What was your best achievement with your horse this year?

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is nice to see that everyone has got some fantastic goals for next year and i wish all of you the very best of luck with achieving them! Have you achieved something really good this year something that has made you really proud?
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Backing my youngster and enjoying hacking her out - its all I hoped for so I was thrilled with her, having my first canter with her is probably one of my best ever horsey moments! She also went to some shows and behaved impeccably, including a big agricultural show so that really was the icing on the cake for us!
 
I was really pround on the 3rd of January when i jumped Ted around the first course of jumps i had done on him. It was a fun showkjumping day for all the students who stayed at college and i had the option of riding him or DOnella and she was a cow to me so i decided on ted. I bricked it the whole way round had 2 down and loads of refusals butr got round!

About a month later we jumped round an other 50 cm class with no refusals and i was over the moon.
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Maiden always came back from a competition with a rosette for me. Also, having her diagnosed (torn tendon) was a huge relief and something of an "achievement"! And then her finally coming sound after months of box rest then months of field rest.
Cookie - jumping 3', and coming first in our first (and last) unaff dressage.
Berlin - hacking on our own without mishap!
Have still yet to ride the coloured, but I'm sure we can achieve something in the last month of the year!
 
I took my mare out for our first ever competition (dressage). I'm a creaky late comer to riding and this had to be put off for a few years because either Flora was lame or I was
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So finally getting out with her has been a real pleasure (even with moments of being scared to death)
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Isn't it great when a plan comes together?
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* Coming 3rd in the novice class at Annaharvey Hunter Trials with Castle in April.
* Bringing Ali out hunting for the first time in his life in November and not being killed
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My happiest achievement this year was doing canter half-pass with Cass, thanks to Partoow for setting my flatwork up.

Im hoping to take the baby (18.2hh) hunting before the end of the year which will be a huge achievement for me as I havnt been for 8 years - yeahaaaaaaa
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Flynn going double clear intermediate and doing our first 3 day, so all qualified for 2* now!!
Titus being a dude as always and being placed top 10 most times out and qualifying for PN finals!!
Woody being broken and havin to much fun with him!!!! he'll never be a serious competition horse, to much fun!!!
 
-Backing Bodey
-Having our first hack
-Doing our first (and only) W/T dressage test
-Doing our first in-hand showing show
-Doing our first bottom hole Clear Round
-Doing our first mini novice Hunter Trial

Everything feels like a massive achievement when you have a youngster!
 
taking new mare (ex-racer, dressage not her forte!) to our first comp (and my first one for a few years), a little local dressage comp, and her staying very calm and rideable and composed. the icing on the cake was coming 1st and 3rd. very chuffed with her and with the nice comments, and esp the '9' she got for her free walk!
as far as the other horses are concerned - not getting bucked off Moosie despite landing completely behind the saddle when he spooked violently at canter on a hack...!
not having a nervous breakdown when discovering that my homebred future superstar, the only one i've got out of my old Advanced mare, has "naturally weak tendons" and can never event. so, thank goodness the new mare's being such an angel, for the sake of my sanity!
 
Well I got to jump at Hickstead for my RC team, in the big all weather arena and it was amazing. You just have to leave the bit out about the wagon stuck in the mud on a 30 degree tilt and the horse being lame the next day.
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Well first of all getting Blu, but that dosen't really count!
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*Sorting out our partnership sj wise!
*Her jumping her socks off every time out and giving me lots of DC's
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*Her flatwork coming on nicely.
 
after injuring her tendon sheath at the start of the year we went to our first ever show and came 4th in the dressage. A huge achievement for a horse that had spent months doing nothing at all
 
Taking his lordship on holiday was a biggie for me, load, setoff at 5.30am from yard, 3 hours soild drive non stop, strange place for him, new strange friend in the field, rode everyday on some challenging steep terrain, first time on the beach, out for 8.5hours one day, all on my own along way from home and along way from Cloughton farm where we were staying, no riding partner, few hairy moments, did my confidence and riding the world of good.
Working on getting a corraling kit and maybe sleeping over on one of the endurance club rides weekends, that will be another biggie as my wife does all my cooking, how will I manage on my own, Iv'e never done camping before either
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Just unloaded at Cloughton Farm after 3 hour drive-
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yep you're brave il give you that will be a bit like im a celeb you going camping then ,take some pot noodles you wont have to worry about cooking then! you do know how to boil water dont you ? ha ha ha only kidding .Big achievement wish i had the courage to do it!
 
Winning a ODE after our SJing traumas at the beginning of the year with a 30 dressage
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and with it only being his 3rd ever ODE.
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Then coming 3rd at the Horseware series ODE's again with a 30 dressage.
Going clear at out final BE event in the SJing after not even getting round at the beginning of the season
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Charlie:
Getting 1st in a 2ft 6 sj class as a show. It was a lovely day out and after all the problems that he's had health wise, he absoloutly flew the course (faaar too fast!!) but i couldn't stop smiling because i knew that i had him back and that he was still raring to go
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- failing that probably the first xc of the year- flew the biggest course there- no brakes- but again i had the hugest smile on my face! love my neddy!

Willow:
At a little local sj thing, before we sold him he used to fly around and usually be high placed in 3ft-3 courses but when we got him back he was lollaping up to jumps with no style- i felt like cryig because all my hard work (he was very naughty to jump for a while) was just gone to waste. After a few attempts at sj, we took him to this one. It was no where near perfect but to just get one stop in a 3ft class made me feel it was all worth it- Also as there was only 1 clear i got my j/o pony back (tight turns and angled jumps
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) By no means what we had before but such an achievement considering!!!

Millie:
Actually getting clear around a xc- She was sooo strong but really taking me into the jumps with confidence giving me an inkling that there may be an evet horse in there somewhere!!
 
well with one of my loan horses indie, my greatest achievement this year was:

3rd in minimus at South East Essex Riding and Driving Club

it was his first show he did properly (excluding norton heath because his owner couldnt get him to jump round the course without me and our riding teacher chasing him :O)

he earnt me 2 rosettes that day, a nice big yellow for 3rd and a clear round one, and that was my first show!

indie has earnt me 5 rosettes, my only rosettes, the other 3 were from a little show/barbeque we had at our yard where he did 1 clear round, one novice, intermediate and one open
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(the open were about 2'3/2'6) but we only got special rosettes as he didnt like one of the jumps no matter how many times we jumped it and how many times i showed him it lol
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managing to get nag into a box to take him out
getting him round a course of show jumps
not coming last in a dressage test
 
Surviving 3 months of lunging to sort out my horses back muscles. Hopefully also to get his lameness issues sorted and have a sound horse but as its only been 9 weeks I'm not tempting fate on that one!
Didn't get the chance to do much else as he was lame on and off, so we're hoping for a better 2008!
 
Not only getting the chestnut filly I'd been hoping for but taking her out to her one and only show and ending up the highets scoring junior dressage foal across the country at the BEF Futurity. When we put Casi's dam in foal, I chose a stallion known for being a great broodmare producer and then had to cross all my fingers and toes we would not only get a filly fomr that cross but she would be half decent. She's better than I dared hope.
 
Biggiest achievement was with Missy , With our first show which was Balmoral , she was placed 5th in the inhand class , despite her having a sprained tendon injury several weeks before, we thought she wasnt going to be sound but low and behold she recovered and it was a great day as she behaved so well better than I ever imagined .

With Tommy its been a big achievement , Since having him , hes been placed first in several lead rein classes , working hunter and pony games , Tiarnan has won 22 trophies and cups with him in a matter of months .
 
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