Rocco and Lisa

Rocco starts event season in Maryland

Rocco (Canyonleigh Sirecho) and owner/rider Lisa Kurr had their first Eventing start for the 2011 season on the beautiful Morven Park course last weekend.
A great start, with a good dressage score and clear cross-country and show-jumping phases; finished mid-field in an Open Novice Rider class..but all very close scores.

Photos from grcphoto have just been posted.

http://www.photoreflect.com/store/Orderpage.aspx?pi=0EBK00EA830000&po=0&pc=55

Rocco (Canyonleigh Echo Commander x C. Katy Stardust) is related to both the palominos I have at home at the moment.
C. Katy Stardust is the dam of the Canyonleigh Stud stallion C. Cloudchaser who is the sire of 4y.o. filly Cloud (C.Cloudchaser XC. Amazing Grace whose dam is also a grand-daughter of Kalarama Penny, dam of Katy)..
and also sire of 5 y.o. gelding Harry (C. Olympic Chaser, by C. Cloudchaser x C. Belle Olympia).

Cloud's in foal now, but I have hopes that Harry has also inherited the jumping "eye" and stamina.

Singleton Young riders

North Kaludah 'grooms': Megan Riley on Maybellene and Alexandra Leppien on Aleiro....had their turn on the dressage tour on Sunday at Singleton.
Super young riders!

Would you believe that Maybellene (Black)is 16hh; How tall is Aleiro!!???

Maybellene at SDA

Beautiful sunny day today for Singleton Dressage competition; just the best weather for my sister Andy to visit and catch up on M&M's progress.

Megan had 2 tests on Maybellene, a Prelim in the morning and a Novice mid afternoon.
The pair worked beautifully today.
Christine has been teaching Megan to 'communicate' more, with a young horse and it was exciting to see both partners working for a test result. The fields were very big; there were 30 in the Prelim class with a winning score of 62%, so M&M's 58.8% had her placed 6th.
Another large class in the Novice and again the pair drew comments. "Very sweet; lovely paces"! The scores weren't available by the time we left, but it was a good test, so Maybellene got heaps of pats , and some sugar cubes as reward.
She enjoys her outings and takes everything in her stride.

Many thanks to the North Kaludah team, coach Christine, trainer-coach Jeremy, Sharon Leppien and Alex and Georgia, and Kathryn Crofts for the support calling the test.

New Boyz on the Blok!

Harry and Victor arrived at the crack of dawn this morning.
Many thanks to John from Jackaroo Horse Transport who over-nighted at Cessnock and got up to load the guys before daylight in order to get to me at 7am so I could leave for work before 8!
The boys cooperated, too. Harry(the pally) had never before left the farm and he walked straight out of the paddock onto the truck on Thursday afternoon, was loathe to leave the safety of the truck to change carriers in Sydney, offloaded in Cessnock in the dark and then loaded by the light of the truck lights this morning. No wonder he was happy to unload here this morning. Victor knew more about it all and was a little more questioning of the process, but both boys are happy, eating well tonight, in their new paddock.
Very pretty, friendly boyz!!
Cloud and Laddie can't wait to be up more 'close and personal' than rubbing noses!

Saddlebred history from Kentucky Vet

Interesting short article on the breed development of the saddlebred!

http://www.equinews.com/article/the-history-of-the-american-saddlebred

Friesian Kuring at Cobbitty

Jeremy Janjic on Django of Cacherel has been raising eyebrows as he progresses up the dressage grades with Lynn and Peter Jenkins' stunning Friesian Stallion. A tribute to trainer Jeremy's skill ...and competitive spirit. Currently in the ribbons at Inter1 and Freestyles!
Now he's being matched by partner Christine Crawford on the Jenkins' younger stallion, Jacana TK.
Seen here, together, performing a crowd-pleasing Pas De Deux at the Kuring at Cobbitty, for the visiting Dutch assessors!!
Beautiful, Guys!!

Be great if Maybellene or Galahad get to this level!!??