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Big Thank you to everyone who stayed and helped with the party tonight :) will be putting on a free ride tuesday... http://fb.me/FxoLfNk2 5 days ago
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Summer Holidays

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Our Summer Holidays activities are over for this year and a busy summer its been as well, The weather has been extremely good for us all of our shows have gone ahead outdoors this year, (up until last week) We managed to run all three mini hunter trials, brilliant weather for the Open Day and another important time weather wise was the Champs in Derby as we were staying on the showground for 3 days in the lorry and tents, rain was forecast but we only had one small shower and it rained once in the night. Camps we didn’t have great weather for, not too bad but we weren’t able to get out into the fields at all. I think everyone enjoyed the camps though, they are good fun if not somewhat tiring when some of them don’t go to sleep till 3am (Libby and Freya). We finished our activities for this summer holidays with our Riding School show jumping for Clients last friday. We held several of these events through the holidays but the last one is always run by the Pony Club Committee to raise funds towards the Halloween Party (Sat Oct 30th) Children and Teenagers tend to take part but this time we had two (nervous) adults who decided to have a go. They came dressed the part Polo shirts and cream jodphurs and after much discussion as to whether they would look silly being beaten by six year olds they opted to go for a bit bigger classes. Sharon settled for the 1ft 9 but Julie decided to go for a bigger class 2ft. First though as a bit of a warm up they decided to go in the pairs. Julie went first jumping a clear round on Phoebe well nearly a clear round after coming to a halt in front of fence three then Sharon went next, I think the excitement got the better of Sharon, I was standing by the double ready to take a picture of Sharon jumping fence six but Sharon got a little lost and jumped the double backwards (needs a Sat Nav I think). Both did extremely well – but were beaten by the youngsters. Pictures on the Talygarn Face book page. The show was fairly busy and the Pony Club Members sold cakes to boost their funds. Photos http://www.talygarnec.co.uk/Gallery.php Two Horses have gone this summer. Both have been here a few years. Lizzie we have sold and Athena has gone home. Fun Dog Show next Sunday Sept 5th 1pm also being run by the Pony Club Centre. Lots of fun classes and clear round agility.

Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 1:18 am You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

****** Computers

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

Computers are great when they’re working but a nightmare when they don’t and mine hasn’t been working properly for ages, hence no blogs. The speed is so slow it takes days to open a page. Trying to get it fixed is the problem the BT call centre in India try to confuse you with all sorts of attempts to fix things over the phone. I tried to tell them it was a line fault not an internal fault eventually they sent out an engineer and discovered it was a line fault. So hopefully we are back on line again. Today we have travelled to the Pony Club Championships in Derby taking Fred and Lucky with us. We have 5 centre members taking part in Horse Care, Dressage to Music and Centre Equitation. Weather is good today but I’m told its going to rain the next 2 days.

Posted on Sunday, August 15th, 2010 at 4:18 pm You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

unaffiliated Show Jumping

Monday, July 26th, 2010

During the summer the unaffiliated show jumping events tend to be a bit quieter which is not unusual as a lot of people prefer to jump outdoors and there is generally a lot more competitions around. This summer we decided to hold our competitions in the outdoor school which is a large arena (20×60) and using the indoor school as a warm up ring. I didn’t expect today to be very busy as many of our regular people are away on holidays. So it was quite a surprise to be as busy as we were. There were a lot of new faces today making some good competitive classes. Its nicer to be able to jump outdoors when the weather is good and I think a lot of people like to combine that with jumping on a surface. All classes from 2ft up are qualifiers for the Championships of Great Britain held at Cricklands. Steve had a good run on sausage and chips today and actually sold out of chips. Next show jumping Wednesday 28th July start 5.45pm with lead rein going up to 2ft6.

Posted on Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 2:14 am You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Another busy week

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

With less than two weeks to go before the Open Day there is still much to organise and its been another busy week. We have one more practice for the musical ride, the dress rehearsal next week and several other practices to get in for the other displays. The practices have been going very well but unfortunately we had a disaster last weekend when practicing one of the Gymkhana games and Zoe Hughes fell and broke her wrist. On saturday Jen came in the house asking if Paul Curnock could have a cold wet towel for a twisted ankle. I have to admit my first thought was ‘Oh No Emily can’t be injured she is in the Musical ride’, but it was ok is was his wife Kath. No sympathy there Kath just relief Emily that was ok but the next day I was panicked again when Emily fell off in the Mini Hunter Trials. I have asked her to sit in front of the TV for the next week. The Mini Hunter trial was very successful and busy but the ground was very hard. I’m glad to say we only had a couple of fallers and they were ok. Its good for us that England are now out of the football as the World Cup final is on the same day as the Open day although it doesn’t start till 7.30pm and we should be finished by 5.30ish. Mini Show Jumping on Wednesday was a bit quiet this week. The weather was good enough to hold it in the outdoors school. Kate Owen rode Hannah in two of the best jump offs I have seen in a while. Well done Kate. I think those jumping clinics with Amelia and Jo have really paid off. Last Tuesday I drove up to Warwick for Amelia to have a look at some horses. We went to a yard speciallising in competition horses with approx 50 horses. Amelia looked at some 4yr olds 5 yr olds and a 7yr old and eventually decided on the 7yr old which she picking up tomorrow. I am staying home as I have the students, the farrier, the sawdust, and the washing machine mechanic coming out. I also have to get to tescos and and organise the lessons for tomorrow night. Open Day Sunday July 11th gates open 1pm.

Posted on Friday, July 2nd, 2010 at 1:04 am You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

Whitsun Half Term

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Well its certainly been a very busy Whitsun Half Term, after a very successful Mini Hunter Trial last weekend, Amelia jumped in Llandeilo on Monday at the Area 36 BSJA on Leo. The cross country clinic was cancelled Tuesday due to the rain but went ahead on Thursday so we had a bareback jumping practise instead, Mini Pony Club and Pony Days went well and we held the riding school client show jumping in the outdoor arena on Friday and also the Wed Mini Show Jumping was held outdoors. I am hoping to hold all the show jumping during the summer in the outdoor arena unless its raining, although the temptations to eat sausage and chips is greater than eating the Burgers so not so good for my diet. We also managed a Polocrosse practise this week for the open day (Sunday 11th July) and lessons as well. Sunday we took Leo to another Area 36 BSJA show in Carmarthen where Amelia won the 1.05m Adventurer qualifier for Scope in September. Leo doesn’t travel well on his own so I took Jimbob with him today just to ride around the showground, Steve got on him while I took pictures of Amelia and I never got him back. My garden is going well since I got the greenhouse. I have strawberries lettuce broad beans runner beans carrots potatoes cucumber peppers corgettes tomatoes and grapes growing, although I think its too windy here so I’m thinking of getting a massive Polytunnel. Maybe I should give up riding lessons and turn the whole place into a garden centre!!!!

Posted on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 11:05 am You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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