RURAL EXPERIENCES IN AND AROUND CAMBRIDGE

Ballygelvar Bespoke Tours and Accommodation offer a premium and unique half-day tour of the Waikato equestrian scene.  

Tour can include;

• Access to world-class thoroughbred studs, polo stables, show jumping, and racehorse trainers.

• Getting up close to stallions, brood mares, and foals at the renowned Windsor Park Stud.

• Watching racehorses, polo ponies, and show jumpers training.

• Eventing Olympic gold medalist & World Champion, Vaughn Jeffries, training the top riders of the future, including Ben Weir, who is currently the leader in the National Young Rider Championship.

• Visiting John-Paul and Nina Clarkin’s polo stables. New Zealand’s best polo player and the women’s world champion, and see their polo ponies in training, their breeding mares, foals, and stallions.

• Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre and

• Chele Clarkin, local specialist in equestrian jewellery.

Tour pick up is at 8am from Cambridge Town Hall and dropped off at approximately 1pm.

Closed toe shoes are required

This tour is unsuitable for persons with mobility problems.

Bookings are essential and may take a day or two to be set up, they also can vary as we have to work in with training schedules and events that individuals might be away at.

We can personalise tours as well.

The tour is mainly outdoors and is weather-dependent. You may need a raincoat if the weather is incremental.

Ballygelvar also offers boutique rural B&B Accommodation in picturesque Maungakawa, just minutes outside Cambridge.

NOTE: It is $600.00 for the tour for 1 – 4 people. i.e. If only one person is on the tour it is still $600.00. It takes a lot of planning with all the different entities to make it a marvellous experience. Wednesday is the only day the tour is available. We can discuss having more guests on tour if required.

Example of Tour

• 8.00am
  Pick up at Cambridge Town Hall

• 8.10am
  Cambridge Jockey Club – watch race horses train on the track

• 8.45am
  Marsh Racing – Racehorse trainers

• 9.15am
  Hamilton vets – Equine Hospital

• 10.00 am
  Vaughn Jefferies – Coaching showjumping or Takapoto Show Jumping team training

• 10.55am
  Lilypad Cafe coffee – break for coffee/bathroom

• 11.15am
  Windsor Park Stud – Thoroughbred stud, stations, foals, mares, and facilities

• 12.00pm
  Mystery Creek Polo – Polo ponies training – stables

• 12.30pm
  Chele Clarkin, Equine jewellery specialist

• 1.00pm
  TownHall or (Alpino) – Lunch (Optional, and not included in price)