Well for the past few weeks I have been getting to know Dustry and teaching him the basic ’stop’ and ‘go’ voice commands on the lunge and today I had a little sit on board! He behaved very well despite the high winds and the sound of guns at the adjacent shoot. He felt surprisingly [...]

It seems like a very long time ago now that I entered a BE CDT day in March to kick off our season, after that day inspired and eager to have a productive year I wrote down my aims for 2009, you can see the original post here, and to recap my aims were…
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*drum roll*…..say hello to ‘Dustry’ my latest ‘project pony’.
As well as producing and competing my own event horses I also bring on the odd ‘project’ from time to time. I look out for horses with a nice nature, good conformation and the potential to go far. In the past I have re-schooled ex-racers into sensible [...]

…just snooping about online and I found my testimonial with these pics I took of Jack after I received my SoloGroom kit and gave him a makeover. What a scruffy little urchin he was after his box rest!

After a great clear round last weekend at Larkhill I entered Soap for another hunter trial at West Wilts. He loves his XC and I thought the 1m class there would be good prep for our last event of the season BE100 at Moreton. He warmed up well, and got very excited squeaking and leaping [...]