Fun times & potential sponsorship

Well again it's been a little while since i last updated you all & boy what a busy time we have been having. During January & February we managed to get out competing a fair bit with Sky Galante, we even ventured into some Elementary & despite his greenness at this level he managed scores of 61.47%. We also have done a few Novice freestyle classes as well, culminating on the 27th Feb by wining & qualifying for the winter regional’s with 69.16%. Castle Troy has also been kept busy with a trip to see Jennie Loriston-Clarke at Ingestre, we are very lucky to be involved in this clinic & would like to thank Tim & Rob from Ingestre for letting me have a place. Jennie was her usual fab self & Troy was little on the edge. Luckily we managed to grab a good 15 mins to walk & settle him then our lesson started. We worked on Canter Piri's & Changes, i loved the way she helped me change both for the better. We have been tending to get stuck in the Canter Piri's but Jennie made me concentrate on turning the shoulder only & moving out of the Piri before we got stuck. The changes can be very good & also very bad at times, i have a tendency to ride canter with my right lower leg to far back. Jennie picked up on this & made me ride my canter coming into the Right to left change with my right leg on the girth. Again it made a huge difference as it would. All in all we had a brilliant time i got a real going over but came out of the lesson beaming & wanting to do it again. The Vid attached to the blog is a small section of some of the work we did during that lesson, it was very cold that day so excuse me & Jennie being wrapped up like Eskimo's. The next exciting this we did was get a visit from Richard Maxwell, Max came to help me start my 3yo Filly we don’t have any issue's but she is a very special girl. We wanted Max to come & give us more tools to make her backing process as smooth & easy as possible. It was a wonderful but exhausting afternoon Eavie worked really well for Max & I’m pleased to say is going from strength to strength with her groundwork. Final exciting news, Carrie has been chosen as one of the finallists for the converted Pink Equine sponsorship. This is something that would really help Carrie, Pink Equine do so many lovely things from bling Browbands / bridles to saddlepads & even your doggies can get in on the act with their range of bling for dog's. Have a look at their site - http://www.pinkequine.com/index.html Please also have a look at their Facebook page - Http://www.facebook.com/pinkequine I hope you enjoyed this rather condensed blog, as always there is loads more to come with Troy starting his competition season this month.