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Name: Beth Evans Horses Name: Honda Big Name: Krystelle Park Mercury Rising Age: 5 Breed: Anglo Arabian Disciplines: Dressage and Showing Goals: To be competing novice dressage by the end of 2008 and then elementary dressage by the end of 2009. To start doing some more jumping. To try and get the guts up to do an ODE. A bit about you and your horse: I’ve owned Honda since he was 5 months old. He’s always been a cheeky boy, into everything and has to know what you’re up too. He’s a super quick learner, as soon as he learns something he then spends the 5 rides coming up with all sorts of ways to get out of doing it! We’ve gone through it all together and the bond that we have is just amazing. When I had to move to far north QLD for work, he came with me and spent 18 months chasing rock wallabies away from his dinner. We’re a team! Accomplishments: There are so many that come to mind… the first time I rode him was a pretty big one… first canter was also really amazing. The first show jump course we did (30cm at the ARCA challenge in May this year!!) was a super proud moment for me. Winning Champion Hack over 16h at the same ARCA challenge was also a huge accomplishment, there were about 20 horses entered in the over 16h classes that day. Winning our prelim dressage class at the Summer Series (week 2 or 3 I think) was great as well. Something quirky about your horse: As much as he loves his carrots, his absolute favourite treats are the Allens Red Frog lollies! He has all sorts of tricks up his sleeve including bowing, cuddling and waving his front legs around in the air. |
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Name: Wendy Rayner Horses Name: Spag Big Name: Mr Spagcam Age: 9 Years Breed: Thoroughbred Disciplines: Dressage Goals: To have a very soft and supple horse. Also to have Spag go out to different grounds and shows and keep ‘it’ together without freaking out.. This is our biggest obstacle at the moment. I would like to be out competing on a regular basis in unofficial prelim and novice dressage by the end of 2008. In 2009 I hope to be competing at Associate tests on a regular basis. A bit about you and your horse: I bought Spag in FNQ, off the track. What a feisty little devil. Not a mean bone in his body, but of coarse one speed and very sensitive to everything. I probably bit off more than I could chew, as I was just getting back into riding after a very long 23 year break. I didn’t know what a leg aid was. “Don’t you just kick and pull back on the reins for stop & go??????” 3 1/2 years on, we continue to have our weekly lessons. We have been members of MARG for 3 years and in that time many members have watched, for their entertainment, the antics of this once lunatic, hot and very unbalanced horse . I am so proud of what we have achieved together and the bond we now share is incredible. Accomplishments: Hot, sensitive, fast, unbalanced crazy race horse to rhythm, balanced, rideable, talented dressage prospect in 3.5 years. The journey has been fantastic. Something quirky about your horse: Spag hates having anything hanging on a rail in front of him. He has a need to pull whatever it is down and stand on it. I just love the way he looks at me with those big brown eyes when I tell him off. So cute, but very cheeky. |
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Name: Kylie Martin
Horses Name: Sonata Big Name: Maralinga Sonata Age: 14 years Breed: Anglo Arab Disciplines: Endurance and Adult Riding Goals: To successfully complete the Tom Quilty Endurance Ride and to learn better riding skills to do the odd show. A bit about you and your horse: Sonata and I came together quite by accident around 7 years ago. She was a very timid mare and it took us a long time to trust one another, but once she was broken in and since we started our journey together we have been inseparable. She still has a few life issues, but hey what girl doesn’t? Accomplishments: Together we have successfully completed nearly 3000kms, including 2 marathons. She is a gutsy little mare and when she is being ridden she is all business. No time for playing now, she reckons. Something quirky about your horse: Sonata loves her hard feed but not as much as oaten hay, its her favourite food in the whole wide world and she will leave her good feed for the hay. She hates being caught and will do every little sneaky thing she can to get out of it. But yet she loves to be ridden. She absolutely loves to roll, especially after being washed and of course she is white/grey, YAY for me. NOT |
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Name: Helen Elston Horses Name: Kingy Big Name: King Law Age: 8 Breed: Thoroughbred Disciplines: Dressage/hacking/showing in hand Goals: To take Kingy to the Royal Show/to do a decent hand–gallop in show hunter, without being bucked off/ to be able to ride a whole dressage test without forgetting any part of it/to invent a Navman for dressage!!! A bit about you and your horse: Kingy is a Heytesbury boy and is out of their exquisite stallion, Royal Abjar, who is now at stud in Turkey. His dam, Riverdell Miss, was such a superb galloper that she has a race named after her. He was never raced - probably just too laid back! I have had Kingy for two years and he is the most important thing in my life - according to my husband!!! I have been riding since I was ten years old, owning my first pony when I was fourteen. When I was young and mad, I did showjumping and eventing, until I had to have a spinal fusion which gave me a big wake up call and I started to ride more like a lady! Accomplishments: At our very first hack show together, Kingy won champion horse on show (unofficial of course)and I won champion rider - an awesome experience. He’s a very showy boy and we are almost always placed in whatever events we do. Something quirky about your horse: Kingy loves picking up things (especially buckets and blankets) in his mouth, waving them around and then throwing them as hard as he can - often scaring himself! He is very attached to Monty and yells his head off if he can’t see him - I wonder if Kingy is gay??? He is also known as the “shitting machine”! He always knows when he is going to a show and starts off from the moment he gets onto our float until he enters the ring resulting in much tail washing and backside wiping! Kingy loves any form of food, his favourite being carrots, apples and pears, but most of all he loves licorice! |
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Name: Jessica Hoffrén Horses Name: Cassie Big Name: Stockholm Charisma (of course a tribute to my home country Sweden) Age: 5 Breed: Thoroughbred Disciplines: Dressage, Showjumping, Eventing (eventually) Goals: To build on a good foundation and eventually go out and compete novice dressage and showjumping. Might find the courage to do an ODE as well! =O) Work on her ground manners that are a bit all over the place at the moment. A bit about you and your horse: I got Cassie in January -08 as a gift from my partner. After a lifetime of riding and training other people’s horses I’m now a ‘first time mum’ – with a hand full of a ‘youngster’. Cassie is a sweet, sensitive mare with a very impatient personality! Don’t like waiting at all! Being off the track she is a project to re-educate and we both have a lot of work ahead. But it is well worth when I see progress and see a happy pampered horse in her paddock. Accomplishments: Only just getting started but so far we have been on a few outings to clinics and I was very proud of her work at the last SJ training we went to. It is baby steps but we are heading in the right direction. Something quirky about your horse: Cassie is a smart girl who has crowned herself as the ‘break out queen’. If it is not jumping over or skidding under it is going straight through! |
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Name: Emma Maney Horses Name: Jamie Big Name: Movie Star Age: 15 Breed: Thoroughbred ( red head ) Disciplines: Was a hack but now my dressage pony Goals: To compete elementary this year A bit about you and your horse: I have had Jamie for about 8 years but the first 5 years he was just a hot headed TB who I took out hacking he regularly threw big tanties out at shows so after a few years of disappointment was going to give up riding him , anyways to cut a long story short I found the right instructor who we really concentrated on my relationship with him (or lack of) we started training dressage and started going out doing assoc prelim and novice with great success , he is a totally different horse whose whole attitude has changed – he is generally a happy boy who does try his little heart out for me – still get the odd tb tanty on occasions Accomplishments: High point horse and rider at Magenup 2007 Surviving ARCA with around 20 horses in our height - getting reserve champion 15-15.2 , completing the handy pony course and the blue ribbon for completing the 30cm jumping our first ever show jumping Something quirky about your horse: He is very antisocial a bit of a loner, loves lollies and he hates DONKEYS! – |
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Name: Cheryl Honeyman Horses Name: Chipper Big Name: Marrivale Pendragon Age: 10 Breed: Welsh Cob X TB Disciplines: Mainly Dressage now Goals: To improve my position & my riding & to keep learning & enjoying myself A bit about you and your horse: I bought Chipper as a unbroken 2 year old. Luckily for me he has a very sweet nature and has been very easy to handle. Unfortunately he’s not the bravest horse in the world & silly things can lead to mental melt-downs (always at the most inappropriate times) Over the past 8 years we have formed a very strong bond & I couldn’t imagine life without him. Accomplishments: My greatest accomplishment is buying an unbroken horse & educating him. It is scary to know that everything you see & get is because of me and my training. I am very proud that Chipper has turned out to be a lovely horse. I have taken Chipper out & about since he was very young. We have always worked on our flat work as I believe you need good foundations regardless of the preferred discipline. We have done a little SJ (only small stuff) & even got the courage to do a couple of ODE’s (definitely the small stuff). At the moment I am just working on Dressage & getting out to training days & as many clinics as possible. When money permits I would like to do some Associate Dressage days. Something quirky about your horse: The only weird thing I can think of, is that Chipper has a patch of fur on his face which grows and falls out with his winter coat. I have never seen another horse with this in my life. It is very bizarre! (cute but bizarre). |
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Name: Michelle Jennens
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