Yesterday - time flies!

Tony practicing with Donut

Donut & small people!

Caroline & Therese - the perfect grooms with handbags that quickly understood the job was to keep track of me and my things.

Yesterdays training

Happy in Sevilla!

A perfect day, a perfect place, a perfect atmosphere, perfect floor, perfect temperature, perfect company, and the PERFECT horse - just look at him! He is going for it!

Follow us in SICAB here!

He is tuned in turned on, we have only had one week but it will be enough, I have been riding for king and country! We will post photos and give you the inside SICAB info during the week. This is the World Championships for the Pura Raza Española and not only the best horses from Spain participate but also the ones from the rest of the world, it is a international competition and it is big! Logically the spanish champion will be a stallion from a spanish studfarm and not one from a foreign studfarm, we are well aware we will not win, but for us it is important to participate and be judged in Spain. And if they only they let me ride the king of Sweden will shine them all out!

Mañana is finally here

WE ARE IN! On thursday 26th Donoso VII will represent Sweden in the spanish PRE championships SICAB in Sevilla with all the hotshots!
Here he is listed!

Schedule for competitors;
Wednesday 10.30 Group 10 - stallions 5 & 6 years old, 28 participants
Wednesday 16.30 Group 8 - stallions 4 years old, 32 participants

Thursday 10.00 am; Group 12 - stallions 7 years and older ; Donoso's group - 39 big boys.
15 from each group will be selected to do the 'Functionalidad', the ridden test.
These 45 will be competing for the Champion Title/s.

Please cross your fingers for him, we look forward to seeing you all there!
You can also follow on webtv here

TOMORROW...

...We WILL know if 'Donoso' is going to represent Sweden or not. Yesterday we were biting our nails, all gone. We did decide yes and sent off the inscription and the board comittee will let us know, tomorrow, puh. We realize we are a 'little' late, (so nothing new there) but how can they refuse when we came all the way from Sweden?!

..that is (still) the question..

Well, we are still thinking but tomorrow we will decide if 'Donoso' is going to SICAB to represent Sweden or not. He is so handsome and I am not just saying that because I love him, and I am definitely not selling him, but just look at his profile here, this is not a pretty horse, it is a beautiful horse. You can see his outline well with this backround, we did them this evening. And at the swedish championships he only got a 6 for his absolutely wonderful head and neck, I am sure he can get better scores here and also for movement as they did not come out to his advantage with me as a nervous wreck and running like a silly mum being scared he would trip and hurt his cross ligament-bleeding in patella. And there is also the vets advice and that is to take it easy peasy until end of this year. He feels and looks good and has never been lame but this is still the expert advice. For us SICAB is a fun event, we normally go 2 days to meet friends, study the horses, the judges etc. But for the horses it is hard work and quite stressful. We have to arrive one day before (monday) and we have to be there, no matter what the result, until the following monday, no horse can leave before and that's the way it is. This year they have again instigated the 'wheel', the horses go around and the judges pick some that are out, left are 15 in each group. Just like that. So after having paid a huge amount of Euros, dragged the horse there, left other animals behind, got a hotel etc, etc some horses don't even get a chance to trot! Do not agree with this system. Possibly for this reason there are also less participants this year.

Donoso VII National Swedish Championships 2009

Never posted it here so here it is, he won the championship and got two titles;
CAMPEÓN DE LA RAZA
CAMPEÓN DE FUNCIONALIDAD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC-Y2kGXPgE