Saturday, January 28, 2012

Christchurch Charity Show winners

Recently I was asked if I ever put pics up of the winners of the
Christchurch charity show I held a few months ago, well, no! I never
got round to it!! If I remember rightly, that was when the new blogger
layout thing came out and my blog was stuck on that until I could
figure out how to change it back...but, without further ado, here are
all the winners from that particular show!
OF Winners:
Champion Gender: Posidens Trident
Reserve Champion Gender: Heaven Sent

Champion Colour: Posidens Trident

Reserve Champion Colour: Heaven Sent

Champion Performance: dp. Last Chance, Honey
Reserve Champion Performance: Faith and I See Red

Champion Other: Rainbow Worrior
Reserve Champion Other: Taylor Made Cutting Quarter Horse

Overall Champion OF: Posidens Trident Overall Reserve Champion OF: Rainbow Worrior



CM/AR Winners:
Champion Gender: Rangipo Deserts Red Alla
Reserve Champion Gender: Bodelian

Champion Colour: Rangipo Deserts Red Alla
Reserve Champion Colour: Rangipo Prince

Champion Performance: Bodelian
Reserve Champion Performance: dp. Streetwise

Champion Other: Tally Ho Hunting
Reserve Champion Other: Rangipo Deserts Red Alla

Overall Champion CM/AR: Rangipo Deserts Red Alla
Overall Reserve Champion CM/AR: Tally Ho Hunting




Overall Champion of Show: Rangipo Deserts Red Alla
Overall Reserve Champion of Show: Posidens Trident

Stop The Press - SPCA Charity Show Champion

Well done to Ilaria, owner of Stop The Press! In winning the Champion
of the Show in my recent SPCA Charity show, Stop The Press gets a whole
post to himself to show off!!
"Stop The Press is a commission
piece by Sheila Anderson-Bishop. I sent her a photo of the real
Appaloosa Stallion Scotch Dream as reference for the colour/pattern I
wanted, and I think Sheila did very well.



He owes
his name to the line I wrote while Sheila and I were talking about the
commission. In the beginning it was for a "plain" Mini Ravenhill, but
when she sent a pic of a CM'ed one she had (customized by Stacey
Tumlinson herself), I wrote "Stop the press! I'll take him!". Hence his
name. :)"



If your interested in seeing more pictures of this lovely hunk of a horse, here is a link:
http://good-times.webshots.com/album/575484133GkUXrj

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Overall Supreme Champion of Show

The Overall Supreme Champion of the SPCA Charity show is *drumroll*

STOP THE PRESS!!!
Owned by I.D

And Reserve Overall Supreme Champion of the SPCA Charity show:

RAINBOW DELYTE!!!
Owned by C.K


CM/AR Photo Show Results

A long time coming, I have FINALLY finished judging!!!!!!!!!!! I have
been hopelessly slack with this show, I'm never usually this bad!! But
next time I will be cracking down on the size of the photo's people are
sending. Next show will be either a February one or in March..I haven't
decided yet, it might be better to have a wee break and get settled
into school again before I do another.
But here are the results anyway!!
  1. Mare (38)

1st Nicoya (I.D)

2nd Tahoe Lake (I.D)

3rd Roses In The Moonlyte

4th Abigail S (I.D)

  1. Gelding (15)

1st Thomas More (I.D)

2nd Walshingham (I.D)

3rd Arkle (I.D)

4th Done Deal (I.D)

  1. Stallion (35)

1st Stop The Press (I.D)

2nd Jet Master (I.D)

3rd The Grey Ghost (I.D)

4th Coaltown (I.D)

  1. Foal (4)

1st Ikram (I.D)

2nd Junior (I.D)

3rd dp. Spy Me Not

4th Skippy (I.D)

CHAMPION GENDER: Thomas More (I.D)

RESERVE CHAMPION GENDER: Stop The Press (I.D)

  1. Solid Colour (Bay, black, grey, chestnut etc) (26)

1st Abigail S (I.D)

2nd DP Brisingr

3rd Silver Star (I.D)

4th Kings Theatre (I.D)

  1. Dilute Colour (silvers, Palomino, buckskin, dun etc) (13)

1st Coaltown (I.D)

2nd Shining Allspark (I.D)

3rd Dream Weaver (I.D)

4th dp. Streetwise

  1. Paint/Pinto (Sabino included) (45)

1st Jet Master (I.D)

2nd Gold Rush

3rd Thomas More (I.D)

4th DP Synchrony

  1. Appaloosa (any pattern) (5)

1st Stop The Press (I.D)

2nd CKK Mini Measles

3rd CKK Miakoda

4th dp. Deal Me In

  1. Any other colour (2)

1st CKK Wynter Myracle

2nd CKK Regal Fascinations

CHAMPION COLOUR: Jet Master (I.D)

RESERVE CHAMPION COLOUR: Stop The Press (I.D)
  1. English Trail (1)

1st dp. Streetwise

  1. Dressage (0)
  2. Jumping (0)
  3. Western Trail (1)

1st dp. Deal Me In

  1. Western Pleasure (2)

1st dp. Deal Me In

2nd dp. Khalisah

  1. Showmanship (Handler MUST be visible. English and Western) (2)

1st dp. Astral Fairy Wings

2nd dp. Deal Me In

  1. Games (0)
  2. Harness (0)
  3. Other Performance (1)

1st dp. Astral Fairy Wings

CHAMPION PERFORMANCE: dp. Astral Fairy Wings (other performance)

RESERVE CHAMPION PERFORMANCE: dp. Streetwise

  1. Scene (0)
  2. Prettiest Mare (28)

1st First Defence (I.D)

2nd dp. Khalisah

3rd Shining Allspark (I.D)

4th DP Synchrony

  1. Handsomest Stallion (29)

1st Iskander (I.D)

2nd Kings Theatre (I.D)

3rd CKK Miakoda

4th dp. Streetwise

  1. Cutest Foal (4)

1st Ikram (I.D)

2nd Junior (I.D)

3rd Skippy (I.D)

4th dp. Spy Me Not

  1. Owners favourite horse (1 entry per person) (1)

1st Rhaptured In Roses

  1. Most unrealistic photo/Photo Fail (0)
  2. Most realistic photo (21)

1st DP Aces Full

2nd DP Synchrony

3rd Lo Deseo

4th CKK Khougerhand

  1. Most unusual place to find a model horse (0)
  2. Mare and Foal (0)
  3. Family Portrait (0)
  4. Best Animal (no horses) (2)

1st CKK Cheshire Illusion

2nd Besos De Calabaza

  1. Photoshopped picture (anything goes) (1)

1st Besos De Calabaza

  1. Best Paintjob (35)

1st Stop The Press (I.D)

2nd Jet Master (I.D)

3rd DP Synchrony

4th First Defence (I.D)

  1. Creative Angle (4)

1st dp. Lady Juliana

2nd dp. Streetwise

3rd CKK Mahogany Breeze

4th Carambano

  1. Most Creative Photo (can be anything, get thinking!! J) (0)
  2. Best AR (37)

1st Jet Master (I.D)

2nd Thomas More (I.D)

3rd dp. Spy Me Not

4th Abigail S (I.D)

  1. Best CM (26)

1st CKK Mini Measles

2nd Tarr Steps

3rd dp. Lady Juliana

4th Arkle (I.D)

  1. Headstudy (4)

1st DP Synchrony

2nd dp. Khalisah

3rd DP Brisingr

4th dp. Streetwise

  1. Liberty (26)

1st Patriot Game (I.D)

2nd dp. Spy Me Not

3rd CKK Enojado Fachenda

4th DP Synchrony

CHAMPION OTHER: Stop The Press (I.D)

RESERVE CHAMPION OTHER: DP Synchrony

OVERALL CHAMPION CM/AR OF SHOW: Stop The Press (I.D)

OVERALL RESERVE CHAMPION CM/AR OF SHOW: Jet Master (I.D)


*None of these images are my own, they are all copyright the photographer.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Saddlefree Performance

First off, Jen Buxton comes up with THE best things to post about!!! One of the latest being Saddlefree Performance, but the one I was really fascinated by was her post about an event called Bareback Puissance. That event seems really 'me'. I don't think I would ever be able to jump that sort of height though!

She really looks like she is having fun!!

Through searching 'Bareback Puissance' and
'Bareback Puissance jumping' on Google Images, it seems there aren't
many *decent* pictures of the event, thus the similarity in images to
Jen's post.
This seems the perfect event for me if I was live showing!! Since I
only own a western saddle, I would have to make my english saddle if I
were showing performance, but an english bridle is easy enough to make,
or, if you can't make one, they are relatively cheap.
This would be such an awesome thing to have setup at live shows!!! I
would love to see some in pictures from lives!
*All images from Google Images, and the post topic courtesy of Jen
Buxton. This is mainly for my reference, but if anyone gets anything
out of it, good on ya!!!

Sunday, January 15, 2012

New Years Resolutions

Last night I decided to do something I haven't done for ages, write a new years resolution list!! There is a couple
things I have thought of since, but I think this will do for now. Some things I can't do until the end of the year/will
take the whole year to achieve, such as the secret santa one, and achieving NCEA Level 2. At least one I don't
even know if it will happen unfortunately. We can always hope!!

That's supposed to say 13.2 at the bottom!! not B.2!

Lets hope a few of these get done!!!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Dreamflite Design Saddle Tutorial

I have been eagerly awaiting Anna Kirby's (Dreamflite Design) english saddle tutorial. So much that I ended up
making a saddle before it had come out, I finished that one the day I got it (before reading it of course!!)
That one looks better with a rider in it, even if it is a western rider!

Then I printed out Anna's tutorial and folled the instructions to make another saddle...it taught me a few things
making that second saddle, like, Anna obviously has much much thinner leather than I have!!!

I swear the stirrups on both saddles are not that short either!! I made
them both adjustable, but have already broken the strap on the second
saddle, so that I think I will pull apart enough to fix the stirrup
leather...I did want to make them the right length for my wee rider,
but I'm stuffed if I can find her!!!! Next saddle you see will be a
larger one, a plan I have to test out Anna's tutorial even more!! I
just can't help experimenting!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Breyer Trakehner: Tail Review

I know Breyer have put out a Hickstead on the Trakehner mold, what I didn't realise was the mold has a new tail
for the release. I only found this out last night while reading the Breyer History Diva blog post Letting Sleeping Models Lie. So of course I had to find out what this new tail was that seemed so unliked.

The original:
From identifyyourbreyer.com

And this is the only pic I could find of his new tail:

Found in google images on page 1

To me it really looks
like they have taken the tail off of Idocus and reattached it to the
Trakehner...ok, with some small modifications!
I really don't know what to think about either of the molds now...I
have never really like either of them in the first place, but that tail
to me just looks out of place on the Trakehner...but of course there
will be people out there that love the change. Hickstead is not on my
2012 wish list, actually, none of them are really, though I am still
thinking about Padre and possibly the roan Bouncer, though I prefer the
original Bouncer even though that mold is really not very
'correct'....Breyer, what has happened to you?!!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The horses in Murchison

I did type out a whole heap last night, and saved it ready to post
today, but it seems to have stuffed it all up so out it goes!! Was just
a whole heap of garbage you wouldn't have wanted to take the time to
read anyway!! But here, finally, is the promised pics of the horses in
Murchison, Splash, the Harness pony, Woody, the new colt, Pony, the
$100 pony, and Dusky, Twilight's foal! Can't write much more, have to
go to bed *groan* ahh well, don't have to go into town tomorrow, and I
have another post lined up for then too!
Pony and Woody


Dusky

Splash


I'm not the only one that sees Roundapony in this pic am I??!!