I have had a very busy last couple of weeks, with lots of training building up to the beginning of the season. I attended my first lot of Equine Parthway training up at the Unicorn Centre a couple of weeks ago, which was great. We had a jumping lesson with Kenneth Clawson, which was really [...]
Hi readers. Is it too late to wish you all a Happy New Year? We hope that you are all fit and well and looking forward to an exciting 2012!
At last the long, cold days of winter have been replaced by the longer cold days of Spring. Admittedly, Spring brings with it a little glimpse [...]
After a short break, Baileys Jump Training headed to Richmond Equestrian Centre in North Yorkshire on Sunday (18th March 2012) where competitors were put through their paces under the watchful eyes of Moray Nicholson and Louise Smales.
In the JT80 section Katie James and seven-year-old gelding Burishoole Cruise topped the leaderboard. The pair are now in [...]
Laura and Arkendale
Well it’s March and we are all geared up for the season and ready to go! The youngsters have headed out for final cross country training after a winter of dressage and show jumping. The two big boys have also been out and about on the run up to the first Young Rider [...]
Cannot believe it is March already. Badminton tickets have just arrived to get me to wherever anyone wants to meet me. Quite interesting as doing my job, you have to access all areas which means multiple badges, bands, stickers and permissions. I look like a promotional advert or at worst a badge collecting anorak. Assuming [...]
February has been a good month. It started with a heap of snow which I thought was cool for all of five minutes until I realised that you can’t work the horses on it! So the girls and I got the shovels out and dug a two metre wide track around our 60 x 40 arena and worked our horses in [...]
British Eventing’s Baileys winter training Jumping and Style (JAS) series ended this weekend with the final being held at Addington on Saturday (25th February). There was a packed competitor list with exactly two hundred entries, and the winner of each section will now benefit from a free lesson given by former World and Olympic gold [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve found that every time something vaguely amusing happens I think –“ oooh, that could go in my blog” or people say to me “you should put that in your blog”….can I remember a single one of those hilarious anecdotes now? I wish.
This month feels like a turning point at [...]
The Baileys Winter Series Jumping and Style (JAS) qualifier moved on to its penultimate qualifier at Arena UK, Grantham last Saturday (18th February) where the leader board was dominated by competitors who had taken part in several JAS events this season.
Jessica Varley was to win the BE90 section on 13-year-old mare Criminal Missfit, and she [...]
The second Baileys Jump Training event of 2012 took place last Tuesday (14th February) at Wellington Riding in Hampshire under the watchful eye of Coaches David Sheerin and Warren Lamperd. The series offers the opportunity for riders to have the experienced eye of the Coaches on hand whilst taking part in a competitive event.
A mixture [...]
