Corvette and I had a fantastic show in Hagen with clear rounds throughout the show and ended by coming 4th in the Youngster Tour with a double clear round. This young horse is certainly showing his worth and doing me proud.
Cassiano Z had a fair show too having a good clear in the Big Tour coming 15th from 95 starters.
HAGEN 24 – 26 APRIL 2009 - Corvette had a fantastic show in Hagen with clear rounds throughout the show and ended by coming 4th in the Youngster Tour with a double clear round. This young horse is certainly showing his worth and doing me proud.
Cassiano Z had a fair show too having a good clear in the Big Tour coming 15th from 95 starters.
LUMMEN 9 – 12 APRIL 2009 – Both Corvette and Goofy had a good show in Lummen, Corvette having clear rounds during the show in the Youngster Tour and finishing 6th in the Youngster Finals out of 76 horses. Goofy was not so lucky, having a pole in the qualifier.
BALVE April 2009 - I have just returned from Balve, Germany where I took my own youngster, Corvette 21 to compete. Corvette has been competing at International shows in the Youngster Tour with fantastic results – in fact at Hagen International recently after two faultless rounds he qualified for the final and came 4th in the final there – this is a very prestigious show and a good testing ground to see how Corvette coped with the pressure – which he did magnificently. Anyway at Balve I decided to up my game with Corvette and entered him in the first two small tour classes which he handled well with only one pole down in each. So I took him on the final day into the medium final and had two perfect clear rounds – this is thrilling as it looks like Corvette is certainly able to hold his own and we must be careful not to be too ambitious with him as he shows such terrific scope. Crocket has successfully had his stem cell treatment and we are only keeping him for the big ones once he is back on track. Goofy has had a well earned rest and is now coming back into work, he had a disappointing GP in Balve but we are hoping it is because he needs to get back into the swing of things and does have to watch as he struggles with soft back tissue damage.
In the meantime Oliver is riding two of Ludger’s young 5 year old stallions and last week took them to a Bundes Qualifier – both qualified for the prestigious Championship later in the year so Ludger is well chuffed, as they were not overly optimistic the horses were upto it.