Last week we ran our first in house online competition at our family run livery yard in Co. Kildare. Our liveries train with our onsite BHS and HSI qualified coaches and have been doing fantastic work in their lessons so we wanted to give them a chance to showcase their riding.
Our liveries videoed themselves riding a course of 11 jumping obstacles and submitted their entries. This competition was kindly judged by Christa Dillon, owner of equestrian blog Blackhill eventing and one of the hosts of Buck off banter podcast. Christa’s feedback on our riders was fantastic - “These are not average riders and this is not an average standard. They are all jumping so well, giving the horse every chance, riding under control, using the arena and correcting issues quickly. This shows an advanced thought process behind the riding and shows great maturity in the younger riders”
We as coaches were very proud of our riders - we believe in coaching using the FEI systems for flatwork and show jumping and are delighted to see our #teamdunbyrnestud members progressing.
We divided our riders into three categories and the results are below- We have lots of Easter eggs and Horselyx for our humans and horses to enjoy as prizes
Adults
1st Roisin Daly and Thunder
2nd Sophie OGrady and Leo
3rd Arianne Dunne and Roxy
Aged 14 - 18 years
1st Eileen Nawara and Peanut
2nd Caoimhe Sullivan and Judy
3rd Kayla brown and Betty
4th Ellie Moore and Tilly
5th Georgia Cadogan and Sapphire
!3 and Under
Smoothest Round - Isabelle Smyth & Cooper
Most Stylish Position - Emili Smyth and Cooper
Most Determined - Sophia Manning and Jumanji
Best Jumping Position - Sive Murphy and Domino
Thanks very much to Christa for giving up her time to judge this for us. Thank you to all of our liveries for taking part.
We have livery available in our courtyard stables. if you would like to become part of #teamdunbyrnestud please email dunbyrnestud@gmail.com to arrange a yard visit. Horses are fed haylage and feed twice a day, mucked out daily, turned out daily and have fresh bedding twice a week. Lessons are available at competitive rates with our onsite BHSI and HSI coaches. We have a huge livery arena completely separate to the onsite riding school, a gorgeous all weather 4.5 furlong gallops and onsite hacking. We are 10 minutes drive from Coilog and within 30 minutes of competition venues JAG / Greenogue / Redhills. We are a family run yard and live onsite so there are no strict opening hours and no time pressure on our clients.