Facilities of the school
Built from 1974 for several stages, the school is implanted on two big spaces adding up 300 hectares:
- The site of Terrefort, a 321,24 acres surface, on which is implanted all the buildings and the infrastructures of the school,
- The site of Verrie used for some international competitions, the races and the formation of the trainees.
Today, the School has exceptional means:
4 big stables capable of accommodating 500 horses
7 riding schools and 18 arenas of Olympic dimensions with grounds in géo-synthetic material
About 50 km of track fitted out
Several hundreds of natural obstacles
A veterinary clinic
A farriery
An amphitheatre
A modern media library...
The French national riding school in figures:
330 horses belonging to the School
400 to 500 horses welcomed in stables
180 agents and 1 500 trainees every year
60 000 visitors a year
15 000 horseshoes put every year
511 tons of food and 900 tons of hay distributed annually
6 400 m3 of water a year
6 000 tons of fertilizer every year
Veterinary clinic and farriery
Cross country ground and tracks
