Hi,
That is one super nice horse you have! What breed is he? how tall?

have a great time in Germany! If you have a chance to blog about it I'd love to hear about your experiences.

Mine is a 5 year old, 16 H Trakheiner gelding that I recently imported from Holland. He is super sweet and amazing learner. We are doing 1st level mostly with some second level schooling plus I recently started to school change with him.

Hello Casey !
When you have time, maybe we can meed in Vechta and I can tell you about the german Bereiter - stuff.
Just call me next week ( maybe answering-machine ) tel : 05492 7331.
I`m looking forward for your call !
Petra

Hello kc !
For sure we do have a much better tack-shop !!!!! In Mühlen we have the best ( proven ) Tack-Shop from Germany !! Schockemöhle ! Every rider in the area knows this shop ! We live two minutes from the shop .
I did my Bereiter near my hometown Lüneburg.
Just call me ! Maybe I have tuesday time !
Tel : 05492 7331
See You !
Petra

hi kc,
sounds like you are having so much fun - I'm very jealous! Please keep blogging when you can, it's really interesting reading. Will you be in the UK 16th-20th July, there is a CDI International show & premier league at hartpury so you can check out the competition :-)

I'll be watching/plaiting/bandaging. Emily will probably be riding?

hey!
Umm sorry i dnt reply earlier i forgot my password oops!
aww wow lol
so r u goin 2 Hartpury??
i keep my pony near there well 30 mins avay but i compete there quite alot :D
no i dnt but i hoping to next year!
Love Laura x Delete Comment

Oww kwlio wen r u going to be in england?
hows germany?
i read your blogs theyre really gud :D
umm well tha best place wud be peter storrs 4 training and stuff thats where i am. its about 20 mins away in a car 30 minutes in a trailer from hartpury.
Peter is the pony team trainer and hes really good
are you riding ponies or horses?
Lurve Laura x x x x x

hi kc, your blog is fab, sounds like you had a great time in Germany. Are you in the UK now? Hickstead Premier League show is on this weekend if you are near London at the moment.

Just read your latest blog. You have a super writing style! Are you a member of the Eurodressage group? I'm sure everyone in that group would be interested if you added your blogs as discussions there. I look forward to reading more as things progress!

Yes you should definitely join. Especially because there was a really interesting bit of news posted there today regarding the Australian dressage team. The politics sounded so complicated, it would be great if an Australian explained them!!

I would post your blogs right there in the discussions section, because they are quite interesting and you will be posting directly to dressage people. You could also ask questions and advice. I have done that and have gotten some very good advice.
You could also add the blog to the regular blog area because members have been following your travels. p.s. Too bad about your latest experience!

Yes really looking forward to it now, if a little bit nervous!It will be very strange not to have my own horse there!!I had wanted to do a course for maybe a week or so, in order to improve my riding skills rather than just ending up doing a horsey holiday as such, and found it very difficult to find something suitable. I did lots of google searches, and in particular in relation to Germany as I think their schooling methods and training seems to be the best!!After a lot of searching I found Alex Wortmanns site & I e-mailed him to see where he was running the courses!He sounds very impressive!!Looking forward to learning lots!
I see that you went to Talland too...I did look into going there but to be honest I think the course in Vechta offers a lot more in terms of value for money, but I will hopefully try Talland at some stage too!!
How did you find your school horse in vechta?
Thanks for all of your help with the tack shops!!Looking forward to the shopping too,we have such a bad selection in Ireland in terms of boots-really bad selction of sizes, so everything needs to be ordered in & the prices are crazy!!
Not staying at hotel unfortunately, I think only one person is staying there!!Though i'm sure we'll be there for a drink or two!!

Awesome pics! You look like a great rider. Do you own all the ponies you ride? Good luck with all your riding!
~Catherine~

Thanks! Cool. Yeah, I made it to Nationals last year with another horse but I missed out on the team by .2%! Oh, well...haha
So this year I'm trying with my young horse and hopefully we'll be ready to compete.

That's awesome! Yeah, that would be so cool if we met each other!