Only two horses to ride today. Woody gets a well deserved day off while the two stars and the one stars show jump. We have not had much experience of Derg Boru in the ring, but there was nothing to complain about today. He JUST tipped the very last fence, barely breathed on it and […]
Cross country day was everything it was meant to be. Selena galloped and jumped and galloped and jumped and galloped and jumped. All three horses were fantastic and they were all in fine form. King Brian (Derg Boru) was first to go. He has been honest and a great jumper from day one, but both […]
Dr Hallvard Sommerseth has been suspended for a mere two years for his role in the submission of over 500 sets of bogus endurance results to the FEI.
Dressage day was a blast. All the horses were good in the ring. There’s always something you want to improve upon, that’s the way it is with riding and horses, isn’t it? Woody needs to do a better job on his extensions at both walk and trot, Zephyr didn’t halt square ONCE in his test […]
Well the gang’s all here! Red Hills is packed to capacity. Maizey and Bizzy no longer have free range of the showgrounds and as you can see they are giving us ‘the look.’ All you dog owners know exactly what we mean. There are over 60 in the one star, 50 in the two star […]
At 6:30 this morning, Anne Marie, Selena, two dogs (Maizey and Bizzy), three horses (Zephyr, Derg Boru and Foxwood High) set off for Tallahassee and the Red Hills event. It has been a big favourite with us since it first began and I don’t think Selena has ever missed a year riding there. The first […]
We’re down to the last two tips in my series of 9 Points of Saddle Fit. I have consolidated them because they work very much together. You really can’t have one without the other, which is something that many saddle manufacturers (especially those with ‘self-adjusting’ or DIY gullet plates really don’t seem to understand). These […]
Today was a fun day. We got done early at the barns so that we could sit around the fireplace, eat stuff and watch the Eventing Prix on Livestream. I always get terribly nervous when Selena is competing. I have been known to put my head in a bag… The only ‘big’ thing I ever […]
Monday is a hard day to blog if you are living here at Balsam Hall. My big excitement of the day is to go to physiotherapy…sigh. Selena, however, has a busy day every day and today is no exception. As soon as the sun was high enough to be safe, she took Zephyr cross country […]
Sunday Marta did both her her jumping phases and Sammy did his cross country. There was sharks’ teeth on our course that were hidden in the shade. He took a good hard look at them. I growled very loudly at him and he jumped. He was very brave at the water and ditch. We made time […]
