This weekend Pascal and Ted (Undaunted) went to The  Addington Premier League.  Samantha had not ridden Pascal for two weeks but they came away with a second place in the Inter 2 and qualify directly to the National Championships in September with just over 70%. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Dressage’ Category
Success at Addington Premier League
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013Samantha in Saumur
Friday, May 3rd, 2013Samantha Thurman-Baker got off to a fine start with Douglas in Saumur.  She travelled out in fine style with Carl Hester and Dances with Wolves and Fine Time and Charlotte Dujardin with Uthopia, so had to pull out all the stops!  (more…)
Samanthas busy two weeks!
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013Samantha has a very busy couple of weeks coming up. Pascal has gone up to be with her at Carl’s before they head off to the Keysoe Premier League to compete in the Grand Prix on Friday and the Inter II on Saturday. She then has a fast turn around as she loads up Douglas on Monday to travel to Samaur in France to ride in the CDIO Young Rider classes. Good luck and keep us posted on your trips:)
Winter Dressage Championships
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013Clients Claire Randall on Decree (Tinks) and Susan Armstrong on Peaceful Flight (Poppy) are competing at The Winter Dressage Championships at Hartpury this week. Claire is in the Advanced Medium Restricted on Wednesday, whilst Susan is competing on Sunday in The Petplan Prelim Championships. Â Good Luck ladies, lets hope those extra lessons pay off and you come home with a ribbon:)
Well done to you both, Claire came 3rd and Susan 14th in their respective classes 🙂
Samantha competing at CDI Dressage – Addington this weekend
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Update:Â Really sad to say that we have withdrawn Douglas from the Addington CDI, with the virus going around it was decided the risk was too high 🙁
Samantha will be competing on Douglas at this weekends CDI at Addington
see http://www.britishdressage.co.uk/news/show/1663-home-team-looking-for-addington-advantage for full details.
Another Hester fairy tale in the making?
Monday, March 11th, 2013Samantha gets a great write up on the British Dressage web site..
‘Carl Hester’s magic seems like it could be rubbing off on another up and coming star with a win for Sam Thurman-Baker and her ride Douglas IV in the PSG’ and (more…)
Samantha wins at Myerscough
Saturday, March 9th, 2013Samantha has just finished  competing at The Myerscough Premier League on Douglas IV and has had  successful few days. On Thursday she came 2nd in the PSG on a score of 68.52, the test went fairly well but she felt there were improvements to be made. (more…)
Joanna and Tinks win at Under 21s
Monday, March 4th, 2013Joanna enjoyed a lovely Sunday riding the beautiful Decree, aka Tinkerbell, owned by Angela Collins and Clare Randal. They won the Junior Team Test and the Advanced Medium 85 at the Under 21s Winter Show at Bury farm, gaining loads of prizes for Tinks to enjoy! They would like to say a huge thank you to Clare and Angela for letting Joanna enjoy their fabulous mare!
A sad day.
Monday, January 21st, 2013We have some very sad news.
Our beautiful Diabo was peacefully put to sleep this afternoon. He made it to the grand old age of 28, but his legs could no longer keep up with him.
We first met Diabo when he was a wild five-year-old stallion in Portugal. His utter beauty and immense presence captured us instantly and we fell in love with him, so we went about bringing him back to Turville to start his training. It was evident right from the start that he was something special. The most intelligent of horses, he learnt everything so quickly and his movements were breath taking. As he performed, he appeared to float with grandeur and effortlessness that proved to be unmatchable not only to the innocent eye, but also in competition.
New year catch up.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013Diane has just come back from taking Samantha, Pascal and Douglas (Carl Hester and Aram Gregorys horse) from World Class. It was the first of  the new selection so was very full on with Sam having meetings, lessons, assessments, physiotherapy and strength and conditioning. (more…)