Gosh, things have been so busy for me that I have had no time to update this page until now! Not much has been happening with the horses. My lovely black mare, Summer Eclipse, now has a new home as a games and jumping horse. Congratulations to her new owner, Andrew Rodaughan. Andrew is an expert novelty rider and has represented Victoria many times as part of the state games team. I know Jess and Andrew are going to have heaps of fun together.
My darling little babies, Jaspar and Cadence, are now over one year old and growing very fast. Both are very friendly and always come running to the gate to greet me. They love to be rubbed and cuddled but I have to take care not to spoil them too much so that they don’t become too pushy.
Bickham is enjoying just relaxing in the paddock without a baby to look after this year, and Spider has been started under saddle and is now having a bit of a spell too. He is three years old now and almost 15.3 hands high.
My two Morgans, Cruise and Tuck, are both fat and full of mischief. Tuck is having a break after competing at a few navigation rides over winter. He and I were very happy to place in four out of five of them, two firsts and two seconds, which gave us third place in the HRCAV top ten award for 2008! Cruise has just finished a dressage competition where he performed well. He and I will have our next competition at a show in early December.
From the 20th to the 22nd of November I will be at Equitana at the Melbourne showgrounds. I have been invited to appear as a guest of Saddleworld to sign books in my Riding High and Pony Patch series. Equitana is a huge horse event with lots of displays, educational presentations and things to buy and look at. It has everything and anything you can think of to do with horses – horse heaven really! So, if you want to stock up on pony books for Christmas, I will be there and would love to meet you and personally sign my books for you.
I have more exciting news too. I will be releasing another book next year. It’s still quite secret so I cant tell you any more than that but keep your eyes and ears peeled in May 2009.