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New stable block at Kilgraston’s Equestrian Centre
We have some exciting news to share - Kilgraston’s Equestrian Centre has a new stable block. Completed this week, Kilgraston’s Equestrian Manager, Rachael McLean is delighted with the results and tells us more about the Equestrian Centre and its facilities:
“The Equestrian Centre is home to up to 25 horses and ponies all year round, around half of which are owned by the school and used in riding lessons, camps and pony days, and the other half belong to girls at Kilgraston who keep their horses on livery with us. Come rain, hail, snow and COVID, the horses and ponies still need cared for daily with feeding, exercise and regular welfare checks carried out throughout.
“The equestrian centre has doubled in size over the last seven years, and we are always looking to improve the facilities that we can offer to our students. Work has just been completed on a new stable block of four stables, meaning we can now house 16 horses indoors along with more than 20 acres of grazing with field shelters in each paddock. We have students bringing their horses from as far afield as Germany, Orkney and the Isle of Man so these extra stables play a vital part making sure we can accommodate their needs.
“We are very much looking forward to the students returning to school when restrictions allow, and being able to restart lessons and show off our new facilities.”
You can find out more about Kilgraston’s Equestrian Centre including meeting some of our horses here.
Magazine reports on Kilgraston’s latest British Horse Society success
Leading independent school sector magazine, Attain, has reported on Kilgraston’s recent British Horse Society (BHS) Stage 1 Complete Horsemanship success. It is the first pupil cohort to take part in this alternative pathway and the pupils will now move onto Stage 2.
Pupil Issy said: “It has been such a great privilege to study the BHS Stage I, learning how to properly manage horse care and be rewarded with a professionally recognised certificate which will help me on the first stage of my career with animals.”
Kilgraston is the only school in Scotland to offer the BHS qualifications and shows the tremendous variation on offer to our pupils to pursue their dreams.
You can read more about this success here.