A few months ago my wife Jan qualified for the British Dressage Regional Championships and there she was successful in qualifying for the BD National Championships that started today. Weeks of preparation and planning had gone into this trip to Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire and yesterday we loaded up the trusty LandCruiser and the trailer...
Following on from their success at the Regional Championships and as part of their preparation for the 2011 British Dressage National Championships next month, Jan and Zeus were competing at Norton Heath in Essex today. The weather was typical for a Bank Holiday weekend, brief bouts of sunshine interspersed with squally showers – I was...
A few months ago my wife Jan and her horse Zeus Stonegrove qualified for the British Dressage Regional Championships after entering local competitions and winning with high scores. There has been a lot of prep work for the Championship over the last few weeks and today was the day! Jan was up bright and early...
Tuesday saw me covering another in the series of the BEF Futurity young horse gradings and this time I was at Catherston Stud in Hampshire which is always a good venue to attend. There were some lovely foals and horses being evaluated and here is a small selection of some of the entrants. To view...
Today saw another event in the BEF Futurity series, this time it was at The College Equestrian Centre in Keysoe, Bedfordshire. Yet again there was a very good turnout with some extremely good young horses and foals being evaluated. To view the full set of images please go to my Greenlees Equine website.
Yesterday I was providing the photography for one of the Baileys Horse Feeds/British Equestrian Federation (BEF) Futurity Young Horse Evaluations that are run by the BEF’s company British Breeding. The Futurity is principally run to identify talented young sport horses and ponies who may go on to represent Great Britain at world class events or...
A couple of years ago someone we knew had been working in Eastern Hungary near the Ukrainian border and had come across a young Cremello Warmblood mare who had been mistreated and was apparently in a pretty poor state. It’s a long story but somehow we ended up putting a rescue operation into place that...
Last night my wife Jan and I were very fortunate to be invited to Carl Hester’s private box at the FEI World Cup Dressage event as part of the London International Horse Show at Olympia in London. This was the main event on the dressage calendar during the Olympia show and involved the horses and...
My wife Jan owns a young warmblood horse and she has recently become part of the Being Warmbloods dressage team run by Polly Hodges and her mother Gilly. Since going to train with Polly five year old Zeus has come along in leaps and bounds and today was another step in his dressage career with...
