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

Bates Australia have now launched their new jump saddle ADVANTAge- close contact with front and back blocks it is designed to keep you balanced and secure in the jump.

Alongside their ELEVATION LUX it is without doubt Bates saddles can support you with your premier jump saddle. Available at ALL Horseland Stores

Thank you, BATES, for your continued support

We buy all our Equestrian needs from Horseland, Feed CopRice feeds and Endorse CEVA, Proteq and Ecomis

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)

Firstly Happy New Year to you all – ALREADY 2018 with a full year planned here at  TE. With a group of super young imports we hope to have them out and about early in the season. War Hawk will be pressing on to try and gain selection for WEG  which is being held in Tryon North Carolina USA . September 13th start. If successful both horse and rider will be leaving our shores August 2018 .

We are also very pleased to announce that our very own WANDA has been recognised for her fabulous performances in 2017. She joins the National ‘Recognition Squad’ alongside WAR HAWK and Gemma with ANNAPURNA. We are also proud of our groom/rider Tara Rogers who has also gained qualification for the ‘Recognition Squad’ on her horse HUNTER BALLIMORE. Congratulations 🙂

To top a great 2017 eventing season -we are thrilled that Corinna and Darren Huskinson’s WAR HAWK wins NSW Horse of the Year ( Eventing)- May be a rowdy Awards night ! Come join us at The Inglis’s new venue ‘The Big Bran’ William Inglis Hotel Warwick Farm- WED 21st Feb, tickets on sale now- Contact Andrea@ensw.org.au

Both Karen and Gemma upgrade their NCAS coaching accreditation. Gemma now a LEVEL 1 General and Karen now a LEVEL 2 Eventing. With Stuart as a LEVEL 3 Eventing we can offer ALL levels of riding lessons from pony club, Interschools and above.

We will be holding ‘day clinics’ for those who would like to join us . With a show jumping session in the morning and a Cross Country session after lunch. Keep an eye on nominate and our fb page for dates and venues.

Gemma especially is keen to coach  and will travel to you 🙂

Calendar for FEB:

11th FEB:  Wallaby Hill Extravaganza: Wasabi, Daisy and Dalenna Daydream.

17/18th FEB : Sydney @SIEC

Gemma – Anna and Diabolo- Stuart – Celebration and Leporis

Cheers, Tinney Eventing

As its only a few weeks before Christmas we would like to do a quick news before our Christmas collage – running a little late, however we have had a massive few weeks with a trip to Adelaide 4* where Corinna and Darren Huskinson’s ‘War Hawk’ sat on the podium with a very proud 3rd. Off the back of Adelaide was Wallaby Hill 3* where our own ‘Wanda’ also got on the podium in the 2* with a 2nd. Adelaide was as always an amazing event, but saddened with the passing of its founder Gill Rolton who had been battling cancer and passed away aptly on CC day. We have such fond memories of times with Gill and she will be deeply missed.

In respect Stuart wore Gill’s memorial band in his show jump round.

As our year draws to a close, another big one for TE  some changes plus new imports. We would like to thank our wonderful sponsors Bates, CopRice, Horseland and Ceva, all have been with us for almost 18 years ( feeling old!) Plus Ecomist and Proteq, both products can be found in our yard and we would struggle without them.

Owners- John and Jane Pittard ( Pluto and Anna) Corinna and Darren Huskinson ( War Hawk) Tim Game ( Diabolo and Medusa who is now jumping with Jess Brown) plus ‘Celebration’ and his owner Elisabeth Brinton- You guys are all awesome and

WE LOVE AND THANK YOU ALL

Since we last wrote we have been to 2 events- Goulburn CIC and the weekend passed Sydney @ SIEC fundraiser. In between preparing for these events we have enjoyed introducing our three new German imports to Australia- however they all think its winter here- so 3 clips coming up !!

It was fabulous to have an event of such calibre in the lead up to Adelaide 4*- War Hawk certainly looking great all weekend taking the win in the 3 * – Not far behind (3rd) was Gemma on John and Jane Pittards Annapurna followed by our own Wanda 4th- Wanda stepping up to 3*.

We were recently sent some facts from the committee of Sydney @ SIEC event ( hence the fundraiser)- What we all take for granted is that we all have the unique opportunity to ride at an existing Olympic Games venue – maybe one of the only purpose built equestrian Olympic venues that still operate. It is always going to be costly to have such an incredible facility with very high rental due to resources and upkeep. We here at TE are always thankful we can continue to have these events with great patronage we can all enjoy our eventing for many years to follow- Keep the support up- we love SIEC.

We were recently invited to give a talk for the Youth Squad for Dressage conducted by DNSW. Great few days, engaging these very enthusiastic dressage riders- well done to the organizers  (thanks Mandy !) Introducing them all to the holistic side- as well as training there was horse management. We spoke about ‘how to run a successful horse business’ which included horse welfare , plus alot of medal holding, photos SPONSOR poster signing!! Great night, we all had fun.

SPONSOR endorsement for October is ECOMIST insect repellent. We are just such supporters of ECOMIST- as well as our farrier, vet, staff and riders ! With 3 ECOMIST in our stable block we can swear that the flies are not at all interested in hanging around us ! PLUS we always take one in our truck for events – PLUS in our entertaining area ( not that we entertain much !) but we do have many family dinners outside- As its just comfortable with NO insects – also it keeps the spider webs away too ! WE JUST LOVE ECOMIST – www.ecomist.com.au

Well you know when you have a bad to average event it makes you more determined for the next ! It must be why we just love this sport as there is always room for improvement, horse and rider- plus we are always trying to understand our horses ! Goulburn was certainly an fabulously organized event as always- but a couple of our horse, rider were not ‘on their game’ ! However Elisabeth Brinton’s ‘Celebration’ and our ‘Wanda’ both performed exceptionally for their level 🙂