"I had a very busy week last week. Having completed Delboy’s qualification on the Wednesday, we went to Addington premier league on Thursday to try and get a few more of Wizard’s points towards his regional qualification. We also took Bjorn (Headmore Bjorndajoke, no I didn’t think of the name!) - our massive five year old by Jan Brink’s awesome stallion Briar - for the experience.

My first class on Friday morning was a five year old class with Bjorn. He behaved beautifully and, although he was a little spooky, he went where he was told when he was told to and just about did everything in the right place. We were very pleased with him but he got marked down for being green.

The next class was a PSG with Wizard and, although it wasn’t his best test, his way of going was correct and we scored 67.76% and finished fourth in a strong class. We then had to do our Inter I test within an hour of the PSG, and this upset Wiz having two tests so close together, so I retired him in the Inter I.

The following day I had a PSG with Wiz to start with. He was still a little tense from the previous day but still scored 67.1% for third. This also qualified us directly for the Nationals as the two combinations that beat us had already achieved their qualification. I then had another five year old class with Bjorn and, again, he was beautifully behaved but still very green. However, we achieved our aim as he had a bit of competition experience and he will definitely be one for the future.

Another piece of baby news... our Rubinstein mare, Ruby, foaled last night, a full sister to last year’s foal, Robin, who was champion colt at the Hanoverian show."