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Ginnie's Diary

28th July 2009

With preparations for Burghley well under way Ginnie Turnbull has taken time out to keep us up to date with all the activities on her yard. Here’s Ginnie’s Diary.

June & July

For our yard this is the exciting and sometimes very entertaining part of the year when the four and five year olds start to make their competition debuts. Normally they aim for maximum humiliation!

We normally start them at a local evening dressage where we generally career around in completely the wrong direction to every other poor innocent rider who just wants a quiet evening. This year it was the turn of the two Johno's.

We have two horses named Johno, after England’s World Cup triumph in 2005 with the Captain Martin Johnson. One’s called Johno Carlisle and the other Johno Laing after their owners' surname. They really are stunning, larger than life characters with enormous presence, massive paces and slight directional difficulties!!

The first few dressage competitions were more a question of survival but now they seem to have grasped the concept! Johno Carlisle has already qualified for Burghley Young Event Horse Finals, just pipping Johno Laing and Cendy (Craig Millard’s wonderful stallion). All have very promising jumps and are exceptionally exciting for the future. They are now heading for the Lycett Young Event Horse Qualifiers. Will, my husband and general crash test dummy, has been chosen to do the first qualifier as I unfortunately am competing elsewhere! I am really excited about their futures.

The other event horses as coming up trumps as well and I can't believe how lucky I am with such a great team. Daniel (Instant Reaction) has just started his competition count down for Burghley - bound to be a rollercoaster preparation again. Fingers crossed.....

Ginnie

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