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Sponsors and Endorsed Products
| WOW SADDLES WANT a comfortable, unique taylor made saddle just for you and your horse? Then try WOW saddles newly imported by my fantastic sponsor Julia McLean of Kiah Equine. Once you sit in them you cant help but say the word....."WOW". Not only can riders choose their preferred seat, flap and knee roll with panel and girthing options that come together in a saddle designed for both horse and rider but they get a saddle packed with highly desirable features. Also imported are the Korector pads. This is an innovative idea of air bags inside the pad. You can inflate the pad according to the horses shape and saddle fit. It is great for horses with sore backs, loss of muscle in an area and fantastic for horses with very high narrow withers. It stops saddles from having pressure points which leads to back problems and makes for a more comfortable ride for your horse. Website address and link www.kiah.com/ Pictured right Just a Blonde at SIEC with the WOW jump saddle Photo by Derrick O'leary |
Main Event Photography
| Some of my students have had a great season this year with Megan Briant completing at her first 2 star competition at Sydney last weekend. Megan won young rider of the year for the EFA Australia and the EFA NSW young event rider of the year which is a great result for Megan. Above: Megan looking lovely in tails at her first 2 star on Talinger Cavalier. They ended up placing a very respectable 14th out of a large field of competitors. Josie Laver has also been doing great things winning and placing in pre novice's and is about to go 1 star. At 15 years of age this is a great effort. Tori Jeffress placed 5th on her horse Happy Vegimite in the 5 year old young horse class at the weekend of world cups. |
Horse Trials and Tribulations....
There has been plenty happening over the past few months with competing, teaching and trying to deal with all of this rain.
Firstly the arena on my block is great, but with the yards only small and the location close to my dam, it seems that myself and
the horses are walking around in a proper mud bath. Hence the decision to move temporarily back to Harden to train my horses
whilst the winter blues are here. It is amazing the difference water, electricity and stables make life easier!
The competition season has been a bit up and down this year. After a great win in the CIC two star at Berrima ODE on Algebra
(Sam), we then competed and placed 9th in the CIC three star at Albury this year which was a great result.
I was very excited to compete in the world cup qualifier in Sydney this year. Sam had other idea's though, taking a disliking to
the angle brush jump in the cross county phase. Then came Melbourne 3 day event, and after doing an amazing round over
the big scary fences we had a naughty run off at a narrow bullfinch. We managed to finish the event but not quite in the top 10
as planned. I then decided to do the Sydney weekend event a couple of weeks ago at 2 star level for a confidence run. Sam
made the course feel like a pre-novice track, handling the 2 star fences with ease and placing 5th overall. We are contemplating
running at the Sydney 3 day event later this month.
Just a Blonde was great in his first 2 star competition placing 7th at Albury. Unfortunately a bruised foot has stopped us from
doing any events recently, but he is back in work and we are aiming for Adelaide 3 day event later on in the year.
There has been plenty happening over the past few months with competing, teaching and trying to deal with all of this rain.
Firstly the arena on my block is great, but with the yards only small and the location close to my dam, it seems that myself and
the horses are walking around in a proper mud bath. Hence the decision to move temporarily back to Harden to train my horses
whilst the winter blues are here. It is amazing the difference water, electricity and stables make life easier!
The competition season has been a bit up and down this year. After a great win in the CIC two star at Berrima ODE on Algebra
(Sam), we then competed and placed 9th in the CIC three star at Albury this year which was a great result.
I was very excited to compete in the world cup qualifier in Sydney this year. Sam had other idea's though, taking a disliking to
the angle brush jump in the cross county phase. Then came Melbourne 3 day event, and after doing an amazing round over
the big scary fences we had a naughty run off at a narrow bullfinch. We managed to finish the event but not quite in the top 10
as planned. I then decided to do the Sydney weekend event a couple of weeks ago at 2 star level for a confidence run. Sam
made the course feel like a pre-novice track, handling the 2 star fences with ease and placing 5th overall. We are contemplating
running at the Sydney 3 day event later this month.
Just a Blonde was great in his first 2 star competition placing 7th at Albury. Unfortunately a bruised foot has stopped us from
doing any events recently, but he is back in work and we are aiming for Adelaide 3 day event later on in the year.
| Namchok (Matthew) Jantakad wins the Kings Cup in Thailand Matt Jantakad from Changmai, in Thailand did some training at my centre for a few months last year. He competed Jewel Cross to gain qualifications and experience. In that time we found a great horse Clifton Zengarie from Blair Richardson for Mat to take back to Thailand. The aim was to qualify for the up and coming Asian Games in China. Matt recently won the Thailand championship and at only 16 years of age this is a great achievement. We wish him luck for his preparation for the Asian Games in September and will keep you posted on his result. |
Girl with a Curl owned by Mr Ben Smith from Canberra is a very cute welsh cob x thoroughbred. So far she has placed 4th at Canberra ODE in the
preliminary and 5th at Sydney ODE recently. She is an absolute head turner with many comments on how "cute" she is. The aptly named mare is about to
go pre novice at Harden ODE.
preliminary and 5th at Sydney ODE recently. She is an absolute head turner with many comments on how "cute" she is. The aptly named mare is about to
go pre novice at Harden ODE.
Raynick Apache Cat (left) competes in his first ODE at
the Albury Wodonga horse trials event. Apache shows
similar jumping style like his brother Just a Blonde (pic
below at Albury).
Apache placed equal first after the dressage, with a
clear showjumping and cross country round, with one
time penalty we ended up 2nd place overall in the
introductory. I was very happy with him and he will be
one of my future stars!!!
the Albury Wodonga horse trials event. Apache shows
similar jumping style like his brother Just a Blonde (pic
below at Albury).
Apache placed equal first after the dressage, with a
clear showjumping and cross country round, with one
time penalty we ended up 2nd place overall in the
introductory. I was very happy with him and he will be
one of my future stars!!!
Main Event Photography
Julia McLean
| Where would we be at events without our wonderful owners. Pictured below is my puppy Jake mauling John Glenn who owns Algebra with his awesome wife Julia. Julia is always ready to capture all of these moments and takes most of the amazing shots on my website and on facebook. Julia is also the distributor and my sponsor of the fabulous 'WOW' saddles. |
| THE ALGEBRA SUPPORT CREW Besides having his own facebook page, Algebra has his own crew of supporting grooms. Thanks this year to working students Elena Nuila, Mac Jantakad, Abbey and Cloe Cartwright and Josie Laver for giving up their time to help out at grooming at events this year. Sammi and I really appreciate it. Right: Namchai (Mac) Jantakad from Thailand riding the 3 year old Galliano. Mac is here gaining experience as a groom which will allow him to groom for his brother Matt at the Asian Games in China this year. |
