This is a long overdue blog, but David and I have been so busy with our new yard at Petwick Stables. All is going very well. On the young horse breaking side of the business we have 2 lovely well bred fillies to break in, one to be turned away again, one is heading off to Newmarket to go into training.
We have another sport horse here to re-break, sadly he has been very spoilt and badly treated and is only beginning to trust again. He may not be destined for the racetrack but I also think he is lucky to have landed with us. We also have a lovely young dressage filly and an ex-racehorse to retrain, so that side of the business is busy busy!
My lessons have all been going great guns, Claire and Nerro have stepped out at Adv Med level, 3 competitions now, and about 6 classes, and won at least 3 of them, including Adv Med qualifier which she won by 5%, so big well done to Claire and Nerro!
It's really rewarding having trained Nerro all week, and then Claire has a lesson on Saturday, and I can really see the difference in him now each week.
Amanda and Puzzle have also been out to their first comp' of the season, and when he came in to me for training I worked hard on the canter so I was very pleased to hear he won his classes and got 8's for the canter!!!
A couple of young eventers are going well at home but the ground is too hard for them to compete, so we will have to wait and see... I have to give a special mention to Heidi and Connor who have worked so hard with me all through the winter. The dressage is improving so much and although we have a long way to go his scores are better and better, and his jumping is improving loads, so well done to Heidi and Connor.
Another young eventer although this time it's the rider that's young - Jemima and Rolo, only after about 7/8 lessons having always finished in the bottom few after the dressage phase they went to Mattingly ODE and finished 3rd! A great result as the leader was on 27 dressage and Jemima and Rolo scored 32. Jemima said Rolo's turns on the show jumping course and his canter overall was so much easier. Big well done to them too.
We are all really enjoying being here at Petwick Stables and there is so much more to say, and we have some lovely horses in, and who knows in the future I might not just be reporting back on dressage and jumping success, but maybe a race win soon too!
We have another sport horse here to re-break, sadly he has been very spoilt and badly treated and is only beginning to trust again. He may not be destined for the racetrack but I also think he is lucky to have landed with us. We also have a lovely young dressage filly and an ex-racehorse to retrain, so that side of the business is busy busy!
My lessons have all been going great guns, Claire and Nerro have stepped out at Adv Med level, 3 competitions now, and about 6 classes, and won at least 3 of them, including Adv Med qualifier which she won by 5%, so big well done to Claire and Nerro!
It's really rewarding having trained Nerro all week, and then Claire has a lesson on Saturday, and I can really see the difference in him now each week.
Amanda and Puzzle have also been out to their first comp' of the season, and when he came in to me for training I worked hard on the canter so I was very pleased to hear he won his classes and got 8's for the canter!!!
A couple of young eventers are going well at home but the ground is too hard for them to compete, so we will have to wait and see... I have to give a special mention to Heidi and Connor who have worked so hard with me all through the winter. The dressage is improving so much and although we have a long way to go his scores are better and better, and his jumping is improving loads, so well done to Heidi and Connor.
Another young eventer although this time it's the rider that's young - Jemima and Rolo, only after about 7/8 lessons having always finished in the bottom few after the dressage phase they went to Mattingly ODE and finished 3rd! A great result as the leader was on 27 dressage and Jemima and Rolo scored 32. Jemima said Rolo's turns on the show jumping course and his canter overall was so much easier. Big well done to them too.
We are all really enjoying being here at Petwick Stables and there is so much more to say, and we have some lovely horses in, and who knows in the future I might not just be reporting back on dressage and jumping success, but maybe a race win soon too!
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