Fulmart Feeds "props" put to good use in training

March 2015

February has been a somewhat frustrating month as the weather has not assisted us, this has made training the young horses rather challenging.    However, we have had a days training over the portable cross country fences on the all-weather at Keysoe, this proved to be a very productive and an enjoyable day with the horses, Paddy, Sneezy, Timmy, Pat and Daley.   This brings me nicely on to our team of horses.

First Date (Daley) 5 year old dark brown gelding by Up to Date, aimed at BYEH, 5 year old series and BE100.

Fire Power (Paddy) 6 years old bay gelding by Catherston Dazzler, aimed at BE100 and Novice Mr Sneezy (Sneezy) 7 year old bay gelding by Oroko, aimed at BE100 and Novice Bay Gabriel (Tractor) 8 year old bay gelding by Amiro M, aimed at Intermediates and 2* DHI Timeroy (Timmy) 14 year old bay gelding, Shane 10 year old bay gelding, Timmy and Shane belong to Simon Grice and he will compete them himself at BE90 and BE100, the dream !!!! would be to qualify for Grassroots.

Also this month we took the horses to Houghton Hall Show Jumping, they were all a little fresh, but we jumped plenty of clear rounds, we also made sure the horses went into the Dressage Arena and familiarised themselves with the arena and judges box.

Hopefully we will get some cross country schooling in next week, fingers crossed the weather stays fine, I would also like to find a couple more Show Jumping shows to attend before our  season starts at Great Witchingham 27 to 29 March, we will then head off to Norton Disney.


I have taken some pupils cross country schooling to Little Downham, the facilities were in full use, the biggest challenge was the ground, but at least they have had a cross country school of turf in preparation for Aston this weekend.

If any of you are familiar with the Eventers International Facebook page you will see we have been using the Fulmart Feed banner to great effect.   Last weekend’s challenge was to ride a beautiful square holt in the middle of the banner.

The next Fulmart Feed Challenge will be to jump a single bale of your haylage (it will have guiders attached!!!!)

Next month’s blog will be about Lucie, one of the Fulmart Feeds sponsored riders, who is having a training session with me as part of her preparation for the Badminton Grassroots Championship.

As the season begins this weekend I would like to wish you all the best of luck.

Tiny