The Mendip Stud - 4th July BBQ
July
2006 Newsletter
Note from the editors.
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is a little later than usual…. sorry about that but we are catching up from a
pretty hectic month which has been topped off with some of the best summer
weather for years – so we’ve spent a little more time out than in.
J
We now have over 1000
recipients of our newsletter and that number is growing month by month. Our aim
is to try to give information about what is going on here at ‘The Stud’ and
also some general information on what is going on in the sport through
"Letters
from the Chairman" and other specific articles……….if you have contributions
and or ideas please let us know…the newsletter takes time and effort to put
together and we’d like your help in making it better and more useful…….. |
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Special supplement – August
We will be announcing details of the new ‘The Mendip Stud Club’ in August by means of a special newsletter supplement. We hope that many of you will join as full members or as social or associate members – details will follow in August.
In
this newsletter:
- Welcome
to new readers
- June Caption Winner
- Stud
News: What’s going on here
and general news
- Ilan Rosenberg Clinics
- Hi-ho , Hi-ho - Studley off to work in Europe
-
Summer sales list now available
- The 4th July BBQ
- Chairman’s Letter – Francesca Sternberg – Garden of England International shows
- Congratulations
NVQ successes
- Bob Mayhew Judging Seminar
- Caption Competition - win an afternoon's sculpture experience
A warm welcome to the following new readers
| Correna Churchill | Bristol | Pauline Wheelhouse | Bridgwater | |
| Melanie Goringe | Heather Wallace | Powys | ||
| Lis Bullied | Nichola Robertson | Bristol | ||
| Nemanja Novicovic | Serbia | Laura Dennis | Cornwall | |
| Rachael Thompson | Leicester | Dirk Buntner | Germany |
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| Honor Barrett | Mark Perrins | Dorchester | ||
| Christina Ortiz | Florida |
Please
send in details of anyone else that you think might like to receive the
newsletter – or you can subscribe them online.
Caption
competition winner
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Winner Debbie Burns:
Boy praying "If I die before
I wake, I pray to God, my soul to take" and a close second was Llnda
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As there was so little to chose between them we thought it would only be fair if they shared a private training session with Ilan Rosenberg on his next visit to The Mendip Stud - congratulations to you both. |
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Stud
News - What's
been going on?
And what's planned......
Ilan
Rosenberg clinics – July 2006
Once again Ilan gave those who attended the clinic
as riders and spectators a weekend full of expert tuition, great insight and an
exceptional horseman’s mind and understanding of both the horse and rider.
New clinics October 2006 & 2007 tour plans
We are close to arranging dates for clinics here in Somerset with Ilan in October – details will be posted as soon as dates have been finalised. Please register your interest – first come 1st served.
Germany Training Tour and
Show 2007
As announced at the Ilan clinic last
week plans are under way for a tour for 8 to 10 participants to Germany at the
beginning of next year where there will be 5 days of tuition with Ilan, beer ,
bratwurst and partynights topped
off with everyone taking part in a European show with Ilan and Niki on hand to
get you though the nerves and trials and tribulations. We already have quite a
few folk interested in this ‘Mendip Stud on tour event’ – as places will
be limited please let me know if you are interested as soon as possible–
thanks J J
"Hi ho, hi Ho and off to work he go…………"
Zip Chip Leaguer better known as Studley goes to Germany
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After his winter rest from his very successful show season last year Studley has not been an idle lad. He spent a little time at training camp with Doug Allen and Shane Boland before coming home for the breeding season. Breeding wasn't his only job in the last few months as he spent a lot of it being ridden by Lou teaching her some his Western Pleasure skills and also acting as Dave Dellin's clinic and demonstration horse earlier in the year. He has made the silver screen too being filmed by MITV for pieces on Western Pleasure which are hoped to feature on Discovery Channel and Animal Planet in the course of the next twelve months or so. | |||
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| Studley will be based near Düsseldorf where he will be in the very experienced hands of 5-time European Champion Sylvia Jäckle who will be showing him in Europe in both AQHA and NSBA shows and classes over the next nine months. As well as competing him throughout Europe Sylvia will be trying to fix him up with a lot of new girlfriends German, French, Austrian, Italian and Swiss and excusing the pun other members States to form a real European Union J | ||||
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| This years foal crop has been exceptional. He's stamped his socks, blaze, dish and temperament on them all and we can't wait to see his babies out in the show ring …….Amongst his offspring this year Studley has been privileged to have had babies from some wonderful mares including Pat and John Greaves' Smooth Serena and Lita Pocock's MBJ Blazing Babe and IMA Triple Zip Chip John Hall's Zips Miss Silver Jet, Catherines Wright's SR Poco Mount and Lucy Adam's Bit Ofa Dark Horse many of whom have been successfully rebred. Look out for their babies next year J | ||||
| Studley telling Lou to stop arsing about! | ||||
| Wow – what a great
night. Eight-eight revellers turned up for the evening which was
memorable not only for the great weather and atmosphere but also for
the feast that Lou put on………Henry the Eighth famous for his love
of banquets would have been impressed.............even Lou exceeded
her own expectations ………the food was out of this world ………Dessert
Island went down so well that sadly we had one post-BBQ report of chocolate
withdrawal after someone gave the chocolate fountain a real beasting J J
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It was the ideal opportunity to
welcome Celia Gadd and her friends to the Stud
- all of whom seemed to enjoy themselves and perhaps went away thinking
we weren't just a bunch of sad wannabe cowboys chewing on tabbacci and
beans…….. |
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It was also really great to see Richard
and Maddie Cleare who are currently
back in the UK on a months trip away from their Gainesville , Texas home.
Richard has kindly agreed to write an article for next months newsletter
entitled “Living the dream” – we are looking forward to that.
There are a few pictures of the night in our galleries section - click here
Free Lecture and Open Evening
The lecture by Jenny Griffiths and
Louise Harvey was an outstanding success. 48 people came to the viewing and
lecture. The consensus was that lectures of this type would be a welcome
addition to the events we put on. Please help us to gather together ideas on
what you’d like to hear about from the Vets…………help us get it right
and use the submission form on the website to tell us the topics that would be
most valuable to you. - thanks J
for the idea together with a range of topics so that we are able to hold their interest in doing all the preparatory work.
Donations on the night raised £50 which has been sent to our Charity of Choice for 2006 - ‘The National Foaling Bank’
DVD's from Dave Dellin & Ilan Rosenberg
We've just finished putting the Dave Dellin clinics onto DVD and are nearly finished with the Ilan Rosenberg ones. We'll get them out to those who have ordered them as quickly as possible. Once again sorry for the delay!
From Francesca Sternberg – On the
Garden of England International festival.
Garden Of England International
Festival of Western Riding 2006
The picturesque showground in Bodiam,
East Sussex, is once again gearing up for the annual Garden of England Festival
of Western Riding. Competitors from all over Britain will be preparing to make
the journey to the South East to compete for the largest prizes offered outside
the USA and Europe at his years NRHA, AQHA show.
The prize fund is standing currently
in excess of £15,000 for the 3 day show which will offer classes in all AQHA
disciplines for registered American Quarter Horses as well as top league prizes
in the National reining Horse Classes. The FEI approved CRI class will be held
on Thursday afternoon for those riders wishing to qualify for the “Masters”
held in Denver, Colorado, USA, this year, and the weekend will see Double Lawson
Trophies in both Non Pro and Open classes. Competitors will include the riders
short-listed for the British Team for this Septembers World Equestrian Games as
well as top competitors from Europe.
Organiser Francesca Sternberg said
earlier this month “We tried to downscale the show a little from last year, as
that was so enormous that it took everyone rather a long time to recover! With
WEG is a mere six weeks away the committee thought that it would be prudent to
have a smaller show and then go large again in 2007. However the popularity of
the venue seems to have taken no notice of this attempt and once again we are
expecting more than 100 horses and competitors to be on site by Friday! We have
some wonderful sponsors such as Audi, Harry Collins the Jewellers and Warwick
Drake International, who have generously supported us and it looks as if the
Sponsors champagne and Cream tea tent will once again be flourishing on Saturday
afternoon!”
We welcome all members of the public who can enjoy free entry and the show will be underway from 9am on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Those wishing to watch the CRI will need to be on the showground on Thursday.
Francesca Sternberg
For further details call : 01580 830
710
Great show, great venue and great weather forecast ………..ed J
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Seminar
23rd September …… |
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Make sure you book in
advance for your place on the Judging Seminar. We are pretty full and only have
a few spaces left……..
“Everyone should be made
to attend a Bob Mayhew judging seminar before they enter the show ring”
………..Adam Heaton
AQHA Judge and British Reining Team Chef d’equippe
Saturday the 23rd starting
at 3.00 hosted by Bob Mayhew.
Please register your interest in the seminar by mailing john@themendipstud.com thanks.
Tack and equipment specials:
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Due to amazing demand we are running our special deal
on rubber stable mats for another month. Please let us know as soon as possible
as we do not want to run out of stock again ! Quality rubber stable mats as used in stables at The
Mendip Stud, Shane Borland’s and a host of other yards throughout the UK 6’ x 4’ -
dual faced – pimples one side – grooved on other
- non porous Price ONLY £25.50 plus VAT. Available by collection from The Mendip Stud or have them delivered (minimum 6 mats) - £20 per delivery……… Fitting also an available option at £3.00 per mat Offer only open if taken up and ordered in July for delivery or collection August. Please place your order by e-mail to info@themendipstud.com |
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NVQ success’s ………………….Congratulations!
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Congratulations to Rachael Gibson and Sammy Warren in attaining their NVQ’s. Both have been studying here and more recently at Lackham College. Our thanks to both Pats, Jack and all the staff both past and present who have been so supportive and helpful. |
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Win a Sculpture Lesson with Gill Parker
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Try our Caption Competition Win an afternoon's sculpture experience. Spend an hour or so with world famous bronze sculptress Gill Parker at her studio being shown and taught the rudimentaries of this fascinating skill. The winner can transfer the prize to a friend or a member of the family who is interested in this subject. I wish you all much fun in finding your caption for the picture and as much luck keeping a straight face as the Princess Royal had to do when presenting these medals! Send in your thoughts - Closing Date July 30th |
Just some thoughts……..
‘Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.’
‘A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.’
‘Never argue with idiots. The just drag you down to their level and then beat you with their experience.’
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"The Breeders' Quality Mark (BQM) is a quality mark awarded by British Breeding, the breeding division of the British Equestrian Federation, to studs demonstrating best practice in stud management" |
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