The horses on the yard live their best life! Herd grazing with views over Bristol and Ashton Court, deep straw beds with rubber matting, top quality hay and feed, warm shower, heat lamps, regulate farrier, physio and dentist visits – equivalent to a horse 5 star hotel! I can’t rate this yard highly enough.

I saw a part share advertised on Terri’s Facebook several months ago only a few weeks after giving birth to my second child. I booked a visit and thought he was an absolute gem and his owner lovely (I have not been disappointed on either front!). Although the timing felt a bit bonkers it has been like coming home returning to the horsey world.

The yard itself has facilities I could only dream about compared to keeping my horse on a DIY yard decades ago in Australia. Terri and her team couldn’t be more supportive in terms of updating my knowledge and the tuition has been brilliant. I have already been out showjump schooling with Terri and a group of wonderfully supportive livery owners and I am looking forward to many outings to come. I’m really enjoying becoming part of the Terri Hill livery family and thoroughly recommend the yard to anyone.

I can honestly say after coming back into horses after a 20+ year break, I’ve made my fair share of blunders such as buying a horse that was too big, too young, totally green & with not the best conformation, just because he was the right colour! But I have totally redeemed myself by making the decision to move him to Hill Livery. It has been the absolute making of us both. I joined Hill Livery in August 2020 and have to say it’s been an amazing and transformational 2.5 years and I have loved every moment of it.

When I arrived in 2020 I’d had my horse for 4 years and apart from hacking (and falling off), we really hadn’t done anything, he was still unschooled and I didn’t really have the skills or the confidence to do anything to rectify it, which meant that he hadn’t developed any of the necessary muscles to help carry himself or me on his back. He generally liked to drag himself around doing a fine impression of a Llama, head in the air and hollow back. To add to the mix, he arrived at Terri’s slightly lame, which led to him requiring surgery
and then recovery time. Terri and her team were utterly amazing during his recovery, the care and animal husbandry he received was first class and so he made a speedy & full recovery.

Once he was back to full strength, Terri set to work on re-educating both of us, improving my riding skills ( or lack thereof, which was an enormous task) and ensuring that my horse started working correctly to begin building muscles in the right places. We’re both still on a journey of improvement, but we have come such a long way in the 18 months that we’ve been back working. I honestly feel like I’ve got a completely different horse to the one I arrived at the yard with and that is all down to the skills and horsemanship of Terri and her team. Terri took someone who was terrified to ask her horse to canter and turned them into someone who can’t wait to go SJ or XC schooling. I’ve even been persuaded to venture to the dark side and have a go at dressage!

Terri is a fantastic instructor and she adapts her style to the needs of each horse/rider and really gets results.

In terms of livery care, your horses get the best. All year turnout in proper fields which is a total rarity around this area. The biggest straw beds I’ve ever seen, they make me want to snuggle down in them and have a snooze. Tack is cleaned for you, there’s an onsite washing machine so saddle pads etc are always clean and ready for you to use. There’s a horse shower area with heat lamps and hot shower. The team take care of everything your horse could want/need, they often know them better than we do. It means that if you go away you can totally relax safe in the knowledge that your equine best friend is being totally pampered in your absence.

Being on a livery yard, isn’t just all about the horse care, it’s also down to the people on the yard (horse owners, staff etc). Hill Livery has just the best bunch of people you could ever wish to meet both as staff and livery owners. There is a real team ethos and friendship throughout the yard, everyone helps each other out and is a great support network not forgetting lots of fun and laughter. Hill Livery definitely feels more like a lovely social family than just a group of individual horse enthusiasts.

I could wax on for hours about the brilliance of Hill Livery, but suffice enough to say that I believe it is the BEST place for me and my horse. We love being at the yard and wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Just driving through the gates puts a huge smile on my face. Its rare that spaces become available at Terri’s and that’s because once you’ve experienced being there, you won’t want to leave.