Our holiday seems a long time ago now, but am looking forward to the competition season starting again :-) We have the high profile show at Addington next weekend which will be a good test to see where the horses are at after their Winters training. We are hoping to compete at Vidauban end Feb begin March. We will have the Winter Regionals before that and a few local shows to help prepare.
Woodlander Rockstar and U Rockstar are coming on with their Grand Prix work, they won't be established enough to start the season at Grand Prix, but perhaps towards the end of the season we can have a go at an INT 2 . . . Woodlander Wawavoom has come on a lot over the Winter, he will be going to Germany for a short moment for Stallion testing so won't be competing with the others initally. Mike has got Marakov and Half Moon Delphi who he will be bringing out at Grand Prix, Woodlander Dornroeschen is coming on well but again not quite established at Grand Prix yet. Not only do they have to learn the movements when going up a level, it also requires a new level of fitness and strength which takes time, that's why it is always wise to introduce the new things early so the horses not only have time for the new work to sink in but also have time to condition their bodies. Half Moon Dynasty will be doing the Winter Regionals and Woodlander Farouche will be aimed for the 6yr old classes.
Woodlander Rockstar and U Rockstar are coming on with their Grand Prix work, they won't be established enough to start the season at Grand Prix, but perhaps towards the end of the season we can have a go at an INT 2 . . . Woodlander Wawavoom has come on a lot over the Winter, he will be going to Germany for a short moment for Stallion testing so won't be competing with the others initally. Mike has got Marakov and Half Moon Delphi who he will be bringing out at Grand Prix, Woodlander Dornroeschen is coming on well but again not quite established at Grand Prix yet. Not only do they have to learn the movements when going up a level, it also requires a new level of fitness and strength which takes time, that's why it is always wise to introduce the new things early so the horses not only have time for the new work to sink in but also have time to condition their bodies. Half Moon Dynasty will be doing the Winter Regionals and Woodlander Farouche will be aimed for the 6yr old classes.
We have quite a lot of youngsters in at the moment, it is quite a challenge to go from sitting on an advanced horse to then sitting on a youngster and vice versa. Although you are using the same scales of training both require quite a different approach! We hope to bring them out a bit during the season to acclimatize them to the show environment, we will have to sell a few as we cant keep all of them unfortunately :-(
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