Fun at Midlands Freestyle Regionals

Roughway Jack and I returned to competition today! We scored 66.8% and placed 4th just outside the qualification zone. Fingers crossed for a wildcard allocation.

Jack was very well behaved and calm. We wouldn't have been competing today without the support from Equissage and Jane Nixon- Jack's vet.

I had a wonderful support team too, My Mum, John, Hannah, Alex and Sabrina all helped me to focus on riding the test. Thank you all. Alison.

Chiltern And Thames Rider New Prospect 2008

Anjuli has been chosen to feature in CTR Magazine's New Prospects 2008 programme which was launched this year to replace their Sponsored Rider scheme.

Jack's Journey to Regionals supported by Equissage

18 January 2008

Press Release

Equissage Supports Dressage Hopeful Alison Kenward

Equissage is supporting British Dressage Accredited Trainer and rider
Alison Kenward and her horse Roughway Jack in the run up to the 2008 Freestyle Regionals.

Roughway Jack (16) is an ex advanced event horse by Jumbo and has over 150 British Dressage Points.

Jack’s journey to the regionals began last June when Alison debuted a new music routine at Moulton College. The routine with the working title ‘The Entertainers’ was produced by Dr Roy Tipping of aRT Music Productions and choreographed by Alison’s coach Sabrina Jones FBHS.

Alison hopes that Jack will continue his winning freestyle form and give them a chance to contest the Equissage Elementary Freestyle at the British Dressage Winter Championships in April.

Said Alison: “Last year Jack picked up a virus which he struggled to shake off. As a veteran competitor he doesn’t enjoy the winter months and we felt a daily massage would cheer him up.

“I use the Equissage pad every morning for 20 minutes to help Jack relax. After the first session I noticed the fluid on Jack’s legs had disappeared which means I can now leave his stable bandages off at night. After ten days of use Jack seems a lot brighter with improved muscle tone and an improved blood profile so I feel we are one step closer to competing at Addington.

“I am very happy that Equissage are supporting us and delighted Jack will be modelling the limited edition Equissage Pink pad which has been created to raise funds for Breast Cancer Research.”

Kim Smith-Bingham from Equissage said: “We are pleased to support Alison and Roughway Jack and wish them luck at the Championships.”

The Equissage physiotherapy system from Niagara Healthcare is extremely beneficial to dressage horses and can help pre-competition suppleness, relaxation and arthritic conditions.

The Equissage pad provides a deep circulatory massage to the whole horse whilst the hand unit can be used to treat specific areas such as tendon and ligament strains, bruises and swellings.

Equissage has launched a new limited edition pink pad to help raise funds for Cancer Research UK.

For more information contact Equissage on 0800 072 1180 or visit www.equissage.co.uk

ENDS

For further information contact Sophie Connor at TSM on 01724 784600.

On My Yard

I feed Dengie Fibre Feeds and am a member of the Dengie Club.

http://www.dengie.com/pages//dengie-club.php

I have been treated to tickets for Your Horse Live which included front row seats at the evening performance with Geoff Billington. You can read about my evening on my first blog:

http://www.solitaire-dressage.co.uk/blog/

I was also featured in the Dengie Quarterly update. My Submission "On my yard" was published and I was given £250 worth of feed vouchers as well as a visit from Dengie.

Jack loves Alfa Senior! He is also eating Alfa A - a favourite of mine for the last 12 years!
I have made the switch to Alfa Beet and alll the horses are eating up well.
Anjuli has been put onto HiFi lite as she needs to trim down a little!

More about Jack

Jack has been enjoying TRM products he won as his prize from BD Magazine.

I particularly like the GNF supplement.

Meet the Solitaire Horses!

Roughway Jack 16year old by Jumbo.

Over 150 BD points. Retired from eventing post Blenheim completion with 109 BE points. Also has BSJA Foxhunter wins to his name.

Jack loves sunshine, Equissage, Eygyptian Reggae- his canter music and mints .

Anjuli 16.1 grey Irish Sports Horse by The Crofter ex Meg's Pearl.

Anjuli has just been backed and is my new prospect for 2008.

Anjuli loves attention especially cuddles, rolling in new shavings beds and mud!

New photos coming soon!

McGinty's Dream by McGinty ex DreamBird

Ginty is 20 and now retired. She and I played polocrosse together.

Ginty was born in NZ and loves sunshine still wears lots of layers most of the year!

Ginty loves chocolate and in particular Fry's Chocolate cream and Galaxy bars.

Welcome to my Blog

Hello, I will be sharing my news about my horses and my life as a rider and coach.

I hold the BHS Intermediate Instructor's certificate and the BHS Stable Manager's certificate. I am also on the BHS Register of Instructors so I have first aid and child protection training and I regularly update my skills through CPD. I am also a British Dressage Accredited trainer which means I have trained and prepared riders for affiliated dressage competitions.

I work with John MearsBHS II to deliver freestyle dressage to music training, design and production. Do visit our website http://www.freestyledressage.co.uk
John and I will be launching a freestyle dressage to music clinic roadshow in March. Do check back for more details!

John and I also deliver a First Steps Dressage Programme. This clinic aims to break down barriers and make flatwork fun for everyone! We work with riders with just backed horses and help them introduce their horse to training as well as riders who may never have done dressage before. We also help riders who would like to improve their dressage score.