Equiscene Show Horses

Busy times over the past few months here. With the show season over, we have been busy breaking and educating our youngstock.

We have been working on our first home bred pony Drumeden Encore (Dainhill Elegance x Dainhill Octave). Evan is already very tall and will be just under 14.2hh at maturity. He is breaking in extremely well and we cannot believe how quiet this pony is! He takes everything in his stride and we are very excited to have a show hunter for the coming season!

Damon (Langtree Double Puzzle) is also getting broken in - yes we are very busy! This pony has an incredible attitude and absolutely nothing has fazed him at this stage. He is a very refined pony with beautiful movement. He is the same height as our very successful and much loved Robbie, so he has some big shoes to fill if he is going to replace him!!

Robbie - the most loved pony in the world as been on official duties. We haved weaned our beautiful foal Charlotte (Drumeden Circus) and Robbie is performing the role of Uncle. I have never seen a pony take on a job so seriously! He looks after Charlotte like she is his own foal and she loves him so much! Charlotte quite happily follows Robbie around like a little dog and she is already as quiet as him, with her able to be caught, patted, handled anywhere in the paddock. Robbie, you are worth your weight in gold, hence why I wont sell you even though many want you!!!

We have entered three ponies for Adelaide – so we are about to be incredibly busy once again. Anna, Harry and Tiara (L. Upbeat) will all be making the trip over and we cant wait as Adelaide is our favourite Royal!!

VASA HOTY - Bendigo Showgrounds

We were a little worried about the change of venue for VASA to the Bendigo showgrounds. We tried to head off with an open mind – but it showed that the committee struggled with the facilities and ground. The arena was very dusty and lacked any grass cover, there was absolutely no shade supplied for spectators which caused hardly anyone watching events due to the incredibly high temperatures and the stables were incredibly unsafe. One of our stables lacked having its support pole concreted into the ground, therefore the whole front wall moved and it was very unsafe. The large mesh on the doors is also an accident waiting to happen. Lets hope VASA hear our concerns and make improvements to the grounds and facilities if VASA is to stay at Bendigo.

In saying all of that we had a very successful show. We took our two babies Kolbeach Honours (Harry) and Willowcroft Regal Lady (Anna) and couldn’t be more pleased with their results. Having not been to a show for nearly two months it was a huge ask for them to head off to HOTY and perform to the best of their ability. Anna proved she is going to be a wonderful show Galloway by working extremely well and making the Top 10 in both the Newcomer Galloway and Rising Star class. Harry also had pleasing results by making the Top 10 of the Newcomer Large Pony. Well done to both our babies and thank you to my wonderful strappers De-Bra and Dale. I couldn’t have done it without you!

What a hot and busy couple of days at Warrnambool show! We took three horses across to Warrnambool and each one of them received pleasing results.

Anna (W. Regal Lady) was awarded Reserve Champion to Kolbeach Circus in Ring 1 (Winner of the small Galloway class at Melbourne Royal 2009) and then went onto to be declared Champion Galloway in Ring 2. What a great result for our newcomer and we were so pleased with how she coped with the very atmospheric Warrnambool showgrounds!

Tiara (L. Upbeat) was awarded Reserve Champion Open Small pony in some stiff competition. Not bad for a pony pulled out of the paddock a week ago!

Will (B. Command N Conquer) amazed us all again with his laid back attitude at the huge Warrnambool showgrounds! Nothing fazes this colt and we can only hope it breeds onto his young stock. Will won his 2yo Riding Pony class and then went onto to be awarded Reserve Champion Riding Pony, a great result as Warrnambool is a Riding Pony qualifier show.

From Horsham show we headed down to Werribee Park to compete at the EA State Titles. Nothing like throwing our babies in the deep end! Both babies handled the big event extremely well and made us all very proud.

Harry made the Final 10 of the Newcomer Large Pony and Anna made the Final 10 of the Newcomer Galloway.

I would like to also thank my wonderful strappers Debra and Dale for all the help with our hectic week!!

Kolbeach Honours (Harry) and Willowcroft Regal Lady (Anna) made their saddle debuts. Both horses exceeded our expectations to say the least!!

Harry was awarded the following prizes: Champion Led Riding Pony, Reserve Champion Led Newcomer, Champion Open Led Horse, Champion Newcomer Ridden Pony, and Champion Open Ridden Pony.

Anna was awarded the following prizes: Champion Led Newcomer, Reserve Champion Open Led, Champion Ridden Newcomer Galloway, and Reserve Champion Open Ridden Galloway.

We had a wonderful show and thank the Horsham Ag Society for running such a wonderful program and for also being so incredibly accommodating to us horse competitors.