Rachael & Zenif
I wanted to let you know that we had a very successful in-hand show today. Alice, Leah & I took Charlie, Mel & Zenif to take part in the In- Hand Arab and Home- Bred class. Zenif won the class, Mel was 4th & Charlie 5th. MORE INFO…
Archive for the ‘Rider Updates’ Category
The horses and I have been really busy having their annual MoT from the vet, dentist and bowen therapist.
I was part of a 4 person team on Good Friday in the Kingsleaze Riding Club 10 mile Castle Coombe treasure hunt. MORE INFO…
Photo Courtesy of Leah Tuck
After a disappointing ride a couple of weeks ago, Rachael and Charlie have had a fantastic weekend – below is an update from her:
“Dear all. What amazing weather we had today at the Tresham Endurance GB ride, which was only 3 miles down the road from my home. I was worried about competing on home turf after our last outing went wrong and the past 2 weeks I’ve not ridden Charlie due to him being sore after the cob collided with us, Bowen treatment, a new farrier fitting wider shoes and then I had an ear infection – so because of all of these things I woke up at 3.30am and couldn’t sleep! MORE INFO…
I wanted to let you all know that I was able to compete at the Forest of Dean Endurance GB ride on Sunday due to there being a cancellation after being on their waiting list.
Charlie started off with a pulse of 36bpm and finished the 30km route on a pulse of 44bpm. MORE INFO…
Rachael Claridge's groom Jane & Charlie
Just a quick email to let you know that Charlie (Maarhabi) and I completed the 24km Maryland training ride run near Chepstow, Forest of Dean this weekend.
Rachael & Zenif
The first weekend of December saw me take Zen (Silver Zenif) to the Cotswold EGB Christmas ride atBarburyCastle, Marlbourough.
Zen was such a good boy, travelling to and from the event with not a problem at all.
I wanted to let you know the good news in the Claridge & Phoenix Field Arabians Household last week.
This weekend Mum (Jo Claridge) was re-elected onto the Management Board of Endurance GB at the AGM and she kept her place as Chair of the society.
We took our 2011 foal Ali Shahrif to his BEF Futurity for endurance young stock at Tall Trees in Cornwall with his mother, our brood mare Shahlua.
Shahrif was awarded 8.74% out of 10, a great result for a 3 month old foal.
Charlie and I had a very successful weekend, with Adam and Jane doing a sterling job crewing for us, in an 80km ER race on Saturday at BarburyCastle. I was one of twelve riders competing for the South West branch of Endurance GB in the Inter-Regional Championships. We’ve been in the team for the past three years and have helped achieve a silver medal but this year we won gold! MORE INFO…
I have changed farrier this week because Mel has been 99.9% sound and I need him to be 101%! The farrier hadn’t been trimming enough off of Mel’s near hind hoof which was an odd shape after an abscess in so he was dragging it…this was also the leg he broke so he’s lazier on it – but its all in his head so I needed a farrier who would assist Mel in getting over his mental block that there is something wrong when there isn’t! MORE INFO…
