National U25 Elementary Champion

To attend the U25's National Championships and come away with the Elementary Champion title is such a wonderful achievement for us all. A very busy week for Ellie Roberts, saw her competing 6 days in a row, on 3 different horses, making podium visits every day. Phenomenal result! Monday and Tuesday competing her own horse, Lyon at Sheepgate being p...

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Lovely day at Ferry Lane Farm Show

Wonderful to be invited to compete at this great friendly event. So much work and preparation had been done on the surface with great prizes, sponsorship and gorgeous rosettes, congratulations to Moseley Equestrian for putting on such a friendly and well run show. Koning Albert and Dani Johnston did a great double clear in the 1m20m taking 6th...

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Judges love Koning Albert at Manor Grange

๐•‚๐• ๐•Ÿ๐•š๐•Ÿ๐•˜ ๐”ธ๐•๐•“๐•–๐•ฃ๐•ฅ ๐••๐•’๐•Ÿ๐•”๐•–๐•ค ๐•™๐•š๐•ค ๐•จ๐•’๐•ช ๐•ฅ๐•  ๐Ÿš ๐•ž๐• ๐•ฃ๐•– ๐•จ๐•š๐•Ÿ๐•ค  We had another nice run out for a spot of dressage to gain more qualifying points at Elementary. In both tests today Albert was a little tight and showed some tension in several movements, but nothing major and in the E4 gained a score of 67.5% and 1st place. On only the second ever run of his Eleme...

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Top 10 at the BD Regionals - again

A suuuper early start today for Team Koning. Up at 0440 to get the horses done, get Koning Albert ready and tootle 2 hours up North for the British Dressage Regionals. Berti came out the lorry super excited, but it wasn't because it's dressage, oh no, because he spotted about 20 miniature ponies on the way in, and thought he'd died and gone to heav...

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First Elementary FSM and it's two more wins

So that he doesnt feel left out, we treat Mr. Koning Sport Horses to a dressage outing ๐Ÿ™ˆ Off we tootle to Manor Grange Stud for our very first go with our new Elementary Freestyle to Music, beautifully put together by Equidance. The music Jill loves is played by the group "Two Steps from Hell" and is such empowering music and suits Koning Albert ve...

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Winning outing to Sheepgate EC

Ellie Roberts, our wonderful dressage rider is keen to get Koning Alberts' qualifying scores in early for the Winter Regionals, so, armed with the new BD tests, we tootled off to Sheepgate EC, for 2 Elementary tests. Berti was feeling particularly fresh as we have been trying him on some new feed from Keyflow called Maestro. We only tried a small a...

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Enjoyable trip to Scotland

So incredibly pleased with Koning Albert in Scotland this last weekend. We travelled up to Scotland with Dani and Kate Johnston and stayed off site at a nice yard about 10 minutes away. The on-site stabling being right next to Edinburgh Airport runway and very exposed to the constant wind and rain sadly. It was held at the venue of the Royal Highla...

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Koning Albert will be on NFNF from next week

Arena-UK-1m30-Spring-Champs_smalle_20240707-151715_1 Koning Albert in the 1m30

๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ๐˜๐—ต ๐—๐˜‚๐—น๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ก๐—ข ๐—™๐—ข๐—”๐—Ÿ, ๐—ก๐—ข ๐—™๐—˜๐—˜ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป.  ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜‹๐˜“ ๐˜น ๐˜š๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜น ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ด. ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ง-๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ 4* ๐˜Œ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜š๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ 3* ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜’๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ ๐˜‰ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ 25 ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฃ...

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Educational class the Lincolnshire Show

Koning Albert and Dani Johnston had a successful outing to the Lincolnshire Show this week. As part of Berti's education, we wanted him to do some classes on grass and in an electric and busy atmosphere. This is certainly achieved at the Lincolnshire Show! Having been invited to some training shows on grass, we were looking forward to this show at ...

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Elementary BD Champion and Novice Reserve Champion

This weekend has been unreal for Koning Albert and Ellie Roberts. We took part in the British Dressage North and East Championships at Epworth EC amongst some pretty strong combinations. Saturday Berti and Ellie performed in the Novice 23 and 37A with 34 entries in each. In some pretty shocking downpours, they danced their way to over 72% in both t...

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Father's Day Giveaway

To celebrate all those fathers out there on Sunday 16th June, we're doing a little giveaway of some goodies including a wonderful LED Beanie hat. To be in with a chance of winning: ยฌLike/follow our Facebook page ยฌTag 3 friends and share ยฌComplete the entry form at HERE Good Luck ๐Ÿ€ Winners announced live on 17 June @ midday

Another gorgeous filly arrives

We are so pleased to announce the safe arrival of "Cosima", a very pretty foal sired by Koning Albert. A miracle pregnancy, since the Post Office failed to deliver the semen on time before the mare had ovulated. Frantic phone calls back and forth between vets, the owner, myself and the local Post Office, and the semen that should have been delivere...

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Just keep trying.......

Poor Koning Albert has hit a run of bad luck with his jumping at the moment during the second rounds classes. Whilst jumping his socks off, he has managed over several shows to: knock a pole off by touching it with his tummy, decide he knew best and took a big oxer on from a mile off, be marked for landing in the water at Stainsby Grange when the p...

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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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