Dental Day at Koning Sport Horses 🦷🐴 Today was a busy but important morning at the yard, as all of the Koning Sport Horses were attended to by our trusted equine dentists, Sharon and Adam Cooper. In total, 5 horses were seen for their routine dental checks, with our vet Latta on hand to assist the more nervous youngsters and Charlie was receiv...

Wolsingham Show – HOYS Grade C Qualifier Another long road trip up to County Durham, but worth every mile as the horses jumped brilliantly on the superb ground prepared by the Wolsingham Show team. Daniella Johnston took one of her own young horses for a step up in class, and he impressed everyone with a confident round, just rolling a single pole....

After two months of being super busy competing, training, and truly rocking it in dressage, our stallion Koning Albert (Berti) was very excited to switch things up and head back into the jumping ring. Feeling fresh and on great form, Berti stepped into the 1m25 class at our lovely local venue, Willow Banks EC, with Dani Johnston in the saddle. Dani...

ᴀ ꜰᴀʙᴜʟᴏᴜꜱ ꜰᴇᴡ ᴅᴀʏꜱ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇʟʟɪᴇ, ʟʏᴏɴ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇʀᴛɪ Monday and Tuesday saw us all at the U25 Championships at Sheepgate Equestrian Centre down in the south of Lincolnshire. Koning Albert entered in some Mediums and Medium Freestyle to Music and Lyon HK, doing more fancy stuff with Advanced Medium and Prix St. Georges. With Ellie doing 4 tests a day, Jo (...

A Successful Weekend at Sheepgate Area Festivals In a spur-of-the-moment decision, the team headed to the Area Festivals at Sheepgate Equestrian Centre with both Berti and Lyon in tow. Lyon took to the stage first on Thursday and Friday, competing in the Prix St Georges FSTM class. On top form, he delivered a confident and fluent test to secure a w...

Koning Albert Shines at the Youth Home Nations Dressage Championships This weekend saw Koning Albert take a break from stud duties to proudly represent the North and East Region for Team England at the Youth Home Nations Dressage Championships, hosted by British Dressage at the brilliant Vale View EC. With teams travelling from Northern Irelan...

(っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 ♥  Ellie Roberts, Koning Albert and Jill, had a 5am start on Monday to get to Northallerton EC again, this time for the Medium Gold Dressage class at the Regionals. We had no expectations after yesterday, when we felt Berti performed a lovely test and only took just over 66%. Today, when you are up against O...

A long road trip to Northallerton for 5 minutes of dressage , but that's what you do when you're chasing a dream. Berti, in amongst lots of flashy dressage horses, is always going to do his very best, but it's never going to be as flamboyant as some others. He gave Ellie a great ride, was obedient and only made very minor mistakes, b...

📣𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗡𝗙𝗡𝗙 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀📣 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘝𝘋𝘓 𝘹 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘹 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴. 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 3* 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰 𝘉 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 20 𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘫𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 1𝘮30 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘨𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 ...

Another long road trip with an early start at 0345 🙈 Dani Johnston and her amazing mare Tina IV and Koning Albert travelled down to Norfolk to have another crack at the 1m35 Grade C HOYS Qualifier. Tina had an early draw and got a lovely clear, which was one of only 6 in a field of nearly 30. Berti had a good draw near the ...

Koning Albert and Ellie were invited to perform with Gaynor's Dancing Horses Team at Arena UK last week and certainly turned some heads. Lots of lovely photos and videos taken by Jill, Daisy and George Parish photography at the event. Berti looked stunning in his brand new Devoucoux dressage saddle, fitted earlier that day by La...

A longish road trip down to the Hertfordshire County Show for Koning Albert and Tina IV with Daniella Johnston, Daisy Williams and Jill for our first attempt at the Grade C HOYS Qualifier, which is 1m35 in the first round 🦘🦘 An "Interesting" course, which caught many out, with 16 going into the second round. Both horses jumped a...

Koning Albert completed his Advanced Medium Silver Area Festival qualification in his first two attempts at this level.  Ellie Roberts and her mother Jo, kindly took Berti to Manor Grange EC whilst Dave worked hard at home and Jill worked on the ambulances for the day. On a rather hot day, Berti gave 2 sterling performances in the Medium ...

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓾𝓵𝓽 𝓚𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓐𝓵𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓔𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓭🏆🙌🏻🥇 Berti's first attempt at Advanced Medium Freestyle and the result was better than we could have hoped for. This was also Berti's first competition in his gorgeous bespoke EvoEquine double bridle and wearing his new Saddlecloth and ears from HH Unique with both companies kindly supporting ...

𝓑𝓮𝓻𝓽𝓲 𝓲𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻🙌 Despite hot weather being the enemy of black horses, Berti tried super hard for Dani today in the 1m30 Open class at Willow Banks EC. He was more settled today and listening to Dani, who, despite Berti's opinion, knows what she's doing and he sometimes needs a reminder to accept that with grace 🙈 A...

A quick trip down the road to Willow Banks EC for Koning Albert to have a run round the 1.25 with the open water as an option Berti enjoyed the run out and went clear despite him backing off the Open water and needing a little reminder of what he is supposed to do 🙈 Bonus to find they took the class and the £100 prize pot ☺️ Thank yo...

Well, what a rush! As Koning Albert was off games over winter, it has been a bit of a rush to get him fit enough and jump ready to get his remaining 3 double clears so he can go through to the Second rounds. We were also nearly out of points too, so Dani had to ride extra carefully so as not to take the top places...

Berti's dressage has been coming along in leaps and bounds, and he's entering for some Advanced Medium Music's soon and is training at PSG, which is unbelievable. He learns so quickly and tries his hardest, but he really loves his jumping. He had been off games over the winter and it's been a challenge trying to get all his Foxhunter double cl...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀🙌 Starting off at Sheepgate Equestrian on Saturday with Ellie Roberts in the pilot's seat. Berti contested his two hardest tests so far, the new Medium's 4 and 5. Showing quite a bit of tension in both tests, he still gained 68.13% in the M4 and 63.83% in the M5 with an expensiv...

A little run down to our friendly local show centre at Willow Banks EC, saw Ellie Roberts and Berti gain the last points needed for competing at the Regionals at Elementary. He was a little tense in places in the tests and Ellie felt he could have been better but he gained 67.83% and 68.28% in Ele 4 and 5, winning both classes. She leaped...