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    Beach riding requires careful planning and knowledge of beach safety. Candidates should research the beach to understand any restrictions, tides, hazards, and other beach users. They must plan the ride accordingly, bringing proper equipment and supplies while understanding how to introduce horses to the beach environment safely and behave respectfully towards others.

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    Beach riding requires careful planning and knowledge of beach safety. Candidates should research the beach to understand any restrictions, tides, hazards, and other beach users. They must plan the ride accordingly, bringing proper equipment and supplies while understanding how to introduce horses to the beach environment safely and behave respectfully towards others.

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    Beach Riding
    Syllabus

    Guidelines
    Be able to help plan for an outing to the beach and choose a beach safe for group
    riding.

    Key Points
    Candidates should:
    • Look at possible beaches or coastal areas near to your Pony Club.
    • Know that it is necessary to check with local councils, or the tourist board, that
    horses are allowed on the chosen beach.
    • Understand that local knowledge of a beach, perhaps from a Pony Club or riding
    school will be able to answer whether a beach has adequate parking.
    • Know of the dangers of Marsh Areas, sinking sand, sand bars (areas above the water
    line at low tide that quickly become surrounded with tidal water), rip currents.
    • Know which flags to look out for, what they mean. Red circles with a line through
    show a man swimming, so swimming is forbidden, a dog with a line through
    forbids dogs on the beach. Red flags mean no swimming. Yellow triangular flags
    are hazard signs, for instance, what looks like steps on the triangle, warns beach
    users of groynes.
    • Find out whether there is safe access to the beach with reliable safe sand
    underfoot.
    • Find out who else is likely to be using the beach at a chosen time.
    • Planning ahead, tack and clothing, picnic and water and food for the horses and
    ponies.
    • How to introducing horses and ponies to the beach rides, how might the horses
    behave in company on a beach.
    • Understanding tides, know that tides come in and out, that the tides will be of
    different heights during the year, and what effect this may have of the planned
    ride.
    • Know that if you type into Google the name of your chosen beach and Tide Tables,
    the information of high and low tide times will appear.
    • Understand what effect the weather may have on the trip; the dangers of fog, wind,
    and heat.
    • Safety on the day, know how to help prevent possible problems, such as ponies
    running away, unnecessary falls, other riders being frightened. What to do if a rider
    falls off.
    • Google the name of your chosen beach to discover whether there is a beach safety
    officer or RNLI presence.
    • Understand how to behave towards other beach users, and manners, (jumping
    the picnickers, children, dogs, other riders, children playing, kites and boats.
    Understand how a beach ride can affect the other beach users. Know that you
    must tidy away afterwards.
    • To be aware of how to avoid dehydration and sunburn.

    Recommended Reading
    • The Pony Club Manual of Horsemanship
    • Riding on Beaches and Estuaries – BHS (available online)

    • http://www.awaywiththekids.co.uk/travel-news/rnli-beach-safety-know-your-flags
    https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/
    • http://www.tides4fishing.com/uk
    • http://rnli.org

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