Berrymans B&B Horse

Riding Farm“Our passion is to create a memorable experience, where you are

treated as valued guests, of the Berryman family

The Ultimate family weekend away, Birthday Present or Horse Riding Experience

History and Heritage• Berryman’s Horse riding farm is the perfect location in County Antrim to begin your journey to the

Causeway Coast and Glens of Antrim.

Horse Riding• Berrymans Horse Farm is one of the best Horse Riding locations for our Riding School, Hacking and

Trekking for visitors of all ages and abilities.

The Berrymans Horse Farm Team• The team from Berrymans Horse Farm are dedicated to giving you an awesome welcome, experience

and enjoyment that you will talk about positively for many years to come.

Riding School• The focus at Berrymans Horse Farm, is to provide a fun, engaging learning experience for riders of all abilities.

Our trusted team of school horses means we can provide lessons for all abilities of riders. Special care is taken with nervous riders and beginners.   At Berrymans Horse Farm we can combine a lesson with a trek so that all abilities can enjoy the riding, the scenery and test their skills.  Nervous riders can cast away their fears and take confidence in our quiet schoolmaster horses.

• Lessons can be individual or group-based and lasts from half to one hour. At Berrymans Horse Farm we feel that

a good half hour session is adequate for young children and beginners.  The emphasis is on making riding a fun learning experience! Lessons are limited to groups of 6 which means that your progress can be assessed on a personal level.  At Berrymans Horse Farm we find that the trekking tracks compliment the riding school particularly for beginners and novices. Once you have gained the basics of balance and control, go out on the tracks to hack and trek. On the tracks riders grow in confidence, relax and so can concentrate more on improving their riding technique.

• SPECIALIST TUTION - ONE OFF LESSONSOne Hour Private Hacking lesson out on the Trail with Allison to boost confidence, improve balance, technique and horsemanship on a carefully selected horse – a master class.  Adjusted for individual levels.

• Lesson TimesAll year round, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

• RatesDuration 30 mins Group – $10

Duration 60 mins Group – $18Private Lesson half hour –$15Private Hour Lesson – $30

• Please contact us for further information and bookings

All day Hacking Trail Ride(5 hours horse riding plus stop off for picnic viewing Northern Ireland and Scotland finally stopping off at a café for home

cooked lunch)

With 5 hours’ riding in the saddle, this has to be the ultimate horse riding experience in Northern Ireland. You will cross streams, horse riding over hills and moor land and stop for a picnic on the peak of Croaghan Mountain with its fantastic views over Northern Ireland, before riding on through a forest and into another hill farm of ours known as Shelton Park. Here you follow the Shelton River from its scource to where it joins the River Bush beside the Glen Bar in the townland of Glenbush. The Glen Bar is the local pub and has a welcome lunch waiting for you; just tie up your horse up and enjoy the well-earned rest. We can arrange for you to finish at the pub and be collected and taken back to Berrymans or we can ride back in to the hills and through the mountains and forestry before descending to Berrymans, having accomplished possibly the best horse riding experience in Northern Ireland. 

Cost $95/person

3 Hour Hacking Trail Ride 3 hours’ horse riding plus stop off for picnic viewing Northern Ireland and Scotland)

This hack covers the same trails as the 2 hour hack but goes on to take in a ride in the local forestry with exhilarating gallops before returning to Berrymans having enjoyed one of the best horse riding experiences in Northern Ireland.

Cost $65/person

Cross Country experience• Obviously for experienced riders, this is the utopia for horse riding enthusiasts, our two hour cross country riding

takes place around the farm on various terrains with a variety of different jumps all around our 280 acre home farm. It can incorporate jumping, climbing and galloping to give an invigorating experience for all, out on the North Antrim Hills.

• Cost - (Group Rates: 1 hour $35 – for 2 or more hours $60)

Costs and ContactLocation

• Berrymans Horse Farm and Heritage Centre is based at Armoy, Ballymoney in County Antrim, Northern Ireland on the edge of the Glens of Antrim. Situated just off the Causeway coast, it is close by the iconic Dark Hedges and famous Dunluce Castle, Giants Causeway, Ballycastle town home of the Lammas Fair and much more. It a great place to start your visit to the North Coast of Ireland and the gateway to the Causeway coast and Antrim Glens.

• Your journey to this most historic part of Ireland and its links to the Kingdom of Dalriada begins here, but it will continue, in your imagination forever, as your experience of Berrymans Horse Farm opens your mind to the events of this historic place and especially the story of Sorley Boy McDonnell.” The Real Life Game of Thrones Story”

Contact details

• Address: 1 Lough Road, Armoy, Ballymoney, County Antrim• Phone number: 07 12345678• Email: berrymans@horsefarm.com.au• Follow us on facebook / Twitter – “berrymanshorsefarm”

Costs

• Depending on what activities and how many days you wish to stay, each day the cost is detailed on each page.

• Each day includes a half hour refresher course,all food and accommodation are included Cost - $100 each per person per night

My Narrativeby Brooke Berryman

Team Work on the Farm

One day a little girl called Brooke was riding her horse through the forest and fields near where she lived at Berrymans Horse Farm. She lived here with her mum, Dad and little brother. Brooke loved to ride her horse called Tony. Tony was a beautiful Brown horse with a white stripe

down her face.

We lived on a farm where people came and went for weekend trips and I went on hacks and cross country rips all weekend. The fields and paddocks where so green with buttercups and daisy in the grass. A stream where we could stop and have a tea and cake stop and the horses had a drink. One weekend I went on a ride on Tony where I met some other girls with there horses, so I rod over to them and introduced my and Tony. The other girls introduced themselves as Ciara, Mikaela and Sienna. I ask them to be my friends while they

where stying at the farm, then we all said goodbye and arranged to meet in the morning. I was so happy to meet new friends.

The next morning all the girls met me at the country kitchen on the farm. We started to talk about horse riding competitions and they said to each other that they could all sign up together as a team of 4 girls. They asked if they could speak with my mum and get Brooke to join the

team. We where all so excited. Brookes mum Allison said “yes”. We all jumped with excitement and rang out jumping. We started to plan and went into the yard and started to do our duties, we needed to get the horses ready for exercise routine.

That afternoon we all went over and signed up for the competition. We called our team the Sugar Cubes – because the horses love sugar cubes. We had to do 3 competitions each and get points out of 100 points the highest team to score where the winners. These where:

Dressage – 35 points

Jumping – 30 points

Cross country – 35 points

There were so many great riders in the other teams, we didn’t really think we where going to win. We all just enjoyed are new friendship and would be friends for life.

We all sat waiting for the last person to complete there section. We had done well but we weren’t sure where we got to on the leader board. At the end we all stood together and said, that we all had a great day together and we will always be great friends every summer.

Finally the results came in. In 3rd place was The Cola’s, in 2nd place The Nuts, and in 1st place was The Sugar Cubes – we jumped so high we couldn’t believe it. We were so happy. We ran back and told are families and they where all so proud of our team work and friendships we

had got. We gave our horses extra sugar cubes that day , then put them in the field to relax.

We finished our night with dinner with all the families. What a great weekend and summer holidays on the farm and new friends.

The end

New season style, colour and Fabric. Just in time for summer the new range will be what to be seen in this summer

Designer boots to the farm and also riding boots in the same velvet and colour to match.

New bright blue jopurs and soft and protect your legs while riding in the hot and cold weather

The new riding gloves in the same velvet as the hat and also protect your hands.

The new black brown velvet horse riding hat for fashion and safety

New frilled neck peach short sleeve shirts are cool and pretty

Fashion – what to wear this season