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

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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

Bumper news

SydneyIHT-Equestriad plus Gemma awarded National Young Athlete of the year.

The past weeks have gone so quickly with Stuart heading OS with his new position as Chef for WEG (confirming not the cooking type!) Plus a few rider injuries here we have had to pull together to get all the horses prepped and ready for the runs at Equestriad and Sydney International.

Firstly, we can’t complain that with Gemma and myself on the backfoot the horses did not perform well in the past few events. Gemma is now almost sound after rupturing ligaments off her ankle (simply she was packing the float after competing at Wallaby Hill Extravaganza and fell from the tack box of the float!) I have been nursing a bulged disc after a bought of gardening! HOWEVER, thanks to STEVE at Beecroft Physio he and his team got us back to riding sooner than anticipated!  Also thank you to our rider Tara Rogers for all the help riding and fitness work – Thanks too to Tahlia Hurley, we have a good team!

SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL 3DE certainly deserves front page- With TE supporting the event with 7 horses over the 3 days, we also hosted The Rider and Owners tent. Sponsored by TE, Tarraleah Park and Findlay Equestrian. A great hub to bring riders, owners and grooms together in a likeminded friendly environment. This tent was the first rider/owner tent since the Club Equus days (some may remember those !!) Hopefully we can build on this tent at SIHT – Just a quick Thank you to Proteq Equine bedding- how nice to come to the event and the stables are ready and prepared for you by your sponsors!!

WASABI (Sushi stable name) Was bought from South Germany last year as a 4YO – Thinking she may be a little young for us – she has proven to be right up there with the others we imported. A seriously surprise package. Ridden in the 5YO class by Tara Rogers. A German sport horse by Decurio out of a Wanderfurst mare.

DAYLENNA DAYDREAM Winner with a record score of 100! 6YO YHC

This amazing unassuming German Sport horse by Daydream out of a Saint Cloud mare is very special. Light, athletic with a great attitude to her work. Personally, this mare gets a BIG LIKE!

The 3DE alongside the International classes was a CNC 2 and 3 stars. This gave us an opportunity to run both Elisabeth Brinton’s ‘Celebration’ and our own ‘Leporis’ in the CNC**. Super happy (again) with Celebration finishing 3rd and Leo stepping up into the grade with his 8th placing. We must also mention that Gemma rode Anna to lead the dressage and cross country only to have 2 rails (sad face) to end up 4th. John and Jane Pittard are the very proud owners of Anna.

Corinna and Darren Huskinson’s ‘War Hawk’ doing a good test for a 31.7 putting him in 5th, an unfortunate flag at 6B left him with a 50 – He is such a trooper, so sound, flew through the trot up and show jumped superbly.

Berrima CIC*** was slotted in just before Stuart heads off. Very pleased with War Hawk placing 2nd finishing on 35.6 and Gemma 6th.

While Stuart was overseas at the WEG test event plus a brief trip to the UK to meet with the Elite riders – Us girls took ourselves off to Equestriad… Gemma with Anna in the CIC** ran 3rd and Diabolo CIC*ran 5th. ‘DD’ and ‘Daisy’ both doing their first event in Australia (and ever!) with Tara. Both exceptional in the 105.

We are all very excited that firstly Gemma was nominated for National Young Athlete of the year and secondly, she was voted by members of Equestrian AUS to be the winner. Gemma makes us proud daily and we are grateful to all who voted for her. Also, Congratulations to all that were nominated. For more info go to www.equestrian.org.au

Gemma has come a long way in 14 years

WAR HAWK   is FOR SALE

We have had the privilege of being part owners with Corinna and Darren Huskinson in War Hawk – ”Raffles” as he is more commonly known is ready for his new home. An amazing event horse that will take a rider to the top level of Eventing 4 star. He is solid and very sound. An International horse that has competed continuously throughout his career.

More information please email stuart@tinneyeventing.com

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CLINIC at Wallaby Hill

Recently Stuart, Karen and Gemma (All levels of NCAS) went to Wallaby Hill (twice as the Cross Country was rained out) and taught a lovely group of enthusiastic riders. With Show jump session AM and Cross Country PM. We feel it was a great success- despite the inclement weather! We are keen to go back for another day. Anyone interested please contact us.

CALENDAR:

MAY 26th/27th GUNDAGAI- Wasabi, DD and Daisy 105– Sir Pepper CNC*

ALBURY JUNE 2/3rd – (same as above)

MELBOURNE JUNE 8-10th – Celebration and Leporis CCI**

Wallaby Hill- Sydney Ode- Awards plus Stuarts big announcement

We always LOVE going to Wallaby Hill. There is nothing like the first event of the season to be fun, fabulous and totally ridiculous! It is an event where you can get your ponies out after the holidays, jump some great courses on great ground, plus best of all get dressed up and get  primed with champs in the VIP tent 🙂

We took some of our lovely new imports to Wallaby Hill. We took Wasabi, Daisy, Daydream, Leo, Diabolo and Celebration. All of them were magnificent- so happy to have such a great team plus Alex and Derek opening their amazing property run by them plus their amazing team.

We took Celebration (Elisabeth Brinton’s) and Diabolo (Tim Games) to Sydney CIC with great results Dab winning the CIC* and Celebration winning the CIC**. With Stuart taking the ride of Dab while Gemma is out- obviously well-trained Gemma 🙂

Great start to the month too with accolades and awards, With War Hawk NSW horse of the year, Stuart event rider of the year, plus the announcement that Stuart will be Chef D’Équipe for the Australian event team at WEG 2018 (in USA). We just love this beautiful photo of The Huskinson family, owners of War Hawk. Also, Neil Lavis presenting the awards.

Great new look for CopRice feeds, fabulous bags plus Performer replacing Show and Comp 🙂

Calendar: March

10/11 Canberra: Sir Pepper, Leporis, Diabolo, Wasabi

24/25 Berima (same as above)