It's a long time since I've been on here!  Meanwhile we've had some super results, Leo Chocolat started life as a Show Jumper last October and finished the season with 5th in the HOY 1m 25 Title class at HOY. That's him with Laine Cameron on the left. He's taken to it like the proverbial "duck to water" and I'm expecting to hear more good news this coming season.

His full brother Leo Distinction has also had a change of focus and started his eventing career in late February, very green to start but finished 4th ot of 54 in the Pre Novice Championship at the Taupo 3DE!! He now needs to learn some manners Show Jumping.

LeoLegacy is the next "cab off the rank" and has gone to Fiona hopefully as her dressage horse, but he also can jump having cleared a full wire fence plus outriggers when sent to be started, so time will tell what his forte will be.

And then there is Leo Deedee, a beautiful young mare who is destined to be an eventer,

In order to make sense of my horses pedigrees I have laid them out here. All I have bred carry the Leo prefix.

My Foundation Mares were Golden Legacy xx Leader of the Band/ Rosica and Tabago Winnebago/Raincheckxx

Tabago produced Leo Godonov by the Canadian hanoverian Gouverneur and
Leo Foxfire by the TB Foxvalley

Golden Legacy ( Milly) produced Leo Fanfare

Leo Merry Dance both by Leo Godonov

Leo Zanzibar by Washington DC

LeoTolstoy (Clifton Leo) by Babaroom tb

Leo Dreams of Gold

Leo Degas both by Dreamboy

Leo Godonov was the Reichenbach winner in '97 and won all 5 med tests at the Nationals in '98.He was then injured and never reached his full potential.

Leo Foxfire was my own competition horse and we competed succesfully up to Open Med and trained to Advanced.

Milly competed to Elementary and had a great talent for jumping but she went through a fence in a thunder storm so retired to the broodmare paddock. She is 1/2 sister to Diplomat, ch hunter ch hack A grade SJ sold to Japan, Miss Irish Rose 5yo SJ and SH of the year, Dela Rose dam of Kate Lambie's Alibi, Bounty Hunter futurity winner amongst others.

Her progeny Fanfare did not compete,Dam of 5 named foals

Merry Dance succesful to Med level ch saddle hunter, dam of 2 named foals

Zanzibar Champion Sport Horse dam of 3 foals

Tolstoy ( Clifton Leo) Winner YEH Taupo 2002 exported to USA

Dreams of Gold multi dressage ch now competing advanced.

Degas Winner YEH at Puhinui 2008, 3rd YEH Taupo 2009, 2nd 1* Kihikihi '10 1st Canterbury 1* autumn '10 winner open int Canterbury spring'10 etc.

Fanfare has produced 5 live foals Chocolat, dressage and now eventing, Aphrodite as yet untried,Distinction showing a tremendous talent for dressage and jumping.Legacy and Lucullian by Limonit who show great presence and natural elevated paces.

Merry Dance has produced Deedee by Dreamboy and Donna by Don Quattro two very pretty young fillies.

Zanzibar is also a producer for her owner Leanne.

Above left bay yearling gelding Leo Lucullian, Limonot/Leo Fanfare and above right Leo Donna bay yearling filly Don Quattro/ Leo Merry Dance.

Left Luke and Donna's pretty faces. And they aren't going to be small!

Leo Legacy age 3


Apologies to Sam and Andy for missing their WIN at Mcleans Island on October 10th, I'm becoming a VERY proud mother! Sox had a win and second yesterday at Woodhill in his second only outing and next weekend he's having his fist taste of eventing too (just intro so he can get the hang of it)and apparently Taz had a good time practising x-c at Kumeu, just a bit of a hiccup into the water but it's early days for him in this discipline.
Yesterday I had to judge Rufus which I've always tried to avoid but as I sold him years ago there is not considered to be a conflict of interest. I was very relieved to see that I had Rufus and Anaheim 1st= and so did my co-judge Robin Potter, and we were very close with our marks too.

Congratulations to Alicia and Rufus for winning the Inter 1 at the Bay of Plenty Champs!! Taz had another start at Barge Park finishing 6th out of 30 odd, the jumps are a little small for him now and he took the sj abit cheaply for 1 rail so on to Training level next.
Also I see Andy had and outing to Nelson, he and Sam now live in Christchurch, where they were 3rd in the Open Intermediate HT, so encouraging to see them steadily progress up the levels.


At last Sox is having another outing this weekend, it will be great to see him out, crossed fingers.

update

Foxy has a new home in Cambridge with Annika and they seem to have really clicked which is nice, I shall look forward to regular updates from Annika.
The latest update from Alicia with Rufus is very positive with a win at Showfields in Advanced on 67%, we're really excited about the coming season for them!
Also Taz has a new jockey for eventing and seems to be taking to it like the proverbial duck to water double clears in the jumping phase at both starts and he won his last start on his dressage score! Only pretraining so far but after a start this weekend at Whangarei he will then go Training level. So good to see him showing his talent at last.

Meanwhile the youngsters are growing like Topsy, Cracker (Limonit /Leo Fanfare) will mature around 17hh and is going to be super laid back big boy with superb paces and a soft swinging back, Deedee (Dreamboy/Leo Merrydance) a more compact type and a typical cheeky filly. Then there are the yearlings, Luke, Cracker's full brother and Donna, Deedee's 1/2 sister by Don Quattro who are developing well, such a pity that I have to sell them!!

Having a new computer has been causing problems, hopefully theyb are all sorted now.
Alicia tells me that Rufus is progressing well and starting to work on his tempi changes without getting too exuberant and Taz is to have anew shared rider this season while Anita is away flying. In the meantime I've been dabbling in pet portraits with some successso I've added some on here.