Tanya Buckingham

Stars of Your Horse Magazine

Last week was fairly hectic I had a new horse arrive for winter schooling while the owner is busy at uni! She is called Valerie and has done a few intros and will move on to PN next year. So far she has been very well behaved just a bit green on the flat so I have been working on getting her more infront of the leg!

I also took part In a photo shoot for Your Horse magazine- this was held at Foxberry Chasers! Sara who owns the cross country schooling facility had organized the shoot with Matt from the Your Horse magazine and I was asked to take a horse over - sadly all of mine resembled hairy mid monsters so Caroline Jackson very kindly lent me her dressage horse Squirrel for the day. We had great fun galloping through spot lights and jumping some of the fantastic xc jumps. I also worked Squirrel in the school as Matt wanted pictures for an arena article Your Horse is doing.
Later in the week I found out that Squirrel and I are going to be on the front cover of next months magazine! Very exciting!!

I have also been hunting twice with Mickey who has been brilliant, he has never been before and so far hasn't put a foot wrong, though he could just be in shock. On Sunday Mickey did his first BSJA show and won the class, very clever pony. Yesterday and today I'm doing a first aid course which is informative but the days are very long.
 
If you get a chance please look at the Foxberry Chasers website and go and school around their fantastic course! Sara and Phil put a lot of time and effort into building and maintaining the jumps and it is a brilliant place to school over all types of fences!

Tanya