I am sorry it is a bit out of date now but we had a lot of fun at Chard.  I was riding Vicky’s two six year olds, only in the 90, probably we felt the main thing was it was good to get them out.  Both went very nicely, finishing second and fourth and will have benefited from a nice easy outing.   It was fun that day to have my daughter and niece also competing, Olivia was co...

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So today we had a totally stupid glance off on the cross country.  Boysie was having a very comfortable and easy round. He was going really confidently and nicely, and we just floated hopelessly past the house in the water.  Don't really know why, did he see something? a very annoying 20 which doesn't really matter but is frustrating.

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I rode two of Vicky's horses, Lucky and Hardy today in the 100, and I had very pleasing first outings on them both.  Both did super tests; Lucky did 27, Harry 26.  Both a bit green at times in the show jumping but I was very pleased with their rounds.  They both had one fence down, and actually they both could have jumped clear rounds but they were still quite green. ...

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Yesterday was a very pleasing day at Wellington with the Novices. Seeing Double is definitely settling in and I was very pleased with his dressage test, even though he got 33 he did some very nice work.  He show jumped as usual foot perfectly, and gave me a very pleasing ride cross country.  We did have a stupid glance off at an arrowhead coming out of the water, h...

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I have had a very happy day at Aston, all four horses doing double clears - it doesn't get much better than that.  They all did pretty decent dressage as well.   Latest Edition was quite bright and breezy, a bit frisky in his dressage.  He did some lovely bits and was quite excited with boundy moments, and did well to get a 31 obviously with some nice marks in there.  He show...

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