Current Competition Horses On The Yard
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‘Headley Senator’
16.2 h.h. Chestnut gelding. 6 years old, full T.B.
Senator is competing in unaffiliated dressage and show-jumping and
aiming for British Eventing next season.
Senator has been a big awkward teenager. He has excellent paces and a big jump but he’s not always very co-ordinated in how he uses his abilities. He’s a typical big rangy horse that needs patience and time to reach his full potential.
Update: May 2007
Senator is now back in full work. He's done several unaffiliated dressage competitions coming away with placings in the top three each time. He is still worrying his way through life but we are working along a specific path which seems to be having a favourable outcome. Sat 28th April he did his first BSJA competition in twelve months having just one fence down in the Discovery class. We then went cross-country training on the following Monday at Chyverton Park where he went easily around the more difficult fences. His first event will be at Stockland Lovell on the 12th/13th May.Update: July 2004
Senator has fully recovered from having an operation on both hind legs due to suspensory ligament problems. Been back in work for a fortnight. So we are looking for some unaffiliated competitions in the next few weeks, followed by some B. E Events
November 2004
Senator is now on holiday, getting hairier and fatter by the day. He'll start work again towards the end of January. He finished on a high with his third at Aldon. He will be doing some much needed indoor show jumping to get his brain in gear as he starts next season.
‘Slightly Oliver’
15.2hh Bay gelding. 10 years old. Full T.B. (ex racehorse)
Oliver is the third horse Trilby has produced right from four year old
to intermediate level.
Oliver has excelled himself this season gaining 29 British Eventing Points. Including a six-week hiccup while Trilby dislocated her collar bone.
Apart from two events this season he has been placed in every novice event entered, one of which was the Chepstow 2-day where he was third.
We completed our first intermediate at the South of England showground, Ardingly., the last weekend in September. He did a brilliant double clear to finish second in his section. We aim to finish the season with a CCI* at Aldon event in the middle of October.
May 2007Oliver is now fully retired but will probably end up keeping the young stock company out in the fields. I can't quite remove him from the web-site as he is still very much a character on the yard and has given me so much in the past.
September 2005
Oliver has
now retired from eventing. There is more information on the results
page as to some of the events we entered. He refuses point blank to go
across country. I feel it may be psychological, perhaps due to him
remembering the pain of last year. He is quite happy show jumping and
has been placed in several BSJA shows. We will concentrate on the
indoor circuit and dressage. He will always be a part of TB Equestrian.
He has been totally checked out by the vets and they cannot find any
physical reason.
We very nearly lost Oliver back in July. He is now getting back into work with a month of walking exercise. His performance over the months previous had been gradually going downhill culminating in elimination at Chepstow Three Day. Then we had the same at Stockland Lovell. After that he physically went downhill. I thought perhaps he had a virus brewing but it all came to a head when he started urinating blood. After trips to Eqwest Veterinary Clinic and Bristol where he underwent all number of tests finishing up with a Laparoscopy. A huge mass was found, the size of a football! Initially it was thought to be a tumour which would have meant putting him down but thanks to the combined brain power of many vets and professors they decided the mass was the wrong consistency for a tumour and therefore had to be a haematoma. He was sent home for eight weeks rest then returned to Bristol for more explorations where the vets found that the mass had been completely reabsorbed. Therefore confirming their diagnosis. Well done chaps! We will now see what the onset of work brings but they are confident of a full recovery. Such are the joys of owning animals!
Update July 2004
Oliver’s final event of last year had to be abandoned because he contracted a virus between South of England and Aldon. This year has been eventful! Had two brilliant x-country rounds in Intermediate sections at Osberton and Withington Manor. Oliver has decided dressage is not his favourite past time at the moment. He has been getting more tense at each outing. Culminating with an elimination on the x - country at Chepstow CCI*. He was napping between fences so I knew there was a problem somewhere. Suffice to say he has had his teeth done and was slightly better at the Novice Regional Final held at Milton Keynes - seven hour lorry ride! Lost two front shoes on the X-Country but finished clear, ten seconds inside the time.
‘Copper Carisma’
May 2007
Yes the spelling of Copper Carisma is correct according to his passport! He has now proved himself to be a fully fledged member of the Event Team. He never did complete his first B.E. outing with me at Bovington last year due to my accident. While I was out of action Becky Littleton, my Head Girl, competed him successfully. He had several placings at Intro level after a shaky start due to having to examine many fences very thoroughly before deciding they were safe to jump! Several hunting expeditions helped him to find top gear. He still has to be ridden with the pedal down and lots of encouragement but he is very careful and does a very good dressage test.
He has been unbeaten in most of the unaffiliated dressage competitions we have entered this winter season. He's also clocked up some clear rounds in the BSJA indoor circuit. 4th in one Discovery competition at Tall Trees Arena.
28th April 2007 Had a clear round in Discovery with one down in the jump off in our first outdoor competition at Gwealavellan Farm with the Cornwall Show Jumping Club.
Our first B.E. Event was at Moreton doing the Intro class at the end of March. Had a good dressage score with a double clear inside the time finishing in 2nd place. It was a great way to start things off.
Now aiming to do our first Pre-novice together at Stockland Lovell. We were entered for Blackdown Hills but that event has been cancelled.
Thunder...Copper's stable name... is owned by Mrs. Arlene Burley. She has been a very loyal client through all the traumas of the last year. We hope to continue our relationship well into Thunder's future event career.
January 2008
<>Thunder is now on the market and is featured on our Horses for Sale page.He is such a character that we will be making very sure he goes to the right home. He is a truly talented all-round individual. An impeccable ride out hunting. Adores showing off in the Working and Ridden Hunter show ring. Achieving over 70% in many dressage outings. Has a clean, scopey jump in show-jumping. Excells in Intro classes BE Eventing. Pre- Novice takes a bit more encouragement but rises to the challenge beautifully with a forward thinking jockey.
‘Rambling Allie’ Becky has taken on the task of re-educating Allie from the excitement of the race course to the very different production of the young event horse. Under supervision they have mastered the rudiments of the dressage test plus some show jumping and cross-country training. Allie was bought through a good friend and contact of mine, Caron Roberts, who runs a very successful event yard up near Swindon in Wiltshire. She was bred to race but due to the unforseen break-up of a syndicate partnership she was put up for sale. Her owners were concerned that she should not go to a dealer's yard to be sent from pillar to post.
She has been with us a year now and has been brought on very quietly. She has a lovely temperament and really loves people ( apart from when her rugs are being changed ! ) Becky and she achieved a 2nd placing in unaffiliated dressage at the Cornwall Dressage Group's show held at Tall Trees Arena on the 22nd of April.
BSJA she has completed several British Novice classes. Also been placed 3rd in an indoor cross - country competition at Pendavey near Bodmin.
She has done some cross - country training proving to be very genuine and willing to learn. She is listed in our Horses for Sale link but will continue to be produced in all three phases of Eventing. Allie has been sold to a family in Hampshire. She is currently still with us but eagerly awaiting her trip up north. Hoping to be extending her education in the Pony Club and eventually the event circuit. She will be sadly missed but I know a loving home awaits!
Binneys
Cirrus
I'm also persuing a very long term relationship with a
16.3 hh bay gelding called Binneys Cirrus.
He came to the yard suffering from" kissing spines". Was x-rayed up at
Bristol and eventually had an operation at Liphook hospital. The
operation was a success but I am still battling with on-going
psychological problems plus a certain amount of "attitude". He
has lovely paces and a careful jump but I have yet to convince him that
life is quite fun.
I am hoping I will find a break-through in the next month or so. I have
had some help from Dan Wilson who is one of Monty Robert's riders. He
speaks a lot of common sense and has a real gift with horses.
January 2008
Cirrus has been coming on really well over the
winter...competing at several unaffiliated dressage competitions, being
placed fourth at his first outing. We,ve done some BSJA
shows where he has gone round with eyes out on
stalks but improving each time with only one or two fences down. The
biggest success has been his general attitude which is gradually
gradually improving with real trust starting to come through. He has
yet to see a cross-country fence this side of his rehabilitation but
that will be rectified this Spring ready for the start of the event
season.