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...
I can’t believe it is just over a year ago since my mum died. The 21st of June would have been her birthday and I know she would have wanted me to carry on as normal and show our ponies....
It’s not often we have two shows in a weekend and we knew preparing nine ponies was always going to be a tough one. Our Saturday morning the alarm was set for 3:00 am so we had enough time to...
After a really disappointing day showing at the South of England on the 6th June, our two hour journey home on the busy M25 seemed longer and hotter than usual. The best result we could manage all day was a...