LNC Eventing: Weekly posts

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Weekly posts

Ok, right. So my aim is to do general weekly updates then for then put more posts up depending on how much training/competing I am doing.

Right, so I dropped my parents off at the airport at 6am last friday, and when they left my dad's horse had a slightly swollen leg. After bute/box resting her for the weekend, she was fine by the time monmday came around and I put her back out in the field (apart from my eventer they are all still living out). Tueday she was still sound, and I thought nothing of it. However, when I went to put some haylege out this evening for them, I saw her nearly hopping over to the piles i'd left. Ahh c**p. In came the horse, hosed her legs off and managed to pick out the swollen leg's hoof and she wouldn't let me pick up the others. Her leg was extremely hot and swollen. So out came the vet. Finally, she put it down to what she suspects to be an abcess in her hoof, and so she removed the shoe with much difficulty and poulticed the hoof. I've given her two butes tonight and two in tomorrow mornings feed, and I am under instructions to phone the vet tomorrow.

Meanwhile I am meant to be having a Riding Club SJ Lesson with Fredrik Bergendorff on saturday with Moomin, however as I've been ill this week I've not been able to bring him back into work as quickly as I'd hoped so as Remi is still pretty fit I've decided he would be a better one to take, plus it would do him good to get his confidence back jumping after such an awful time at Aldon CIC*.

I am off to dose myself up on Lemsip Cold and Flu tablets and watch some Bear Grylls "Born Survivor".

Until next time, and hopefully I will be feeling a lot better!!

xx

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Meet Tisrara Dream aka Remi.

Remi is an 8yo ISH x Connemara (Moores Clover x Genessa). I bought him from Fox Farm Equestrian when he was a 4yo and couldn't canter a 20m circle. Since then, we've had a lot of success eventing, show jumping and dressage. He's represented the North Warks Pony Club at Championship Level Intermediate and Open Eventing and Open Dressage to Music. In 2008 we were a sole individual from our PC getting to the Intermediate Eventing Championships (this was our first season at this level) and we finished 7th in our arena. In 2009 we won the PC Intermediate Eventing Championships getting a 26.79 dressage and a time fault for going too fast XC (oops!!) finishing on 27.79, about 5penalties clear of the 2nd placed rider. Our team also won that year, making the whole thing so much more special.

Since then we have won and been placed in many Senior BS classes and have recently won our BE Novice section at Moreton Morrell on our dressage score of 30.5.

I look forward to the 2011 season on him, hopefully completing a few CIC*'s and hopefully a CCI* before selling him at the end of the season.

Meet Marquis De Montaire aka Moomin

Moomin is a 5yo Dutch Warmblood by Guidam (Quidam De Revel). We were originally going to be selling Remi at the end of the 2010 season, so we started looking for a young horse to bring on and event and found Moomin instantly falling in love. We had him vetted a few days later and bought him home. This season was a bit of a plunge into a deep end with him, he went out show jumping and XC schooling straight away and was entered in two BE90s, completing one at Holdenby with a few stops XC.

I am to gain experience with him over the winter and hopefully get him up to Novice BE Level next summer and apply for the CIC** European Team training at the end of 2011 for the 2013 Euros.