Stabling

We treat your horses like FAMILY

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Everything you need to know about stabling your horse at our yard:

We have loose box style brick stables, including three extra large stables which are double the size of a regular stable.

Our stables are cleaned daily and bedded with luxurious wood pellets. 

Rubber matting for the front of your stable can be provided at an additional once off cost.

All horses are stabled at night and thoroughly groomed daily. Unless requested all horses are requested to spend most of their time in their paddocks. Horses are fed up to four times a day. 07:00 in the morning, 12:00, 17:00 and 19:00 in the evening. Additional meals can be arranged. Gledsmuir is a service-orientated yard and through direct contact with your groom one can arrange for your horse to be tacked up at your convenience.

Please note that we do not provide water buckets, these are to be brought with when your horse arrives at our yard, alternatively we are able to supply them at an additional cost. Please see “What do I need for my horse’s first day?” below for more information.

Viewings can be arranged on request at 073 796 0185.

We provide two types of paddocks for turnout:

  1. Large electric group paddocks
  2. Smaller, individual, electrified paddocks

Both types of paddocks have either man-made shelters or large trees to provide shade for your horse during hot summers.

We also have two purpose-built stallion paddocks, three medium sized cooling camps, as well as a large, green grass colic/injury paddock closer to our manager’s office for closer supervision of ill or injured horses.

At Gledsmuir @ Mooikloof, each horse’s diet is tailored to fit thier precise needs.

We feed good quality feed, which is delivered fresh every week and stored safely under lock and key in our feed room. Our owner, stable manager and two head grooms are the only people who have access to our feed room, ensuring that we have the utmost control over what your horse is fed. 

Unlike most yards, our horse feed is not measured in “scoops” but weighed on a digital scale each and every time when dishing food. Should your horse require any supplements, these are added directly to your horses feed in precise doses at specified meal times.

All our horses are given ad lib high quality eragrostis (and/or teff where required) during the day and in their stables at night (included in stabling fee) and an extra slice of lucerne per day can be added at an additional cost. 

All our fodder is delivered fresh weekly and kept in an enclosed area, sheltered from the wind and rain.

We strive to be a full service yard and offer the following additional services to our clients:

  • Full Show Turnout (trimming of ears and feathers, clipping, pulling of manes, bathing, plaiting of manes and tails, quarter marks)
  • Work Riding
  • Lunging
  • Tacking up before riding/untacking and hosing down horses after riding
  • Tack Cleaning
  • Grooms to Show
  • Horsebox Rental
  • Horsebox washing

We offer seven secure tack rooms, which are locked every evening at stable check (19:00). 

Our yard follows a strict fly control programme, developed and monitored by professionals, ensuring that you and your horse are not bothered by flies.

Due to the sheer size of our yard, we have a multitude of trusted service providers, however we welcome outside service providers if so requested by the owner of the horse.

Farriers include: Anthony Ward, Kobus Els, Ami de Wet, Abri Bezuidenhout, Willie Edwards, Divan Callitz, Maurice Pope, Jacques Engelbrecht and Japie Nel 

Saddle Fitters: Shellea Ripley , Western Shoppe 

Vets: Dr Riette Haupt

Dentists: Peter Minnie

Physio:  Rob Holder, Sonja Chibulka

Chiro: Jonathan Perkins, Jacques Versveld

Acupuncture: Dr Rosemary Gerber, Dr Jan Stil

Shockwave Therapy: Stafford Robinson

Livery per month for category A horses R6 475.95
The above livery fee includes up to 4kg concentrates per day and ad lib grass. 

Livery per month for Category B ponies R5 952.36. 

The above livery fee includes concentrate feed up to 2kg per day and ad lib grass. Please note that ‘Category B ponies’ will only be allowed for ponies that measure 14.1hh and under. If additional concentrates are required, the client will be charged pro rata at cost. 

Before stabling can commence, we require a deposit of R2 000 to book your stable. After the deposit has been paid and the Livery Agreement has been signed, horses/ponies can be brought on any day of the month and stabling will be billed pro rata until the first day of the following month.
 
Please note that Ponies will be considered as measuring 14.2hh and below, measured at the wither.

Please thoroughly read our Stabling Information Document, as well as our Livery Agreement.

Once you have read and signed our stabling contract and paid your initial deposit for stabling, your horse will need the following for their first day at our yard:

  • 2x Water Buckets
  • Basic Grooming Kit (hoof pick, body brush, dandy brush/hair brush for mane and tail, curry comb, two sponges, fly spray)
  • Sturdy Halter with Lead
  • Fly Mask
  • Winter Blanket (in winter only)
  • Optional: Fly Sheet for turnout in paddocks, Day Sheet for clipped horses in winter