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Myerscough PL was as friendly and well run as always – it’s a super venue which is made even better by helpful staff who always try to sort things out for you! Moody Dressage had a very successful trip – three wins, four seconds, and numerous other top ten placings – it’s lovely when all the hard work that goes into this job is repaid by some good rides and good placings!

Becky had five rides over the weekend, first one on Julie Lockey’s and The Parents’ super five year old ’Carinsio’ aka Jack Jack. He won his class in fine style, looking a million dollars and earning some very positive comments from International judge Trond Asmyr. The divine ‘Salsa’ then took the top spot in Fridays PSG, showing a continuing positive trend in his education – there are still some moments where he gets a bit tight, but others where his improving suppleness and elasticity really shine through. Julie Lockey’s beautiful and colossal Fursten Hit (all 18.2 of him) produced a good test, showing improved strength since his last outing in August 11, but still with more to come. Becky started early on Saturday morning with two rides in the four year old class, Julie’s stunning stallion ‘Deluxe’ and Nicki Moxon’s lovely moving ‘Renoir’. It was a hotly contested competition, but both the horses did really well finishing 4th and 5th. Josie Gyllensvard had a very exciting time when she got to ride Deluxe for Julie in the ride off – it was quite something with 10 four year olds cantering around the arena together!!! Thankfully most of them were so pooped by this point there were no calamities!

The music classes in the evening have an excellent atmosphere. Becky had Biff, Salsa and Wally competing, and Eilidh Grant was riding Comanche Crumble. Both these two have spent a significant amount of time this week sorting out their excellent floorplans and music, but all the hard work was rewarded when Eilidh came second behind Laura Fry and her lovely Remming in the PSG, Salsa won the Inter 1, and Wally came second in the Grand Prix. (He really should have won, cos their music was totally fab, and they both had so much fun doing it!)

Emma Corbett and Feo had a great weekend, notching up a super second place in the PSG and the Advanced medium on Thursday, and third in the Young Rider test. Eilidh had another second place in the YR test. Go girls! Taisie Neal and Josie Gyllensvard were 8th and 10th in the YR test, and Ryan Todd missed out on the placings due to a bit of tension, but this is an inexperienced partnership, and it will come good!

On Sunday Harriet Williams rode our darling Dot in the pony test, and as you can see from the photos, did a fantastic job. Once a few little glitches get ironed out I think they will be a force to be reckoned with! And Wally finshed his weekend off with a super GP, finishing in 4th place, but gaining a very exciting 69% from the foriegn judge! Whooppee!

On 18th February 9 horses and 8 riders set off to Vale View to ride 18 tests! Everyone was extremely organised and what could have turned out to be quite a stressful day actually went very well – although Becky’s hands did turn blue she was so cold, but some cheesy chips soon sorted that!

Becky was first on riding Josie’s Don Angelo in the Elementary, Donald started off a little tense but settled as the test went on and scored an amazing 75.94% Josie then took over the ride for the second Elementary and again, Donald started off tense as he went in but settled and came away with another excellent score of 70.29%

Sam also competed in the Elementarys on Royal Alliance, a lovely mare who is showing great talent. Sam did a great job on Royale as she can also get a bit tense – Sam scored 69.69% and 69.12% coming 2nd to Donald in both – very consistent

Next was Becky riding Elaine Hack’s Always Owen in the Medium – Owen was a very good boy and scored 66.9% gaining 2nd place. Gen, Owen’s normal rider then competed Owen in the second Medium class and got 64.71% which was very good considering Owen has had time off with an injury.

Moving up the levels to the Advanced Medium classes where, Sam riding Emma Blundell’s Keystone Diaz scored again very consistently 66.67% and 67.3% gaining 2nd place and equal 1st! Ryan riding Steph Willis’ Charlex Eskebjerg scored 66.33% and Eilidh riding her own Raphael Rosse scoreds 65.67% and 67.3% – well done!

Onto the Advanced class where we achieved 2nd, 3rd and 4th places with Josie riding her own Tobias with 64.71%, Grace riding her own Westminster Rapscallion (Jack!) with 64.12% and Eilidh on Rosse with 61.76%.

The final class of the day – the PSG – Grace had a really good test on Jack and scored 64.74%, Ryan was not too far behind on Charlie with 63.16%. Troy was a little more difficult but gave Josie good experience for the harder tests and scored 60.53%. Kelly also competed Kwadraat who was great warming up and enjoyed being out again but he then thought it would be quite amusing to put his tongue over the bit for the entire test, leaving Kelly pretty much a passenger and took himself around the test naughty, naughty boy! Kelly still had good fun and hopes to take him out again

On 29th January we had a trip to Yorkshire Dressage with four horses, liverys from the yard & Ike! It is a great venue for us as it only takes about half an hour to get there! It was slightly unfortunate for Kelly and her back tho as there is a lot of gravel there and Ike has sore paws so he had to be carried for some of it (all 5stone of him!) that was after he had chewed through his lovely leather lead :-/

First up was Will Buck riding Shannondale Prophet (Ivan) in the Prelim and the Novice. Ivan’s most favourite thing is Cross Country so he finds dressage quite tedious but with time, patience and training by both Will and Becky he is really starting to show a talent for the dressage arena. Apart from a mistake in the right canter in the first test Will rode two very nice tests. We were slightly disappointed with the marking from the judge, but thats dressage!

Next in was Diane Vardey riding Thacka Playboy aka Nico. Diane bought Nico 18months ago and turned his hoofs from driving to dressage! Diane had a really good day competing in both Novice classes scoring 68.75%  in the first test, and 62.58% with a slightly spooky 2nd test. But we were very impressed with both Diane and Nico

2 horses down 2 to go – Becky was next in the Elementary on Josie’s Don Angelo or Donald as we call him! He was rather fresh on the wagon as it was the first time we had him out but he soon settled once Becky was on board. They scored an amazing 77.58% with, as you can imagine a lovely test! It was then Josies turn to ride Donald after proving what a good boy he was, so in the 2nd Elementary Josie also rode a great test and scored 72.05% – hopefully this is a sign of things to come as Josie and Donald make a wonderful combination!

Last but not least Sam Brown rode Royal Alliance in both Elementarys gaining 2 great scores of 73.79% and 67.64% (even with a slight error of course and a couple of swear words under her breath!)

A great day was had by all – espescially by Ike!

After having ‘one of those weeks’ and getting over the disappointment of Hannah and Becky not being shortlisted for any classes on their advanced horses, Becky, Emma, Eilidh and Ryan travelled down to Addington with Dot (Madam’s Miss Maria), Feo (Furst Diamantino), Crumble (Comanche Crumble) and Charlie (Charlex Eskebjerg) .

Things were starting to look up on the first day when Becky competed Dot in the Medium and came 4th with 68.38% to Michael Eilberg, Charlie Hutton and Andrew Gould – check out Dot holding her own against the big boys in a class of 25

Eilidh had a great show gaining 2 top 3 placings and 3 top 10 placings, breaking the 70% mark twice! Her results are as follows:

Advanced Medium 70% – placed 3rd

PSG 67.32% – placed 7th

YR Team Test 70.92% – placed 2nd

PSG 67.71% – placed 8th

PSG Freestyle – 67% – placed 5th

What a fantastic start to the season this is for Eilidh – well done

Emma had a really good show with Feo who is a ‘special’ horse in every sense of the word and certainly keeps Emma on her toes!

Her results started well and then built up to the grand finale of 1st place, as below:

Advanced Medium 68.15% – placed 8th

PSG 65.57% – placed 10th

YR Team Test 64.34% – placed 9th

PSG 64.95% – placed 18th

YR Individual Test 68.42% – placed 1st

Another excellent start to the year!

Harriette Williams rode Dot in the Pony Team Test (as we did not think Becky could get away with being able to compete in this class ) and Harriette did an amazing job and scored 68.46% gaining 4th place after only having ridden her several times! Well Done!

Ryan and Charlie had a really good first show, gaining lots of experience riding the more advanced tests.  Ryan has only competed upto Medium so was thrown in at the deep end at a High Profile Show and only having ridden Charlie for a month beforehand. So lots of smiley faces all round

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Julie Lockeys 10 year old Weltgeist gelding Wallenstein surpassed expectations at Hartpury CDI, where he finished 3rd in the PSG, 1st (yes – FIRST) in the Inter 1 and 2nd in the Inter 1 Freestyle. Good boy Wally
Julie bought Wally 6 years ago and he has been based with Becky since then. He has had a very successful career, from young horse classes through to Inter 2 this year.
His tests at Hartpury were rewarded for their correctness and consistency, with his Inter 1 gaining well over 70% from 2 international judges, yay!!
His freestyle finished on a score of 73.625, with Top German judge Peter Holler awarding him 71% for the technical side and 79% for the artistic
Thanks again to Julie and trainer David Hunt, who has helped Becky improve this horse so much!

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The legend that is Jack Jack Moody-Lockey continued his fine form with a fantastic win in the Shearwater sponsered BD Young Horse National Championships at Hartpury last month. The Painted Black gelding is owned by Julie Lockey and Anne and Patrick Moody. Bought by Julie as a yearling he has been based on the Moody yard since last summer.
He finished with a score of 82.4%, with an 8.5 for his general impression and very consistent marks for all three paces
In the prize givings he demonstrated his pretty awesome talent for passage and Becky’s equally awesome talent for adopting a secure ‘hunting seat’
Becky would like to take this opportunity to thank her fabulous owners and her brilliant support team of grooms, vets, physios and farrier etc, as well as trainer extraodinaire David Hunt and sub-trainer Hannah Moody

Moody Dressage has teamed up with Freedom Dressage to create a bit testing service – you can come and have a lesson using one of the Sprenger Bits that we have here from Freedom Dressage. It’s a great opportunity to see how your horse goes in a variety of different bits, and to be able to pick the one that suits best. We have a good selection of weymouths, snaffles and bradoons.

Freedom Dressage

Wowee!I have just sussed out a new way of communicating with people (only a year or so late…)
If you hit the new button that now appears near the top of the left hand column on the site under ‘email subsciption’ you will get an automatic email sent to you when we put a new post on the website. How cool is that! It’s free, and it’s really easy to unsubscribe if you decide you don’t want to keep going!

Leanne Howe: Northern Region BYRDS Representative
Stubbcroft,
Cobcroft Lane,
Cridling Stubbs,
West Yorkshire,
WF11 0AZ
leanne_howe@hotmail.co.uk

Sarah Huntridge: Northern Region R.D.O.
1 Chapel Garth, Markington, Harrogate, HG3 3NY

 07783791191 

sarahhuntridge@britishdressage.co.uk