On the 8th of April 2018 Hartland carriages kicked off their season by hosting the Annual Knepp Castle Charity Carriage Drive on the Knepp Castle Estate and around the local area raising money for St Catherines Hospice. This event has always been popular and despite the weather we had the largest turnout for this event so far, with 15 carriages …
CUSTOMER NEWS: PAUL STRATTON
Congratulations to Paul Stratton who traveled up from Devon to brave the weather at the London Harness Horse Parade on Easter Monday. Paul drove his coloured mare to his newly built Hartland pleasuresport which was specially made with lockers under the rear seats and a dog gate on the back. The turnout looked fantastic and they achieved a first class …
CUSTOMER NEWS: MAURICE & LIZ BUTLER
We recently received this email from Maurice and Liz Butler along with a picture. “We thought you might like to see this photo of a wedding we did with our 11.2hh New Forest Pony and your Small Pony Carriage which we bought from you some years ago. It has proved to be a very versatile little carriage. We use it …
CUSTOMER NEWS: CATHY STRIDE
Great picture that was sent to us from Cathy Stride, who has one of our Shetlandsport carriages which has just been changed from the solid tyres to a comfortable set of pneumatic wheels. She sent us this picture of her first outing on her new wheels.
CUSTOMER NEWS: Tara Hill
We’ve had this great photo from Tara Hill with her newly put together team of Shetlands to her Hartland Micrasport carriage. This picture is from their first attempt of putting a team together using their Shetlands Dryfesdale Maybe and Helawi Acer in the wheel with Thordale Noggin and Stepley Flashman in the Lead. It certainly looks like their all having …
CUSTOMER NEWS: John O’Neil
Joanne received this picture last week from John O’Neil in Ireland at the Royal Dublin Show using a set of Hartland Show/Presentation harness on his pair put to a Vis a Vis acquired from us. Looks like a lovely turnout, its great to see commercial vehicles being used at shows as well.
CUSTOMER NEWS: CAROLINE WATSON
We’ve just received these lovely pictures from Caroline Watson who over the winter had her original 2 wheeled dog cart renovated by us. So far this year Caroline has had great success driving her Welsh section D, Tango to her newly renovated carriage. The pictures we have been sent are from the Glamis Castle Attelage where Caroline won her class …
CUSTOMER NEWS: CLAIRE BOURNE
Congratulations to Claire Bourne of Snailriver Carriage Company who had a very successful day showing at the Royal Norfolk Show. Claire won the Multiples & Lady Whip as well as second place in the Concourse d’elegance driving her Shetland ponies Troy and Sunny to a Hartland spindle backed Shetland Phaeton. Troy was sourced by Joanne a number of years ago …
CUSTOMER NEWS: TEAM HOLDSWORTH
We would like to congratulate Colette Holdsworth and her pony Pepper, on becoming the Intermediate Junior Champion and Supreme Junior Champion at the British Indoor Carriage Driving Championship 2017, held a Keysoe. Well done to the whole Holdsworth Team and we look forward to seeing more excellent pictures and results from you in the future.
NEW: TRAINING SPORT BREAK
New – Training Sport Brake We have just taken delivery of our new Team and Pair training carriage, Perfect for everyday driving and training horses. Our model features traditional carriage foot board , fully independent air suspension, seating for four people in the rear and interchangeable hub system fitted with pneumatic tyres – great for training around the fields at …