Victor third ride back in work since New Year; Kerry's first ride in a Year.
Both look comfortable and glad to be in work!

Palomino "Harry" is now15:3hh and filling in to himself. Will probably mature better than 16hh.
Loves having a 'burn' with young Galahad,(brown/black) rising 16hh at 3.5years old.
In the lower photo, Cloud is left foreground (half-sister to Harry) and Victor 10yrold, 15:1hh is on the right.
Photo at home just prior to Harry and Victor going back to work at North Kaludah, Lamb's Valley.

Brooke and Pan enjoyed a very successful weekend at Quirindi ODE.

Stepped up to the 80cm Intro class with a 66.4% dressage and clear S-j and x-c to come in 7th in a field of 19; 3rd junior home...so in the ribbons from two perspectives.

Congratulations Brooke!! 

The top three photos are of Rocco (Canyonleigh Sirecho) and Lisa Kurr at Loudon Hunt Club.
The bottom two are of Harry (Canyonleigh Olympic Chaser) cavorting in the paddock last weekend.
Can definitely see the potential!

Three competitions over the last month for Maybellene, but new experiences at Il Cadore today.

First time in an indoor arena, for the warm-up and she didn't bat an eyelid!

She was a little tense when she first sized up the arena for her first test; the arenas are set into the side of a hill, so there is a narrow surround and a culvert for drainage on the hill side, and the sides of the sand arenas are built up, angled timber, which is the first time she's seen such solid sides at a competition  (Usually poly-pipe arenas) so Jeremy rode her very 'carefully' for the first third of her first test (2D). She remained very accurate and obedient but didn't really relax until the half-way point. In the second half of the test Jeremy was able to show some relaxed, forward paces. 61% was a fair score. After a bit of a break and some hay she was ready to roll again, and an hour later she ran through the 2C very capably. A very harmonious test, showing a constant frame through counter canter loops and transitions, good angle in the leg-yielding, and nice balanced canter-trot-change of  leads. Looking forward to a score in the upper sixties, markedly better than the first test.

What did she score? 62%! You have to be so resiliant in this sport!

The difference in the scoring relates to the spread of marks the judges gave on the day. In the first test the judges scored the best horse 78%; the same horse in the second test scored 68%..so this compressed the marks significantly.

Hopefully she'll be better placed/ranked in the second test, to reward her better work. She was running 9th/24 in the 2D and 5th/26 in the 2C on the scores posted; but there were more scores and final placings yet to be posted.

Many thanks to Jeremy for giving M such positive experiences. 

Canyonleigh Paeon and Brooke Piper at Scone ODE,

10th/30.

Next outing Silver Hills ODE.

Maybellene and Jeremy at Alexander Park on April 1st.

Dam of Sir Galahad.

Novice 2A and Novice 2C classes, not far out of the top6 in classes of 30 and 26 respectively.

Very happy with an "8" for "paces" in the collective scores!