Corinium Equine Services

16/09/2022

Schedule for September 17th fun showing show inc CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS class

Ring 1 - Though the large gate off the stone track starting 9.00am.

Class 1 - Youngstock (6month to 3yr old) - Inhand
Any type, gender, height, 6month to 3yr olds. Colts allowed. Will split class to Yearlings and 2/3yr olds if numbers allow.

Class 2 - Junior Handler / Mature Handler - Inhand
Any horse bar colts or stallions! Handlers to be under 15years or 40years plus. This class will run as one but the results will be split.

Class 3 - Homebred - Inhand
Any type, gender, height and age (We will split under 4yr olds numbers depending) must have been bred by yourself. Stallions allowed!

Class 4 - Condition - Inhand
Any type, gender, height, age. Stallions allowed. Will split class if numbers allow.

Class 5 - Natural Turn Out - Inhand
Any type, gender, height, age. For horses in their natural state, no plaits, oil, tarting up! Stallions allowed.

Class 6 – Coloureds - Inhand
Any type, gender, height, age. Must be a piebald, skewbald, tri-colour, spotted, roan or odd coloured! Stallions allowed. Will split class if numbers allow.

All 1st and 2nd placed competitors from classes 1 - 6 gain automatic qualification to the Ring 1 morning Championship.

Classes not to start before 1pm.

Class 7 - Best Turned Out - Inhand

Class 8 - Light Colours - Inhand
Any type, gender, height, age. Must be a solid grey(of any variation), palomino, Cream, Cremello with no patches or spots ect.

Class 9 - Dark colours - Inhand
Any type, gender, height, age. Must be a solid bay, black, chestnut, brown with no patches or spots ect.

Class 10 - Thoroughbred and Ex-racers/ Sport Horses/ Hunters - Inhand
Any age, colour, gender, height. Will split TBs from.other breeds if enough entries.

Class 11 - Breeds Native To The British Isles
Open to Exmoors, Dartmoors, Shetland, Welsh Pony A / B / C / D, Welsh Cob, Connemara, Clydesdale, Dales, Fell, Cleveland Bay, Shire, Hackney, Suffolk Punch, New Forest, Highland, Thoroughbreds. Pure and partbreds but must be true to type. Stallions allowed. Will split large and small if entries allow.

All 1st and 2nd placed competitors from classes 7 - 11 gain automatic qualification to the Ring 1 afternoon Championship.

Ring 2 - Though the large gate by the lorry parking. Starting 9.00 approx.

Class 12 - Novice Handler - Inhand
Any horse bar colts or stallions! Handlers to not have won a showing championship.

Class 13 - Shetlands and Minis
Ant age, gender, height, so long as part or purebred. Stallions and colts allowed. Will split class if numbers allow.

Class 14 - Foreign Breeds - Inhand
Part and Pure blood horses which breeds do not stem from the UK. Class maybe split into part and Pure bloods depend on entry numbers.

Class 15 - Veteran Horse - Inhand
Open to all horses/ponies over the age of 15. Will split class at age 20 if enough entries.

Class 16 - Heavy Horses and Cobs - Inhand
Open to pure and part-bred, shires, clydesdale, Camtois, Ardennes, Traditional, Hogged, ect of any age, colour, height and gender. Class may be split dependant on entries.

Class 17 - Best Mare - Inhand
Just female!

Class 18 - Best Gelding - Inhand
Just male!

Class 19 - Ponies - Inhand
Anything under 14.3hhs!!!!

Class 20 - Horses - Inhand
Anything over 15hhs!!!!

All 1st and 2nd placed competitors from classes 12 - 20 gain automatic qualification to the Ring 2 Championship.

Classes not to start before 1pm.

Class 21 - Ridden Best Turn Out.
Can be any height, breed, type. Equines must be over 4yrs of age.

Class 22 - Ridden Lead-rein/ First Pony
Can be any height, breed or type. No stallions. Equines must be over 4yrs of age.
(Will be split with enough entries)

Class 23 - Ridden Best Mare.

Class 24 - Ridden Best Gelding.

Class 25 - Ridden Coloured.
Open to piebald, skewbald, spotted and roans.

Class 26 - Ridden Breeds NativeToThe British Isles. Open to Exmoors, Dartmoors, Shetland, Welsh Pony A / B / C / D, Welsh Cob, Connemara, Clydesdale, Dales, Fell, Cleveland Bay, Shire, Hackney, Suffolk Punch, New Forest, Highland, Thoroughbreds. Pure and partbreds, 4yrs and over, must be true to type. May be split depending on numbers.

Class 27 - Ridden Veteran
For Riders over 40 or/and horses over 15

All 1st and 2nd placed competitors from classes 21 - 27 gain automatic qualification to the Ring 2 Championship.

*****CLASS 28 - BROOK STUD CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS 2022 IN MEMORY OF THE FABULOUS HELEN KENNET*****
This class is open to anyone who has placed Champion or Reserved Champion at any of our showing shows from April 1st to this show inc the Champions and Reserves from this show! All proceeds from this class will go to Cancer Research. This class will be £10.00 regardless of when you enter it. The overall Champion shall receive a perpetual Trophy which will need to be signed for with a deposit (£20) that will be returned when the Trophy is returned undamaged in 11months time. The Trophy is most kindly sponsored by Stephen and Gemma Potter. Plus a Champion of Champions sash and prize from Brook Stud. All entries will recieve a medal to thank them for supporting both Brook Stud and this class for Helen Kennet.

Classes are £6.00 each pre-entry or £10.00 on the day. If you enter 5 classes you get the 6th Free!!!!!! Email [email protected] or contact on 07855755831 to enter. Closing date for pre-entries is 15th September 2022.

Classes must have 15 entries to need to be split.

Ribbons to 10th in all classes.

Sashes and prizes to class Champions and reseves

Not fussy on tack or turnout. For nervous, novice, beginners or youngsters!!! Stallions and colts allowed but please be in control or you may be asked to leave! The schedule may get adjusted on the day depending on how classes are running! All classes to run in fenced arena! No loose horses or dogs!!! Plenty of feild space for parking and a hard standing area for lorries. Our usual fabulous, friendly, welcoming judges who make showing fun!!! Toilets, food and photographers available.
Please don't follow Sat Nav all the way to Brook Stud SN15 4JY. It likes to take people down roads unsuitable for equine transport vehicles.

S***m Lane, Whitehill Road, Callow Hill are all suitable roads!

Tockenham Wick, Bowds Lane and Trow Lane are all unsuitable - Do Not Use!

I think that is all 😁

10/08/2022

🥵 Some good advice 🥵

HOW IS YOUR PASTURE HOLDING UP?

Here in the UK I can't remember having so little rain - and such high temperatures - over the past few weeks. Many pastures are looking a lot less green than usual.

Grass will come back when the rain returns but in the meantime here's a few snippets and tips to help you:

🌱 Don't assume no nutrition in yellow dry-looking grass. It can be higher in sugar than green, growing grass and can still supply significant calories
🌱 If you're running out of grass, offer supplementary forage in the field - do this every day to keep the diet consistent and be sure to introduce and increase any hay or haylage gradually
🌱 Monitor your horse to assess their needs - their condition, how hungry they are, how many piles of droppings they're passing compared to normal - don't just assume they have nothing to eat in their field
🌱 Don't worry - keep a close eye on your horse and adjust their diet and management accordingly. The pasture will come back once the rain comes (and it will!)

Feel free to share and comment below with pictures of your pasture an how you're managing
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03/07/2022

Weighing the ponies and chatting to the competitors at the Pony Club Area 9 Grassroots ODE. Beautiful day for it! 🐎 😎

17/06/2022

25/05/2022

Please feel free to share or get in touch if you’d like a visit.

22/05/2022

🐴 We will be at the show on Saturday with our weighbridge 🐴

Come over and say hello😊

Have a go at our ‘Guess the weight’ competition and pop your four legged friend on the scales.

22/05/2022

⚖️ We are weighing in Royal Wooten Basset⚖️ on Thursday 26th AM. If anyone in the area needs a weigh-in please message me to arrange

15/05/2022

Short grass, ideally a track with 12hour soaked hay is working well for my portly ponies!

LONG OR SHORT GRASS?

The question of long or short grass for obese good doers or those with metabolic issues comes up frequently.

Very short, overgrazed grass in a restricted area (ideally tracks rather than rectangular) with supplementary hay (long-soaked if necessary) is a better choice than ad lib healthier pasture with longer grass, for an obese horse.

You MUST find a way to get them to lose weight, and allowing them access to longer grass which may be higher in fibre and lower in energy (calories) and sugar & fructan per kilo does not take into account how much they can eat and therefore their total calories, sugar and fructan intake.

It's not about how much sugar is in the grass.

It's about how much sugar/fructan and calories the horse gets from the grass, over a set period of time grazing.

Always monitor your horse and assess the suitability of their environment from them themselves. You may find that strip grazing longer more mature grass is a good option, or a grazing muzzle on shorter grass may work well.

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09/05/2022

I’m looking forward to getting this lad on the scales ⚖️ next week!

This is Vic, my 15yr old Section D.
He’s always been on the heavier side and isn’t ridden - so weight is an issue.

We’ve been soaking hay and turning out on a minimal grass track with my other 2 boys. I soak extra hay so that they don’t run out whilst stabled during the day, then put it out for the 3 of them to nibble on overnight.
We are also lucky enough to have 2 woodchip paddocks ready for when the grass growth takes off!

His weight is slowly coming down. The first weight tape pic was January, the second was today. It’ll be interesting to see how the new scales compare…🤔

05/05/2022

1 HOUR HAY SOAK MAY NOT BE ENOUGH !!!

Soaking hay for 1 hour is still NOT the latest advice. I'm posting about this again because it's coming up regularly.

IF you have good quality hay and an obese, EMS or laminitic horse or pony, a 1 hour soak may NOT be long enough to reduce calories enough to cause weight loss/insulin levels to normalise. (It may be, but it may not be!)

Slow feeders are NOT enough to help the health of obese/EMS/laminitics without soaking (or replacing some with straw), in many cases.

Hay can oversupply calories by around 50% and this is on top of maintenance, NOT the restriction needed for weight loss.

There is NO ONE SINGLE ANSWER for soak time to make hay safe for a laminitic or for weight loss in a good doer because hay varies SO widely.

Practically, soak for a set period then monitor your horse or pony's response. If you are soaking for 1-2 hours and your good doer is not losing weight, then SOAK FOR LONGER! (or mix with clean straw introduced gradually). Don't soak for longer than 12 hours because this becomes unhygienic. Soak in fresh water each time and out of direct sun. Use good sense and never feed rank-smelling soaked hay.

❓ Is long-soaking hay ideal?

✳️ No, but its the best we have and its much better than a chronically obese, EMS, laminitis-prone horse or pony.

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02/04/2022

****Available MAY 2022****

⚖️ 🐎Weight Check🐎⚖️

Do you know how much your 🐎 weighs?

An accurate weight measurement can help with

✅ correct worming doses

✅ monitoring feeding rations

✅ supplement rations

✅ assessing legal payloads when travelling

✅ monitoring your horses body condition

We are fully insured and use portable equine scales to give you the precise weight of your horse.
Advice on Body Condition Scoring (BCS) and weight tape measurements can also be offered, giving you a base line by which you may monitor your horses ongoing condition.

**Prices**
▪️Individual weight £20
▪️2-5 horses £15 each
▪️6+ horses £12.50
▪️please contact us for our yard rate discount

We are based on the Wiltshire/Gloucestershire boarder and are willing to travel, a small travelling charge may apply depending on the number of horses and location. Please contact us via messenger or email to book.

[email protected]