Next stop Falsterbo

Falsterbo is our next show on the schedule and it's THE show of the summer in Sweden. It's also the only time this season that Sweden can participate in the Super League so it's of course a really important show for us. Rebecca is leaving allready on Saturday with Challe since the fiveyearolds starts jumping on Monday. Turmalin is comming straight from Thomas and Helenas place and since Malin havn't ridden him for a while she thought it was a good idea to get one extra day down there. I'll be joining them on tuesday with the four old ones:, Tore, Raven, Cisco and Undici. It's a really long show so we are hoping for nice weather and the same succés as last year when Sweden won the Nations Cup and Tore was second in the GP! Today it's been really warm and sunny here, allmost to warm when you have to work all day! But I managed to clip Raven in the afternoon so now he looks top and is ready for the show! Sara

Back home!

I left a rainy Drammen already on saturday night since Malin decided not to ride on the Sunday. We had a good show despite the rain, but lets just say it wasn't one of the nicest shows I'v been to. On tuesday I loaded up the horses again and headed towards the Netherlands. I arrived at Hans Horns place wednesday afternoon and Malin came later in the evening to ride the horses. Tornesch has been staying there since Leipzig to breed so it was really nice to se him again! He looks super and seemed very happy with life and Malin was also very happy with him after riding! On thursday morning Malin rode all the horses again and after lunch we went to Geesteren only twenty minutes away! Hannah came with me to help since I had four horses with me so it went really fast to unpack the lorry and to do the vet check. On thursday Cisco jumped the first class and had one down, both Undici and Tore jumped clear and looked really nice! Raven jumped the qualifyer for the GP and jumped fantastic until he stumbled in a hole in front of the triple combination and crashed in to it, poor Raven, but at least he didn't hurt himself. On Saturday it was raining the whole day, no fun! Tore was double clear in the 145 and placed fifht, it's so nice to see him back again! Räven had the last fence down in the155, a pity couse he jumped amazing! Cisco jumped the last class of the day and had one down. He was totally crazy in the warm- up and Malin could hardly jump a fence, luckily he quiets down when he gets in the ring. We didn't ride on Sunday since Raven didn't qualify for the GP and we have Falsterbo comming up next week so I left already Sunday morning. On the way home I stopped at Thomas and Helenas place to see Tamina and Espri, they looked really happy and it was so nice to see them again! Sara

Geesteren

Now the firar dag at the show is over, and it has been going both good and bad. Danny jumper first 1,45 and had one down. Sinom was double clear in the youngster tour 1,35 and jumper fantastic. Arctic was jumping the qualifyer fot the Grand prix, and he didn't have his best day and endes up with four down. The weather here is very strange one minute the sun is shining the next it's raining. Now it's time for bed, the classes starts 8.30. Malin

Drammen and foals

Home again from Drammen. Drammen was not hte best show I've did, but I think the weather didnt't help either because it was raining so much. We arrived midday on wednesday, and Lisen and Peder wasn't coming until thursday so I did the vetcheck and fixed everything in the stable, walked the horses and then went to bed.

The horses was jumping great, Sibon was clear in both his classes, 1,30 and 1,40, Holliday was clear and was second in a 1,40 on friday and had the first fence down in a difficult 1,45 on saturday. Arctic was jumping 1,50 on thursday with one down and then on saturday it was time for Nations cup. Peder was second to go and he was clear! The other riders had one down each so the team had 8 faults to the second round. Peder was first to go in team Sweden and he was clear again, he jumped so good. We decided not to jump the Grand Prix on sunday so we went home saturday night, a little later then planned since the lorry was stuck in the mud in the parking lot and had to be pulled up with a tractor. Peder helped me to drive so we was home on sunday morning.

Today me and Emma went away to look at the foals, Sparvens foal who was born by embryotransfer and Peders former competing horse Baccacha. They were so cute, we could have stayed there the whole night.

Tomorrow night we are leaving för Gesteeren with Arctic, Danny and Sibon.

Malin

Rain, rain and more rain...

Today its been raining non stop the whole day, no fun at all. It's mud absolutley everywhere but luckily the stables are still dry! Hopefully it will be better by tomorrow when it's time for the nations cup. Undici jumped the first class today, a 130 and was clear! Cisco jumped the 140 in the afternoon and was also clear so it was a good day except for the weather! Now I'm on my way to the lorry for a long hot shower and then it's time for bed. First class at nine tomorrow with Undici and then nations cup debute for Raven, keep your fingers crossed! Sara

On my way to Drammen

On Sunday morning I left home with Raven, Uffe and Cisco. First stop was at Tomas Vilhelmssons place in Hammaro were Malin was gonna train with the horses. Since they havnt done that many outdoor shows this year Malin wanted to jump them a bit more before Drammen. They all jumped good but were really fresh so I think that was a good plan! Today I had them on the walker in the morning and then I lunged them a bit. Now I'm packing up the lorry and getting ready to leave to Norway, Drammen is only about three hours from here so its not a long trip this time! Unfortunatly its been raining here all morning so I hope it stoppes by the time I get there! Sara

Show at home

This weekend we are having a show at home. We gave callses from 0,90 to 1,40 and it is from friday to sunday. Tomorrow we have pay and jump så today we took out all the nice fances we only use for shows and built a course. It is really warm here and it took more than 3 hours so now I'm really tired.

I've spent last week at Strömsholm, Peders brother Jens lives and works there, and Peder was there training in the week and för competition on the weekend. I had a really nice time there, my family is living just an hour from there so they came to visit me and many of my friends were there. We only had three horses there; Sibon, Arctic and Sparven, Arctic was not competing and Sparven only juped one class so I actually didn't have a lot to do. Sibon was jumping the 7-year old classes and was jumping absolutely fantastic, he was placed 8th in the qualifyer and 2nd in the final.

Tomorrow we are going to visit Sparvens little foal, she was born by another mare by embryo transfer last week.

Malin

And its offically summer!

The past couple of days we had really nice and warm weather, very nice compared to last weeks ten degrees and rain! The best news this week is that both Tamina and Espri is in foal. Tamina with Tornesch and Espri with Turmalin so we are all very happy! Malins son Alvar also got a new pony and it's absolutly adorable! She is now nicknamed Lea after princess Lea in Star Wars..! I'll try to take some pictures of her tomorrow and put on the blog. The past two week-ends we went to the show in Aby with almost all the horses, it was both ups and downs as it is sometimes but both Turmalin and Challe is now qualifyed for Falsterbo! The next show is in Drammen in two weeks, then Räven is gonna jump his first Nations Cup, exciting! Sara