Cordy and Mat jumped at Addington today, Cordy jumped a lovely double clear to finish 6th in the Newcomers, Bellagio also competed in the Newcomers  but unfortuately the heavens opened as he entered the ring and he had a couple of poles but we got a lovely picture of him jumping in the downpour!!

Mat took Bellagio to Addington today to jump the Discovery, he jumped a lovely double clear in a slow enouugh time not to put any money on his card.

Cordy competed at the RIHS with Mat, her first stay away show, she learnt alot at the show and finished with a place in the 1.10m on the 25th July.

Mat took Bellagio and Cordy to Patchetts today, Bellagio jumped a fast double clear in the 1m open to finish 10th and just missed out of a placing in the 1.05 Scope Adventurer Qualifer. Cordy jumped a very fast double clear in the 1.05 Scope Adventurer qualifier to finish 6th qualifying for the 2008 Scope Festival and she just missed out on a place in the 1.15m Scope qualifer.

Bellagio and Mat went to Addington today, they went double clear in the British Novice to finish 11th.

Cordy and Mat went to Snowball Farm today, they jumped a beautiful double clear in the middle of a thunder storm to win the Newcomers class.

Mat just took Bellagio to Blewbury EC today, to jump a British Novice, they jumped a lovely double clear to finish 2nd.

Mat took Teddy and Bellagio to Addington Manor EC today to jump the British Novice and Discovery classes, both horses went double clear in the British Novice and Bellagio finished in 7th.

Today Renkum Meranta gave birth to a huge stunning bay colt by Masterpiece, both mare and foal are doing extremely well.

Today Lionels Lucky Lady gave birth to a stunning bay filly by Georgeo II, both mare and foal are doing extremely well.

Today Mat took Cordy to Patchetts to jump the newcomers, she jumped a lovely double clear and finaihed just out of the placings, which was just what we were aiming for as we would like to get her Newcomer double clears for 2009 before she goes out of Newcomers money.

Today Truelumee gave birth to a stunning coloured colt by Masterpiece, both mare and foal are doing extremely well.

Mat took CVS Hot Business (Teddy) to Bromyard EC today, to compete in his first ever Elementary BD tests, Teddy achieved in the low 60%'s in both tests finishing in 3rd and 5th place, very respectable for his first outing at Elementary level and hopefully he will becaome more established at this level soon.

Mat took Cordy to Summerhouse EC today, just to jump the Newcomers, she jumped a lovely double clear to finish 5th, this double clear qualified her for the Newcomer Regional Finals for 2008, meaning that since moving to Mat in September she has gone from jumping British Novice to qualifying for the Regional Finals in British Novice, Discovery and Newcomers.

Cordy and Bellagio went to Patchetts EC today with Mat to compete in the British Novice regional finals, Bellagio had a couple of unlucky poles in the first round but we were delighted with him as he had never jumped a course this big before and Corsy jumped a lovely clear to get into the second round, the competition was extremely tight and unfortunately she had a pole in the jump off but finished 12th overall out of 90 starters.

Today Ninette gave birth to a stunning bay colt by Ousbek, this foal was concieved from sub standard frozen semen and is most likely to be the last ever foal by the International JA Stallion Ousbek, has there is only 1 dose of frozen semen left in the world from this amazing pony stallion. The pregnancy was achieved by Chris Shephard of the Willesley Equine Clinic, one of the best Equine reproduction Vets in the UK.

Today CVS Athena gave birth to a stunning bay filly by Loheky Helios de Bornival, both mare and foal are doing extremely well.

Mat took Cordy to the Hand EC today, just to jump the one class, the Newcomers, she jumped a lovely double clear to finish 4th.

CVS Bellagio, CVS Sunkist (Kizzy) and Renkum Corlandia went to Summerhosue EC BSJA today, Bellagio and Kizzy jumped in the British Novice and Discovery classes, Bellagio jumped two super double clears to finish 5th in the British Novice and 4the in the Discovery, a carbon copy of his results from 6th May and Kizzy has a pole in the first round of the British Novice and had a couple of poles in the jump off of the Discovery but jumped superbly and was just looking a little tired in the jump off, we were very delighted with her though as it was only her 2nd ever show!  They then went home and Cordy was bought back for the Newcomers, Cordy was being a little hormonal in the Newcomers and had an unusual pole in the first round, so we entered her in the 1.15 open, as we didn't have time to wait for the Foxhunter class, where she jumped a super double clear but was unfortunately just out of placings on time, but we all had a super day in the sunshine!

Bellagio, Teddy  and Cordy went to Summerhouse EC with Mat today, Bellagio and Teddy jumped in the British Novice and Discovery classes, Bellagio jumped double clear in both and finshed 5th in the British Novice and 4th in the Discovery and Teddy had a pole in the jump off of the British Novice and a pole in the first round of the Discovery class but he showed an improvement from Hartpury and we are really excited that he is going to do well in BSJA as well as BD. The boys were then dashed home and Cordy was bought back in time for the Newcomers, she jumped a fantastic double clear to finish 2nd, so a great end to a good day of jumping.

CVS Bellagio and CVS Hot Business (Teddy) went to Hartpury BSJA today, both horses  jumped in the British Novice and Discovery classes, Bellagio had an unlucky pole in both jump offs and Teddy had a pole in the first round of the British Novice and a pole in the jump off of the Discovery but we were delighted with both horses as Bellagio jumped beautifully and it just wasn't his day today and this was Teddy's first ever show jumping competition and both poles were genuine baby mistakes and he really tried his heart out.

Mat took CVS Bellagio to the Hand EC to try and get the last double clear he required to qualify for the British Novice second rounds for 2008, Bellagio jumped a super double clear to get his qualification and will now be jumping int he second rounds with Renkum Corlandia.

We had a new arrival today, our head studbook mare GWYR Catch the Star gave birth to a stunning dark bay colt by CVS Hot Business, both mum and baby are doing very well.

CVS Bellagio and CVS Sunkist jumped BSJA with Mat at Summerhouse today, both jumped beautiful double clears top finish 3rd and 6th respectively in the British Novice, a great result especially as it was CVS Sunkist's first ever competition.

CVS Bellagio jumped BSJA at Summerhouse today, he jumped a lovely steady double clear in the British Novice to finish 7th.

Cordy competed at the Winter Show Jumping Championships (Blue Chip Championships).
She jumped a beautiful clear in the Power Championship with Mat (1.15m 1st round) to get into the 37 horse jump off, she unfortunately had 2 poles in the jump off but finished twenty something out of nearly 90 starters. Cordy then jumped in the Discovery Championship (1.05m 1st round), she again jumped a lovely clear round to get into the jump off but sadly took 2 poles in the jump off, we were still delighted as she finished twenty something out of over 100 starters.
Cordy then jumped a Newcomers later in the week but unforunately had the first fence down to finish with 4 faults.

Cordy jumped at BSJA Summerhouse today with Mat, she jumped a beautiful double clear to finish 2nd in Newcomers.

Teddy went to Addington Manor today to attend the SHB(GB) Stallion Grading, he was really well behaved and past comfortably and were delighted with his marks, which included an 8.5 for paces, carriage and elasticity! He was a real credit to Mat and all his hard work and attention to schooling and I was very proud that one of my babies is now a graded stallion. The link to the photos will be put on the website as soon as the photos are up on the photographers website.

Cordy competed at West Wilts EC today in the Newcomer/Blue Chip Power Qualifier, she jumped a beautiful clear round in the first round and was 8th to go in the 17 horse jump off, Mat decided to go for a clear with one turn rather that go for a win and she jumped a beautiful round to finish 7th, qualifying her for the Blue Chip Championships again, we were delighted as this means she is jumping in 2 championships at Blue Chip now.

Today Loheky Helios de Bornival and CVS Hot Business, attended the Willesley Equine Clinic Stallion Parade held at West Wilts EC, both stallions were ridden by Mat and behaved beautifully.  It was a very enjoyable day that was well organised, with looks of lovely stallions to view.  Both stallions were videoed and this videos can be viewed on You Tube.

Mat competed Teddy and Cordy at Burrows Court Farm today, This was the first time that Cordy has ever competed in Dressage and she did two prelim tests and scored in the low 60% for both, she got some really positive comments and she should do well really quickly. Teddy competed in the open section of the two Novice classes they were running, he scored 68.4% in the first test and came second and he scored 70.83% in the second class and came third.

Teddy competed at Addington today, in the Novice Freestyle Dressage to Music Regional Finals, he finsihed 11th overall with 65.46% with we were delighted with as he was the youngest horse in the class and it is his first regional finals, so we felt it was really great to finsih in the top half of the class. Also in the class was Teddys full brother Renkum Raphael, who finish 7th with just over 67%.

Cordy competed BSJA at West Wilts EC today, in the Discovery Blue Chip Qualifier, after a little flirting with the stallion also warming up in the warm up arena she settle really well and jumped a beautiful clear round, she was fairly early to go in the jump off but managed to go into the lead and stay there, winning the class and qualifing for the Blue Chip Championships.

Teddy competed at Home Farm EC in Cheltenham today, in his first Novice test he scored 68.8% and won the training section and would have won the Open section if he had been entered in it, then he competed in his second Novice test, a Novice Qualifier and scored 70.7%, winning the Open section, which had alot of very nice horses in it, he scored 8's for some of his canter work, his centre line and walk work. He has now qualified for the summer regionals.

Mat competed Renkum Corlandia (Cordy) BSJA at Hartpury College today, we got there abit early so decided to jump the Discovery as well as the Newcomers, they did a beautiful double clear in the Discovery class and finished 2nd (with around 80 entries in the Discovery) and then they jumped beautifully in the Newcomer class but unfortuately had 4 faults but still finished 7th, so a very good day!

Mat competed Teddy at Burrow Court Farm today, they won the training section of their first Novice test with an excellent 73.33% and would have been 2nd had they had been entered in the open section, they scored 9 8's through the test which we were over the moon with, they also got 8's for some of the canter work, which we were delighted with as canter is Teddy's weakest pace! They then competed in another next Novice test and despite Teddy being tired they scored 70.9% and were 2nd in the open section, again scoring 8's for some of the canter work, which we were again delighted with.

Teddy competed at Bromyard EC today, he came 2nd in the open section of Novice 37 with 63.57%, and Teddy also recieved his first 8 in competition.

Mat competed Teddy at Hartpury College today, they were first in the training section of their first Novice test with over 65% and would have won if they had been entered into the open section, they then competed in another Novice test, a Novice Qualifying class and recieved 67.4%, winning the open section section!! 

Georgeo II left us today for his new home, he will be greatly missed but we wish his new owners the Phoenix National Stud the best of luck and hope they enjoy him as much has we did.

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