“With Keysoe premier league done and dusted, it was back down to Earth and time to take a couple of the younger horses out again.

Bracks’ first advanced medium

On Saturday 16, we took Bracks (Headmore Boadicia) to Berkshire Riding Centre to do her first ever advanced medium. I was feeling very confident as Erik (Theilgaard, my trainer) had seen her in a lesson this week and he was very impressed with how much she had come on and said that she is going as well as she can at the moment! She hadn’t been to a show for about six weeks but nevertheless she warmed up well and her changes felt super. She got a little bit hot in the test as you warm up inside and the test is outside, but she made no mistakes and stayed with me. Her changes were good but they are so expressive and she almost tried to jump too high off the ground in them! She needs to learn to stay forwards as she puts so much expression in them that she gets a bit stuck, but they were correct which is more than enough for her first advanced medium! We scored a massive 76.88% and won, proving that she will definitely be a better horse at the higher levels!

Relaxation for Zue and a new stallion

Then, on Sunday 17, we took Zué to Sparsholt for another outing. We were just hoping that he would be starting to settle to his competing and relax into it, so I gave him some of my trusty Nupafeed to try and help him do so. He was much more relaxed and his concentration was much better, he is now starting to stay with me at a show rather than letting his excitement get the better of him! We were very pleased at it was a massive improvement from last time and as he relaxes into his competing I’m sure the scores will come!

I have another very exciting bit of news this week! I have a new ride who arrived on Tuesday. Don Rolieto is a rising three-year-old graded BWBS stallion by Don Ricoss. He is owned by Sue Botha and is a very exciting young prospect!”