Bridgewaters Horse Park

17/06/2025

A record that still stands... missing you Harold Poil 💙 🏆

Equestrian Express: May/June 2012 Issue2 , page19

27/05/2025

Grab your copy of this week's Farmer's Weekly 🏆 with a special focus on Saddlebreds 👏
So greatful and honored to have been granted an extensive article to share the knowledge and history that forms the basis of the Nite Legacy of breeding excellence 🏆 So very blessed with a fantastic team at Bridgewaters Horse Park and of course amazing horses 🐎
Thank you Farmer's Weekly for the opportunity 😀 🙏

26/05/2025

Happy Memorial Day. Honoring the brave remembering the fallen 🇺🇸 🙏

26/05/2025

25/05/2025

True love of horses never goes away ...

🐎 When the body can’t keep up, but the heart is still in the saddle…

She no longer gallops across open fields, no longer soars over jumps like she once did. Her knees ache, her hands have lost the strength that once held the reins like a whisper of wind. But the passion — it hasn’t faded. Quite the opposite.

Every morning, she walks slowly to the stable. No rush. He’s there waiting — that same gaze, soft, deep, familiar. The horse lowers his head, touching her wrinkled hand as if to say: “I remember every step. And I’ve been waiting.”

She doesn’t race anymore, doesn’t fly with the wind. But every time her fingers brush through his mane — she’s twenty again inside. And every wrinkle on her face holds a story of friendship, trust, and an unbreakable love for horses.

Because a true rider never ages out of who they are. They simply change pace.
And even when the saddle becomes a memory,
the stable remains home.
And the horse — a friend who never leaves. 🖤

23/05/2025

First light frost for the season!👏🙏 And with it comes the end of AHS season and we got though without any cases all safe and sound 🏆😀

15/05/2025

Keep getting on... hard work beats tallent when tallent doesn't work hard 😉

They say you can’t teach feel. That it’s something you’re either born with… or not. Here’s what I think: that’s a cop out.

Feel is obtainable if you’re willing to take full responsibility for earning it. 🎁

Your trainer can drill you on aids, corrections, and theory. But feel? As eight time Olympian Andrew Hoy puts it, “Feel is something I cannot teach, feel is something you obtain.” 🏅

So if you weren’t blessed with freakish natural talent, you teach it to yourself:
• Get on again… and again… and again. 🐴
• Ride with brutal honesty and total focus.
• Want it so badly you notice every flick of an ear, shift of weight, and heartbeat of stillness. 🔍
• Be the rider who grinds ten times harder to understand what someone else might grasp in one ride.

You don’t have to be the most naturally gifted.
You just have to be the one who keeps getting on. 🔥

“Feel can seem untouchable, like something only the chosen few are born with. But fighting to find it, ride after ride, is what turns you into a legend.”
Allison Deardorff 🏆

13/05/2025

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04/05/2025

Thank you is a very small word for a very big gift from Kevin Eltringham of KE Harness 💙 Our heartfelt gratitude to you for the gift of not only a beautifully crafted work harness but also shared knowledge with our very special Nicolene Venter 😃 The endorsement and recognition of her tallent and hard work coming from you as a long time colleague and friend of Harold Poil means the world 🙏 We know she is going to make good use of the special gift in creating more champions and safeguarding the continuation of the Nite Legacy and the Harold Poil Stables Tradition 🏆

25/04/2025

Well Done! 👏 🏆

All Aces Big Knight doing just what his name describes him to be and delivered a big performance in the Three Year Old Fine Harness at Bloemfontein Show earlier this week.

SA Champion, home bred, raised & trained by Otto Bekkers from Conradie Stables😁🐴💙🥇

25/04/2025

This is the absolute truth 💙 Thank you team Bridgewaters for all the Hard Work you put into our special horses

23/04/2025

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