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31/05/2026

Another lovely day out with Crombie today at Foresterseat Cross Country for their one day event.

Everyone was really friendly and it's lovely the effort they put in to presenting everything with flower pots at the dressage, lovely, shiny show jumps and well presented, painted cross country jumps.

I was really pleased with dressage for 29.5. Crombie is feeling much more relaxed and soft to ride. Going better than he ever has.

The smaller show jumping ring didn't suit him and it was much harder than yesterday to ride him forwards in a rhythm. We had two down but there were positives with him not tanking me like he used to.

Cross country was amazing fun. He just got into a rhythm and felt great, I really enjoyed riding him.

We were lucky enough to finish 4th as the show jumping was pretty influential with only two clears in the class.

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30/05/2026

Crombie was a great lad today at Howe Equestrian Centre picking up a 2nd in the 85 and 3rd in the British Novice at their BS show. He managed to pay his own entry fees so definitely the golden boy today 💜💛.

He's feeling much more rideable and I think we are both enjoying ourselves.

He's off to Foresterseat tomorrow which wasn't originally the plan to have him out twice in one weekend but he had the day off yesterday and will get Monday, Tuesday and Thursday off next week. It will be good prep for South of Scotland for him.

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29/05/2026

So here it is my absolute favourite video of my wee girl flying round Badminton Grassroots last year.

🔊Best enjoyed with the sound on.🔊

You can see how happy and willing she looks the further she goes.

I had done much more with her on the run up to Badminton last year but she still had only been cross country schooling once and had three BE runs. With a change in the BE calendar this year we only had two runs as I didn't want to run her on consecutive weekends but she felt lovely and confident both times out on the cross country.

I so hope we can get this feeling again with a bit of time 🤞🏻💜.

Here is the link to the tiktok video that someone posted of us also which must be viewed with sound 🔊.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNd69pUwn/

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28/05/2026

Today we headed off to Strathearn Eventing - Sarah Houlden with Gin and Crombie to gauge how Gin is really feeling about cross country post Badminton.

Yesterday at home we hacked round the field, did a little schooling in the field and then popped some of the logs in the field and she felt totally happy and up for anything.

Unfortunately at Strathearn today she made it clear she really has lost her love for cross country just now and would rather not. She did jump, she did the ditch and banks and water but she just wasn't feeling her usual self and a few times when just cantering along said actually I'd rather not now. I'm not prepared to give her a smack. I did use my stick on her at the water on Sunday and she clearly remembered that today. She responds much better to me giving her a pat and telling her she is a good girl so we will take it slow. I will be withdrawing her from South of Scotland and Crombie will take her place at Foresterseat this weekend. We will take the pressure off completely for a month or as long as it takes and then start again and see what happens.

🐎 Over the next few weeks I would love to take her out hacking in different places so if anyone can suggest some good hacking places with good access and parking for the lorry or wants a hacking buddy we would love to hear your suggestions. 🐎

Crombie was a super star looking after Kaydee who is helping me at the moment and hasn't had the opportunity to do much jumping or cross country before. She had a crash course in jumping Crombie on Tuesday, she has ridden him quite a bit but never jumped him before Tuesday. They did great today and Gin was very good standing for me to film them.

I am confident that given time Gin will come back. I don't think there are ulcers as she isn't showing any other signs and is totally happy being ridden otherwise. I am sad and I hope it doesn't take too long but it will take as long as it takes so right now I'm grateful to have Crombie to take out. Its hard not to think what I should have done differently but I did what I thought was best at the time so I'll try not to go there. Tomorrow I'll post her cross country video from Badminton last year so you can see why I thought she would fly round this year.

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27/05/2026

3 weeks ago today was jumping day at Badminton Grassroots. A day I had been looking forward to for months 😃.

Show jumping can be my nemesis although I'm improving and feeling better about it all the time and Gin certainly makes it easier than some. I was worried I'd think the jumps looked massive at Badminton but I'm pleased to report they looked OK. I was concerned about the triple bar to a plank on the last line but hey ho, trust my girl and myself and see what happens.
Gin did go green and spooky going into the ring and I definitely didn't ride as forwards as I should have at the start. It was 11 strides from one to two and 6 from three to four, I paid the price for putting in 7 there and you can see Gin is livid about it 🙈, but we got better the further we went and the last line was nothing to worry about 💪🏼🦄.

I was so looking forward to galloping round that cross country course with my wee girl, remembering what fun we had last year and dreaming of the amazing photos and video we would get. Poor Gin didn't enjoy it so much finding the atmosphere just too much and losing her confidence. The video shows the last few fences, the ditch combination was 5 from home and the trakehner 4. You see she has gone totally green and is backing off and yet tries so hard for me and does keep going.
I'm delighted that she got round and I really hope that she learnt from the experience. I'm absolutely over the moon with the photos and although a bit sad not to have had the same buzz from last year I'm hopeful that once we re build Gin's confidence she'll come back better than ever and hopefully one day we get to go back to Badminton for another shot.

I'll share the video from last year in a day or so so we can all relive that feeling.

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26/05/2026

I can't believe it's only three weeks ago since I got to trot down the center line on my wee girl at Badminton.

It feels like a lifetime ago already. You spend years dreaming of making it to Badminton Grassroots and years of dreaming of breeding your own little horse to produce but never actually put the two together. How special to have the two dreams collide.

There might be a touch of the post Badminton blues, with all the build up and preparation and then it's over so quickly.

It might not have been perfect but I'm dead chuffed with how we got on in the dressage and can't wait to keep on improving.

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24/05/2026

Life is a roller coaster just got to ride it... Apparently 🙄.

After the highs of fun with Crombie yesterday I had a leveler with Gin today and a not so fun day.

After her being overwhelmed on the cross country at Badminton I thought we would go out and do a 90cm hunter trial at Strathearn Eventing - Sarah Houlden today and just have some fun with an easy run to get her confidence back. Unfortunately she did not enjoy it and actually got eliminated at the water.

Ironically the water was one of the jumps she was most confident with at Badminton.

She has an immaculate cross country record with just a 20 penalties at her first event where I let her get a bit speedy and then couldn't get her back and we sailed passed a simple fence but she has been amazing since and always jumped clear. She can be spooky at times but always takes on the jumps. Badminton is the first time she has stopped at an event but I felt that that was the atmosphere and spooking at everything else and not the fences. She did jump every jump to complete.

Today she did jump apart from the water but she didn't feel her usual confident self and I had to ride her more than usual at the fences. She didn't even want to look at the water so I'm not sure what she was feeling there. Huge thank you to the fence judge for being so kind and eventually leading us into the water. I did go back to thank them after.

So it looks like we will be doing a lot of cross country over the next few weeks. I feel bad as I obviously over faced her at Badminton with not doing enough prep for fear of doing too much before hand and risking her getting ulcers again. We'll stick at 90 until she gets her confidence back and I really hope she can start to enjoy it again soon. When I think back to how she felt at her last few events last year and even how confident she felt at Northallerton and Kirriemuir at the start of this year it's such a shame that she isn't feeling so confident now. As you see in the video the ears were pricked and she jumped the last 5 fences well so hopefully the confidence is coming back 🤞🏻.

23/05/2026

Fab day with my golden boy today 💛💜💛.

Crombie and I headed off to The Scottish National Equestrian Centre for their BS show.

We jumped a fab double clear in the 80 for the win.

The 85 was judged as a table A7 class. Table A7 you jump round and the clear rounds come back to jump off at the end. I've not jumped a class like that for years with most being single phase now (single phase - usually 12 jumps, 1 - 6 first round straight on to 7 - 12 against the clock). The first round today had 10 jumps, there were hardly any clears. We were second last to go and I didn't really expect to jump clear but Crombie jumped a lovely clear to go through to the jump off. There were just four of us in the jump off and although I told myself we were just going to go for the clear I went in and rode like a 🔧 to have two down and finish 4th.

I don't care though cos I had fun with my pony, he is being such a good lad lately, not being half so anxious and he really is a pleasure to deal with when you are on your own. I tied him to the lorry while I washed him off and left him there while I mucked out the lorry and got changed. I couldn't dare to leave Gin like that 🙈.

We plan to go to Howe next weekend and I'm thinking we'll go straight in at 85 and do the British Novice as well.

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21/05/2026

Crombie is an event horse again 😃.

I was delighted to have Crombie at Brechin Castle Horse Trials last Sunday, his first British Event for just over two years. It was a long time coming but it's absolutely been worth taking the time with him to have him in good physical shape. He has been quite anxious about life since his injury and I wasn't sure how he was going to react being back at a proper event but he was fabulous.

I was really pleased with his dressage, we scored 31.3, he was a pleasure to ride. A pole down in the show jumping, story of Crombie's life but I'm so pleased to be jumping him in a snaffle and there is improvement in our way of going. I'd love to have him back at 100 by the end of the year but I'm going to take the time to get the jumping right before we step back up. Cross country was great fun, he was a bit green at times but seemed happy and flew round within the time to finish on 35.3 in 11th place.

I'll take that for his first time back.

We are going to go BS this weekend at SNEC and next weekend at Howe to try and improve our show jumping.

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19/05/2026

Edited to say...
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📧 Emails sent to [email protected] between 8th and 19th May were unfortunately lost to cyberspace.

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Since we moved premises back in 2023 I've not been getting on well with updating the website. I'm not technically minded and have found it difficult to find the right help to move forward.

It is costly to have a website and unfortunately the website wasn't visible for several months and then has not been working correctly. I have now enlisted the help of Black Nova Designs who are hopefully going to keep me right and have it all up and working again soon.

My emails are working now but I did not receive any emails between the 8th May and today (19th May). If you tried to email me within this time please send again.

The 'Contact Us' form on our website, I believe now, has not been working for well over a year. Hopefully Black Nova Designs will have this up and running again by tomorrow now that my email is live again. I can only apologise if you tried to contact us through the contact form, it was not intentional to ignore you.

The best way to contact us is by emailing [email protected] or by WhatsApp message to 07742 103815.

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