Melbourne Royal 2004

Ashley and I made the long trip to Melbourne with Tassie and the new float which was finally finished the night before we left!
Tassie was awarded 6th place in the Open Galloway 14.2-15hh. However Ashley and Tassie combined to win the 14 years girl rider and went on to win CHAMPION GIRL RIDER 14-18 years! Well done Ashley and Tas never fails to strut his stuff (he loved that victory lap round the main arena.)
On the way home we picked up Bullseye our newest addition to Redlands who has now settled in well and hopefully will do some shows next year.
Thanks to the Metheralls who hosted us in fine style on our visit to Melbourne. They have some beautiful young riding ponies at their property at Springhurst and we were lucky enough to see Syon Splendour who is just gorgeous in the flesh.

EFA HOTY 2004

Tassie was awarded TOP TEN in the Open Galloways and was ridden by Ashley to win CHAMPION YOUNG EQUESTRIAN GALLOWAY. Ashley also got 3rd in her rider class and rode The Heights China Doll to win the Champion Newcomer Pony. Congratulations also to Jessie Castle who had much success in the led and ridden Show Hunter Galloways.

Spring camp 2004

Another successful camp finished! Our campers were Yasmin, Paris, Java, Melissa, Niamh, Lilly, Peta, Courtney and Jessie and Ashley came to help keep everyone under control. Our campers enjoyed lots of jumping and riding. Our team competition was the closest ever with ‘The Horses’ led by Melissa winning by 2 points!
Paris won our Australian Idol competition singing “I am beautiful”, Niamh won our marshmallow competition and we also enjoyed watching Shrek 2.
Jess and Ashley did a great job making over Top Deck and Ojay in preparation for the riding pony show this month! No doubt they will both look fabulous. This will be Top Decks’ first show.

New Horse

Our school now has another horse in the chestnut mare Mona Lisa (Lisa for short). Lisa is very quiet and seemed to enjoy all the attention she was getting over the camp!

Winter camp 2004
Our winter camp was attended by Java, Jacinta, Grace, Niamh, Mikaela, Olivia, Sharnie, and Rachael. Our helpers were Paul Slattery and Caitlin Anderson so thanks to them! We had lovely weather and everyone had heaps of fun with loads and games and competitions. Our marshmallow comp was won by Niamh. Our pyjama comp was won by Rachael and Grace. Grooming comp was won by the Ponies (Jacinta, Mikaela, Sharnie and Rachael). Our very first “Australian Idol” comp was won by Mikaela who sung a lovely rendition of Shannon Noll’s ‘What about me’ followed by ‘Geenie in a bottle.’ Overall our teams competition was won by The Giddiups, Java, Grace, Olivia and led by Niamh, they each won a lovely Redlands Stables hat to take home. Hope to see everyone at our camps in the springtime!

SYDNEY ROYAL RESULTS 2004

Tassie placed 2nd in the Open Galloway 14.2-15hh and 3rd in the Ladies Galloway. He was also ridden by Ashley Roberts and placed 3rd in the turnout class 12-15yrs.

Autumn Camp

Our autumn camp was a great success. It was attended by Lilly, Niamh, Java, Alexandra, Sharnie, Olivia, Amy and Becky. Ashley came to help everyone out as well. Top Deck and Sparky definately enjoyed the extra handling they got with Ashley who was very busy giving them makeovers. Our team competition was won by "The Halters" which consisted of Alex as team leader, Niamh, Lilly and Becky. We got to practice a fair bit of jumping this camp as well as our usual games. We also got to watch "The cat in the hat" which everyone enjoyed. Keep an eye out for the dates of our winter camp, they will be online soon!
Pictured left: Lilly, Amy and Niamh and right:Pyjama day: Niamh, Lilly, Amy, Ashley, Olivia and Sharnie show off their pj’s!

30/03/04 Grand National Results 2004: Paint the Stars of Astral was awarded Top 5 in the Grand National Galloway and was also ridden beautifully by Ashley Roberts to acheive Top 5 in the Grand National Rider 12- 15 years. Congratulations Ashley!

03/03/04

CANBERRA ROYAL SHOW 2004 RESULTS

Paint the Stars of Astral competed under judge Maree Tomkinson and was awarded
1st led Galloway gelding 14.2-15hh
CHAMPION LED GALLOWAY GELDING
1st Ladies Galloway Hack
1st Open lightweight Galloway 14.2-15hh
CHAMPION GALLOWAY HACK.
Reserve went to the beautiful Mirinda Height of Fashion ridden by Briony Payne.

REDLANDS OUTRAGEOUS also had success being awarded 4th place in a very strong class of 2 and 3 year old Riding pony colts, fillies and geldings. He also placed 5th in his led stockhorse gelding class.
We will have many more photos from Canberra to come soon.

11/02/04

We attended the Pony Show at Morriset on the weekend with Ojay (Redlands Outrageous) who as usual had a lovely day winning open led pony gelding 13-14hh as well as 1st Saddle pony gelding under 4 years and reserve Champion Saddle Pony Gelding.

Ojay’s next outing will be Canberra Royal where he is entered in three classes. Tassie (Paint the Stars of Astral) will also be competing at Canberra Royal as well as Sydney Royal.