Grenadier
at Gleneagles
with Easterton coach Kathryn Jeffress
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Sam
with Kathryn
Sam
Jumping
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Rio
Grande (Rudi)
portrait
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Rudi
warmning up with vaulters at a competition
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Portrait
of Pavanne
Pat
with Pavanne
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Gizmo
with Pat Taylor
Gizmo
with the winning Eagles Novice team, Britts 2010 |
Kathryn
on Pardouche
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Steph on Douche |
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Activities
Club horses
Gleannmhor
Grenadier (Gren) |
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Grenadier
is a homebred 16 year old 16.1 bay roan Welsh Part-bred
gelding.
He doubles as a school horse and works as a vaulting
horse with the Eagles Group.
He has lovely smooth paces - the armchair canter - and
is an excellent horse for ridden lunge work.
He
competes very successfully with Individuals and Novice
teams in vaulting, carrying Louise Sinclair from the
Eagles Group to Junior Individual Champion. He has also
carried the winning Novice team at the Scottish Championships.
He
has competed successfuly in dressage to Elementary level
and is Pat Taylor's ideal choice as a ridden horse for
people to develop the correct feel.
Kathryn
Jeffress received the rosette for the person with the
highest number of points gained on one horse at the
Strathearn Riding Club show summer 08.
He qualified for Blair and was 8th in the style Jumping
Final.
She
is now working on Flying changes with him |
Grenadier
vaulting
Gren in the Coverall |
Fortuitous
(SAM)
sponsored
by ROSS OFFSHORE
Our second International Vaulting horse
and Medium dressage horse
Sam
is a bright bay 17.1 gelding, joining the team of Easterton
horses in July 07.
He
was sponsored by Ross Offshore
and is now a valuable member of the gang.
He came with 152 dressage points and a history of being
a great all rounder.
He is a 75% TB and 25% Clydesdale 12 year old gelding.
He appears to have taken the Clydesdale temperament
and perhaps the hind leg!! He learnt the vaulting moves
very quickly and also being used for one to one lessons.
He is a very safe and reliable schoolmaster.
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Sam
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Spring
08 he carried the Eagles Junior team in Ermelo, Holland
to a first place on the podium. See Eagles
web-site for report.
He
has also fitted in coming 4th in the Scottish Farmer
Medium finals with Pat Taylor on board.
As
you can see he loves a wee jump!
Sadly
Sam has developed osteo arthritis in his coffin joint
and will no longer travel abroad but after a year off
he is still a valuable member of the Easterton Team
especially for the UKCC courses. |
Eagles
Junior team in Holland on Sam
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Rio
Grande
(Rudi
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Our
third International vaulting horse
Rudi
is a Belgian Warmblood 17.00 chestnut gelding, 13 years
old. Arrived May 08.
Rudi
found us. He came for a lesson and told his owner he
wanted to stay by refusing to load to go home! He was
rather large for his diminutive owner and she volunteered
to bring him for a vaulting trial.
He came up trumps and now is a very valuable asset to
the Club. He is a very useful school horse with lovely
paces and a great temperament. |
Sylvie,
our German rider, training Rudi |
Steph,
our international vaulter, on Rudi winning the Scottish
Junior trophy October 2010 |
He
learned so quickly how to be a vaulting horse, you would
think he had done it before.
He
is also a very useful lunge horse.
Update
on Rudi - he is now an International vaulting horse,
renamed Rio Grande, having represented GB at the European
Championships 09 in Sweden - very exciting as he had
only been vaulting for a year.
Rudi
and Steph qualified again for last years FEI Junior
Championhips in Austria. |
Rudi
with Eagles Intermediate team |
Gleannmhor
Pavanne
Homebred
Welsh Part-Bred gelding, 16.2, born 2005.
He
was raised by Ann using the Parelli system and is turning
into a very confident and steady young horse.
June
2010 he went to Gleneagles dressage having discovered
how to turn round in the lorry! Despite leaving the
arena and an error of course he gained 3rd place in
the Prelim test with Pat Taylor.
In
October he won his first Novice test !
He
competed in his first vaulting competition on 27th June
2010, ably lunged by Stephanie Hunter and his little
vaulters all got rosettes
He
is now earning his pocket money as one of the school
horses and is proving very popular as a lunge horse.
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Pavanne's
first vaulting competition
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Atrisco
or GIZMO to his friends
Our
first International Vaulting horse
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I.D.
X T.B. chestnut gelding, 17.2, born 1991 arrived at
Easterton in 1997
Atrisco,
started life as a show jumper and soon turned his
talent to vaulting. He gained his International t-shirt
representing GB in the 1998 WEG in Rome as a vaulting
horse.
More affectionately known as Gizmo, he is well known
by Gleneagles members and students, having lived there
on loan for some years. He has now come home to enjoy
his retirement and is much in demand, having competed
with us to Advanced Medium.
He
is our best school horse and has taught many people
the rudiments of dressage. He
is an ideal schoolmaster and lunge horse for any level
of rider.
He
had a long break from vaulting and has come back with
a bang carrying the Eagles Novice team to a win at
the British Champs at Rowallan October 2010.
At
the tender age of 20 he is being trained as a side
saddle horse and with his impeccable behaviour on
the lunge will make an ideal scoolmaster for this
elegant discipline.
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Gizmo
with Pat
10
yr old Freya on Gizmo as an Individual |
Pardouche
(Douche)
Pardouche
is a bay, 17.2 Dutch Warmblood, born 1997. He arrived
at Easterton 2009
He has taken a while to learn to trust people. He is
a right brain Introvert and craves a leader. He thinks
the world of Sam and they live together in the cattle
court. We have brought him on very slowly and he did
his first vaulting competition after 9 months of slowly
building trust.
He
has a wonderful nature and loves to follow you around
at liberty.
Hopefully
he will become a useful member of the team.
Sam
- "That's rude Douche - put your tongue away" |
Douche
- " OK Sam" |
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Douche
enjoying the winter sunshime
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Kathryn
on Douche winning at Gleneagles |
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