Fallowbrook Western Riding Club
Out among the Kentish orchards, a riding club coached by a dressage rider who discovered western riding after back surgery and went on to win a British reining title in her first season.
- UKCC L4The only western coach at that level in the UK
- 2000The year Pauline first rode western
From dressage to reining
Pauline Norton was a pony-mad schoolgirl who trained with Arthur Kottas and Charles de Kunffy and rode to Medium-level dressage. Then, in 2000, after back surgery, she sat in a western saddle on an American Quarter Horse called Dorito. In her first year of competition she was British Reining Open Hi-Point Champion in two divisions.
Today she is the only UKCC Level 4 western coach in the country, helped build the BEF's first western coaching qualification, and judges for WES and British Dressage. She is WES Welfare Officer and sits on the WES Council. Fallowbrook, the club she coaches, is the biggest western riding club in the South East.
Lessons are fun, lively and I come away with a smile.
Why riders keep coming back
Clinics for every level
Lessons, clinics and training days through the year, from a first western ride to polishing a show pattern.
Photo: Supplied by Pauline NortonMeet PaulineThe horse comes first
Coaching from the Society's own Welfare Officer: confident riders on happy horses, at home and at every show.
WES shows on the doorstep
WES affiliated competition in Kent, run by people who know western and want you to enjoy your first class as much as your fiftieth.
Ride with Fallowbrook
The club runs through its Facebook group: ask to join and say hello.
Where this comes from: Pauline Norton's coaching website (about Pauline and what riders say), and WES's own records of its Professionals, judges and Council. Facts read on 6 November 2026; photos are credited on each. Something out of date? Tell us.
Ride at Fallowbrook Western Riding Club
Get in touch with the venue direct: they take their own bookings.
East Peckham, Tonbridge, Kent
