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'...
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...
STUDBOOK: Anglo European Studbook GENDER: Colt HEIGHT: To make 16.2 COLOUR: Bay going grey LEVEL: 3 Year old 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 th...
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 ☔ Berti was a little full of himself as it's quite hard in the ...
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 ...
A very excited Berti and his team of minions travelled to Manor Grange Stud for his first Dressage outing of 2024, and his first tests since August last year 😮 With Storm Jocelyn on its way, it was already a bit blustery and very wet, but Berti was keen to get on with the job 🙄 After a quick unscheduled piaffe in the car park, Ellie Roberts cracked...
We are delighted to announce that Koning Sport Horses will be attending the Stallion Event being held at Addington Manor Equestrian Centre, Buckinghamshire on Saturday 10th February, 2024. The full list of Stallions attending will be announced in mid January by British Breeding https://british-breeding.com/stallion-event Gates will open at 9a...
Very happy for Dani Johnston and Koning Albert competing this weekend at the Winter Classic Show held at Arena UK. On Saturday in a class of 90, Albert and Dani produced a lovely double clear in the Blue Chip Karma. Fabulous for Dani as all 3 of her rides were in the top 15. On Sunday Albert and Dani produced yet another double clear and qualified ...
Koning Sport Horses have been working with the wonderful Harry Sykes Equestrian Videography and Marketing to produce this stunning video of Berti. Beautifully produced and ridden in this video by Dani Johnston, and also produced up through the levels in dressage by Ellie Roberts, we couldn't be happier with the results. It is such a pleasure workin...
They say time is a great healer and we're sure that given more time we will become more comfortable with letting Bermudez BDA go to a new home, but it's still a hard choice and talking about it is only just becoming easier. Bermudez BDA (Billy) has been for us the most wonderful and really unique horse that anyone could have wished to own. His life...
Team Koning Sport Horses travelled to Ponderosa Stud, in Coventry at the weekend for the Breeders Elite Stallion Grading Day. First of all, vettings and xray submissions were done and accepted. Then, all the stallions were examined by a panel of judges and then walked and trotted up. The younger stallions went first and these were loose jumped in a...
We took Koning Albert for a quick round at Arena UK's Spooktacular show on the Sunday for a run around the National 1.30m/1.40m Open Handicap 🚀 We were all so pleased with him, he hasn't competed for a month and to come straight in at 1m30 was testament to his abilties and Dani Johnston's great riding. It was just a shame that the tradestand people...
Well, today Albert showed us how versatile he is, when we took him for an in-hand lesson with Ryan Shannon at Manor Grange Stud. Albert has never done any in-hand work apart from covering mares! so this was indeed a new experience. With Ryans calm and kind training, it took just 15 minutes before Albert took his first baby steps. Just because Alber...
Koning Albert stepped up a level this week and moved to his first indoor jumping of the season. He took it all literally in his stride with Daniella Johnston riding superbly as usual. Monday was a washout for all the outdoor arenas and lots of stabling but fortunatley we were inside most of the week. Berti competed in 3 Qualifying classes for...
Koning Albert, freshly back from 4 days of dressage and the Stallion Parade at Burghley, had a little run down the road to Willow Banks Equestrian Centre for some rounds of jumping. In this very warm day, Berti expertly piloted by Dani Johnston, took it all literally in his stride and got a lovely Double clear in the Foxhunter class and came in 2nd...
"Showjumping, schooling and friend" Dani has been riding our horses for just over 2 years now and is a huge asset to our team. Dani competes her own and other peoples horses in Dressage, Showjumping and Eventing and has immense experience for such a young rider. She won the hotly contesed Talent Seekers class at HOYS with Elton John II in 2021 and ...
Koning Albert really enjoyed his day at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials as one of only 10 stallions chosen to take part in the Stallion Parade. It was also lovely that all of Team Koning Sport Horses were present, with Dani Johnston piloting for the day, Ellie Roberts and Jill Williams assisting and Dave Williams in charge of filming and dog sit...
Koning Albert, took part in the U25 Championships at Sheepgate EC from 23-26th August, 2023 ridden by Ellie Roberts Albert excelled himself and gained many new fans by putting Ellie on the podium many times over. He had some fabulous results in the Novice classes, gaining the highest percentage in any Sue Carson Saddles sponsored class of just...
Billy had a great time at the Al Shira'aa Bolesworth Young Horse Championships with Team Lanni, doing what he loves best 🧡🚀 Competing in the International 1* 1m25 all week against adults, both Sienna and Billy were on great form. They posted a beautiful round on Wednesday, then on Thursday there were very few clears in the first round. With some bi...
Team KSH took Koning Albert out to Manor Grange Stud to try out a harder Novice test and his new Novice Freestyle to music 🕺🕺 Berti was a little disconnected at times during the test and made a few minor mistakes which dropped him a few marks but none-the-less, the judge liked what she saw in both tests and awarded 66.8% and 1st place in N37a and 7...