Browsing Archive: March, 2013

March 15th Wiltshire Life Awards

Posted by A O'Neill on Saturday, March 16, 2013, In : Day to day 
Last night was incredible! My Mum and I spent an excellent evening at the Wiltshire Life Awards Ceremony, enjoying the delicious food and entertainment. My category had been shortlisted to four people with extremely strong candidates so I thought I had no chance and decided to just relax and enjoy the free champagne. We were the penultimate award so had an agonizing wait for the result but eventually it was our turn, where I was announced the Young Achiever of the Year! I was very suprised to...
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March 9th Next lesson...

Posted by A O'Neill on Saturday, March 9, 2013, In : Day to day 
Today Jasper has been a star! After a lethargic start Jude jumped on for 5 minutes and we then had an awesome lesson. Much improved with his medium work and rein back. Although he does reins back well in harness he has suddenly decided he doesn't know what rein back is under saddle, which is odd as that is where he orginally learnt to rein back. Very pleased with him. Spent the rest of the day getting ready for our competion tomorrow. Thank you to my sister Kiera for cleaning my carriage in e...
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March 4th We're in Ridgeway Rider

Posted by A O'Neill on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, In : British Young Drivers 
Check out our Media page for the latest issue of Ridgeway Rider which has my nomination for my intructor Jude as an inspirational trainer. It was a lovely article. Thank you to everyone at Ridgeway Rider for printing it and thank you to Jude for all the help she has given me over the years.

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February 23rd Lesson and IHDT Championships

Posted by A O'Neill on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, In : Day to day 
What an improvement from last week! I thought we were going to have to start from scratch again after the winter with working on Jaspers medium trot. But today he was actually doing it which was amazing. Great lesson, very pleased with him :) thank you Jude for your help, it was a great lesson and I wasn't as exhausted afterwards this time. Was hacking Jasper home when we rode past the postman. He is clearly new around here as he looked mildly alarmed to see someone riding a horse and was the...
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