Archive for August, 2009

Soap gets a clear round at local unaff SJing!

Posted on August 24th, 2009

In prep for Highclere BE100 we have been jumping jumping jumping, and on Sunday I found a local show to take Soap to for a couple of rounds on grass. I must have looked like a clueless eventer with my yellow tagged hat, tweed jacket, and list of daft questions which included…’Do we get [...]

Team GHE gets its own clothing range!…

Posted on August 23rd, 2009

…well maybe not a whole range just yet, but my personalised XC top now has a hoody to keep it company! I plan to wear this as much as possible at events so if you see me please come and say ‘Hi’ as it would be great to meet some fellow local eventers. Big [...]

Combined Training – smiles all round

Posted on August 20th, 2009

Today I booked the day off work to take Soap to West Wilts EC for some Eventers Combined Training. We got held up by slow moving traffic and what looked like a drugs bust going on with lots of police in the road so we arrived a little later than I had planned! With only [...]

More SJ schooling – watch out Whitakers!

Posted on August 18th, 2009

We went for our 2nd SJ schooling session at Hoplands last Saturday, and managed to build on the success of the last outing. We had a few ‘yes’ ‘no’ ‘maybe’ moments to begin with as I had failed to establish an active enough canter. I find it really hard to feel on Soap when [...]

More local sponsorship from Trotters Tack Shop!

Posted on August 14th, 2009

A few miles down the road from my house is a new tack shop called ‘Trotters’ (and yes they are independant traders!) Allison at Trotters has kindly agreed to sponsor me! Hopefully with them being so local I can help them out in return by good old word of mouth, flyers, and through my local [...]