CROSS COUNTRY
Open from 1st March to 31st October. 7 days a week during daylight hours.
ABOUT THE CROSS COUNTRY COURSE
The Cross Country Course has over 160 fences built to British Eventing regulation standard. It stretches over 85 acres of good going – well draining, authentic Cross Country terrain.
Lindores Cross Country Course has an extensive variety of jump styles with fence heights range from 30cm to 1.10m. We regularly welcome beginners through to 2* Eventers who train at Lindores regularly.
Fence designs include ditches, spreads, corners, skinnies, uprights, log piles, whisky barrels, ski jumps, combinations, pheasant feeders, trakeners, beehives, brush, cottages, a keyhole and a large 20m x 20m water complex with run ins, run outs, steps, an upturned boat and a jump into water.
In 2018 we launched Scotland’s first ever pace training facility called Lindores Optimum Time Trial. This innovative and helpful training track on grass is now part of Lindores Cross Country Course hire.
2024 has seen the addition of a 24ft long ditch jumped 60cm at its narrowest and 1metre at its widest. The ditch is at the bottom of a gentle gradient with options to jump two new hanging logs two strides on entry and exit. This one area has been designed and developed to aid training for 60cm+. The combinations can include corded wood piles, a new table top, trakeners, logs, uprights and a new corner brush. In 2024 we also added a new 30cm trailer jump to last years new tractor jump in the nursery area for beginners. Due to riders requests we have added some more table top jumps to our course.
Optimum Time Trial
Lindores Optimum Time Trial incorporates optional British Eventing style 80cm and 1m cross country fences on a safe grass track with 30 second markers set for BE80, BE90 and BE100 speeds.
The Lindores Optimum Time Trial allows riders to safely practice using a stop watch and familiarise themselves with the correct pace they need to be travelling at in order to remain within the time when competing at cross country events.
Riders have the option to hire an Optimum Time stopwatch from Lindores Equestrian whilst using the Lindores Cross Country training facility.