Congratulations go to 26 year old British Rider Oliver Townend for winning the 2009 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials on homebred Flint Curtis. Previously Oliver came 12^th at his first Badminton outing with The Hon William Russell’s Topping, which earnt them an individual place at the European Championships, Blenheim in 2005. Oliver also came 3^rd with Flint Curtis at Badminton in 2006.

Former Badminton Winner William Fox-Pitt took 2^nd and 5^th Place on Idalgo and Macchiato. William and Macchiato are pictured below starting the 2009 Badminton Horse Trials on what turned out to be a beautiful sunny day.

Mockbeggar Oscar, or Ozzie to his friends is Hannah from Equine Adverts new 14.2 hh registered New Forest Pony who now joins her other Pony Georgie at www.kentfordfarmstud.co.uk. Ozzie is Chestnut Roan in colour, is rising 6 years old and was born and bred on the New Forest in Hampshire.

Unfortunately Hannah’s other little New Forest Pony, Georgie, has not grown to the size that was hoped, so her future is now in carriage driving, to which she is bound to excell due to her excellent paces and fantastic attitude.

Ozzie is currently settling in to his new home and has quickly made friends with his surrounding equines and is proving to be a very friendly chap. He is now starting to be ridden again and seems to be taking it all in his stride. Being only 6 there is still a lot of work to be done with him but he definatley has the potential to be an excellent all round pony who should be able to turn his hoof to anything.

Chloe is a competitive amateur event rider from Wiltshire whose passion is eventing. She has competed up to British Eventing Pre-Novice, and aims to be doing Novice in the next few seasons. Over the last few years Chloe has found that the cost of competing has escalated, to an almost prohibitive level, so she Is trying to do something about it…..

A recent mention in Horse Magazine is the latest update in her fascinating blog, which gives you a real insight into the life of a rider on a mission.

Equine Adverts is one of Chloe’s keen supporters along with well known businesses such as Mountain Horse and Charles Owen, who have provided Chloe and her horses with a variety of kit to help them on their way to success.

Check Chloe out at www.gifthorseeventing.co.uk

Here at Equine adverts we decided to hold our first tack sale of 2009.

The hall was filled with keen sellers and their stalls full of goodies and buyers looking for a good o’l horsey bargain.

The evening was quite a success with buyers leaving with arm fulls of rugs, bridles, bits and books and sellers wanting to know when the next sale was ……. so all in all a jolly good evening!

Due to the level of interest the next tack sale is already booked and wiil take place at Plaitford Village Hall, near Romsey, Southampton between 7pm and 9pm on Wednesday 3rd June.

Latest Competition:
Win a signed copy of “No Fear, No Force” by Sarah Weston

(A Guide to Handling and Training Unhandled and Semi-feral Foals in an Ethical and Gentle Way.)

Sarah has kindly offered Equine Adverts a signed copy of her new book as the latest competition prize. Check out the new ‘Win’ section on the menu to find out more and enter our competition.

Sarah Weston is a Recommended Associate of Intelligent Horsemanship and the Holder of the Monty Robert’s Preliminary Certificate in Horsemanship who trains horses and their owners using logical and ethical techniques. Motivated by the welfare of the horse, her priority is to find a way to make it easy for the horse to do the right thing rather than to impose a set system and to give the owner the confidence to carry on in a similar way.

To find out more about Sarah and her work visit her at www.logicalhorsemanship.co.uk, and to find out more about Intelligent Horsemanship click here.

Well, we’ve been busy here at Equine Adverts the past few months, undergoing a name change, rebrand and revamp, and now we’re starting to really build some momentum!

It’s just a quick update for now, as we realise the blog has been quite quiet during all the recent changes, but that’s going to be changing over the coming weeks. In this section of the site we’re going to be keeping you all up to date with changes and developments on Equine Advert, news about our sponsors and who we’re sponsoring (in that vein, give Gift Horse Eventing a look!), and hopefully get some horsey product reviews and news included too. And we’ll still have updates on Georgie, don’t worry!

Also, we’d love to hear from you about what you’d like to see on Equine Adverts going forward! The site’s growing massively week by week with thousands of horse lovers visiting the site daily, and to help continue that growth we’d like to make sure you’re getting the most out the site you can!

We’re also all set up on Facebook and Twitter, so you can start following us on both of those services if you use them and keep up to date with the latest ads being posted on site!

Anyway, that’s it for now, but be sure to check back soon!

Well the big day came (well apparemtly it’s a big deal) where someone got on my back. It was all a little strange at first but it really didnt bother me. Mummy has taken me out for so many walks before and stuck all sorts of things on my back that a little extra weight was no bother.

The first day I was taken for a little wander around the school for 10 minutes of so, so by day 2 they trusted me enough to go for a nice walk and trot down the track and back. I didnt even need anyone to walk out in front of me; I did it all by myself.

So as well as my long reining I have also been doing a bit of lunging with mummy. She is going to put a nice video of me on here at some point when she figures out how to do it, but for now, here a a couple of pics of me having a good old roll after getting so hot and sweaty lunging…… i’ve been working so hard….. phewwwwww!

Well i’m feeling so much better now and am becoming a bit of a pro at long reining so have not had much time to write my stories.

I’ve been able to concentrate so much more recently and am finding new stuff really easy to learn which has made mummy really proud of me.

At my new home I am really enjoying my lovely walks around the tracks with Mum and Dad and sometimes even the dogs come with us an run in and out of the bushes which is really funny.

Over the last few days I have had lots of visitors. I had the vet visit me as I still had an abcess in my hoof which was still very sore but the vet made it feel so much better by taking all the yucky stuff away.

I also had to have a nasty needle put in me but Mummy said it was to make sure I didnt get poorley so I trusted her; and it didnt really hurt much anyway.

And lastly I also had some yucky stuff put in my mouth which again mummy said would make sure I didnt get sick…….. oh what a week! I’m glad all that is over!