Farseers Equestrian

Farseers Equestrian Freelance grooming, riding and livery service for horses and ponies near Bicester, Oxfordshire.

09/04/2025

It’s been so long since I last bought one of these, but as it’s her first event, and she was such a darling (😈😱😇) I couldn’t resist 🖤🥰

Walking back from the XC after I eventually managed to pull her up! As you can see, she barely broke a sweat!📸Mane Focus...
07/04/2025

Walking back from the XC after I eventually managed to pull her up! As you can see, she barely broke a sweat!

📸Mane Focus Photography

Well 4.30am alarms can only mean one thing, the return of the Event season 💪After eventually locating Dilys in the field...
05/04/2025

Well 4.30am alarms can only mean one thing, the return of the Event season 💪

After eventually locating Dilys in the field in the dark, (note black ponies, a five acre field and pitch-black mornings are not a good combo) plus wrestling some plaits in, we were off to Waverton Horse Trials for Dilys’ very first event!

We had some very obnoxious shouting in the dressage warm up. I think some social media famous person was trying to do a chat segment in front of a very expensive looking camera, so if you happen to follow that sort of thing, listen out for Dilys’ quite distinctive squawks 🙈 In spite of this, I have to say in the actual test she tried SO hard. She’s still finding her confidence between the boards, and she goes short and tense when unsure, but she really did try to keep up and to the contact, and I really couldn’t ask more than that at her first event. We scored a respectable enough 33.5. I haven’t seen the sheet yet…

On to the show jumping and some very bright fillers. Dilys has been seriously bold with her jumping of late, so I was quite surprised when she started backing off fence one. I gave her a kick and over she went before zooming off to two- at that point I realised it wasn’t the fence she was worried by but the timers either side just before it 🙈 We had those cursed bloody Cotswold Cup planks down 🙄 but she flew the rest despite me doing my other classic SJ move of taking a pull to the last line. Dilys has become so clever with her footwork, and combined with her immense sassy-ness, she’s more than happy to skip a half stride in when required, and so the rest of the poles stayed up 😆

Next was the fun bit. Dilys, having never done an actual ‘proper’ XC round, decided from the off that she was in fact a pro at this, and could the human on top please stop trying to interfere 🤣 She literally wheelspun out off the start box, and went zooming off jumping directly in to the sun over one and two before cantering through a gap in the hedge. At that point she then realised there was an awful lot to look at, and went a bit wibbly wobbly, but the moment she was in front of a fence again she was all business. Even the steep slope in to the water jump followed by a boat out was easy peasy, and when I looked down at my watch and saw we still had two and a half minutes left and less than ten fences to go, the fun police had to step in and whoa her up a bit 👮‍♀️

We crossed the line seven seconds under the time, and it still took until we were in the lorry park to pull her up! And then the obnoxious shouting started again, which was fine, because my little baby homebred had just completed her first event 🥹

27/03/2025

Yesterday we had another another great lesson at Aston le Walls, and the girls were 🔥

Here’s the Sass-Queen bouncing her way down the never ending lines of grids, and then being a bit of a weapon round a small course to finish 💪

Dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s with Dilys at Chiltern XC today 🥰 She was just fabulous…bold, sassy and bursting wi...
15/03/2025

Dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s with Dilys at Chiltern XC today 🥰 She was just fabulous…bold, sassy and bursting with confidence 💪

Thank you Mane Focus Photography for joining us! Can’t wait to see the reels too🤩

Another photo of Doodle…oh go on then 😆🖤
05/03/2025

Another photo of Doodle…oh go on then 😆🖤

04/03/2025

Hatcam vid from our second spin round!

Love how obnoxious she was beforehand - ‘I’ve done it once so am now clearly an expert’ 🙄 She was super, especially as I was feeling rather worse for wear by then and put her on some shocker strides 🙈

03/03/2025

Return of the hat-cam!!

It’s been six years since I’ve worn one, so we have a couple teething problems, most obviously the angle isn’t correct, but for the most part you can see Doodle’s happy little ears ☺️

It’s funny listening back to some of the rubbish you say going XC. I’ve always had canter-banter with my horses when going round. Needless to say, there was a lot of ‘good girl’ and ‘steady’ yesterday!

I’m so pleased with Dilys, she’s really starting to develop some clever footwork and even at the first couple where she wasn’t sure- and we had a shocker of a stride over the fence one on this round (which was our first)- not once did she ever think about saying no.

I’ve been feeling like death this week 😷 but with Dilys’ first event looming, I wanted to give her a practice spin aroun...
03/03/2025

I’ve been feeling like death this week 😷 but with Dilys’ first event looming, I wanted to give her a practice spin around a cross country course before doing the real thing in a few weeks time. And with the sun shining and perfect going guaranteed at Dallas Burton, lurgy or not, it was too good an opportunity to pass.

First round Dilys was a little suspicious of the first three fences, which were jumping directly in to the sun. The course was pick your own line from 70cm-90cm, so we started at 70cm and then half way round once she felt confident I upped her to the 80cm fences. On her second go the Sass-pants were firmly on, she was full off it in the starting area and that set the tone for her round. I started her over the 80cm fences and then upped her to 90cm from fence four onwards. She was fab, which was great as I rode like an absolute plague-infested wet wipe!

So the demon child was actually very good, and I’m rather looking forward to her first Horse Trials 💪🖤

26/02/2025

We had a great morning having a show jump lesson at Aston le Walls with Dilys and Secret today…AND we even managed to dodge the downpours 🙌☔️

We begun with various gymnastic lines which we linked together as a course of sorts. Secret was absolutely in her element and I’m dead pleased with how bold Dilys was considering her previous experiences of grid work have been a lot less busy and intense!

After we moved on to jump the course proper. Both ponies were a bit feral 🙈 Seek has the experience and know how to sort herself out of trouble, and only rolled a pole as a result. Dilys on the other hand had a bit of a f**k around and find out moment when she ran on her head down the final line, two uprights to an oxer, met the last element on a flat, duff stride, and nose dived through the back rail.

It’s the first time she’s screwed up quite so dramatically- had it been a solid fence we would have both been on the floor- so I was interested to see what her reaction would be when represented to it. Would she go super suspicious and backwards or even completely jack it in? I’ve been really careful up to this point in not over facing her and keeping jumps small enough that she can easily get herself out of trouble, because she’s quite a sensitive person and I don’t think it would have taken much in the early days for her to tell me to🖕off! But I feel we’re now at point where she’s got to pull her big girl pants on and learn that playing stupid games does indeed win stupid prizes. Better now over knock down show jumps than learning the really hard way going cross country!

After a short break -where we watched a much more under control Seek jump round nicely- we started the course again and Dilys decided to actually apply herself. She jumped out of her sock(s) down the first related distance, politely came back when I asked her to quietly pop the upright, and when we eventually came to that final line she remembered her mistake and again boldly jumped in and just kept getting better over each fence. So needless to say I’m really super pleased with her, sassy little madam that she is!

Now if only it would stop raining so we can go XC schooling 🙏

Emma volunteered as tribute for Dilys’ first guest rider today. She was foot perfect 😇🖤
14/02/2025

Emma volunteered as tribute for Dilys’ first guest rider today. She was foot perfect 😇🖤

We’re very pleased to be officially working with Mane Focus Photography and are so excited to have Tyla documenting our ...
10/02/2025

We’re very pleased to be officially working with Mane Focus Photography and are so excited to have Tyla documenting our competition endeavours this coming season!

Social media has evolved massively over the past few years, and as such so has the way equestrian businesses and individuals engage with their potential clients. ‘Reels’ are now the most efficient way to connect with new customers on a variety of platforms, and a professionally produced Reel is the best way to stand out from the crowd.

From stallions offered at stud, horses for sale or any equestrian business wanting to advertise their services, Tyla has a real eye for detail in producing spectacular photos and videos at a reasonable price.

She of course offers this service alongside photography and videography for private individuals, and is available for photoshoots either at your stables or on location elsewhere. In fact, we’ve just booked her to come back to Farseers HQ for another photo shoot in the summer 😎☀️

Back at it again with the Brat pony today for Cherwell Combined Training🖤 Dilys was a lot less obnoxious and shouty, alt...
08/02/2025

Back at it again with the Brat pony today for Cherwell Combined Training🖤 Dilys was a lot less obnoxious and shouty, although not entirely so. It’s a work in progress and it’s easy to forget this is only her third competition!

She scored 72% to lead the dressage, and was just a bit idle over fence two in the showjumping for four faults. Unfortunately this bumped us down to 🥈, by just .4 a point.

📸 once again by the fabulous Mane Focus Photography 🙌

29/01/2025

Great morning having a jumping lesson at Aston Le Walls with 🖤 and 💛

It was a bit of a crash course for Dilys as she’s done very little work over skinny fences previously, and I was so pleased how quickly she understood the question and jumped down the line of three on a curve 😇 The distances could be ridden on two or three strides, depending how boldly you rode it. Secret was of course fabulous, and showed off her super adjustability by doing half and half 💪

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