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We are pleased to notify you we have some outstanding results at both Queensland State Championship and the Tom Quilty Gold Cup...
A very special day had a come to Steve Comiskey at the Paradise Lagoons Campdraft in 2016, where he was very proud to win the NAB Agribusiness Australian Open Campdraft on his wonderful home bred mare called Lyra Parks Delta !
I would like to thank Pryde's EasiFeed for their generous sponsorship at the Pryde's EasiFeed Australian Show Jumping Championships held at the National Equestrian Centre last weekend...
After several inches of winter (out of season) rain, Paradise Lagoons Campdraft was postponed 3 weeks, which meant that it was set to occur right in the middle of our run of NSW clinics...
What a busy January/February we have had here - not quite sure where the months went but here is a little synopsis of how our first 2 months of 2016 have gone...
We had a great day on the first Saturday of February at NVSJC. The arena was perfectly prepared and great courses built by Russell Morrison. We had a few young horses who jumped lovely clear rounds in ring two, one having his first show and behaved really well...
The Later part of 2015 consisted of us prepping sale horses for Dalby ASHS Draft. The last competition for the year for us was Dalby Sale Open and Incentive Drafts...
Connie and I went really well at Nationals. Placing third in all three of our tests with one only being 0.2% away from second. I am SO proud of her and the way she held herself and performed at her first big competition.
August, I was away in Turkey so was unable to compete--- this time for Gallipoli commemorations of the Battle of Lone Pine 100 Year. Unfortunately, Dressage QLD moved the dates of the State Championships to August, so this meant no States for me this year. Darn it...
Pryde’s EasiFeed are fully aware of the massive problems being experienced as a result of the drought in western Queensland. Pryde’s EasiFeed have donated seven tonne of our product EasiRide to this worthwhile appeal, including the freight cost to the area which will be generously charged at a reduced rate...
Since ODE’s have been light on the ground I took Qb to the Queensland Indoor Showjumping Championships at QSEC on Saturday the 26th...
A few quieter weeks at PPH this month. With all horses qualified for States we get a chance to catch up with all our dedicated clients as...
It was a great beginning to 2015.
We took eight horses to BONEO CDI – four competed and four were on training. I rode DP Weltmieser, Good as Gold, Zeppelin and Glenn Fryer’s Longvue Florencio, and three from Mulawa – Furstin Friendship, Lorenzo and Aber Halo; and Kate Farrell rode Luxor 118...
July consisted of one of our big shows for the year – Paradise Lagoons. We had a very successful show there with Karl ending up 2nd in the Novice draft on Peter Doonan’s Moore Spoonful – nearly getting a hat trick having won the Novice there for the last two years...
It has been a rather busy month after returning from Melbourne Three Day event earlier in June. At the start of July we relocated from our quiet country town in Woodanilling...
My first All Welsh State Championships and what a huge competition this is. Over 3 days and hundreds and hundreds of welsh bred horses and ponies...
Dayboro Show was at the beginning of July and it was a huge success. Sam and Eddy both jumped and performed superbly. Oscar still wasn’t 100% so he stayed home. Sam came home with 2 wins and a 3rd place. He really is enjoying the show run at the moment...
Have had a reasonably consistent run on the Qld Tour of Shows:
Gatton Ag Show: 4th 1.25 A2, 8th 1.25/30 Championship, 1st 7yo National Identification (run with 1.15/1.30 Champ)
GHP: 6th Bronze Q, 1st Bronze Q, 8th Bronze Final
Gatton WC: 3rd 7yo National Identification, 6th and 9th Stars of the Future Class...
I went to the Brisbane CDI on the weekend with Connie. She performed really really well. First day scoring 68.88% and on the second day she scored 66.768% with one judge scoring 69.5% and the other on 64.0245 which was a shame and brought out percent down a lot...
Qb competed at Fig Tree Pocket ODE on the weekend. We stepped back up to Prelim and all went well. He jumped the best he has in a long time
Eddy nearly topped 70% in his dressage test which is a huge achievement! Both of the young horses jumped super all weekend.
Mackenzie and “Roseden Class Act” have also qualified for Grand Nationals 2016 having won the hotly contested Childs Galloway class at the Northern NSW Grand National qualifier at Lismore.
We placed 3rd at our lat One Day Event at Tamborine Equestrian Centre in the PreNovice Class. Our 3rd attempt at this level. We also received Reserve Champion in the Grade IV Para Classes held over the weekend at the CDG Great Southern Championships 2015.
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selected to represent Australia at the CPEDI3* event in Hartpury, UK, in July!
My horse Cameo Silver Bellz started out with 340 other horses and the overall completion rate was 60%. It was a tough and challenging track, true Quilty material. We completed the 160 km in 17.5 hrs with great final heartrates and gut sounds. Thank you to Prydes Easi Feed for our sponsor ship.
In early March I made my way down to a Client’s place in southwest Western Australia who is involved in the running of the Mayanup Campdraft. The Mayanup Campdraft is a favourite for locals on the southern WA Campdraft Calendar, nestled amongst the lemon-scented gums and rolling hills just 15 kilometres southeast of WA’s country music capital, Boyup Brook.
Super-fun weekend at the Scenic Rim Clydesdale Spectacular. Had a blast, all three horses won their led classes in quality company.
Riverside Ashes competed in the Preliminary 1.2 test for a 2nd place with 69.42%. Willow Rio Dane (owned by Jan & John Mansfield) competed in the Preliminary and the Novice classes. She placed 4th in the 1.2 test with 66.05% and we are still awaiting the results for the novice.
At the January EQ Awards night, I was nominated for the EQ Junior Sports Start of the Year, with my results from last year (such as QLD State Dressage champs, QLD Interschool champs, EA and Interschool Nationals, and various other state results (2*), in which I won...