Archive for January, 2010

If you buy a horse called ‘Playing Dirty’ a mess is sure to follow!

Posted on January 30th, 2010

I think Soap must win the award for the ‘horse most dedicated to the pursuit of mess’ he comes in every day PLASTERED in mud, sometimes despite being in a full neck, deep length rug he even manages to get mud on his withers! how he does it only he knows. So I guess it [...]

My cross country coordination is complete!

Posted on January 25th, 2010

Last season I ordered myself a new hat silk from Treehouse, and spent all year scouring online shops and the high street trying to find a long sleeved green top that matched. Nothing I found was quite right so for Christmas I splashed out and ordered myself the matching event shirt from Treehouse, and today [...]

Jumping Jack Fry!

Posted on January 23rd, 2010

As the season is fast approaching and I’m already trying to plan where I can take Jack for his first unaffiliated ODE I thought it might be a good idea if I got round to some XC schooling! I am very lucky because on the farm where our yard is based there is a [...]

Cross country coordination – I’ve got it taped!

Posted on January 17th, 2010

Ok so I think this may be taking my obsession with colour coordination to new heights! To match my GHE colours of harlequin pattern bottle green and white, I have found a tape to match! When this arrived the other day I got ridiculously excited about it, and couldn’t wait for the snow to melt [...]

GHE gets its own column on Eventing Worldwide!

Posted on January 9th, 2010

This year is getting off to a great start because I have just submitted the first entry for my new column on Eventing Worldwide! EWW is a subscription site covering all aspects of eventing, there are course photos, videos, reports, reviews, competitions, regular columists and much more. If you want to join EWW it’s just [...]