After a busy time at the stud and a few sleepless nights foaling, we left 20 minutes later than we really should have for our second show of the season at Stretcholt Equestrian Centre on 11th of April. Even though...
Can’t believe the show season has come around so quickly. The winter seems to have ended and spring is finally here. The snowdrops have just about finished and daffodils are almost in full bloom. Unfortunately it’s not quite t-shirt weather...
The British National Foal of the Year Show held at Solihull on 30th November was sadly our final outing for 2014. It’s always-difficult washing ponies so late in the season, but it has to be done. The standard of turn...
With only a few more shows to go for our 2014 season our enthusiasm is still surprisingly strong. The Wessex Shetland Pony Group will be our twenty-eighth show with twenty-four different ponies. The Wessex Group’s final show of the year...
The Southern Group Show was held at the Priory Equestrian centre, Farnham Surrey, on the 5th of October. It was the first introduction to the show ring for our strawberry roan colt, Snelsmore Orlando. He has been given time to...
Wow! What a busy week; from TV star on Tuesday to showing champions on Sunday. The week started with filming for Meridian television. The news team approached us to be part of a short piece for the local news about...
The Downs group show on Sunday 10th August continued regardless of the bad weather warnings. We Woke up to find the weather wasn’t as bad as forecasted, so off we set for The Downs group show at Cherry Tree farm,...
Kington show is a well-established county show in the beautiful setting of Wales. This year the organizers decided to put on Shetland ponies classes, so we thought we should make the long three-hour journey to help support them and it...
On Saturday 30th August we decided to make the journey down to Bridgewater Somerset to attend the British Miniature Horse Society (BMHS) Show. With a section for shetland ponies, I’m sure it will become popular in the future. The venue...
Two shows in the one weekend is hard work, especially cleaning and preparing so many ponies beforehand. Some think us totally mad but we were committed to a Sunday show and decided at a later date that the Cadham Shetland...
Roxanne’s first outing; Best foal at the National Performance show 13/07/2014
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The National Pony Show of Wales held at the David Broom Equestrian centre is one of our favourite shows of our year and this year was no exception. In fantastic sun shine, we completed on a great all-weather surface appreciated...