Testimonials

International Event Riders including Tina Cook, Emily Llewellyn, Joe Meyer, Pippa Funnell, Nick Gauntlett, Emily Baldwin, Francis Whittington, Sacha Pemble, Kate Lukas, Sharon Hunt, Brooke Staples, Sienna Myson-Davies, Anna Hilton, Constantin Van Rijckevorsel, Georgia Bale, Sam Penn, Sam Jennings, Liz Halliday, Ruy Fonseca, Gemma Tattersall and Gordon Murphy have all used the Facilities at LMEQ.

Widely renowned and accredited Trainers Lucy Thompson, Andrew Gould, Lucinda Green, Jon Pitts, Ernest Dillion, Joss Hubble, Sharon Edwards, Tony Whipps and Annabel Scofield regularly teach at LMEQ. Whilst Great Britain Chef D’Equipe Yogi Breisner has been spotted teaching on the Cross Country Course and 2009 Badminton Horse Trials winner Oliver Townend describes the course as "Perfect"!

Here’s a selection of what just a few people had to say about LMEQ:

LMEQ is a modern centre with stunning facilities and a cheerful hospitality to match. It provides a thoroughly workable XC, which has not shied away from having a few fences over 90cm!

Lucinda Green M.B.E.
March 2011

It is a luxury to be invited to teach at Littleton Manor Equestrian (LMEQ), enjoying the full range of facilities with resident liveries, private clients, Pony and Riding Clubs, and fellow professional Riders and Trainers. There is something for everybody. LMEQ compliments the already excellent centres that I regularly coach at.
LMEQ is unique offering a beautiful location, state of the art Dressage, Show-Jumping, Cross-Country and a 1mile gallop – all of these being expanded every time I visit.

Lucy Thompson
British Eventing Accredited Trainer,
Individual European Champion 1995, Irish Team

I was so pleased to hear that such a fantastic new facility for Cross Country schooling had been opened in Surrey.  All my horses, from my real youngsters right up to Miners Frolic have been around the course and all really benefitted from it.  They’ve built some fantastic obstacles (including the great water jump) and are constantly looking to improve on what’s already there.  The fences are solid, well built and most importantly ride brilliantly!  The owners are so helpful and even built a jump into the water for me when one of my young horses needed it.  The ground is great too and regularly maintained, with take offs and landings in all the right places.  And the new access off of Flanchford Road makes it all so accessible.  The other facilities look great too, this is just what Eventing in the South east needed!

Tina Cook
Individual Bronze Medallist & Great Britain Team Bronze Medallist
Beijing Olympics ‘08, April 2009

The awesome gallops at Littleton provide me with the perfect place to do my fast work with my horses including preparing for the big three days and championships. There is a slight incline the whole way up and a well maintained geltrack surface which give the ideal training conditions and looks after my horses legs. The new maintenance equipment they have recently bought has improved the surface even more. Even better I can fill a lorry and also bring my youngsters to XC or SJ school using the other awesome facilities.

Joe Meyer, having completed Snip & Black Andy’s final Badminton ’09 preparations
New Zealand International Event Rider

Littleton Manor is a fantastic new facility that can be very useful for both schooling older and younger horses with a wide range of fences and many complexes to jump. It is very helpful to now have such a high quality schooling facility in the South East.

Emily Llewellyn
European Young Rider; Team and Individual Gold Medallist 2008

Whether for the professional rider or the keen amateur Littleton Manor Equestrian has probably the best Cross Country Schooling Course in the South East. It's great to be able to take a lorry load of horses and use all the facilities on one day whether it's taking my Intro horses on to the Cross Country School, doing I've Been Dun's fitness work for her Four Star's on the gallops or using the fantastic and vast Show Jumping Arena with any of my horses. I'd really recommend LMEQ to anyone looking for fabulous facilities in which to school their horses.

Sacha Pemble
Irish International Event Rider

We would travel a long way to find training facility like this! The xc course is just fantastic, with its great going, it suits both young first timers and experienced horses. All the fences are beautifully built and designed. The water fence is great and has loads of alternatives. With this great variety of fences, horses go through most of the questions met at competition! A great place to have just down the road.

Tess and Tintin van Rijckevorsel
Tess is a Swedish International Event Rider
Tintin is a triple Olympian, representing Belguim in 1996, 2000 and 2004

Well done and thank you to all the LMEQ team. All the equine facilities are fantastic and beautifully maintained. It is a pleasure to train our horse at your establishment and I thoroughly recommend LMEQ to anyone regardless of their preferred equine discipline. Keep up the good work and thank you again.

Emma Banks
Royal Ascot Racing Club Manager.

The facilities at LMEQ are truly first class and it's great to have a facility for Event Horses designed by Event Riders.  LMEQ have really managed to provide brilliant facilities for all the Eventing disciplines.  I schooled my top horse in the new International Dressage Arena and found his Dressage test marks really improved - It's great to have so much space to work in! And the Cross Country Course has been brilliant for my young horses.

Georgia Bale, Surrey
CCI**** Rider and Breeder

Thank you so much for today, rides brill, got everything you would ever need and feel so lucky to have it just up the road.

Lydia Kane, Event Rider based in the South East
April 2009

Littleton Manor XC course is a fantastic new course with superbly made fences. I am starting eventing with this year at Intro level and found great variety including a super water jump, encouraging ditches and cleverly made skinny jumps. Well recommended. Great to find a place like this so local.

Melissa Castiel, Local Event Rider
January 2009

Littleton manor has a fantastic fenced dressage arena with full set of mirrors at top end of the school and is ideal for schooling both experienced and inexperienced horses alike. The show jumping school is fabulous with a full set of show jumps. The school is perfect for schooling, grid work, technical complexes and even practice for cross country phase. The newly built cross country course has been perfectly designed for schooling of both young and experienced horses with everything from into fences, drops, corners, ditches, the dreaded ‘skinnys’ and water you are sure to find something to suit all levels – I have had brilliant fun up there and has brought confidence back to my horse after an injury and to myself after a year off from competition. Littleton manor has fantastic facilities for all levels of horse and rider and with the amazing individual care they each receive, every horse thrives here.

Catriona Keruish, Event Rider and Livery with Kate Lukas Eventing
May 2009

We had a great time on Sunday - your course is fabulous. We got two water phobics through the water and the children loved jumping the crocodile . Hope to come again soon with older children who want to jump everything ! Will you be running any competitions around the 2ft 9 mark.

Janet Philips, Pony Club Mother
May 2009

We got my pony to overcome her fear of water and it was fantastic jumping out of the water and over the crocodile. Also the mushroom jump was wicked.

Milly Philips (aged 9), preparing for her next Pony Club Tetrathlon.
May 2009

The facilities at Littleton are second to none; I have used them for my own event horses and also Pony Club rallies & clinics. The outdoor jumping arena is fantastic with brand new jumps and the surface is excellent. With the range of facilities on offer it is very easy to bring several horses along and either use the cross country course with a new water complex, do fitness work on the gallops which are kept in great condition or school round the show-jumping arena. It makes a life very easy to be able to turn up and train each aspect of eventing in a morning in one location. The new access from Flanchford Road makes access very easy and there is plenty of parking for horseboxes. Teaching at Littleton is also a pleasure as everything is beautifully maintained and very well organised.

Rebecca Gibbs
Local Event Rider & Surrey Union Pony Club Chief Instructor.

Thanks for today,the ground was amazing considering how wet it has been,it is very obvious an awful lot of work and effort has gone into the ground preparation to get it like it is,well done and thanks again,we will be back soon.

Ian Bareham, Golden Cross Equestrian Centre
East Sussex, February 2010

Thank you so much for donating the voucher to local rider [magazine], I came and had a lesson there on Sunday with Anna Hilton. I had a lovely time, the ground and the fences were fantastic and I hope to see you again soon. Many thanks.

Sharon Richardson
March 2010

Just to say schooling went well this morning,my 4 year old absolutely loved it! This is no doubt due to how fabulous the course is looking at the moment,both the fences themselves and also the going which is brilliant.

Bronia Hill
November 2010

LMEQ is without doubt one of the best new training facilities in the Southeast with everything that could be required when training event horses. The 2 all-weather arenas are huge, the 20x60 dressage arena is floodlit and has training mirrors across the whole of one end, the 50x60 showjumping arena has a full set of showjumps including the scarey things like watertrays. Both have super surfaces which are beautifully maintained as are the 1 mile long gallops which work up a long slight slope - perfect for fittening work. The cross country schooling area is fantastic and one to which I regularly make the 3 hour round trip to use. There is something for all levels, both horses and riders, with over 80 fences all of which are really well made and inviting and can be as straightforward or as technical as you like with various combination fences and a great water complex with various options in/out. I especially like the fact that there are some real technical questions but without having to jump too big, perfect for teaching novices or reminding the older ones. Matt and his Team are also super helpful, when I asked if he had a bounce into the water he said ‘No, but we can make one’! They also take great care of the ground, regularly moving many of the fences which not only keeps the takeoff/landing zones in good condition but also means there is something slightly different every time.

Sam Penn, International Three Day Event Rider
November 2010

I managed to go XC schooling twice before I went away, both times to Littleton Manor which have fantastic facilities. You can use the show jumping arena with a full set of jumps, the XC course which is suitable for all from first timers to advanced, and the gallops (there is also a dressage arena too!). The ground was amazing, exceptional for this time of year. As usual I took six horses the first time, the Barocca four which went really well and Imp and Brian who were great. It was Brians’ last XC session with me as I was preparing him for sale. I have sold him to a lovely family. Originally Posted Here

Sharon Hunt
Olympic bronze medallist, 2011

Littleton Manor is an excellent training facility with a fantastic range of fences, beautifully presented and maintained, catering for those just starting out to the experienced horse and rider. I will definitely be back.

Caroline Jeanne BHSII
BE Accredited Coach, BE U18 Regional Coach(south east), Ex International (4*) rider, Spring 2011

Endurance GB’s World Class Elite Squad has chosen LMEQ as the venue for its non-competitive ride training and assessments in the build up to the European Open Endurance Championship in France, September 2011, and the World Endurance Championship in the UK, 2012. The Squad’s management team was attracted to LMEQ as a training venue with its ease of access from the M25, the outdoor arenas and a lunge pen, all-weather gallops, cross-country water complex (used for river crossing practice), easy access to bridleway loops, a range of surfaces for crewing practice and veterinary inspections, and overnight stabling and camping. Chef d’Équipe Annabelle Scofield says 'It is difficult to find venues that cater for our range of needs for horse, rider and crew training, veterinary, farriery and osteopathic assessments, and where the international team selectors can freely observe the Squad. LMEQ ticks all the boxes.'

Dr Martin A Moore
Team Manager, Endurance GB World Class Elite Squad 2011

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