Welcome back to Tinney Eventing 2019! Jan was all about R and R for all the Tinney’s plus horses. Always the 1st event to get our horses out is The Wallaby Hill Extravaganza. ALWAYS a great day, loved every minute of it! Thanks again to Alex and Derek who open their fabulous property for us all to parade around dressed up and just having fun with our 4-legged friends. Stuart always likes to get his ‘hair down!’ or ON more like it. Gemma taking on a Shane Rose look alike! Very scary… Diabolo doing a bit of dressage. Great going, great weather.

Once we had recovered from Wallaby Hill the Tinney’s did an outing to our local Arcadia Pony Club coaching and presenting CopRice samples/hats and feed for the Raffle. Medals were out and kids loved it.

GEMMA long listed for the Oceania Champs – Well done GEM and ANNA

February /March is the start of the Eventing season and with such a dry winter and summer it’s been just awesome having the best feed in the barn-CopRice. We include feeding lots of roughage (hay). With feeding more HIGH JOULE, the horse’s coats are gleaming. We have also found VETERAN a plus with its high protein and balanced energy. CopRice always have the edge on their premium feeds. They have a feed to match every horse. More info or advice on our feeding program send us a message:)

CopRice feed pics  plus Lesley in pond.

HOT HOT HOT ! CEVA can help

This summer has been off the dial heat and humid wise. Even Lesley jumped in with the fish to cool down!! TE start early to help the horses work and recover better than later in the day. Again, we use CEVA brand products orally to help them. More info or advice, message us.

TE

Featuring Lynton- Albury and Adelaide 4*

We took a team to Lynton HT – CIC which is always a fabulous event, with no exception this Oct. Gemma with Tim Games DIABOLO 4th CIC** and LEPORIS 6th plus the beautiful CELEBRATION 6th CIC*** owned by Elisabeth Brinton- The others all went well and completed their section. All jumping round clear XC and SJ, just taking it easy XC with time of the younger horses.

Pics x 3 Leporis, Celebration and Raffles

We thank John and Jane Pittard for their ongoing   support, plus we thank Annapurna -we put all our trust in her to bring Gem home safely which she did 😊

Stuart entered 2 horses for Adelaide- Raffles (War Hawk) plus Leporis- He also was asked to be the AMBASSADOR, which was a huge honor for him. He did a Masterclass plus a course walk which fitted well into his schedule. Briefly our own Leporis did a fab test 33- then was awesome XC, the 2 star was a test with some seriously narrow fences, however time achievable and only took out 1/3rd of the class!! (unlike the 4 star) The showjumping, again no surprises but only 3 clear rounds- Leo one of them, giving him 2^nd place. – It was agreed that if Raffles had a problem early Stuart would retire and go onto 3star Wallaby Hill. In hindsight maybe should have kept going as podium finish still carried a 20! So, onto Wallaby Hill- Will keep you all posted! Last event of the Year! Look out for our Christmas slide show 🙂 Thanks for being there for us on this year’s journey- Especially our main sponsors- CopRice, Bates, Horseland and Ceva- Also Proteq and Ecomist- Owners, John and Jane Pittard, Elisabeth Brinton, and Tim Game.  Forever grateful. TE

With WEG now behind us -we can now concentrate on our own team of horses back here in AUS. It has not been too bad Stuart being away for parts of this year, it gave the young horses some time to mature and grow in their training. With Stuart only getting back into the Country 3 days prior to Canberra CIC, the pressure was on us riders here at home to see if we had done a good enough job!! Thank fully all the ponies went well, so we keep our jobs!!

CANBERRA was somewhat hectic with 9 horses in all from TE barn. 6 rides for Stuart, 2 rides for Gemma and 1 ride for Tara Rogers our rider- As much as we all love Eventing, this was a stretch for us all!! Thank you to Kerry (owner of Sir Pepper) for your help plus evening entertainment!! Plus, Gemma’s girls Fin and Tish- you are now icing experts 🙂

Just a snap shot of which horses Stuart competed and how they went. In the CIC2.5* Our own WAR HAWK did a fabulous event with some time CC to place 4th. Our own LEPORIS stepped up and looked awesome in the CIC** again time CC placing 6th. The 2 girls Daisy and DD solid in the 1 star with a 5th and 8th. Elisabeth Brinton’s CELEBRATION only dressage and SJ this event (a little too pudgy for CC but he will start again at Goulburn) Alice Wheller’s SIR PEPPER looking better every event with a 10th CIC*.

The timing of lack of winter events for us here at TE certainly slotted in with Stuarts commitments at WEG plus a trip to the UK for a family wedding plus some non-horsey activities on the Cornish coast for Karen and Irene (mum) Canberra was a great run for our horses, Gemma’s too, with Tim Games DIABOLO moving into the CIC** and The Pittards ANNAPURNA having a run to the water – With Adelaide in their sights.  Events coming up for TE- Goulburn State Championships, Albury CIC followed by The Australian 3DE (Adelaide) then close to home Wallaby Hill 3DE.

CALENDAR:

13/14th OCT Goulburn – Stuart- CELEBRATION CIC***, LEPORIS CIC**, DAISY, DD and PEPPER CIC* Tara- WASABI CIC* Gemma – ANNA CIC* and DIABOLO CIC**.

27/28th OCT Albury- Horses TBC

16th-18th NOV – Australian 3DE – Stuart WAR HAWK CCI**** LEPORIS CCI** Gemma ANNAPURNA CCI****

1st/2nd DEC Wallaby Hill 3DE – Horses TBC

ALL TINNEY HORSES ARE 100% fed COPRICE Equine range. Thank you CopRice for contributing to our horse’s success and wellbeing 🙂 We also use HORSELAND for all our horse and rider apparel. BATES saddles and CEVA for healthy bodies and joints… THANK YOU for being part of our team.

Again, a bi-monthly news- Winter months are a little slow for competitions however we managed to find lots to do, as well as training our lovely team of horses, we took ourselves to QLD for some sun. This news features Tamborine 3DE, Equestriad and SJ Rider Series

TAMBORINE 3DE with Gemma and Annapurna was a trip certainly worthwhile.  Gemma’s trip was to qualify herself and Anna for Adelaide 4 star, which she achieved with a credible 2nd. The event was very hospitable, weather was awesome, plus the event was well run and worth the drive (Thank you Rachael Lee for the company, and your great result too – podium finish) We will go back next year, the course was tough but great lead up for a 4 star.

EQUESTRIAD at Camden a few weekends ago, Stuart flew home on the Thursday and rode 5 of our team that weekend- The horses performed very well, Stuart was a question at times!! But the team kept him full of Electrolytes and Encouragement!! All horses in the top for their dressage phase, most clear SJ and XC taken easy – Gemma taking the ride on War Hawk winning her dressage on a 28… Her first event on him so could not be more pleased. Gemma took her first fall on XC on Dab (yes 1st, not to say she has not fallen doing other equestrian tricks!)  An exciting event!

We were very happy with a quick one-day SJ day at The Riders Series- Winning 1.20m (Celebration) 2nd (Wasabi 1) and winning the 1.30m (Wanda) With Stuart now away with EA High Performance as Chef Equip, TE will slow down for a few weeks. Coming back with a full-on calendar for the rest of the year- Working closely with our team to compete at Canberra, Albury, Goulburn – With the view of both Gemma and Stuart riding at Adelaide 4 star. INTERESTING times. BEST OF LUCK TO ALL THE WEG EVENTING TEAM- Sending them POSITIVE, WINNING VIBES. Cheers TE

Yet another busy 2 months .. apologies that the newsletter has become every 2 months! We will try to get a hold of life and get back to the norm! This news we will work backwards, MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL- ALBURY- GUNDAGAI – Lots of travel down south and home again. Yes, we like to bring our horses home when possible. Even though often inconvenient!! Nothing like your own bed 🙂

Our breaking news would be that War Hawk will be competed by Gemma for the rest of the season or until sold 🙂

With Stuart’s position as Chef for WEG and lack of time until end of year- We are excited to announce that Gemma is thrilled to take the ride –  however his sale being imminent

Melbourne International 3DE

Celebration wins the CCI** – Anna 3rd CCI***

Stuart had two super rides CELEBRATION finishing on his dressage score- Which has put him right onto the FUTURES SQUAD!  plus, Sir Pepper- a very positive event with a glance off the 3rd element at the tricky coffin

We all went down to Werribee- which included Elisabeth Brinton (owner of Celebration) her husband Bob, Kerry Blair and Alice Wheller (owner of Sir Pepper) John and Jane Pittard, Anna’s owners- plus Sunny Barker .. IT WAS A GREAT TEAM!!! Thank you all for an awesome event and the results showed

During Alice’s HSC Sir Pepper has come to us for Stuart to compete- Pepper has been awesome in dressage and show jumping but has lacked the experience in the CC phase- who better to help that in a positive way!! Yep Stuart- Pepper is an awesome horse and with a year here we hope that Alice will be very competitive in 2019.

The awesome ANNAPURNA and GEMMA- What can we say but great partnership.

ALBURY and GUNDAGAI

Both events were just perfect for taking out our young horses.  Both events full capacity plus great OC

We have been so pleased with our 3 horses that we imported from Germany last year. We had hoped that maybe we would sell one or two back into a great home here in Australia, but as they are all looking like super stars they are staying with us for the time being! Daisy and DD both went to Albury and Gundagai.. Stuart rode Alice Wheller’s Sir Pepper in the CNC*. Wasabi is on spell as she is still so young -plus we are concentrating on less horses at events (now that Stuart and Karen are going it alone at events)

GUNDAGAI Sir Pepper wins CNC* DD 3rd 105- Daisy (stop at water, no placing) ALBURY- Sir Pepper 4th CNC*- Daisy and DD both 2nd 105 classes

Gemma awarded Young National Athlete of the Year 2018

https://www.facebook.com/EquestrianAus/videos/1821758527883040/

This last page is dedicated to my beautiful daughters Jaymee and Gemma, both of which I am very proud. Their riding achievements are too long to mention – Both rode through Pony Club, Interschools and onto International events. Here are some photos from your embarrassing mum and hopefully inspire other families- Riding is a fabulous recreation however you succeed in it 🙂

REMINDER

Corinna and Darren Huskinson’s WAR HAWK is on the market to be sold. In the meantime, Gemma will campaign him, and is looking forward to some great rides.

AUGUST 4th/5th CAMDEN

Eventing up to CNC ***

Gemma CNC** War Hawk / Diabolo.

Stuart  TBA