HOPE Summer Festival: Career change for Quaffle.

Fabulous day at HOPE Summer Festival at Weston Lawns. Snelsmore Ulysses won his Two/Three-year-old class and Reserve Miniature Shetland Champion. Snelsmore Sophia was third in the Mare/Stallion class, so pleased with her, she is maturing into a beautiful pony and definitely becoming a favorite of mine. While later her older full sister Snelsmore Quaffle was…

The Shetland Performance show: Smiling faces all round

While many shows seem to be declining in numbers or even worse stopping all together, it was lovely to see so many beautiful ponies at the Shetland Performance show. The vaccinations didn’t stop people turning up to this event, in fact this shows seems to be getting more popular every year. There were some tough decision…

Izzy and Mystique.

The Shetland Performance show for the first introduction for this pair, after some gently brushing from Izzy it was soon apparent they were getting along fine. After a little bit of practice the pair were ready to impress. The young handlers class was full of ambitious children all eager to please the judge with their…

All work and no play for us this weekend.

A busy weekend showing nine different ponies at two shows miles apart. With the first four ponies washed we made the two-hour journey to Chard showground to supported Somerset -Equi event show. The weather was good sadly like so many shows the entries were low but of good quality, so nothing was made easy. Our…

Hope Show: Proud breeder moment

A normal June afternoon, the sun shone down on us at Hope show. It was a great for us to catch up with Upper Class, U-Genie, and Uriah new owner’s, so pleased they looked fantastic and all in the ribbons too, definitely a moment to remember. In the coloured shetland championship Gold Award for Snelsmore…

South of England show: Worth waiting

Snelsmore Ulysses our two-year-old colt, has struggle since his flu vaccination. Such a promising yearling, we thought his season 2019 was over before it even got started. Due to a skin reaction to the flu jab he just wasn’t ready for the Bath & West show; A decision to wait and take him to the…

Showing News: In the news.

Two wonderful reports for Cliff and I in the showing journal magazine. In the November issue of the showing journal it was lovely to see Snelsmore Sienna get a mention and a picture from MHOYS and Snelsmore Sundance also got a mention and picture from HOPE Supreme show in the September issue. Snelsmore in the…

Halloween show: “Trick or treat!”

No trick, just a treat for Ulysses at Leyland court farm Halloween fun show. While children are hoping to have their bags filled with candy Ulysses received the Supreme rosette for knocking on the door. It didn’t seem that long ago we made the hard decision to say goodbye to my pride and joy Snelsmore…

MHOYS: Sienna in the spotlight

MHOYS was a big experience for Snelsmore Sienna, seeing all the lights and razzmatazz of an evening performance for the first time. She has been lightly shown for a three-year-old but handled it like a true professional. Sailing through the morning qualifiers, winning the afternoon class, which only left the evening performance. It was a long…

Thame Show: Numero uno

The normal early start for Thame show, and not the nicest weather but the sun did eventually come out to shine on Snelsmore Uno. I can’t believe Uno our skewbald yearling has competed at ten shows and still as enthusiastic as his first, back in May at North Somerset. What a way to finish!!! unbeaten and…