ELDR Equestrian

17/01/2025

Canty PL Show! A busy show - alongside riding 3 horses, I was also helping to organise & run prizegivings, and even tried my hand at some announcing/presenting!

Ru was a super ⭐ and tried his hardest all weekend, picking up two scores over 70% in our MFS 🎶!
🥇Champion Medium Tour
🥇Joy Pearce Memorial - Canty YR on a Hack (Highest Av. %)
🥇Sophie Luddington Memorial Trophy - YR on a Hack Level 3+ (Highest Av. %)
🥇1st Int A/B MFS 68.2% (and scores from 2 judges over 70%!!!)
🥇1st Int B Super 5 65.8%

Gamble was super consistent again, but just lacked a bit of sparkle (being a bit tired 😴) in our last test to drop us out of a Champion/Reserve position overall. Still incredibly proud of how well he holds his own against some stunning warmbloods!
🥈2nd 1C 68.3%
🥉3rd 1B Super 5 67%
🥉3rd 1A 65.2%

Kiki had a super attempt at the 6yo test (Lvl 4 equiv.), but just missed her first walk-canter transition. She must've then gone back to the truck and thought about it, as we did beautiful walk-canter transitions for the rest of the weekend in our Level 2 tests... Not our best show, but plenty of learning!
🥇1st 6YO YDH 68.2%
🏅4th 2MFS 68.5%

A huge thank you to Carnmore Hotels Carnmore Hotel Christchurch as naming rights sponsor - and for staying onboard for next years show as well! Also a big thank you to my level sponsors Musical Freestyles By Lucy, Zealandia, Tavern Harewood, Ilam Florist. We couldn't run these shows without your support!

And finally to BWP Photography, I am so grateful for your support & the most amazing pictures ❤

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29/12/2024

Amberley SJ!

Gamble jumped super round his first SJ comp and popped round all the fill without batting an eyelid. Once again I was asked if he was a warmblood... nope! Seems to be a common theme 😂
🥈2nd 70cm Gamblers
🥉3rd 80cm Gamblers
🏅5th 70cm A2

28/12/2024

An eventful start to the PL show season at Marlborough PL Show!

After leaving a day early to beat the weather warnings, we ended up stuck in a road closure for 5 hours, unable to take the horses off. Luckily the horses were very good - we managed to take the ramp down to give the horses some air, take off their boots & bandages (with a bit of climbing & shimmying) and give them some Dunstan Horsefeeds recovery mash.

All the horses were super despite the pouring rain and underwater arenas, and very luckily the showgrounds didn't flood with nearby rivers breaking their banks! So impressed with Gamble at his first PL show and Kiki & Ru stepping up a level 🥰🥰

Kiki
🥇Champion Novice
🥇Champion Young Rider
🥇1st Super 5 2B 69.7%
🥇1st 2C 69.4%
🥈2nd 2MFS 70.5%
🥈2nd 3MFS 67.3%

Ru
🥇Champion Medium Tour
🥇1st Super 5 Int B 63.7%
🥈2nd Int A/B MFS 63% (despite an over-enthusiastic test)

Gamble (EventStars Ltd)
🥈Reserve Champ Prelim.
🥈2nd 1A 67.4%
🥈2nd 1C 68.9%
🥉3rd 1D 66.3%
🏅5th Super 5 1B 62%
🏅5th 2MFS 63.4%

16/12/2024

Georgia's first competition in tails!! Georgia made a super Level 7 attempt having been thrown in the deep end with Ru being FEI graded. She rode the Int I & Gemma's YR MFS, and while there was plenty to work on (and would help if she had the right music), both Georgia & Ru had a ball!

Gemma & Ru also picked Champion Medium Tour in the NRM Spring Series

Big thank you to BWP Photography

11/11/2024

Eventing Canty Training Day - October 2024

Gamble was ⭐️ of the day, with a 71.3% and 1st on L1 and 66% for 2nd in B5 in his first go at a Lvl 2ish test. He also popped around the 65cm SJ.

Georgia did two lovely B5 tests on Kiki for 65% and 64% and had a ball doing two lvl 5ish tests on Ru - as they can’t compete at this level at dressage comps as Ru is graded higher.

Ranger jumped a lovely 80cm round for a green rail but didn’t appreciate the birds nesting by the dressage arena and Sachi had his first outing, which he coped really well with.

20/10/2024

Canterbury Dressage Day - October 2024

Ru and Gemma competed in the Int A again, winning their test on 63.75% with a few little mistakes and some interesting 1x tempis in the ring (perfect in the warmup of course 😂). Gamble had his first comp back after having some time off, for a 64.8% in his first test and a dodgy first halt letting them down in the second.

Georgia stepped up to level 2 on Kiki, with some lovely movements getting 7.5s, but just needing some work to put the whole test together!

Huge thank you to BWP Photography for the amazing pictures

18/10/2024

Super to get the horses out to the last EquiMatch training day.

Teddy jumped two good 80cm rounds, Ranger jumping a lovely clear 70cm and just tapping a rail in his 80cm, and Buster (owned by Kahn Wheeler) jumping two enthusiastic clear rounds at 70cm and 80cm after not being out for a few years.

📸: Bella Maitland Photography

12/10/2024

Canterbury Dressage Day - September 2024

Georgia took over the ride on Kiki in preparation for her interschools champs week, winning both her Level 1 tests and coming 4th in her Level 2 test. The coolest young horse around!

Ru did his first proper Level 8 test, and despite the distraction of his girlfriend being ridden in a neighbouring arena and rather a lot of neighing out, won his test with 60.15%

Ranger is just getting better and better, picking up a 6th with 64%

Huge huge thank you to the most amazing BWP Photography for the photos!!

28/09/2024

So proud of Gemma and Georgia being selected into the NZ team for the PCIA Virtual Dressage Challenge 2024!

Georgia is competing in the USEF First Level test (NZ Level 2 equivalent) and Gemma is competing in the USEF Third Level test (NZ Level 5 equivalent)

05/08/2024

Make sure you check out Bella's photos if you were at Canterbury Dressage on Sunday!

Ru ran through his Lvl 8 musical freestyle, with massive improvements to our piaffe/passage work from last season for a 66.6% (despite some low marks for our overly enthusiastic extended canters 😂🙈 - but his love for being out never fails to make me smile)

Kiki made the step up to Lvl 3, unfortunately with a near-miss in the warmup leaving her a bit rattled in our first test, with a few breaks into canter in our trot work. However, she ran through her first Lvl 3 musical (and first musical freestyle full stop!) for a 71.8%, despite a couple of green mistakes. As someone who does their own music & floorplans, getting a 7.9 & 8 for our choreography and music is always pretty cool!

Ranger joined the dressage horses competing in the unregistered Lvl 1 classes, with huge improvements from Roydvale ODE last weekend to pick up a 64% in our second test

Still lots to work on and lots of strength to build, but so looking forward to the season!

09/07/2024

The winners of the Equestrian Sports New Zealand Hall of Fame Awards on 5 July 2024 in Auckland were announced at a cocktail function of approximately 150 officials, supporters and riders.

07/07/2024

Georgia and Teddy at Rakaia ODE this weekend! Make sure you check out Bella's pics if you were there 😍

05/07/2024

Thrilled to have been reselected onto the Talent ID dressage squad for 2024/25. Looking forward to the coming season!

The mid-year high performance selection review has been completed with some exciting movements in the squads. In jumping, there remains no one on the High Performance Squad, with two new...

22/06/2024

Ruanuku R aka Ru is an 18yo Australian warmblood gelding by Regardez Moi out of Socialite (by Salute). Don't be put off by his age - he doesn't act it and loves to compete.

This season we won the National Dressage Young Rider of the Year at HOY and all three classes of CDI-Y at Dressage Nationals. We were selected onto the NZ team for the 2023 World Dressage Challenge which placed 1st in the world, riding at Int I. We also won the Int I class individually in NZ, and placed 4th=/5th in the world. He has had an excellent South Island season, taking out Champion at all but one premier league show, as well as taking out numerous series, including the Small Tour Zilco MFS Series, Super 5 Series and the AMS Series.

I had only competed to Level 2 before we bought him, where he took me through the levels to compete at Small Tour/Lvl 7 just four months later. I have had an incredible three seasons at Small Tour/Young Riders, with multiple scores over 73%. We have since both made the step up to GP in Jan, where we scored over 64%. He is extremely well schooled, with his tempi changes and his extended canter being his highlights, often getting 7.5s or higher.

He has also been highly competitive at lower levels, winning the NZPCA Dressage Senior section (Level 3) and a member of the winning Canterbury team at the NZPCA Dressage Champs, as well as winning the overall Level 3 Dressage section at the South Island Secondary School Champs. We also won the USDF Third level test (NZ Level 5 equivalent) at the Pony Club International Alliance Virtual Dressage Show by 5% against riders from 12 countries.

Recently my sister has competed in a few competitions on him at levels 1-5, where he looked after her very well.

He is happily ridden in a snaffle, loves to compete and doesn’t act his age. Brilliant to hack out with others. While we made the step up to GP together, we would prefer him to go to a home intending to compete up to Small Tour/Young Riders, as he does find piaffe/passage work difficult.

We have achieved everything I could possibly have dreamed of doing together and while I'd love to keep him, I'm turning my focus to producing my young horses and he deserves to be someone’s number one

Horse for sale. 18 years old. Discipline: Dressage. Height: 170m. Breed: Warmblood. Country: New Zealand.

06/06/2024

29/05/2024

Big Pats for the Bestest Boy 🦄 Gemma Lewis + Ruanuku R continuing their fabulous HOY YR form 🔥 and scooping the FEI Young Rider Team Test by a whisker 🐭 Great work!

1 - Gemma Lewis + Ruanuku R 67.94
2 - Morgan Abel-Pattinson + Don Tobio 67.15
3 - Samantha Belsham + Dolcetto II 65.44
4 - Rebecca Mobberley + Sayonara FE 62.25

29/05/2024

Newly crowned 👑 Dressage Young Rider of the Year 🥳 Gemma Lewis managed a seamless transition from the delicacy of dressage to the mayhem of mounted games 🏇 and did well in both. Here’s her HOY journey . . .
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https://hoy.kiwi/double-happy-for-yr-star-gemma/

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