Wow... I had loads of visitors last week :-)
Great picture of the Open Show Jumping Team in this weeks Horse & Hound. The team consisted of Lisa Cadman, Nicola Moran, John Done and myself. Please spread the word and pass on my contact details if you know to anybody that might be looking for full / schooling / eventing livery. I would also be happy to take on hunters or racehorses that need to be got fit ready for the next season. I have a lovely quiet yard with big comfy stables inside a barn. There is plenty of all year grazing and off road riding. And I even have the added luxury now of a an arena which has a flexiride surface and is 20m x 60m
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Please follow the link another to read the write up on the Baileys Horse Feeds website about my comeback. It's under the write up about Blenheim International Horse Trials :-) Dudley had his first event in about 8 weeks today at Smallwood Equestrian Centre organised by Delamere Forest Riding Club. The club made a wonderful job of it and the cross country courses were good testing tracks. Dudley was in the Intermediate 90cm class, so a bit bigger then he was used to. He was quite pleased to be out but contained his excitement. We had an ok dressage of 35.5. The Showjumping had slightly testing, wet ground but I was pleased with how he jumped. He had a real good look at a spooky filler at fence 2 but jumped it and had it down and he was a little unbalanced then to the planks at fence 3 and tapped that one out to, but after that jumped the rest of the course in fantastic style. The cross country asked several questions with a step into water, skinnies and a huge drop but he was awesome and cruised round inside the time to finish 4th. What a little star. It was also my first event since my fall and I'm pleased to say I wasn't too worried about doing it, after such a great Xc schooling session on Thursday. :-) I've finally managed to go cross country schooling for the first time since my fall. I'll be honest I was pretty nervous about it once I'd phoned Somerford Park and booked to take 2 horses on Thursday afternoon. My friend from Nantwich riding club, Nicola Moran, came on foot for support. I decided to ride Frankie first and what an absolute gem he was. He showed no signs of being nervous, which I wondered if he might after falling so bad last time he went xc. In fact he questioned nothing and looked after me like a real pro. I didn't jump anything massive but we did some of the more difficult combinations and what a confidence boost it has been for us. The grin on my face went from ear to ear after we'd finished.
I then headed back out on the xc with Dudley, the ex-racehorse. He hadn't jumped any xc fences since Stafford in July, but he was pleased to be back and was very grown up, even jumped corners, trekheners and steps into water. Good boys!!! |
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