Home again

Now I'm back from my vacation, it was really nice to have a few weeks off, but I'm really glad to be back to work again. Today Peder and me was at Ulla Håkanssons place with Arctic and Sparven to train dressage. Ulla is always training her horses outside so first they were warming up in the woods around the trees and then on a big field. Since Sparven is only five years old and quite hot to ride so on her he was mostly training her to be calm and going a litte bit sideways. On Arctic he did the opposite from sparven because he is a little bit lazy so he need to traing on move his hind ligs a litte more and he even did some pirouettes and in the end he actually was looking a litte bit more like a dressage horse then before.



Peders brother Jens is here with five horses and traing so tomorrow he and Peder is jumping together.

Malin

Go Raven!!!

Raven won the big class here today, the second win in the past two shows! It was a tricky course and there were only nine clears in the first round out of 67 starters. Malin was last to go in the jump off and did another really fast round! Tomorrow Tornesch is jumping the GP so I hope that he's in the same good form! Sara

Ascona

I left Norrkoping on Monday morning with Tore, Cisco and Raven and arrived in Ascona on Wednesday evening. Ascona is in Switzerland but close to the Italian border so it was a long trip, but we arrived well and the horses didn't seem too tired! It's a really nice place with the mountains around and the weather has been really good. Nice with some sun for a change! Malin arrived Thursday evening and rode them all a bit, you can tell that they are not really used to the heat couse they were not as crazy as usual! On Friday all horses jumped clear and were palced, a good start! Sara

Vacation

Now the horses have a litte vacation after a few weeks of competition, and so do I. As much as I love my job, It's going to be really nice to have a few days off now. Falsterbo was quite good, the results was a little bit up and down, but Sibon the 7-year old was fantastic, he didn't touched a pole the whole weekend and ended up second in the final!

It's nice to be at home for show, but it is a litte bit busy, you want to be able to meet all your friends there, at the same time you have a lot of work to do, so when you go home, you're tired.

Now I'm going to pack my stuff again and head for Varberg and visit Ck and Pierre who works for Svante Johansson, the also have vacation!

Malin

Falsterbo 2011

A long week in Falsterbo is over for this year. We had a good show with the highlights being second in the nations cup where Tore jumped with four foults in the first round and clear in the second! A really good result considering he only jumped one show since he's breeding break. And it was really nice for Sweden to finish second since we'r not in the Super League this year.On Saturday Raven won the big class. Before going in Malin said it was imposible to win couse they where riding crazy fast but they did a super round and was fastest of them all! Raven was really proud of himself in the prizegiving and so was I! Undici had a little breakdown in the first qualification for the sevenyearolds and stopped at the first fence, the second day he jumped really good but it was not enough to make it to the final. On Sunday Tore jumped the GP and it was going super until somekind of missunderstanding happened at the water and he jumped straight in it, too bad couse he was jumping super otherwise. I was back at home around two o'clock in the night totally exhausted after a long week! Now I have a couple of days at home to reload before going to Ascona and San Patrignano. Sara

And it's raining...

The first half of team Baryard ( Rebecca, Challe and Turmalin) arrived at a rainy Falsterbo on Saturday afternoon. It only took a couple of hours before the stables were flooded and things were floating around, no fun alredy on the first day. Better bring my wellies! Today was the first day jumping for them and Turmalin started of really good with a clear round! Challe had two down in the end of the course but Malin was happy with her anyway. I leave early tomorrow morning so Malin can ride the three old ones down there. We decided not to bring Cisco since he's been doing quite a lot of shows recently, so it's Tore, Raven and Undici that will be joining the other ones down there. Sara