Badgerstown is set on the edge of the Marlborough Downs. The property was created by Stan Mellor the first National Hunt jockey to ride over 1000 winners. In 2002 the Colthurst Family from Cork acquired the property and turned it into an equestrian establishment.
Bought Badgerstown in 2012 and moved in immediately after the London Olympics, currently in the process of updating the facilities. We have over 30 stables, staff accommodation, all weather full sized menage, all weather & grass gallops, cross country course, post & railed paddocks.
The cross-country schooling course and gallops are open for outside business with plans for further improvement. Over the winter more schooling fences were built to give a wider range for clients.
The water complex is excellent and there are several portables that are moved around so that the course is dynamic and ever changing.
I will be holding cross-country clinics whenever I get a gap in my schedule.
Facilities
| Floodlights on school |
| Floodlights on school |
| Horse walker |
| Horse walker |
| Designated lorry parking |
| Designated lorry parking |
| Onsite gallops |
| Onsite cross country |
| Onsite cross country |
| Excellent off-road hacking |
| Excellent off-road hacking |
| Hot water washdown |
| Hot water washdown |
| Individual turn out |
| Individual turn out |
| 24hr onsite supervision |
| 24hr onsite supervision |
| Onsite communal tea & coffee facility |
| Onsite communal tea & coffee facility |
| Outdoor school 20m x 60m or over |
| Outdoor school 20m x 60m or over |
| Non-individual paddock turn out |
| Non-individual paddock turn out |
| Stabling |
| Stabling |
| Lunge Pen/ Separate school |
| Lunge Pen/ Separate school |
Onsite Professionals
Sir Mark James Todd, CBE is a New Zealand horseman noted for his accomplishments in the discipline of eventing, voted Rider of the 20th Century by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports,
He won gold medals at Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988) Olympics, the Badminton Horse Trials on four occasions, the Burghley Horse Trials] five times, and as a member of New Zealand’s Eventing team he won gold medals at the World Championships in 1990 and 1998 (Rome), the European Championships in 1997, plus 20 or more other international events, and numerous other international individual and team titles.
In New Zealand he has been honoured with the 1998 Supreme Halberg Awar as New Zealand Sportsperson of the year and inducted into The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.
Todd and fellow equestrian Andrew Nicholson, are the first New Zealanders to have competed at six Olympic Games.
Awards
CBE, MBE
Double Olympic Gold medals
Knighthood in the 2012 honours list
Disciplines we cater for
| Dealing and Sales |
| Dressage |
| Eventing |
| Livery - Competition |
| Show Jumping |
