Pemberley Riding School

it was vary good

I bring my 4 & 7 yr old to lesson here. Great riding learning environment.

My granddaughter had a fabulous week! Thank you Dawn!#

My daughter started riding at Pemberley a few years ago as a beginner. Head Coach Dawn O’Brien has done a magnificent job of cultivating & growing Sam’s love of horses & horsemanship. I have so enjoyed watching my daughter’s lessons that at 47 years old, I started taking lessons as well!

The cost to take lessons is so far below other riding schools in Maple Ridge. Dawn & her team keep it affordable so that everyone can partake. The ponies & horses at Pemberley are happy, healthy & extremely well cared for. So many of them came in as rescues & they have flourished under the love & care of the Pemberley team & their riders. I can’t recommend this barn enough! Wonderful!

Dawn is an absolutely amazing coach who clearly loves her horses. She has many horses (quite a few that are rescues) that are very well taken care of; each of these horse has their own lessons to teach their riders. (Love of my life is Daisy, she’s an amazing horse).

I’ve seen other people complain about the stables/faculty in their reviews, and while it isn’t the nicest facility ever, Dawn and her team are constantly making improvements to it. I’ve seen a lot of improvement in the past year that I’ve ridden at Pemberley, and its on its way to being a very nice facility.

Dawn is a very good coach who can spot the smallest errors and help you fix them; she really knows what she’s doing. Other than a few months of lessons about five years ago, I had never ridden before; in the past year Dawn has helped me become a confident rider and I recently started jumping around 1.5 feet.

Dawn has a team of “barn rats”, young (but experienced) riders who help around the barn. They are all very kind and helpful (and excellent riders).

My one and only complaint is that because their “indoor” arena is only covered, and not completely indoors, they often had to cancel due to weather in the fall/winter. Sometimes there wasn’t a lot of notice, which I understand, but could be annoying as I had to drive around 40 minutes to the barn and wouldn’t always get the message before I arrived. However, my morning lesson almost never needed to be cancelled, so if you can manage doing a morning lesson the weather shouldn’t be too much of a problem.