spelling and training centre. The team at Spirit Lodge have many years of experience training performance horses and ponies, as well as starting young horses. Our facilities, about 20km west of Port Macquarie are large enough to accommodate a variety of equestrian activities. We offer horse riding lessons for beginners, as well as for experienced riders. Our equestrian centre is also suited for show and competition preparation for those riders looking to perfect their technique. The team at Spirit Lodge Equestrian Centre also provide coaching and clinics for dressage and eventing and we also provide horse education clinics. Spirit Lodge Equestrian Centre also caters for agistment and spelling of horses, with lush paddocks and plentiful water supplies for the horses in our care. For young horses, owner Chris specialises in training and breaking. Our facilities are also suitable for yearling preparation and we have many years of horse handling experience. If your children are avid horse riders, have ponies or simply love being around horses, Spirit Lodge Equestrian Centre caters for children's parties. Our pony birthday parties and fun club are extremely popular options for the equestrian lover in your home. In addition to our training services, our centre also conducts breeding. We have stallions at stud and can provide a foaling down service, where both your mare and her foal are closely monitored and cared for. Our quiet location is the ideal spot for your mare to foal. Our staff include: �?Chris Wilkinson specialises in starting young horses, re-educating and training performance horses and currently has a young team of eventers which are proving to be serious contenders for the higher levels. His dressage team is also a young up and coming team with some very flash nice horses coming into their own in the recent months. �?Natalie Roach is channeling her energies into ponies looking at the pony dressage realms after a long break from the competition circuit due to having a family and being a mum. Her passion is also in the breeding realms where foaling season takes precedence over all at that time of the year.

Quality Horse Agistment available 15 minutes from Port Macquarie and Wauchope. Less than 30 minutes from Kempsey. We offer 24/7 care, full time or short term board, feed and rugging services, private paddocks with shelters or communal shared paddocks (geldings and mares separated). Our facilities include riding arena (50m x 30m), large fenced exercising paddock, state forest trails at gate, undercover saddle up yards, wash bays and tack room. Public and school buses stop at our driveway entrance so kids can come directly from school or catch public transport in school holidays. Additional equine services arranged on site as required. We are equine enthusiasts and will take care of all your horse needs.