Well done Corbs!!

Came 1st with Corby at Munstead today, he had the best dressage in his section (26).

Mum got a double clear with Sam and just missed out on a placing coming 11th.

Looking forward to taking Corbs round South of England BE100!

Topham-Brown Photography

I had a fun photo shoot with Les Brown (Topham-Brown Photography) on Tuesday. He took some great photos and hopefully I'll get a few on here and the website soon!

http://www.topham-brownphotography.co.uk

Cullawn Celtic King "Duffy"

© Topham-Brown Photography

Munstead - 27 March 2010

Off to Munstead tomorrow with Corbster! Took him XC schooling on Weds, he was a good boy and jumped everything. Mum will be taking Sam too and our times are about a minute apart!

The week has been ok although not fun in the rain yesterday! Marilyn brought Beau over and I did some jumping with him, he went nicely.

Holly's stable is booked at Somerley and accommodation is booked for Belton!

Dressage with Bobby & Beau

Had a successful day yesterday, took Bobby out for his first dressage competition and he came 2nd!

I was also riding Marilyn Warwick's horse Beau. I've been schooling Beau for Marilyn and this is the third dressage competition I have ridden him at. The last 2 outings we came 3rd but yesterday Beau did a lovely test and beat Bobby to 1st place!

Mum took Sam too and he came 5th so we had a good morning. Going to take Holly up the gallops today and probably Corby too. Corby has been going really nicely and I've been testing out my new optimum time watch taking him round the greyhound track at home, hopefully he will be back up to Pre Novice (sorry BE100!) speed by South of England!

FOR SALE - Cullawn Celtic King "Duffy" & Cullawn My Way "Corby"

Both Duffster and Corbster are sadly for sale. I'm hoping to compete Holly at *** later this year and need the funds to continue our progress and cannot unfortunately afford to compete all of them. I also have some youngsters coming through and not enough time.

They will both be competing at the South of England on the weekend of 10-11 April and Corby will be at Munstead on 27 March.

I have but a couple of videos on Youtube

Duffy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0seD-eYlkI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YljKmh9TY1Y

Corby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coQi2lxkrb8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pttvMcxxa0g

Anyone who is interested please contact me, you can find my details on the website.

Twesledown Picture - Lulu Kyriacou

Great picture that I was tagged in on Facebook, taken by Lulu Kyriacou

Eventing Magazine April - Owner of the Month

Another press cutting! Very excited to have been chosen as the April Owner of the Month in this month's Eventing Magazine!

Fantastic start to the season fingers crossed it continues!!

Horse & Hound - 11 March 2010

Holly and I featured on page 49 of Horse & Hound this week in the report for Isleham, there is a nice picture too taken by Trevor Meeks!

Stop press - Twesledown Result - 2nd!!

Whooohooo 2nd place so pleased!! Holly was brilliant had a 35.5 dressage although I did feel that she went better and more relaxed than last weekend but it was a different test. Had a double clear and got around 9.2 time penalties XC.

She was great there were two nasty corners which caused some a few problems and there were a few fallers today.

Next stop Somerley!! Must get a stopwatch though can't believe I've been eventing this long without one will hopefully help to get less time penalties!

Twesledown tomorrow with Holly Hot Lips!

Twesledown tomorrow. Good times, dressage at 11:38 am so 5:30 am start. Not as bad as the 4 am start for Isleham!

Looks like I will be doing my dressage test straight after a World Champion, Zara Phillips!

I really like Twesledown and figures crossed for a good result. The picture here is of Holly and I at the footbridge last year, not sure the picture accurately shows how big it is!

I'll keep you posted with the result!

Isleham - 7 March 2010

Had a good day with Holly yesterday at Isleham, we came 3rd in the Intermediate. 31.8 dressage, one pole down SJ and 14.4 time penalties XC. The pole in the SJ was my fault put in one too many strides and got her too close to the fence.

Duffy had a good dressage 34.5 (4th after dressage) but unfortunately had three poles down a real shame as he has been jumping so well over the winter! Still first event of the season so plenty to improve on!

Next event Twesledown Intermediate with Holly Hot Lips!

I'm also entered into Somerley International CIC** (30-31 March) and Belton Park AU25 in April.

Not sure about you but I'm enjoying the sun too, life with horses is so much easier when it's dry!