Training
At Bewdley Bridle Club we pride ourselves in offering exceptional training in all disciplines on a regular basis. Our training sessions are fun, friendly and supportive so are the ideal environment for youngsters and nervous riders as well as the more experienced jockey.
Meet our regular trainers
Nicky Southall
Nicky is registered BHSII, Senior Coach and an accredited British Dressage trainer and competitor, who has over 20 years’ experience of teaching beginners to advanced dressage and event riders, and training horses, from backing to advanced level.
Nicky is a friendly, approachable trainer who gets a huge amount of pleasure working with and seeing, riders and horses progress and learn. Nicky trains with Gareth Hughes and Olympic Gold Medallist Carl Hester, with her own dressage horses.
Nicky has competed upto PSG level and is currently having fun campaigning her home-bred boy up the levels.
Sophie Farquharson
Sophie is an accredited British Dressage UKCC Level 3 coach, BHSI and UKCC Level 3 Generic Coach.
Sophie specialises in dressage and test riding. She has helped many of our members make the jump from unaffiliated competition to BD with ease and supported many of our team riders. She enjoys teaching all ability of riders and has a great knack of developing the more nervous rider to ride with more confidence and poise.
Sophie is currently competing her own horses at Medium Advanced level with great success.
William Blane
William Blane is a BE Master Coach, Fellow of the BHS, Director of Training for PCUK and former 4*(now 5*) Event Rider.
William is a very popular trainer with riding club members and will be training at all levels for Bewdley Bridle Club. You will be seeing training sessions on polework, showjumping and XC throughout the year.
We are very lucky to have some amazing guest trainers who run specific clinics with us throughout the year.
Check out our calendar for dates and booking on information.