The Horses

Becky’s Horses

 

Wallenstein

 Wally is owned by Julie Lockey. She bought him as a 4year old from Katy Haldervale and he has been based at the Moody yard since then.

He was born in 2001 and is by Weltgeist (Weltmeyer) out of a Donnerhall mare. He stands at a fairly normal 17.1 and is Julie’s favourite colour – black!

Becky and Wally have had some excellent results in their 6 years together. As a five year old he was 4^th in the Potential International Dressage Horse Championships at the Nationals at Stoneleigh. He has competed at the Nationals every year since then with many top ten placings up to Inter 11 level. At his first International at Frys CDI, when he was only 7 years old, he won all three small tour classes  He has just done his first Grand Prix in which he scored a very credible 65.5%

Wally’s likes: Food, of absolutely any description, in the largest quantities possible, hacking, food, cuddles, food, breakfast time, tea time, supper time, leading out for grass time and food.

Wally’s dislikes: Being on a diet.

Fursten Hit

‘Biff’ is also owned by Julie, and again she bought him as a 4 year old, this time from Belgium. He was born in 2002 and is by Furst Heinrich out of a Donnerhall mare. At 18.1hh he holds the yard record for the tallest horse, and makes all the other horses look about 12.2hh and all the staff look about 4’6”, but he is a complete gentle giant, so apart from having to launch his saddle on from a flying run he is one of the staff favourites.

Because of his size Becky has taken time with his training, and he has actually competed very little. He has been to the National Championships on several occasions and is now competing at small tour, but is showing amazing talent for the Grand Prix work so Becky is very excited about what the future holds 

Biff’s likes: Alternating between acting like a giddy giant foal and a very dopey giant dinosaur.

Biff’s dislikes: When the supper time hay barrow is juusstt left out of his reach!

 

Carinsio

‘Our Jack Jack’ is jointly owned by Julie and the founding fathers of Moody Dressage – Mr and Mrs Moody 

He was born in 2007 and is by Painted Black out of a Beaujolais mare. He stands at about 16.3hh

He was purchased by Julie as a yearling and came to the Moody yard as a just backed three year old. His fantastic temperament and super movement won Becky over fairly quickly and Anne and Patrick bought half of him soon after!

He has already shown his quite remarkable talent by winning the National 4 year old Shearwater Championships at Hartpury in July before going on to win the Potential International Dressage Horse Championships for 4 year olds at Stoneliegh as well as being Reserve Champion in the 4 and 5 year old final (to Farouche – who just weeks earlier became the WORLD Young Horse Champion) 

Jack Jack’s likes: Everything, especially rather excessive head rubbing after exercise, and, like his uncle Wally – food! He also likes to show the older horses how one should behave on a hack 

Jack Jack’s dislikes: Not much

Madam’s Miss Maria

Dot officially has the worst competition name on the yard! Unfortunately her dutch passport and a breeding prefix made it rather difficult to change, and to be honest the ‘madams’ bit is rather appropriate 

She was born in 2005 and is by Woldhoeve’s Silco out of Madam’s Mirella. She was bought by Becky and Hannah as a two year old from a farmer in Holland and was then backed as a three year old by Hannah and our lightest crash test dummies – Laura Jarvis and Emma Gallagher. They were both sent into orbit on a fairly regular basis but they did a great job and when she was being slightly more co-operative she was rewarded by being put in foal!!

11 months later she had Edna Maud (Starledna) – an absolutely stunning foal by Ceasar. She was then brought back into work in 2011 and has been very successfully competed by Becky and Pip Corbett. Pip was the Northern Region Novice Restricted Champion at the winters and campaigned the FEI pony tests at the Premier leagues. Becky and Dot were 9^th in the Medium Open Nationals Championships this year which was pretty impressive for a 6 year old 14hh pony and her slightly too large jockey!!

Dot’s likes: Boys (Of the 4 legged equine variety)

Dot’s dislikes: People who think she is anything other than the most beautiful pony in the world!!

Salsa

Salsa has been on the yard since December 2010. He is owned by Becky and Lisa McAlpine. He was born in 2001 and is by Sandro Hit out of a Westfalian mare Desteny. At only 16hh he is a bit of a midget but with a neck like a 17hh stallion and a lot of attitude he doesn’t look like a small horse when ridden.

Becky has already had great results with Salsa, at the Nationals 2011 they were 5^th in the very hotly contested Advanced Medium Championship and they have made the transition to small tour very well, scoring over 70% in their 2^nd ever PSG 

Salsa’s likes: Cuddling and kissing

Salsa’s dislikes: Not being shown enough attention (at least one cuddle per hour!)

 

Hannah’s horses

Caluna 2002 (Saros van’t Gestelhof, out of Ranonkel by Kroon Juweel)

‘Princess Caluna’ as she is known by all the staff… Is also owned by Julie, and has been on the yard since she was 3yrs old. She is probably the most beautiful horse on the yard (this is not a biased opinion at all), and although she is not the most big moving uphill horse in the world she tries her little heart out , and has an excellent talent for piaffe.  She has had very respectable scores at small tour level, and hopefully will start competing at Int 11 quite soon!

Likes: her special tiara, cuddles and looking beautiful.

Dislikes: Hannah when she is riding with serious commitment , having to diet to keep her looks.

 

Moody Dressage Horses

Jordas 1991(El Corona x Arabella by Raimond)

‘Jordi’ has been at Moody Dressage since 1997. He will celebrate his 21st birthday in 2012 OMG

He is still owned by Paulette Tuckey who bought him as a 3yr old, and he is an absolute LEGEND. He is not a special horse with regard to his movement, but he is with regard to his teaching skills, and his character, and his balance. He has a Junior European Championship Team silver medal, has competed successfully to Grand Prix with Hannah, and has  helped to teach an awful lot of people to do things like canter pirouettes, one times, piaffe etc….

Jordi’s likes: Food very much, scratching with Andy and Pie, following a carrot on a stick when hacking past scary things….

Jordi’s dislikes: having to make an effort

Kwadraat 1992 (Farmer)

‘Kwad’ came to Moody Dressage as a 3yr old, and has had one of the most successful careers of all our horses. He was initially owned by Kim Law, and then by Chrisitine Jebson, and Hannah and Becky bought him quite a few years ago… He is a bit of a Sean Connery – still going strong in his twilight years!

He has been on numerous medal winning Junior and Young Rider teams with 3 different riders and has several National titles under his belt. (He is and always will be the superstar of the yard).

He is now teaching the students how to ride (properly!) and Hannah loves getting on for a play, and you never know he might pop back out on the competition scene when he sees it is appropriate

Kwad’s Likes: Bananas,  flying changes (weeeeee!), and Sam Brown!

Kwad’s Dislikes: Flys, midges, bluebottles, wasps, bees and any other variety of flying insect!