Continue reading »]]> The Blue Chip sponsored and supported riders had a great show with some fantastic results including;

Lightweight working hunter won by Into the Blue ridden and owned by Louise Bell

Heavyweight working hunter won by W Get Smart ridden and owned by Louise Bell

Ladies Hunter won by Oathill Take the Biscuit ridden by Danielle Heath

Middleweight hunter won by Oathill Take the Biscuit ridden by Danielle Heath

Small Riding Horse won by Whittakers Prince ridden by Danielle Heath

The Blue Chip Flat Ridden Sports Horse class was won by Fairfax C ridden by Hannah Horton and owned by Miss S L Fitt

Heavyweight hunter class – 2nd place Avalanche produced by Danielle Heath

Pre-Veteran ridden class – 2nd place I’m Blue Chip Too ridden and owned by Mrs Clare Blaskey

Novice Riding horse – 2nd place Daldorn Laras Theme ridden by Jo Bates

Large Riding Horse – 2nd place Eclips produced by Danielle Heath

Novice Riding Horse – 4th place Quantum of Solice ridden by Danielle heath

Continue reading »]]> Adam and I took my retired endurance horse Prince Meliodas to the EGB Mynydd Machen ride near Newport on Sunday 5th May to do a 32km ride, which he sailed around at just under 14kmph. We also helped an injured rider who unfortunately got bucked off in front of us near check point two. The lady fell off backwards onto boulders as we rode down off a mountain – very nasty but thankfully she was ok but I’m sure she was very bruised the next day. Adam is off to Dartmoor on the 10th with his scout group for Ten Torrs. He will be joining me at Exford on Sunday where Maarhabi and I will escort a para-rider around a 25km route. Then we will stay on Exmoor and ride the Exmoor 80km class on Tuesday. I will keep you posted on our progress.

Best wishes, Rachael.

Continue reading »]]> David riding Jiggle Jones owned by the Near Misses, to 7th place in her first 1* competition at Chatsworth International Horse Trials. He completed the dressage on 51.6, and had just 0.8 of a time penalty on the cross country; his fast cross country round and clear show jumping moved him up from an over night position of 15th to 7th.

Continue reading »]]> The Blue Chip Pony Newcomers Second Rounds kicked off this weekend at the Pony Premier Show at Weston Lawns Equitation in Coventry, Warwickshire. The second round took place on Saturday 11th May 2013 and it proved to be popular, with 82 combinations starting their qualifying campaign.

Up for grabs at this second round were two direct qualifying tickets for the Blue Chip Pony Newcomers Championship Final at the Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) and starting combinations were all vying for one of these tickets.

From all the starters, 11 combinations went on to produce two clear rounds to make it through into the final jump off and 3 combinations then went on to produce the all important treble clear.

Following a closely fought jump off, the win was eventually taken by 15 year-old Millie Allen from Cleveland. Millie achieved an immaculate treble clear on board the 8 year-old bay mare Tonlyn Bobby’s Girl, owned by Victoria Young. The third clear was achieved in 53.31 seconds.

Second place was taken by 14 year-old Chloe Reynolds from Somerset and she delivered her treble clear on board Kayleigh’s Star, an 8 year-old coloured mare owned by Sophie Digby. This combination achieved their third clear in a time of 55.23 seconds.

With the top two taking the direct qualifying tickets for the Blue Chip Pony Newcomers Championship Final at the Horse of the Year Show (HOYS), the riders and ponies who finished in third to fifth missed out on HOYS qualification this time around. However, they did take home the chance to compete at The Alexanders Horseboxes British Showjumping Scope Festival 2013.
Weston Lawns Equitation – Saturday 11th May 2013
Blue Chip Pony Newcomers Second Round

1st Millie Allen & Tonlyn Bobby’s Girl – 0/0/0 – 53.31 seconds
2nd Chloe Reynolds & Kayleigh’s Star – 0/0/0 – 55.23 seconds
3rd Charlie Dawson & Loobeen May – 0/0/0 – 57.67 seconds
4th Jessica Hewitt & Nikita XIII – 0/0/4 – 52.18 seconds
5th Leonie Aitkenhead & Gregory 55 – 0/0/4 – 52.81 seconds

The Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) 2013 will take place from the 9th – 13th October 2013 at the Birmingham NEC.

The Alexanders Horseboxes British Showjumping Scope Festival 2013 will take place from the 25th – 31st August 2013 at Staffordshire County Showground.

Continue reading »]]> This month has been a total whirlwind, as I write this I have just completed Chatsworth 2013 horse trials with my self-produced horse, Candy Blue.  I never thought as a 4 year old she would be competing at my local prestigious event, but she totally blew me away. On the build-up to such an important event I took her to Moreton Morrell for the Novice.  I had had a couple of dressage lessons with Sarah Healy, which really improved this phase and we scored a very pleasing 33.5.  A double-clear kept us in contention and we were placed 3^rd which is our best achievement to date.  This event gave us both so much confidence for Chatsworth, which was creeping up on us fast.  With it being our local event (20 minutes away) you can imagine the support, but with support comes pressure.  We did our dressage on the Friday afternoon; unfortunately we both carried a little tension to score a 37.5 but everyone knows that Chatsworth isn’t a dressage competition, so I was really looking forward to Saturday.

The show jumping was causing the usual problems, but with this being one of Candy’s strongest phases I was feeling quietly confident.  She went in and jumped out of her skin for a clear round.  I don’t think I breathed the whole way round.  Only 10 clear rounds in my section moved me into the top 10 so I knew I had to really go for it around the challenging cross country course if I wanted to stay there.  Candy never questioned anything and flew round only 6 seconds over the optimum time so we had 2.8 to add to our score to finish on 39.9.  It was so lovely to have someone at every fence cheering us on.  When we looked at the scoreboard to find we had come 9^th I was delighted.  Candy’s first Chatsworth and a top 10 placing was more than I could have asked for.  When I went up to collect my ribbon, they also said I had won the best local prize which I got very excited about as this has always been an ambition of mine.

I couldn’t leave Lady out after all the fuss Candy received so off we went on Sunday to Llanymynech for the BE90.  Dressage was a little argumentative but I tried to hold it together for a score of 34.  Lady soon redeemed herself jumping a lovely double-clear for 7^th place.  I actually picked up 2 time faults for going too quick; I think I was still in Chatsworth mode!  The plan now is to step Candy up to 1* so we can gain qualification for the higher levels, as for Lady she has a couple more BE90’s before stepping up to BE100 and the 5yo classes.

Huge thank you to everyone who came to support Candy & I at Chatsworth, we loved every minute and cannot wait to go back and do it all over again next year!

Becci Harrold

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