Late to report but more fantastic results for South Oxfordshire Hunt South Pony Club at the Pony Dressage Qualifier held at BCA last weekend. Individual qualifications at Open and Intermediate and super placings in the Novice as well. Well done guys
What an incredible few days. After leaving the lovely guys we had two super days training at Courtney Bolender Dressage LLC, lots of smiling faces and laughs along with some hard work. Saturday saw us travel to Millbrook for a private clinic at the beautiful Bel-Aire Farm, thank you to Clair for being a very kind host. Today we were kindly hosted by MMDressage for another busy day. A huge thank you to all, you guys are amazing and The Simple Equine for keeping us in line with the tight schedule. Looking forward to seeing you all again in October.
What an incredible couple of days at the Eleazer Davis Farm clinic, USA. Lisa is just the most amazing host. A huge thank you to her for her kind hospitality to myself and Ben Franklin. Great to see old friends and well as new, some great training, lots of laughs and we got to tryout New England Ice cream!!! Keep working hard and we look forward to seeing you all soon
Fab news coming from home for the South Oxfordshire Hunt South Pony Club. Both the Open and Intermediate Eventing teams qualified for the Pony club championships with 5 members gaining sub 30 Dressage scores!!!!! All that hard work at the Pre show training evenings paid off. Super job girls.
Our week at the Hartpury Festival of Dressage finished last night with Maria Dent’s Nazareno Vicon in the Elite Stallions PSG horse of the future. The top 8 from Thursdays class qualified for this championship final held in last nights gala evening.
WOW, what a absolute privilege to be able to ride in an atmosphere like that. Nasa took everything in his stride with one costly blip but we finished in 6th place. Over the moon with how this guy has stepped up to the mark this past week, he’s only done 6 PSGs and to end up holding his own against these horses so proud of him. Excited for the future.
A first place win for Mari Durward-Akhurst Para Dressage Rider today in the international Grade 1 freestyle with 72%!!!
Another fantastic day at the Hartpury Festival of Dressage. A 4th place finish with 70.44% for Nazareno in the Elite Stallions PSG Horse of the Future. The top 8 now go through to the Gala evening on Saturday  This horse is such a dude a huge thank you to the owners for allowing me to train him from a 4yr old.
Mari Durward-Akhurst Para Dressage Rider had another super day with a 2nd place finish in the International Individual test.
What a fantastic day at the Hartpury Festival of Dressage. Maria Dent’s Nazareno Vicon shone and put his best foot forward to finish in 2nd place with 71.45% in a huge PSG class! It was great to get such good marks from all such well respected international judges!
Mari Durward-Akhurst Para Dressage Rider also rode a fab test in her International Grade 1 team test today finishing in 2nd place with just over 70%. Super result
Super morning spent teaching lovely clients in Surrey followed by just as lovely clients at home.
Yesterday was the second coffee morning dressage. This time Stuart Equine and I teamed up with pole work expert Ben Franklin Dressage as he put the guys through a series of exercises. This was followed by the very lucky horses each having a massage from Sharon as the riders had their well deserved coffee and cake!!! Looking forward to seeing everyone at our 19th July coffee morning which is focusing on Dressage to Music. Remember spectators are welcome, please contact Rob to book your slot.
It’s been a busy few days competing. We spent two days at Hickstead with Maria Dent’s Nazareno Vicon, some great results in the PSG and Int1. Yesterday was the turn of Nicky Greenshield’s Summer Dream in the 5yr Shearwater class at Widmer. Considering it was only her 2nd time out she was super, lots more strength needed but it was a great experience for her and that’s all that matters at this age.  Photo credit: The Simple Equine & Widmer Equestrian Centre
