More wins at dressage, this time at Epworth EC

๐Š๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ฅ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ ๐„๐ฉ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐„๐‚ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐„๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ.  In rather hot weather today, Koning Albert and Ellie Roberts took part in two Elementary dressage tests. Unfortunatly for us, Ellie shared the warm up with 3 coloured horses, and one of them was in season. (Albert prefers coloureds or grey ladies๐Ÿ™ˆ) Ellie coaxed Albert...

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Learning Half Pass, Travers and Renvers today

It might not be everyones thoughts, but I firmly believe that training and even competing in a range of disciplines keeps a stallion, (or any horse for that matter) happy, fit and gives them the interest to give that bit more.It's no different than humans, we all like variety in our day. Koning Albert is currently showjumping at 1m35, competing ver...

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Koning Albert qualified for the BD Regionals in style

๐—”๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜‡๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—˜๐—น๐—บ๐˜€ ๐—™๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ ๐—˜๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ, ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ป๐˜€๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ. Koning Albert only needed a few more points at Novice and Elementary for the Regionals, but he qualified in style by taking two overall wins at Gold Novice and Gold Elementary today. Under 2 different judges, he had an overall win in the Novice with 72.5%. Then in t...

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Another coloured filly arrives and what a cracker

A second coloured foal arrives sired by Koning Albert and it's a lovely filly. Very many congratulations to the owners of "Bea" a gorgeous piebald mare who had a textbook foaling to this gorgeous filly who has been named Delilah. Bea's sire is the Dutch warmblood Eurocentre Sergio, and the mare line is very successful welsh breeding of Tireve Welsh...

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A gorgeous filly is born

We are so happy for the the owners of this stunning Trakehner mare, stable name "Flo". The mares has excellent bloodlines as she is sired by Trocadero and her dam line is from Caprimond  X Matador lines, so, this is one very quality mare. She has given birth to this gorgeous filly stable name "Sophie", who has the "Koning Albert face". Hopeful...

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First foal of 2024 arrives and what a stunner

We are so happy for the VH Stud producing this stunning filly. Out of their Smooth Design x Stanhopes Diddicoy British Futurity Gold graded mare, "Charm" and by our Koning Albert, she is certainly one very pretty girl. She is also the first Tobiano that Berti has created, but the the dam being Homozygous Tobiano T/T, there was little doubt that thi...

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Winning day at Epworth dressage for Albert

Albert had the week off to recover from Blue Chip as he was very tired, his legs were a little hot but fortunatley he didn't have a temperature. We took it easy on him with a little trip out to Epworth EC for some dressage. Managing to dodge the rain, Ellie and Berti did 2 lovely tests in the short arena. Berti made a faux pas in his canter change ...

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A mixed Blue Chip Champs for us

We think it's always important to write honest news articles, as in this game, it doesn't always go right. There's absolutley no point in only posting the days when it goes well, as that is Social Media world where everything is shiny, better than life itself and outright utter rubbish. The upsides, were we had a great time supporting Dani & Ka...

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Qualifying scores and 2 wins at Dressage

หœ"*ยฐโ€ข.หœ"*ยฐโ€ข A busy week again for Koning Albert! โ€ขยฐ*"หœ.โ€ขยฐ*"หœ After a fabulous weekend at Arena UK Spring Champs, Berti had a few days off, then off to stud for his first collection of 2024. Quick change of tack and rider, then we headed off to Sheepgate EC for a spot of British Dressage today. Berti showed what a true pro he is, and under Ellie's e...

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Amazing weekend for Koning Albert

๐–๐จ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ค๐ž๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ฒ Koning Alberts unorthodox preparation for 4 days of showjumping was a fabulous dressage lesson with Jezz Palmer which Berti took in his stride. Then on the Thursday we travelled to Arena UK's Spring Championships for 4 days of jumping. Berti was on great form this weekend and with Dani Johnston's fabu...

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Meet the latest Koning Sport Horses fan

Such a wonderful photo that we are so grateful to receive. This lovely girl, called Ruby May (pictured with her pony Marmaduke), and her mother Roxy visited the Forces Equine stand at the National Equine Show last weekend. Koning Sport Horses were helping on the stand and ran a draw to win a goodie bag. We also ran colouring competitions on both da...

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Some more red rosettes at dressage

A cheeky trip to Manor Grange Stud Competition Centre, Koning Albert and Ellie Roberts entered two Novice tests. After a small drama in the warm up when a girl on a cheeky mare was deposited on the floor and the mare ran straight for Berti, who kindly carried on listening to Ellie instead of what he'd probably rather be doing, it was their turn in ...

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Great results at Elementary dressage

Koning Albert and Ellie Roberts nailed two tests today at Port Royal despite some improvisations made by Albert to liven up the test ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ With 35 entries Michelle Bainbridge ran a tidy ship and it all went very smoothly. Albert gave Ellie a nice test in the Novice 37a to take the class and the Gold Section win with just under 70%. Plenty to work on...

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First 1m35 and another Qualification today

Koning Albert and Daniella Johnston were in great form at Willow Banks EC in a busy day of showjumping that ended up running quite late โŒ›In the Blue Chip Karma Qualifier, Dani and Albert took second place with a double clear, followed into 3rd by a fraction of a second by her other ride Tina IV. Both qualifying for the Blue Chip Champs. In the 1m25...

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Busy 3 days of dressage and jumping

Koning Albert is on such great form at the moment (long may it stay)๐Ÿ˜ฌHaving spent Thursday and Friday at the British Dressage Winter Regionals and taking two top 4 placings, he has a quick tack and rider change ๐Ÿงฅ and gets his showjumping head on ๐Ÿค  Off to Arena UK we go on the Sunday for him to compete in the 1m30 Open class. With more fabulous ridi...

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Great results at the Northern Dressage Regionals

As Koning Albert had qualified for the Novice Gold and the Novice Gold Freestyle to Music at the Regionals, we made 2 trips to Bishop Burton this week. On Thursday in the Novice Gold, Berti looked amazing and Ellie reported that he felt the best ever. They performed a superb test and two of the judges had him in the top 2, but sadly one judge wasn'...

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A very enjoyable Stallion Show

We were very excited to take Koning Albert to the British Breeding Stallion Show held at Addington Manor Equestrian Centre, Buckinghamshire on Saturday 10th February, 2024. It is a fabulous opportunity for people to see many stallions in the same place and be able to meet them and their Teams in the stables. The people at these events are so friend...

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Cassionora GF

STUDBOOK: Anglo European Studbook GENDER: Colt HEIGHT: To make 16.2 COLOUR: Bay going grey LEVEL: Foal YEAR OF BIRTH: June 2022 OWNER: Mrs Jill Williams ABOUT Cassionora is a very correct colt bred by Sam Edis at Grange Farm Stud using her delightful Oldenburg mare Millfield Baloulou, who has produced many top jumpers already. LouLou is by the grea...

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First Elementary Test for Koning Albert

Koning Albert took 3 of his Team to Bishop Burton for his first go at Elementary level dressage. The weather wasn't pleasant and us lower level mortals had to do their tests outside. The arena boards were held down with sandbags and were still flapping and the rain seeped in everywhere โ˜” Berti was a little full of himself as it's quite hard in the ...

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Perfect results at first BS show of 2024

We are all very happy getting Berti out for his first BS show.  Another nice DC in the Fox class gives him his qualifier for the second rounds and a great steady DC in the 1m25, gets us back into the swing for 2024. Superbly ridden as ever by Dani Johnston, who rode many DC's on other horses throughout the day, winning the Fox with Elton John ...

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