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Practice makes perfect: Showing in Cadham and Edenbridge

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 show on the Saturday was the perfect small venue for our novice two year colt, […]

June update: one foal at a time

Cliff and I are having a busy time at Snelsmore right now. We’ve hired out one of our fields for dog agility training sessions with agility World Champion Lisa Frick from Finland. People are coming and going all over the place however it’s nice having so much hustle and bustle; the ponies are having to […]

A well travelled family

I can’t believe it was four years ago that Snelsmore Nathaniel was born; it only seen like yesterday. I remember Victoria giving birth to a strong, rather hairy little piebald colt, full of energy and life. His cord hadn’t broken so the afterbirth was still attached but it didn’t really seem to bother him and […]

Snelsmore Roxanne

Roxanne’s first outing; Best foal at the National Performance show 13/07/2014

An unexpected result at The National Pony Show of Wales

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 by both ponies and handlers. Classes in four rings ran well considering the large amount […]

A little help from my Mum in West Sussex

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. So with her in the back of my mind, we took four ponies to the NPS […]

Two shows and a double trouble surprise

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 sort out the animals and leave the yard by 4:30 am for the two and […]

The lows and highs of showing: South of England and Chiltern Group

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 second place in the first class at eight o’clock with Snelsmore Quaffle; it was a […]

Lesson learnt from Chiltern Group show

A few weeks ago we attended the Chiltern group show in Buckinghamshire. The weather was great which kept everyone in good spirits and the show was well supported.  We’re fairly new members to the group and were really impressed with the organization and general camaraderie. Our day was not only good because of the sunshine; Snelsmore […]

Our first outing: Wessex Group show

It’s early March and I can’t believe it’s our first show of the year. It always seems the hardest show, getting back into the old routine is tough after the winter plus the unpredictable nature of the March weather makes it hard to decide whether to wash the ponies or not before hand. On this occasion I […]