The team headed up last Wednesday with a truck load of horses for the multitude of classes the organising team run at this fantastic event. We were greeted with blazing sunshine, perfect ground and a lovely warm welcome from the Lochore family. Burgie is where I caught the bug for Eventing and spent many happy days training when at Pony Club and then as a working pupil when into Juniors. (more…)
Archive for June, 2010
A cracking weekend at Burgie…
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Hexham, A great weekend!
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
The team has just returned from a fantastic weekend at Hexham Horse Trials, which is another of our fairly local events, being only 1 1/2 hrs away. The first day was blazing sunshine, the second not so good but luckily for us we were over and done with nice an early so didn’t get the soaking many others suffered. The horses were on great form and it was so nice to be able to go well for my Owners who all invest so much money into keeping the show on the road. On days like these we remember just why we all work 19 hour days and battle through the 4 foot snow drifts…
Floors Castle.. in a heat wave
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
We had a super weekend at our local event run by the ever enthusiastic Jamie Innes and his team. It was a shock to the system to suddenly be riding in temps into the 20’s but for spectators and supporters it was a great chance to work on the tan and overdose on ice creams! (more…)
Bramham, Burghley Dubarry Young Horse Qualifier
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
We had a somewhat fraught start to the morning when loaded and ready to go at 5.30 am, I jumped in to start up the truck and it was absolutely as dead as a do do… After much cursing (on my behalf mostly, as it was yours truly who had forgotten to turn of the isolator switch for the batteries) we tried starting the generator and plugging into the mains but got no joy whatsoever. (more…)
Cherry Law, brilliant event mare for sale.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
On behalf of her owners, Mr and Mrs Peter Elliot, NBR Eventing offers for sale this super Intermediate eventer. Now with 44BE points, she has an ultra consistent record and has competed up to intermediate and CCI* level, jumping double clears round Blair, Floors, Aske, Knaptoft to name a few. She would suit a competitive, experienced home and is sound tough and reliable with many seasons left on the clock. Please contact us should you require any further information.