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enjoy - take delight or pleasure in an activity or occasion

I think it's vitally important to enjoy your horse. This is my aim all of the time - with challenges alongside to overcome.  So I am delighted to say we rock that!  

 In 2018 alone, Beau and me - plus my buddies from Happy Acres and Cherwell Valley Riding Club got up to all sorts!

The title of this blog says it all.  The highlight of the year - Quadrille - took over and saw us displaying at Blenheim International Horse Trials as well as competing in the BRC Selection Trial at Bury Farm.  We've been interviewed for a big horsey magazine, and we were on Horse and Country TV!  We led the town carnival, tested ourselves in lessons and dressage and generally played out and had a lot of fun together.

The end of 2018 and into Autumn 2019 has not been so good for me and Tory personally, but we are doing our best to bring our heads back up and get on with things.  Sardra has now retired and we have a new lady on the team - Stella.  I am sure she will be featuring lots in the coming months now I am back online...

 We did make a start on quadrille preparation and visited the amazing Christine Waygood for help making our oversized hats.  We made the felt from scratch and made the whole thing ourselves!  I will blog about that day on its own because it was amazing!
Simon's fledgling business - Equestriman.co.uk - has gone from strength to strength and the feedback from all who have bought his clothes is wonderful and very much appreciated.  He is working on a new line of breeches to add to the already successful range, and the breeches and t-shirts are now in shops too in the Midlands.  And ... let me let you into a little secret ...I wear them and have found them to be very flattering and comfortable.  They are the only pair of breeches or riding tights i own that have a waist high enough that you don't have to hoik them up every time you bend down to pick feet out!

For the rest of this year it's all about building on what we learned last year; building a new partnership with Stella; working as a team (it's all about the team) to make next year's quadrille the best ever; and keeping on trying to improve

In November Tory, Beau, Stella and me will be displaying at Your Horse Live which we are very much looking forward to.  Alison will shout at me for letting the negative creep in, but although we aim to be still on the display team by Saturday let's see ;)

 The Team


www.Equestriman.co.uk proudly displayed on the back of Buxton the truck

How much fun can you have wirth YOUR horse?  :)
With love, and TTFN Tam and Beau xx 


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  2. @BeauBayou2 March 2020 at 00:03

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