March 27th, 2012
 Photo courtesy John Moore I received a fantastic opportunity last year of being the representative for LOGAN Floats in WA which I am extremely excited about and hope that I can do the company proud. I have started this year quite slowly not much on over here to do with eventing so have resorted to doing some Dressage and XC schooling! Team Leedale Started their year off with a fantastic coach Jon Pitts, this is where I took Sir Dex to strut his stuff so I could re learn how to sit on a horse. It was a fantastic lesson with soo much learnt and was able to put it in to play that weekend at the first Dressage Day for the Team.
Sir Dex came =2 in his Novice test but was placed 3rd by his collectives (must have been me off with the fairies!) and also placed 2nd in his Prelim test was a super weekend on his behalf that’s for sure. Crime Time also pulled his little finger out placing 6th in his Novice test and 7th in his Prelim. Not bad considering they only got pulled out of the paddock weeks before. MiKenny’s Caruso was a fun highlight of the day he competed in the Elementary Dressage and after a little hiccup still came home with a 3rd only 2 points behind the leader!!
Also earlier in the Month we had a XC training day at my local Pony Club - Serpentine HPC, this is one of the places that taught me how to ride. We took a total of 6 horses training that day with 2 other riders helping me out! Some young ones decided to make their impression on us and the old ones showed they still had what it takes. So with this under our belt we have entered the up and coming Serpentine ODE in March.
Serpentine ODE 3-4th March I competed MiKennys Caruso and a young gun Kody’s Star. They both proved themselves this weekend with Caruso coming home with a 1st and finishing on his winning dressage score in the Intro 1 and Kody finishing his first outing ever.
Henty Dressage 11th March saw me ride Crime Time and Sir Dex with some fantastic tests from the boys also came some fanastic results Bear placing 5th in his Prelim and 5th in his novice while Dex snuck infront of Bear in the Novice with a 3rd place and a great 5th place in his second Elementary test with me. Was a great day at a great Dressage Club.
Murray ODE 17th and 18th March another one of those Pony Club events I love! MiKenny’s Caruso and Kody’s Star went out again here with a winner Dressage score came through and produced the winning XC and SJ finishing again on the Dressage in his Prelim class. Kody had a even better event than serpentine producing a very classy dressage followed by an unfortunate step back in xc at a fence but still put his whole heart into the XC and the SJ.
The Monday straight after Murray we had the amazing Stuart Tinney at Leedale to give me a good tune up before the big EA weekend. Had 2 fantastic lessons with him on Dex and Bear sharpening up our show jumping.
Capel CNC I had waited too long for this event! I had Crime Time and MiKenny’s Caruso there this weekend just gone. Between the dust clouds and the hot sun my two boys managed to put their thinking caps on and did some fantastic dressage with Caruso in the 40 pens area third comp running and bear coming out with a 9th I was over the moon with excitement for the following days. Sunday was meant to
 Photo courtesy John Moore rain but once again a no show! Caruso despite the two down in the show jumping came out clear everywhere else and maintained his second placing in the prelim class. Crime Time on the other hand put his muscle suit on and showed everyone who he really was with a clear jump xc round and minimal time (mainly for being a little on the chubba side) he then went on to jump double clear showjumping I do think I owe that one to Stuart. He managed to go from a 9th to a good 6th position – what a champ!
This next week sees me training with Jamie Coman with my team with the clinic we hold here at Leedale Lodge
But until next month my calendar is pretty bare!
Until Next time
Elizabeth
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March 7th, 2012
March 2012
February it just rained and rained! Working horses has been most frustrating. We have certainly given our Equine treadmill a huge hammering! So with virtually no training grounds to train we went to the first event a little under prepared. First event of the season was Sydney mid week.. Results were good and the horses ran well.
 Gemma and Mighty Midget Pre-Novice GOSH came in third and GYMEON 7th. In the CNC** ORCHARD HILL was 6th and Hannah Walls our student/rider came in 7th.
 Jaymee and Murrabong Kinganui Some very exciting news is Jaymee’s selection on the National Elite Youth Squad for Eventing! Alongside 7 other well respected young riders from around Australia. Quietly proud to have two Tinney’s on Elite squads and thanks to the EA for their selection. This means Jaymee can have squad training (however she has HSC this year so not sure how that will work?) Also she earns a NSWIS scholarship which will induct her and give her the benefits alongside their program. Thank you NSWIS.
 Annapurna giving it plenty of air! More exciting news is of a new arrival to our yard John and Jane Pittards ‘Annapurna’ a young horse bred by Jane out of the same mare as Pluto and she is gorgeous! She has been started by Ebony Tucker and we are very pleased to have her. Stuart took her for a run at Sydney in the dressage and jumping…
What a jump Anna !
Stuart being away for the weekend Sydney (coaching in WA) it was only Jaymee, Gemma and Hannah competing. Jaymee went well after her summer break with a 4th in the open CNC* (first junior) Gemma in her first per-lim 11th. Hannah completing the CNC**.
 Jaymee wins Coprice Interschools 2* Then it was a scheduled weekend off (very rare!) Olivia Bunn’s wedding UNTIL we were put on flood alert the Friday before. Alas a wet boring weekend at home watching the water take over 10 of our 30 acres! I suppose we could have taken a boat out! Horses all fine.
 Weekend off! LATEST NEWS:
Australian team secures their Olympic qualification by FEI rider rankings. 5 Event riders to ride for Australia at the London Games.
- Just keep an eye on our web site: www.tinneyeventing.com is having a face lift!
- Scone CNC 10th/11th Pluto, Gosh, Thai, Gymeon and Gemma on Mighty Midget.
- 31st Albury CIC Horses TBC
That’s all for this month TE
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March 5th, 2012
 Tess and Bell watch from the sidelines 2012 has certainly started off very busy with almost no weekends free from competitions and a lot of horses in work. Elliot has been selected on the Elite national squad 16-21 for 2012 and both Elliot and myself have been selected for 2012 Dressage NSW high performance squad.
The young horse qualifiers are going great with three 4year olds now qualified with good scores, one of which is whistler gp (weltmeyer/don Ramiro) owned and bred by gundy park and Ali Foye. Winnie will be heading down to DWTS (Dressage with the stars)in the 4yo class, along with Leandro who will be competing in the PSG cup.
Orange CDI*** was a great way to start with the big competitions, although due to a cancelled competition it was waca and leandro’s first competition since nationals last year… the boys were certainly full a energy (at times to full). Both horses were behaved in the trot-up and we kicked the competition off with a few mistakes in the CDI inter 1 from both the boys but finishing with a 7th for Waca and 8th for Leandro from a star studded field. Both horse made the freestyle but forgetting the freestyle for Elliot was quiet costly finishing in 11th and then on the other hand for Waca the freestyle ran fine but he wanted to improvise with thinking about the piaffe in the walk but still happy to finish in 6th on the tail of OO seven. The Sunday was the CDI PSG again a few mistake from both horses but a 9th for Leandro and 11th for Waca, all in all the competition was great fun, competition facilities where great, interesting weather and good company. Thank you to Bev and John healey and the team at central west dressage for providing us with such an enjoyable competition.
The weekend just gone has us at 2 separate competitions in a weekend , scone on Saturday and Hawkesbury dressage on Sunday. Scone saw us take 3 horse, 1 for every age group. The 4 yo whistler gp finished 2nd with an interesting start to the test, she settle well to finish on 7.1, the 5 yo Jazzski ridden by Elliot owned by myself was very well behaved to win the class low scores but happy that he came out and settled and to finish the Saturday off was new world miss whisper owned by Trevor and Kathy Coombe to finish 2nd in the 6 yo. Sunday was like Saturday 3 horses and all 4 yo. Whistler again was behaved and a lot more relaxed to finished 5th on 7.88. Metal H was first on and was very quiet and relaxed to finish on 7.4 for 7th. New world danzameyer was a little afraid of the surrounding but produced some good work in the test to finish on 6.8, lucky for danzy she already has several 7.8s for Sydney cdi.
Finally a weekend free from competing and travelling. Dressage with the stars is close on the horizon with a possible dressage NSW comp in between (depending on the weather in Sydney). We hope that our fellow riders have started their competition years well, we wish you all the best of luck for the coming months. We are very proud this year, to see our younger horses representing the nature vet flag so often. Signing off Alexis and Elliot.
 
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February 29th, 2012
Hello Everyone,
Well our first advanced test was terrible thanks to a wild horse being lunged not to far from our arena. Dom couldn’t take his eyes off him! Anyway our second attempt was much better and we got a great score placing 2nd against the big horses as well…
It has been a huge month for me I was selected to join the WA State young rider dressage squad for 2012., then had some more great news last Thursday I have been selected for the “National Youth Development Squad”, I am so excited to have been chosen. It was a great week(yay)
Dominoff and I had 2 lessons with Harry Boldt this week, it was fantastic and we worked on some fancy moves from the PSG. Harry managed to turn our “U turns” into canter pirouettes, Dom worked so hard it was a tough 2 days with millions of flying changes each day. We practiced our 3 and 4 times changes which worked out really well when I remembered to count!
We are preparing for our next competition on the 11th March we are attempting our first 5B, we have been training hard so I hope that we will be prepared to confidently show our best steps. We are really getting to know each other now and Dominoff really knows his stuff, Its just me who needs to catch up. Although sometimes he is not very patient (hee hee)
Hope you are all going well.
Regards
Chelsea B and Dominoff
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February 28th, 2012
 Wallmeyer inspects Brindabella's Plaits in Canberra Well the year has certainly gotten off to a flying start – already we have seen two CDI’s & one Royal Show with plenty more to come in the next few weeks. My competition year began in Canberra with a dressage outing for Brindabella, a lovely imported mare owned by Bob & Ela Weight, & our own Wallmeyer. It was a great comp down there, well run by a strong committee & the arena’s were just super to ride on with a rubber surface. Anyone looking for a quality comp, particularly when so many NSW grounds keep getting rained out, I can highly recommend the ACT Dressage Assoc.
Anyway, both horses were very good down there, Brindabella who is by Brietling from a Donnerhall mare, was great in her first outing with me scoring a win & a place in the Novice’s. Wallmeyer then came out to take both the PSG & Inter1 with solid & encouraging scores. This was also the weekend of Boneo Park’s CDI & word travelled fast of the Small Tour tests being produced there so it was good for us to have a hit-out & be back in the ballgame.
I was very disappointed when Clarendon was again rained out as I would have liked another comp under our belt but that wasn’t to be & so we headed to Orange for the fabulous Thinline Dressage With Altitude at the beautiful Bradgate Park. This is a most enjoyable show & it really came into it’s own this year with huge numbers & some cracking scores across all levels providing a real buzz to proceedings. Again, thankfully, my horses were in good form & it was a win in the Prelim & a 4th in the Novice for Brindabella & Wallmeyer achieved a 6th in the Inter1 & 4th in the PSG in what many were calling one of the strongest small tour fields ever. Wallmeyer continues to have respiratory issues due to his allergies but we believe we are now figuring out how best to manage him so that his training can keep progressing & I think DWA showed just how competitive he is when we can actually get to start. The small tour scores were so close between horses with just .10%’s separating the places – & they were very good scores at that! It is great to be part of & very promising for our future GP ranks I think.
So no sooner was I home from Orange that I un-packed the dressage gear & loaded in the show horse needs & headed to Canberra again, this time for the Royal. I took Lady’s Man, the beautiful Galloway I bred from former Canberra Champion Lost Lady, and I could not have been happier with him. He is such an easy going character & took it all in his stride placing in the Novice Galloway & also in the Novice Pony dressage. He is a super little guy & I’m sure I will find a great home for him – check my website www.amberwoodpark.com.au if you are in the market! Then I picked up a Novice placing on Tao who is Amanda Jakins new hack & lives with me at AmberWood Park. I also rode gorgeous Casey, aka Coast, who was Reserve Champion last year & he managed 3rd in his Open this year. The weekend before Coast was sashed Runner-Up Hack of the Year at Barastoc with his owner Sue in the saddle. He looks fantastic & Sue just adores him which is exactly what you hope for when you sell them on. I was also pretty busy giving lessons & looking after clients throughout the show but of course found enough time to have some terrific meals (& the odd cocktail) with good friends Nina & Steve Boyd of Canberra Performance Horses.
So now my attention turns back to dressage & the race to put together a new Freestyle in time for Dressage With The Stars… walk in, halt/salute, 2 x times changes down centre line, track left or maybe right… oh, hang-on, wait… canter in, halt…. LOL – will let you know next time how it goes!
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February 28th, 2012
“The 2012 season has begun with a busy weekend at Toowoomba. We have called it the “weekend of first”, Three horses to go all starting at new levels. Casablanca at Grand Prix, Brentanus at PSG and our new team member Glogau at medium/advanced. All the horses travelled well on the truck to Toowoomba. We arrived on the Friday to make good use of the arena familiarization.
Brentanus won the PSG and Advanced F/S, Casablanca placed 2nd in the Grand Prix and Glogau won the Medium, Advanced and Medium F/S. We are extremely pleased with these results. It was certainly a fantastic start to the season.
We look forward to the coming year, best of luck to everyone and safe travels.
Until next time….
Victoria”
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February 20th, 2012
For those who follow ours news, we apologise for not writing one in January… however it is the holiday season and most of us need to take that time to re charge. February is here way too fast and our 3 ‘shadow team ‘horses have been in work for a few weeks now. Panamera (owner Tim Game) stays on the Elite list and Orchard Hill on the ‘A’ Squad. A little disappointed that John and Jane Pittards ‘Pluto Mio’ did not make the Elite squad but happy that he has been recognized for his win on a 44 ( an international score ) at Lakes and Craters CCI***. With 3 horses listed Stuart will certainly have his work cut out for him (and all on the yard). Mid January Stuart and I attended the Coonabarabran eventing clinic, 3 days of solid teaching. We do enjoy attending. We work hard, have great students and other coaches plus are looked after really well.
Still in January we took ourselves off for a family holiday. First time in Indonesia.. BALI ! Getting away from the property is always well received and time to chill… however I am not sure Bali is the place to chill!! With all getting a dose of Bali Belly (Stuart the worst… 5 days of it!) we were glad to see home!
What is it with the rain in NSW! Our poor horses suffering with so much wet… One product we can recommend is Naturevets ‘outback’ herbal shampoo and itch relief range. Available on line, (nature vet direct) we have used it on all the horses with skin irritations from the wet. Also can’t not mention the wonderful product ECOMIST… when the flies come (apparently) they appear to not come our way… We keep raving about this product but I am still amazed how well it works… Simply love it!
February started with a super article about Pluto, both him and rider made it to the front cover… such a great picture of them both. (Available at all Horseland stores and news agents). Can’t tell you how pleased we all were with the article (thanks HM)
Also we had the pleasure of Horseland here showing us all their new clothing and horse apparel for 2012. The HV polo range is great (even I looked ok in their jackets!) Stuart and kids looked super as always.
February Calendar:
- 11th/12th WARWICK QLD Clinic ( Stuart)
- 15th/16th NSWIS Squad school: Pluto and Orchard Hill
- 22nd/23rd SIEC Mid week: Gosh. Kinnordy Gymeon, My Thai, Orchard Hill
- 25th-27th WAYER Clinic WA ( Stuart)
- 25th/26th SIEC weekend Mighty Midget ( Gemma)
- 1st March Interschool’s at SIEC Mighty Midget ( Gemma)
- 3rd March Olivia Bunn’s wedding!
That’s all from us this month, keep an eye on our clinic page as we will be listing some cross country clinics with Stuart soon.
All the best, TE
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February 20th, 2012
 Noblewood Park Berretta - National Futures Squad The last shows of the season in 2010 went very well with all the horses jumping super and with good results. Tonimbuk World Cup show was a good show, the surface had been improved and was excellent to jump on. We only took 3 horses so was an easy show and the 3 all jumped well. Nic of Time placed in the futurity and is now well established in the 1.25m classes now so will be aiming to have him step up to the mini-prix’s this year. Cardene started in his first Futurity and jumped a good 4 fault round, Marine as usual jumped well he is such a consistent horse and jumped a great round to run 3rd in the Mini Prix. Sadly this was his last show with us as Leanne and Richard Bruggerman from Gawler South Australia have purchased him for their daughter Nicole who is one of our leading Young Riders. This should be a wonderful combination and we wish her all the success with him. Marine has been an important part of our team for the last couple of years and has had wonderful results, Laura Santry and Sue Darvall have been fantastic owners and we hope to have another horse with them in the future.
December was also an exciting time for us as a family business as we purchased a horse in Belgium for Hayley to campaign. “Zidane” is by Silverstone out of a Ramiro Z mare, 7yo and shows a lot of promise. Hayley has tried a lot of horses over the last few months since she returned to Belgium and he was the one that she felt suited her ride the most and stood out, we are looking forward to a wonderful year with him also. Being based at Henk Nooren’s stables will enable Hayley to get the very best possible training and we are all looking forward to the year ahead with him.
We were very pleased to be informed that 2 of our young horses, Nic of Time and Noblewood Park Beretta have been put on the National Futures Squad, this is very exciting and will be looking forward to a successful year with both these horses.
On the home front Noblewood Park Beretta, Nic of Time, Cardene and Isle of Africa (owned by Caroline Earle) are all back in work and will be looking forward to a successful season. Our 3yo’s Fritz by the leading Young Horse in WA Sarnia Classic and Contendra (by Contendro 11) will be back in work for a month or so and then turned back out and will continue in that pattern 4-6 weeks in and then turned out and that will continue for most of the year. Both these youngsters show an enormous amount of talent so just a matter of being patient and they will be exciting prospects for the next year. We have quite a few young thoroughbreds that are starting out, still love the thoroughbreds as they have been so good to us over the years and hopefully a few of these will go on also.
I had a busy start to the New Year starting the year with a 4 day clinic for the NSW Pony Club Association at SIEC, as always this is a clinic that I really enjoy. I had a wonderful group of kids who were so enthusiastic to learn as much as possible in the week. Busy week but a lot was achieved.
The following week Sue and I had a clinic at Cranbourne Pony Club grounds for the West Gippsland Zone riders. This was a great day, the kids were very enthusiastic and the day went well. The riders at the clinic were preparing for the State Champs at the end of February so will look forward to hearing how they all go. February is also the start of our competitions for the year so will be looking forward to busy year in the ring.
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February 20th, 2012
Well, after that mild first week back in Valkenswaard, winter really arrived. It’s been bitter ever since, with lots of snow and temps as low as -16C. It hasn’t been above zero at all. Thank heavens for the heated facilities at Stal Tops. And Anna. She is great with the horses and seems to be coping with the cold pretty well too. She’s also become my official photographer, and has taken some lovely shots around Stal Tops.
We’re off to our first show this weekend. The National Show in Belgium and all the horses will be getting a start for the first time in almost two months. Next weekend we’re off to Neumünster in Germany, the final indoor show. Yay! Then we’re at home in Holland for two weeks then a month away in France with a show just about every weekend in March. I hope it’s warmer by then. All the horses have been going well at home so we’re looking forward to getting them out there jumping.
In other exciting news, my dog Lily is arriving in Amsterdam next week! Not sure she’ll think it’s such a great idea when she sees her first snow………………
  
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January 30th, 2012
Well time sure does fly! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year like I did. I managed to sneak home to WA for a few days over Christmas which was lovely. It was very good to be able to see my young horse going so well with Mum who is having so much fun with her.
It felt like I had only just seen my family as they had come over to watch the Victorian Dressage Festival in early December. I had a great ride in the Inter 1 finishing in the top 10 which I was very happy with. The Inter 2 needed some more work but that can only come with competition experience. It was a great competition but back to the training ring! Luckily Mary was home for a few weeks over Christmas- perfect timing! We worked hard and got to the bottom of a few things with the aim to compete Grand Prix at Boneo Park in January 2012.
What a way to kick start the year! We made the trip over on the ferry to the magnificent set up of Boneo Park on the Mornington Peninsula. We had a day to familiarize and get ready for the Inter 2 the next day. I was feeling more confident with the work and am getting to know what to expect from Rambo in the ring. We had a great, mistake free test and were rewarded 3rd place with 65%! I was wrapped with that from the 5 International Judges and among good company of the likes of Heath Ryan and Maree Tomkinson, it was very daunting! It was a great confidence booster to go into my first ever Grand Prix the following day. I managed to keep on top of my nerves and remember the test for starters! Secondly, a mistake free one! I was very relieved and happy, of course there is lots of room for improvement but the first one is out of the way and even managed a 2nd with 62% which is also a qualifier for any CDI competition.
Now the next step, Dressage with the Stars in March! But until then, back to analyzing and improving our weaknesses!
 Young Gun Steph Spencer at Boneo Park in the Grand Prix  2nd in the Grand Prix!
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