Started with a show!

So we had great success at our Combined test, cross country schooling! Everyone rode wonderfully, and more importantly everyone had fun, and stayed safe!
Gena won the dressage, (her first dressage ever) on her very own Brighten. Alison Capron was another star, looking picture perfect on Darenth farms Satin.









Hunter made great leaps with Fance. Lexi put up with Knick's camera phobia. Katie had a blast with Freckles and Freckles had a blast with her! Hannah looks better and better on Buckshot. Sam did a fabulous job on Sienna!
Sharon showed off on Harmony, reminding us all who is from England, where they do things right!
What a blast!
On Saturday we had our pole painting party, I cant wait to set up the ring! The jumps look so good!
Thanks everyone for so much fun!

Mary and Beast!!!!!

Thanks to videographer Hannah Youngblood!!!

WAY TO GO

Guess who's tied for first as of now, at Richland Park?.......Stephen!
Guess who his horse Josh is tied with?.........Courageous Comet! (Who happens to be a brother to my very own California Comet!!! yes indeed.)
Way to go Stephen, were rooting for you!

do your thing girl!

Busy week again!

Both the girls went to a Stephen Bradley clinic on Friday. We went over to Oatlands, and it was just what both needed! A little tune up before the fall season starts! It was especially nice for Callie to work with Stephen two weeks in a row!

The girls had the weekend off, a well deserved break. Then today, Monday, Beasty gets right back into the swing of things.

Callie went to Waredaca for her first official XC school. She was a gem of a girl! She did everything great, and even took a break for a snack in between. My lesson with Gretchen was really nice, I always get so much from riding with her!

All of my Darenth farm members are getting ready for our combined test Friday night at Serra Valley! Spread the word if you want to come! XC schooling followed by a dressage fix a test.

Then on Saturday, we are having a pole painting party, all are welcome.

Sunday the 29th is our XC field trip day.

Busy Busy Busy

We wish all of our students and friends the best of luck at the upcoming AEC's.

We will be especially be rooting for Stephen aboard Brandenburg's Joshua, in all of the future weeks ahead.

Callie!!!!!

Mags watching Katherines lesson, picking up some tips!

Blast from the Past II...me&Knick Waredaca Int. 2001ish

Check out Knicks current updates, with superstar Kari piloting him!!!!!!!!

Blast from the Past, Me and Knick prelim Surefire 2002

weekend wrap up

Miss California Comet went to Mr. Bradley's on Friday! I was excited for him to see her, he hasn't seen her in like six weeks since I took her from Stephens old farm.
Stephen is now located in Boyce Virginia, about the same distance for me as Aldie (where the old farm was). His new farm is just stunning! The stalls are as big as paddocks, and the barn itself is a fresh white with all stained wood and brass fixtures. A real top notch facility.
Speaking of top notch, Callie was a star. I was very relieved she was on her best behavior! She ended the lesson with a little course! Leaps and bounds this one! Hopefully we will have our big debut at Rubicon!
Waredaca was a learning experience for both my students who competed.
Both did really well in the show jumping and the dressage, but sometimes that XC will sneak up and bite you in the.......
That cute little Connemara needs a little extra practice. He is like the college kid who has to cram right before the test.
The other little grey did most his course pretty darn well! These two have a good partnership going, there just doesn't always seem to be a boss.....Or if there is one, sometimes its of the four legged variety;-)
With that said, both of my ladies tried the hardest they could with what they had that day.
Homework, Homework, Homework in this sport.
Hmmmm, I better plan some XC schooling of my own.....
This Friday my two mares have the Stephen Bradley clinic, and hopefully we can cram in a XC school each before Stephen gets busy with the AEC's and all his other work toward the World Equestrian Games!
Buckshot has been busy at local shows, and playing favorite at Darenth farm. I think there are a lot of girls hoping this little horse doesn't get sold!

Event Camp!! :) :)

I will pretend not to see the scene on the pony in the stall. Not the best thing to capture on video, it is evidence.

Waredaca jumper show video!

BUSY DAY!

Rocking our shirts

Rocking our shoes

So it all started at 8, Alexa did a SJ school before Waredaca this weekend. Emily followed with an XC school, both rode at the beautiful Serra Valley.

Then, my girls surprised me with yellow polo shirts, personalized with puffy paint and glitter!!!!!!

Off we went to Waredaca, to help set up the SJ for both the jumper show, and the event this weekend.

We helped Kathy White, and my girls were wonderful! Everyone complimented them on how great of a job they did! Maggie supervised from the side lines, after trying on Kathy's shoes.

After we were done with the show jump course, we hustled back, got Beast, Callie, Brighten, Knick, Buckshot, and Ernie, and went back to Waredaca!

My little mares were rock stars for their dressage! All 7's! This was Callie's first time at a show, and she made me feel like a million dollars! I love this horse! So much talent! The judge, Peggy Parisso, loved both my mares!

Brighten was a superhero in his dressage, he knows he's hot stuff!

My girls all did well, especially considering I wasn't able to warm them up!

Buckshot was honest and eager, always adding up, even if there was pilot error aboard.

Knick was his normal drama mama self, but looked like a million dollars with Kari aboard.

Ernie was FULL OF HIMSELF!

Lexi sorted it out in the warm up ring afterward.

Hannah did a great job with Buck, esp. at the end, keeping it together despite them both being exhausted!

It was a blast to have Sam with us. I hope she continues to come on our little outings.

SHOUT OUT to the Youngblood girls! BEST HELPERS EVER!!!!!!

I'm so proud to have this group of kids with me at any of the places I go! AND they are pretty good shirt makers too!

girls go for dressage!

My two girls went for their monthly tune up with Susan Graham White. She kicked our rear ends and it was wonderful!!! Both the girls tried their hardest (although sometimes Beasty was trying her hardest to be lazy ;-)
In all seriousness, I am just so proud of these mares, they both really progress in leaps and bounds.
Susan got on both of them, and was very pleased with them. This was her first time on Callie, and she LOVED her!
A really great day!!

Morgan on Riley

Heres our show jump walk!!

Here we are folks!!!!! This was the first formal inspection, aka the jog!!!! Everyone looked wonderful, in their best attire with the horses braided and bathed. The winner for best turn out, who also did the best job keeping her tack clean and her horse clean was none other then Lexi Cindric with Sesame street!!!!

HOT STUFF!

So we had a pool party, ate some pizza, went down a slide.

Learned all kinds of stuff about eventing, practiced braiding. Buckshot held the brush with his ear.

We had a mock fox hunt. I was the fox.....I ran into a real fox. Literally.

So then we did our dressage, where I will say all of my students remembered their tests!!!! (better then me huh? ;-) They were amazing. Especially Erin Swope. The judge didn't believe that earlier that day her pony was doing airs above ground. (Unintentionally !!!)

Did a little XC walk. Did a little XC.

Did a little show jump walk. We tried to stay focused, we all did. WE ALL REMEMBERED OUR COURSE!!!



We had an award ceremony.
We rocked it. What a great group of kids.
Morgan Ball won for best attitude, always helpful and cheerful!!!
Hannah S. won the event on our very own S.S. Buckshot. Close on her heels was Katie Cindric who had the same score, but Hannah was closer to "actual" event time.


Everyone got ribbons, everyone did great!

A little blurb about each individual..............................................
Hannah Y. got Sienna all schooled up for us, and taught her how to jump bigger and better. Sienna loves you whether you like it or not!!!


Hannah Shipley learned what scaffolding was, enjoyed a lot of food, rode beautifully!


Erin Swope showed that pony of hers who's boss and learned a little something along the way.


Morgan Ball trained up all kinds of horses and had an amazing show jump round!!!


Megan M. Helped out so much and did a great job teaching some stinky ponies new tricks. (She taught some not so stinky ponies new tricks too!)


Hunter rode awesome on not just Fance (with an E) but also the good humored, drama mama Knickerbocker.


Lexi also rocked on two horses and schooled them up really well.


Katie Cindric opened the door to a world of things to come, and did beautifully on both my dads horses!


Julie had the best fox hunt ever on Freckles.
There is no way to list all the fun we had, but there you have it....The Darenth Farm eventing camp cliff notes. For the real details, all the laughs jokes and bloopers, well lets just say, it's one of those things.....
Well YOU JUST HAD TO BE THERE!!!!!!!! :-)
I had constant entertainment, and the best group I could have hoped for. THANKS GUYS!

Matchy matchy cross country