Carl Hodgson Show Horses

10/05/2024

And that’s a wrap!

It was a bit of a disappointing end to the 3DE getting faults in the showjumping to lose our 3rd place. BUT it’s been an amazing experience and Brodie has been an absolute superstar (it was all jockey mistakes in the SJ!) and I couldn’t have asked for a better feel over the jumps.

Off home to have a well deserved rest and come back hitting goals again next season.

Could not have done this without Carl Hodgson or the support of Kirsten Kelly Equestrian.

Also Dynavyte - 60 ml microbiome is never a bad idea!

10/05/2024

Final day trot up.

10/05/2024

Bit of a cold start in Taupo this morning 🥶

09/05/2024

Taupo update!

End of day 1 and we are in third place after the dressage. Really happy to even be here let alone score well so feeling very grateful and blessed right now!

Thanks everyone for your kind words!

08/05/2024

Dressage is done and dusted. Very proud of these two.

08/05/2024

We are at Taupo 3DE!
Freezing cold morning here but should be a nice day. Just about to get Brodie ready for his trot up 🤩🤩🤩

04/05/2024

Hey you.

Wanting to show next season?
Wanting to achieve success?

Your preparation starts NOW.

Don’t just turn your horse out and think winter is a chance to take a break from the daily grind or lower your feed bill.

Your horse needs correct rugging, nutrition, hygiene, and grooming all the way through.

And if your horse is clipped, this is even more important.

28/11/2023

It’s not about the ribbons.

Sure…Ribbons are nice, pretty, a tender stroke to the ego that says “you can now feel good enough” (at least until the next show).

But ribbons are transient. As quick as you are up, you can be down, because you are dealing with a HORSE. A live animal that has its own mind, it’s own emotions.

Not to mention that it’s all relative and often subjective - based on the judge and every other horse and human lined up that day.

So if we make it about the ribbons - well, we might get Champion but not deserve it, or we might not place at all but put on the best performance of our lives.

At the end of the day, the things that achieve the best results, regardless of the material outcome, are consistency, commitment, and connection with the horse. Showing up every day, putting the horse first, working with love and understanding, and accepting the ups as well as downs, moving forward regardless.

Horses are tough and ribbons feel like recognition for all that hard work. But for me, when I go out to the paddock and my horse comes over and simply wants to be with me, that’s worth more than any ribbon.

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26/11/2023

This is what happens when you’re the one holding the horse and the horse show kit in the sun. Showing is not glamorous 🤣

26/11/2023

🌸🌸🌸 Coming up Poses 🌸🌸🌸

Cambridge A&P today and Posie just keeps going from strength to strength. She’s a tough one, can be very impatient and definitely gets excited now that she knows her job, but is also learning how to stand still and show herself off ❤️.

Once again, Carl Hodgson really brought out the best in her.

Super proud of this mare - holding her own with the big guns and some really lovely comments from an experienced and comprehensive judge.

Apparently she needs to be showjumping as well… watch this space!

First Best presented
Reserve champion mare
First most suitable for showjumping
Second most suitable for eventing
Third most suitable for dressage

Thanks to Dynavyte for helping her shine from the inside out ⭐️

PS sorry about the amateur pics!! - my camera was playing up.

19/11/2023

⭐️CCH Iron Man in the show-ring⭐️

Well, the eventer tried showing today! And we had a blast!! We went to the WEC fun day for something different due to not making it to the Brookby HT (which, with the weather, wasn’t that disappointing).

Followed up with a quick blast around the 95 XC course because - never miss an opportunity for some XC 💥😆

Thanks to the fabulous turnout skills of Carl Hodgson, we took out best presented, and then managed to get a few extra ribbons, including best combination and 2nd in the rider class. Brodie was a tad full of himself as per usual, but he got to use some of that up in the XC, with a good clear round.

Another absolutely brilliant day run by WEC, even in the rain.

And another day where I got to fully appreciate the gratitude and sense of awe that comes with working with horses. There truly is nothing better.

11/11/2023

💐 Pretty as a Posie 💐

What a great start to the showing season with Carl and Posie (AKA CCH Cinderella Story) rocking their stuff and taking out Champion at the Waikato A and P a couple of weeks ago.

These are the days that remind us why we do what we do. And it's not actually about the ribbons.. 🎀🥇it’s the coming together of love, devotion, care, and training - it’s the CONNECTION between the horse and the human that makes success possible.

For Posie, it is truly a fairytale - from when we rescued that skinny, barbed wire torn, lame and scared filly from the back blocks of Taranaki those years ago. It’s been a journey so far and we are sure it will be a journey moving forward as well!

But we can't wait to see this girl's future unfold, not just in showing, but in whatever she takes her hoof to 😉 and we are looking forward to sharing her journey, whatever it looks like, with you ❤️🐎

Posie is kept looking amazing thanks to:
Dynavyte
Hygain
BetaVet

03/05/2023

We are running a Lisa Harwood Coaching clinic on the 27th May at Ohaupo Equestrian.

Lisa is a fantastic coach who has elevated my riding SO MUCH that we want to share her skills with everyone we can.

PM us for more details or to book.

31/03/2021

Super exciting!

We are now selling the Betavet range of products, after finding them absolutely incredible in a trial run on our own horses (and adding them as a major part of our nutritional plan).

As a client, you will get 10% off the RRP of any Betavet product when you order through us!

Contact us today to see how these products can enhance the health of your unicorns 🐴🦄

13/03/2021

CLOSED! I'll post the results here soon, and make sure you're on my mailing list for a chance to go a bit deeper 💝
https://www.trishawren.com/animal-communication-newsletter

Ok, survey time - post a pic and name of your horse below and my trusty pendulum will let you know how full your horse's Emotional Bucket is right now 🥰
Only 1 per person please.

I'm curious to know what the trend looks like!

If you're on my email list, look out for next week's as you'll get a chance to find out which of the 5 areas needs topping up 💖

01/03/2021

Does your horse head-flick?
Are you at your wits end trying to figure out how to help him/her?
Have you decided that its incurable unless you remove grass completely?

Not so.

There are many different reasons horses Will head-flick, and while removing grass MAY fix this issue for SOME horses, if we really want to get to the bottom of the issue, we need to understand WHY its happening - we need to consider the BIOCHEMISTRY and the BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS involved.

For example, it might be a nervous system issue, OR an immune system issue, OR a muscular issue. And yes the grass will affect all these things, but simply removing grass is not allowing the ROOT CAUSE to be addressed.

This is where functional treatment comes in - we look at every single system in the body, how they interact, and use a scientific approach, with research, to solve the issue.

We have used this approach to eliminate head-flicking, among many other chronic issues, in horses (and I also use this approach with my human clients).

So if your horse is head-flicking, (or if it has another chronic issue you just can't figure out) there IS an answer. There is ALWAYS an answer. And we can help you find it.

23/02/2021

Check these feet out!
This pony was once laminitic and walked stiffly and slowly.

With the right nutrition and hoofcare she now prances around the paddock. She also never used to roll - well now she does! And the laminitis rings are starting to disappear.

She still has a cresty neck - this can be very hard to get rid of... but it's no longer rock hard, and she has a proper 'waist' going on 💃. And we STILL have to be very careful about what we feed her.

But this is a great example of what feed balancing, functional nutrition and expert hoofcare can achieve 🤩

16/02/2021

Iron.

There's a bit of chit chat at the moment about iron levels in feeds, and how they are all too high (well the majority of them), because soils and water supplies are already super high, and so how we need to feed as low iron as possible to counteract this.

Now, to some extents, this is a really important conversation - excess iron can have pretty severe consequences for the health of your equine, as well as leading to behavioral and coat quality issues. So you want to get it right!

And in certain parts of the country, such as the Waikato, natural iron levels can be extremely high.

But the issue I have with all of this is that we need to be careful that we don't go changing everything in a panic, in order to feed as little iron as possible, without understanding that the key to health is BALANCE.
We need to balance every nutrient in a horse's feed, not just iron. We need to balance iron with copper and zinc especially. And we need to take into account the unique needs of every single horse, because just like us, each one is different.
If we don't take this into account we can end up with more issues than those we started with, and wind up feeling more confused to boot.

So, use the KISS concept. (Keep it simple sausage) (I added the sausage 😋)

Start with a base of plenty of forage and fibre.
Then, if your horse is in work, they may need a bit extra, such as a concentrated feed or extruded grain.
And last, analyze your feeding regime to make sure what you are feeding is balanced. You can use a program such as FeedXL to do this, or contact us to allow us to completely personalize your horse's feed (using our own program developed in-house by nutrition and data scientists), as well as keep things simple, and your costs as low as possible.

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