A diary that reads like the yard
Lessons, instructors and arenas in one view. Cantermere refuses to double-book an instructor or an arena — it checks the overlap, not just the start time.
For riding schools & livery yards
The yard office,
written down.
Cantermere keeps the diary, the horses, the riders and their grades in one place — and refuses to put a rider on a horse that should not be carrying them.
No card needed to look around. Bring your own domain later.
- Wall-clock lessons
- 4:15 stays 4:15 when the clocks change.
- Prices in pence
- A booking keeps the price it was made at.
- Your yard, your data
- One stable per subdomain, kept apart.
The thing nobody else does
It argues back
Ask Cantermere for a mount and it does not hand you a dropdown of every horse on the yard. It assesses each one against the rider in front of you, and when a horse will not do, it tells you every reason at once — not the first it happens to hit.
How the checks workRider Amelia R.·Grade 2 ·71kg
| Horse | Assessment | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| Dylan | All four checks pass | Available |
| Biscuit | 3rd lesson today — daily cap is 2 | Capped |
| Marble | Carries 63kg · suits grades 4–6 | 2 reasons |
Before a rider is put on a horse
Four questions, asked every time
- I
The horse is in work
Lame, resting, on box rest or retired — an unavailable horse never appears as an option, so nobody has to remember.
- II
The rider is inside its weight limit
Every horse carries a ceiling. Cantermere knows it, checks it against the rider, and says so plainly rather than leaving it to judgement at the mounting block.
- III
The horse suits the rider’s ability
List which grades a horse is safe for, or leave the list empty and it stays available to everyone. Grades come from assessments you record, not guesswork.
- IV
The horse is under its daily cap
The rule schools break by accident more than any other. Set the number of lessons a horse may do in a day and it holds, even on the morning three instructors are all filling gaps.
Everything in one place
Less paperwork, more time in the school
Riders, grades and progress
Record an assessment, and the rider’s grade updates. Grades then decide what they can book, so a novice cannot put themselves in an advanced lesson.
Horses as more than a name
Weight ceiling, daily cap, the grades they suit, and their work status — the things that decide whether a horse can do the next lesson.
Online booking on your own site
An embeddable widget that takes a booking, holds the place while payment is arranged, and lets the place go again if it lapses.
Confirmations, written down
Every message is recorded with the body that actually went out — so “did they get the confirmation?” is a question with an answer.
Registers and sign-in sheets
Walk into the arena with the lesson, the riders, their mounts and anything you need to know about them already on the page.
A small thing that matters
4:15 means 4:15 at the yard
Lesson times are stored as the reading on the clock in your tack room, not as a moment in universal time. The Tuesday four-fifteen is the Tuesday four-fifteen in March and in November, and nobody arrives an hour early because the clocks went back. It is the sort of detail that decides whether software is trusted after its first October.
Online booking
Take bookings from your own website
Drop the Cantermere widget onto the site you already have. Someone picks a lesson, gives their details, and the place is held while payment is arranged. If the hold lapses, the place comes back automatically instead of sitting empty.
Riders only see what their grade allows, so the lesson you get is the lesson you were expecting.
How booking works
Put the yard on a proper footing.
Set up your stable, add your horses and their limits, and have the diary running the same afternoon.