The Talland Team

Joint Proprietor & Chief Instructor.

Pammy is joint principal of Talland and well known as an international Dressage rider and trainer. Pammy was 2^nd at Punchestown International Three Day Event on Gameel and was reserve for the Montreal Olympics. She has been in the top 12 riders in top level dressage for many years. She has produced all of her horses from scratch to Grand Prix and has taken 9 of them to international standard.

On the training side Pammy helped the Italian Three Day Event Team and the Irish Team for the European Championships in which they gained 4^th place. She was also the Dressage Trainer to Gold Medal winning Australian Three Day Event Team at the Barcelona Olympics.

Joint Proprietor & Senior Instructor

Brian is joint principal and a senior instructor at Talland. He has worked and travelled internationally and has successfully trained a variety of international riders and teams for show jumping, Eventing and dressage.

Brian was the Hong Kong Equestrian coach and has also ridden Point-to-Point and NH.

Currently Brian teaches various Riding Clubs and Pony Clubs as well as the VWH Pony Club show jumping team and is particularly popular for his pre-hunting tuition.

Joint Proprietor & Senior Instructor

Pippa El Derby  BHSI PR, PC, SG Pippa is the youngest member of the Hutton Family, she has ridden since’ before she was born’  She started off showing both astride and side saddle with a variety of ponies who had all been trained from scratch at Talland.

Pippa has been on the Junior, Young Rider and U25 Grand Prix European teams, and was best of the British each time. Competitively she is a cool customer who copes excellently under pressure, she passes her calmness onto her horses.

Pippa teaches both at Talland, and is regularly seen freelancing around the UK  and overseas including Dubai, Trinidad & Croatia.

She has a particular affinity with younger riders, looking to improve their dressage. Pippa is also a great confidence giver to any rider at any level.

Pippa currently has a string of young horses and is enjoying the training process, she is looking forward to getting back out between the white boards with her home trained horses and some homebred.

Hilary is one of Talland’s Senior Instructors, a BHSI and BD registered trainer who has been involved with Talland for the last 25years.

Hilary has trained and schooled all level of horses and riders over the years. Hilary has also travelled extensively with Pammy Hutton to International shows, and has competed to intermediare II Level.

Claire is Yard Manager at Talland. She arrived here  in November 2014, having been taught by Pammy for many years. Previously to being at Talland, Claire was Yard Manager at a BHS Approved riding school, this is where Pammy spotted her talent and invited her to come to Talland in order to further her Career.

Adam came to Talland as a student in 2000, he studied and trained to gain his BHSAI. He has worked in various roles within the industry over the years.

He returned to us as a part time instructor in 2020, and teaches with us Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. All levels and disciplines.

In July 2022, Many people came from far and wide to celebrate the marriage of Adam, to Pammy and Brian’s daughter, Pippa.

Rupert is a passionate, fun and extremely encouraging instructor.

A former student of the Talland School of Equitation, Rupert has gone on to have a successful career training numerous riders and horses from grassroots to advanced level.
Rupert has himself competed upto Prix st George level and loves nothing more than being part of the horses education up through the levels.

Splitting his time between Talland and his dressage freelancing business around the UK, Rupert takes pride in helping riders achieve their goals and dreams from backing and young horses to advanced competition.

Office Manager

Raffi began her training at Talland in 2016.

She is now a BHS Stage 4 Eventing Coach. She is Manager of Competition Yard, and Pammy’s under rider. She also competes several of Pammy’s horses, from youngsters upwards.

She is in charge of organising our students’ competition planning, and teaches a wide variety of students and clients.

Britt is our Livery Yard manager and also an instructor, holding the BHS Stage 4 Eventing Coach, who teaches a wide variety of clients including our career students. Britt is also in charge of our Pony Club Centre group.

She came to us from Cornwall, having trained there with Pammy for several years. She is assistant to Claire in running the yard.

Britt has a particular interest in working with the RDA and Para dressage and is the current Chairman of Talland Group RDA.

Megan joined Talland in early 2021 as an office assistant and receptionist. She is now responsible for advertising, marketing & short courses.

She has her BHS Stage 3 Coach, Stage 4 Yard Manager and Stage 5 Management qualifications. She would love to achieve her Stage 4 Coach and Stage 5 Care one day.

Alongside this, she is studying for a PhD in Equestrian Performance.

She is also a BD Trainee Judge and is hoping to become listed in the future.

Cheyenne joined us in early 2023 as is part of the Front Office team.

Cheyenne has been in and around horses most of her life.  She has an Extended Diploma in Horse Management, and a B.Sc. (Hons) Equine Science with Rehabilitation Therapies. When she is not at Talland, she runs her own equine massage business.

Suzie joined us in the summer of  2024 , Suzie has owned and kept horses since she was very young and has studied under the BHS and Pony Club Pathways Achieving her Pony Club AH Test. Suzie has spent time as a 5* riding groom in the USA for an international Canadian Rider . Suzie is also a qualified first aid instructor and has spent the last few years teaching First Aid to the Equestrian Market . Suzie is part of our Front Desk Team and is passionate about client care and customer experience.