Royal Welsh - Mud, mud, mud !!

Floreat Dandelion coped really well with all the mud in the ridden class at Royal Welsh to end up 3rd in a very strong class with several HOYS and Olympia qualified ponies. He went beautifully for the ride judge and we were both very proud to watch him in the main ring.

Lexy also showed her Sec A yearling filly (Amilas Cassiopeia, by Sunwillow Jubilee) the day before and also finished 3rd.

Many thanks to the Castlemead stud for letting us (people and pony!) stay with them for the week.

Cassi goes to her first show under saddle

Cassi went out to a small local show today as her first outing, and was impeccably behaved and ended up 2nd in a large class. Onwards and upwards !

The Royal - Leo does it again !

Leo (F. Dandelion) has another win in a very large (26 forward) and strong Sec D ridden class at The Royal show today. He also went on to be Res Res behind some other beautiful ponies. We hope this experience will stand him in good stead for the Royal Welsh show coming up soon !

Northleach Showing Results

Floreat Creme de Cassis (Barren Mare/Gelding) - 2nd
Cwmsarah Arwr (yearling colt) - 6th
Amilas Cassiopeia (yearling filly) - 6th (Lexy's)

We were thrilled with Cassi's result at Northleach in a strong class with some top class ponies, and total of 16 ponies forward ! All ponies shown by Lexy who had a busy morning.

Leo qualifies for HOYS

We are obviously a little behind on news .... Leo qualified for HOYS at South of England show on Sat June 13th, making it a double for both Olympia & HOYS in the same week !! And the week of Sarah's birthday too, what a clever boy to give her the best birthday present ever.

As well as winning his class and picking up the HOYS ticket, he then went on to be M&M Ridden Champion. What a true superstar he is.

If you look in this week's Horse & Hound magazine, you will see a lovely photo of him in the show report with a short write up as well.

Leo wins at SEWPCA

Leo (Floreat Dandelion) has another win in the ridden classes, at the SEWPCA summer show, picking up his ticket for the NPS Bob Templeton Open Ridden finals at the NPS champs. He has already also qualified for the NPS Silver Medal ridden finals as well earlier in season.

We look forward to seeing him in the finals at the NPS Champs in August. Well done Leo and Carol !

Cassi is being broken to ride

Cassi (Floreat Creme de Cassis) is away at boarding school and is being broken to ride. She did think she was a lady of leisure as so far in life she has been lightly shown in hand and had two foals, but she is making good progress under saddle and we hope to see her out in the ring under saddle either this season or next.

Many thanks to Philippa Margolin who is doing a great job with her.

STOP PRESS!

Leo qualified for Olympia today at the East Anglian Native Pony Show, needless to say we are thrilled! Many thanks to Carol and her team.

Floreat Melissa

Very many congratulations to Sasha Clements who has her on loan and is doing very well indeed with her, including winning the C/D Junior Ridden class and coming 2nd in the Olympia class at NPS 11, winning the Open Ridden C/D class at Suffolk County and being well placed in RI qualifiers. A very great pleasure to me as breeder to see my ponies out there being enjoyed by their riders.

Surrey County Show results

The home bred mare Floreat Creme de Cassis did it again, she was 1st in her class (Sec A 4 yrs & over) and went on to be Reserve A Champion. And 2nd to her in her class was another Floreat bred pony, the 4yr old gelding Floreat Yaffle who was sold locally. Cassi was beaten in championship by Lexy's yearling filly Amilas Cassiopeia who won the youngstock class. So it was a very good day all round at our own local county show.