Facilities and Services

Offering FULL LIVERY in Espiritu Del Viento´s purpose built American barn. Your horse is accommodated in a bright airy 3 x 3m stall where he can see his neighbours and therefore communicate with them. Your horse benefits from an overhead micro spray system, virtually eliminating all flies and heat in the summer. The stalls themselves have 3/4" rubber floor matting providing comfort and greater hygiene for your horse, along with automatic water feeders.

The use of our 18 x 50 m floodlit sand school is available to all our livered horses.

For the horse convalescing from injury or illness, in foal or retired we have secure, regularly cleaned, paddocks with shelter and fresh water. Ad lib forage feed is included in this service. Extras such as daily injections/medications, special feeds, rugging, attending with vet, etc can be negotiated. You can be safe in the knowledge that should an emergency arise there is someone on site 24 hours a day.

Only 20 minutes from the Hospital La Equina in Martajena I have a two-horse box available with vehicle and driver for such a journey or other local trips.

Situated in a beautiful valley you can go HORSEBACK RIDING for 1 hour, all day or overnight if you so desire! There are many treks in the area, without having to go on the roads, where you can see the beautiful and plentiful flora and fauna of Andalucía from horseback. I happily organise treks to other villages, with breakfast or lunch stops, for the competent rider and their sound horse.

GROUND WORK being the essential key to all good horse behaviour, I have developed my own training methods after years of studying the various commercially packaged options, the old-school methods and using common sense. Using our 15m diameter round pen I school young horses in preparation for riding without charts, programs or games and without force. Each horse is an individual and therefore after getting to know their personality I tailor the training to suit them. From experience I have learnt that with this good basis our horses respect us and willingly work with us, coming on in the saddle much quicker than with other methods. Even older horses, taken back to basics, can undo bad habits, re-learn and become great, ridable companions again.