Baba

                                                                                                              February                                                            2015
                                                     Schooling outing to Deauville, probably the first time he's ever jumped inside! How did that happen!
                                                                                                                  OCTOBER                                                                          2014
   Before going back to France, Red takes the old girl for a ride. A few days shy of her 70 th birthday my  mum comes out for a ride round the farm and we take some birthday pictures for her.
                                      ALDON NOVICE 12th
  Ginger's dressage mark  might not suggest a huge improvement but we have turned a corner, he's  really begun to understand what it's about. Rather a shame that we warmed up beside a small holding that issued forth a great yeti goat complete with horns only minutes before we were going in. Ginge knows all about goats but he's not seen one like this ( neither have I!!) and we're a bit dumbstruck for a while. He got stressed before the showjumping as Turnip was bell aching to him from the stables and it cost us two poles but he gave me a proper ride xc. It was definitely the most course he's ever done, not height but trickiness and he was just offended that I thought he might not be sure where to jump. Ginge loves xc, Ginge lives for xc.

                                                      CALMSDEN Novice clear xc

                                                              SEPTEMBER                                                     2014

                                                                                                              Moreton Morrell BE100 Open

                                              Double clear despite mum doing her best to miss the turn to the owl hole, good job ones of us knows what we're doing!
                                                                                                            GATCOMBE   NOVICE

                                      After doing nothing worth doing for a year Ginge comes back with a bang to do the novice at Gatcombe right where he left off last year. he has a couple of sj poles but is generally a lot calmer than I dared hope for, a lot more settled in the ring than last year and a really lovely xc round. Unfortunately the photographer blurred my best corner pic so I'll have to make do with last year's from the water!

                                                                                           Aston le Walls xc schooling in the swanky new arena!!!!
                                                                                                                  AUGUST                                                                                           2014

           Running around at Rouvrais, xc at Briouze.

  It's not done yet Ginge!

                                                                                                                   OCTOBER                                                                            2013

                                                                                                         DAUNTSEY NOVICE
                                                                                  double clear, first point!

                                                                                                      SEPTEMBER                                                     2013

                                   GATCOMBE NOVICE

Ginge doesn't handle the stalls round the sj  so well but he gives me the ride of my life xc - go Ginge!

                                                                                                                          AUGUST                                                               2013

                                                                                                            WEST WILTS NOVICE

                                                                                                   ASTON LE WALLS NOVICE                                            


                                                                                                                            JULY                                                2013
                  UPTON HOUSE BE 100 double clear

                          DAUNTSEY BE 100 double clear 6th

                                                Some shoes before we head back to Blighty for some parties
                                                                                                             MAY                                                         2013
                                                                        Trips to the beach and some schooling at Gavray

                                                                                                              APRIL                                                                                                2013

                                                                                   Ginge out showjumping at Briouze, Brecey and St Sever

                                                                                                                              March                                            2013

    Red does things back to front , he goes down to Rennes for a metre prep class where he goes well but has a pole down, then I take him to Beny Bocage for a 95cm class. It's nice to bring him back down with his easy comfort zone so I can worry about other things than the height of the fences.
                                                                                                      February                                                                   2013

                 Red puts his night vision to the test at the training show at Auvers it was a lot darker than it looks in the photos, hence why they're all blurred. 

                                                                     January                                                           2013





   I take my favourite galloper to my favourite beach for my birthday shame we didn't get a pretty sunset, we deserved  it braving the bitter cold, but the clouds were rolling in full of the snow we'd wake up to in the morn.


                      Yippee!

                                                                 December                                                            2012

Since we no longer have Rog for Christmas fancy dress, Red has to man up and step into his shoes. A role he seems to quite enjoy, especially if he can get to kiss pretty girls under the mistletoe.
Even if he does have to endure more pigs!
What's a fella got to do, to get away from a pig round here?

                                                                 November                                                            2012

                                                                 October                                                            2012

Red jumps the metre class at St Lo in the sun above and  a clear at Caen in the gloom to the left.
 
Red tries his hand jumping inside at night under lights just down the road at St. Hilaire. The cattle market is transformed into an indoor arena with tons of sand laid a couple of feet deep.
He dodges the trees in the fabulously dressed arena to jump clear and come 7th which pays the entry if it doesn't buy us the much needed beaker of mulled wine!

                                                                       AUGUST                                                      2012

                                              FIRLE PLACE BE100
   Red tries hard to concentrate........

                ASTON LE WALLS BE100

                              BURNHAM BEECHES BE90

                                                                     JULY                                                                 2012

Finally I get to pick Red up from France and bring him back to the UK for some competitions. It seems like the break hasn't done him many favours. This is our first combined training outing. Are we in the show arab class or the war horse sequel?

                                                                 March                                                                 2012

                    


                                       Red admires the new born piglets

                                                                      FEBRUARY                                                2012

Red has fun whooping  round the clear round jumping at Le Haras du Pin!!

                                       We have had to borrow this picture of Charlie to the left to prove that Red went all the way down to Le Lion D'Angers to practice over thier xc fences. 

                                                               JANUARY                                                       2012

Red visits the beach for the first time, boy he can't believe how big it is! And more horses galloping round in the dunes!

FANDANGO EXCITING!

                                                             DECEMBER                                                     2011

Red visits the Christmas lights in the local village of Champ du Boult. He thinks they are beautiful in the dark rain. So do I, I'm having the time of my life!

                                                                 OCTOBER                                               2011

Red gets a bit more competition experience under his belt before we miss this year altogether!

                                                             AUGUST                                                       2011

            Red goes on his first serious xc expedition, schooling at Lyneham Heath.

                                                               Red does water every which way!

                      Corners,

                   skinnies

                                         And ditches!

                                                 MARCH                                                                                             2011

 

   Red goes xc schooling for the first time , he takes to it like a duck to water and  really enjoys himself.I had expected him to be very spooky and silly but none of it, we only got a few bucks! 

 
 

           Red remembers he has front legs that need bending too!

                    I'm glad, it was getting a bit hairy.

 

                                                              FEBRUARY                                                        2011 

                                                                                        After a year out of work Red reminds me he has a lot of catching up

                                                                                                                 to do when he first jumps in the field. 

                                                                                                        Who's this pretty ginger pony? 

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