Update November 09

Thought I had better update this. Bam has sold and goes in a few hours to a fantastic home. Yay for Bam. Jack is all better after his sore foot and been to a couple of shows. Got a 4th and a 5th in the SH at Manawatu so now has 3 SH points. And completed a Training horse trial yesterday at QEP. 1 rider rail in the SJ and cruised home easily clear XC. Still needs some dressage work though.

Fox has been out and about. 4 SH points at Carterton, then another 4 at Manawatu even though I'm not really intending to SH him. I took him eventing yesterday also doing Novice and we should have cruised home easy but he just wasn't happy and bowling like he usually is. About 5 fences from home he got underneath a big table top and caught his knees and just tipped me off. I landed on my feet but rolled my ankle on the uneven ground and its got a nasty sprain so I opted not to complete XC as I couldn't hold my balance anymore. However I was happy as with his dressage and his SJ was a excellent clear round and he was really tidy and listening to me. Guess you take the good with the bad with horses aye :-)

Jack will be on the market hopefully before Xmas and I will continue to SH him and SJ him until he sells. Hes a cool boy but I dont have the $ to compete 2 horses.

Flaxmere Horse Trial

I almost didn't go to Flaxmere, I was forced to scratch Jack when he picked up a stone bruise the week before and missed to much work. Then the forecast for the weekend was crap! I struggled all week with the weather but got in a good ride on Fox every night even in the cold. Even doing a dressage lesson on Thursday night in the rain.

Friday the weather was still awful but thankfully with my new shed I was able to get Fox ready and plaited in the nice dry shed and then just had to trot the boys to the float and off we went.

Saturday the weather was still shocking but we headed off to Flaxmere cos i thought dressage in the rain can't be to bad. I was first to ride in my Novice start which I thought was mean for my first Novice! But it worked out well cos I got a nice little fine break for my test with no wind or rain and Fox held it together to do what (for us) was a very tidy test. I was please with our score as we didn't embarrass ourselves and weren't last!

SJ the sun came out but the grounds were still wet and the course was pretty decent. We dropped 2 early rails but I was pleased with this.

Sunday and the sun was beaming! What a awesome day. The ground dried out and the galloping was excellent. Fox was a star, he jumped from the start box into gallop and didn't slow down or back off the whole way. He flew round everything, was a bit sticky over the hideous ditch full of black water that I was most worried about, but mainly cos we jumped the jump into it badly. Nothing else phased him, even thou quite a few were on my 'scared of' list. He came charging home with just 12 time faults which was pretty good and we finished 9th overall. I was happy as with this result.

Check out a photo on http://www.takethemoment.co.nz/photos/v/events/2109Flaxmere/Trevethick_P8195.JPG.html

Bam

Well I have made the reluctant decision to sell Bam. Having purchased Jack, I don't have the time to keep 3 horses in work and as Bam is very green and not ready to go out competing at the level I would like, he is the one to be put on the market. I took him out to an Inhand show just for an outing and he was very well behaved and then took some pics of him at home for his ad. Here are a few pics of him. Fingers crossed he sells.

New horse Jack

I bought myself a nice new horse last week. He is a 6yo TB, 15.3hh by Chatham. He raced as Rara Avis and was pretty useless. I bought him off Georgie Thomson who evented him last autumn season at Training level. Hes a lovely boy, forward moving with nice flat work and a super bold jump. He just needs more mileage before upgrading to Pre Novice.

I just need to give him a proper name and register him and then will be out competing him this spring eventing season. I took him along with me to Pukahu Show on the weekend and did a couple of Show Hunter rounds on him and picked up a couple of ribbons as they were small classes. Here are a few pictures of him and I will get more as we are out and about.

Shed Photos

Pics of the shed.

Shed and Calves

Yay our new shed is finished. Rich and I spent all weekend building the 2 horse yards in it. They are 4.5 x 4m yards. Then we picked up a few calves, ok 27 to be exact. So both yards have 11 calves in each and we have 5 younger ones in our old hay barn. Yards are looking good - nice and high for the horses and nice and big. We have enough materials left to build a 3rd yard which will go in front of one of the yards and will be mostly undercover. I will post some photos tomorrow. Have just been a bit busy.

Almost there

Progress pic of the shed. Has roof on and back wall on and tomorrow will finish the sides an its done. Then we have to kit it out with a couple of yards for the horses/calves.