Coaching, not instructing.
A long programme, not a quick lesson.
We do not run hour-by-hour lessons. Every rider on the programme has a written plan that runs for a season — built around their horse's stage, their own time, and the events they have chosen to commit to.
Sessions are recorded. We review the footage with you the following morning. Quarterly we sit down for a longer conversation in the members' lounge.
Four pathways, three coaches.
From elementary through Prix St Georges.
Twice-weekly lessons, monthly biomechanics review, video analysis after each session.
1.10m to 1.40m, schooling and competition.
Grid work, course-building exercises and selective outings under T. Marwick.
BE100 to Intermediate level pathway.
Combined fitness, dressage and cross-country with the estate's hill loops.
Backing, schooling and education.
Patient, individual work — from first long-reining to first events.
Three senior horsemen.
Marisol de Vega
Olympic short-list 2012 & 2016. FEI Level 4. Spanish national team coach 2017–2021.
Tom Marwick
Five Hickstead Derbies. Coaches the estate's young rider squad.
James Holloway
Twenty-six years in elite stables. Oversees all young-horse work.
Built to train, not to show.
- Main Arena
60 × 40m Andrews Bowen surface. Mirrors, judges' box, floodlit.
- Indoor School
60 × 25m, mirrored, dust-suppressed, members-only after 17:00.
- Hill Loops
Three fitness loops at 1.2km, 2.8km and 6km with elevation.
- Cross-Country Schooling
Twenty-eight fences from BE80 to BE Intermediate, set in the estate woodland.
A season's work, in three lines.
"Three years in. We started at 1m, finished the season clear at 1.30."
"Atelier was a difficult ride. Marisol didn't fix him — she taught me to ride him."
"We had the talent. Ashbury gave us a programme that ran for forty weeks without compromise."
A first session, on the ground.
We meet you and your horse — typically in our indoor school — for an unhurried hour. We watch you ride. We talk. We propose a programme. We charge nothing for the meeting.