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This weekend I finally managed to book Dustry in for a lesson after all the snow, frozen arenas, slippy roads, and other obstacles in our way it was his first lesson since before Christmas. I have been religiously schooling him after work during the week, either lunging on side reins or riding, but without any ‘eyes on the ground’ it can feel a bit like you are literally and metaphorically riding in the dark! As a result I think he had got a little ‘mincey’ and not forward enough in his trot work. I need to get him to work lower in…

This year to try and give GHE readers a bit more insight about my sponsors, and the life of a sponsored amateur rider I am going to run a monthly ‘Sponsor Spotlight’ feature. We kick off with my newest sponsor the not-for profit racehorse rehabilitation organisation Going Home. The idea is that ‘Sponsor Spotlight’ will give people a little overview about each sponsor, what they do, and how our sponsorship agreement works. There’s also a Q&A section where I have tried my journalistic best to ask some interesting and probing questions! Enjoy… About Going Home… “Going Home” is a not for profit horse re-homing…

Today I found out that GHE has made it into the final 6 nominated sites for the Abbeyview Equine Social Media Awards. GHE was very kindly nominated by a fellow tb fan, and now the voting for the winner can begin!!! Eeeeeke! If you would like to vote for me then please click here scroll down a little, enter your email address, then scroll down a bit more to category 6, select Gift Horse Eventing, scroll to the bottom of the page and click VOTE! 🙂 You can only vote once otherwise none of your votes will be counted, and voting…

You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to source dark green and white chequered fabric! Finally after hours of scouring the internet eBay came up with the goods and I found some cotton with the right pattern on. It arrived yesterday and it’s a P E R F E C T match with my xc top, I’m as chuffed as a chuffed thing! So my grand plans are to firstly make myself a stock to match my xc colours, and then have a little think about how to employ the off cuts…..I was thinking maybe a hat bag?….or….some kind of head-collar accessory…..not sure….I’m waiting for a flash of…

Well ok so It’s not technically spring yet, but I have ‘spring cleaning fever’, and with both horses currently out of action (Soap is on his holidays, and Dustry is ‘off games’ at the mo’ whilst a cut on his leg heals!) I have turned my attention to my tack. I tend to only really clean my tack before competitions and after is has been used in muddy/wet conditions so this was a bit of a treat for my leather work! Over the years I have picked up a few tips when it comes to cleaning tack, nothing ground breaking or…

My lovely sponsor Kan Teq sent me a Christmas parcel which after a little investigative rattling, sniffing, and squeezing went under the tree to be opened on Christmas day! Wendy at Kan Teq has her own horses and understands the needs of ‘horsey ladies’ and had sent me some lovely toiletries including that god send Neutrogena hand cream, lip balm for chapped winter lips, polos for the ponies, chocolate money and a few more lovely goodies for me! The best part of my little Christmas bundle though was a new medical armband cover for my Kan! I think medical arm…

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2011 everyone x – Click images to read Santa’s message!

…this weather may be pretty, but it’s also pretty boring not being able to ride, and the horses are making it known that they are bored too by getting into as much mischief as they can! They are only having a few hours turn out each day whilst I get their boxes ready so they can go back in and spend the day munching and snoozing, it’s a hard life! Today I decided to give riding a go and raked the outside track, a diagonal, and a 20m circle in the arena. The surface holds up pretty well in cold…

Since all I can do with the horses atm is muck out and groom because we are covered in the white stuff, I decided to make a little movie. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a cheesy film to watch so if you are bored of ‘Pinocchio’ or can’t stand to watch ‘The Snowman’ for the 11th time then take a peek at the ‘GHE Christmas Movie’ rated PG. WARNING – it contains some corny language and scenes of an equine nature….

Some very exciting developments have been going on at ‘GHE Towers’ recently and one of those has been the addition of a new sponsor for 2011. A few months back I was approached by Lori from ‘Going Home’ to see if I would be interested in being sponsored by them, and once she explained a little bit more about ‘Going Home’ and what they did I was a definite yes! ‘Going Home‘ is a not for profit organisation dedicated to buying up failed racehorses and giving them one to one care, attention, and instruction until they are rehabilitated, re-schooled and ready to go to…