Richard and Nancy Adams

Richard Adams is a local man, the son of a local farmer. He worked on the family farm until his father retired through ill health.

He cannot remember learning to ride – it came to him as a young child as naturally as walking.

As a naturally gifted horseman with a great love of horses, Richard uses sensible training methods. He can assess any animal quickly and has evolved his own method of “getting a horse to talk to him”. It takes a minimum of six weeks to break in a horse and have it going kindly, and it might take up to ten weeks for some animals.

Having assessed a horse, Richard takes it along at its own pace, gently asking for more and more, and combining this with building up the horse’s confidence. A valuable part of the training is going out on hound exercise with the local pack. It teaches the horse to cope with unexpected experiences, and importantly, socialising skills. New Cwm and The Anchorage are on the borders of the United Pack, the Teme Valley, and the David Davies Hunts.

Horses and ponies can be broken in to ride, and/or drive in a trap, dog cart or sulky. Richard has broken in Shetlands and Shires, and everything in between, hunters and hacks, ponies and pacers, laid back cobs and nervous thoroughbreds.

All Richard’s horses have nice mouths, go forward willingly, and stop politely when asked. He also trains trotters and pacers competing with the Wales and Border Counties Harness Racing, of which he is a long term member. Trotting meetings are held locally and are well worth attending – an exciting day out!

Richard charges £85 per week + VAT per horse for breaking/training.

Liveries also taken, prices on application.

Occasionally we have horses for sale – watch this space!