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Manu McLean - Equitation Science practitioner will be back to New Zealand in autumn 2020 and we'll be hosting her here in Whitford - dates to be confirmed. Individual lessons are $165NZD and arena fee $30. We use the lovely covered arena of Bartley Riding Academy in Whitford Park Rd. Manu is always very informative and spectators are welcome (Small charge). To Register as a rider or spectator contact Julie. 

ulie took a group of clients for a 10 day visit to Valenca Classical Riding Academy in Lisbon in July.

We had amazing riding with 14 lessons and 6 in-hand work experiences. We got to experience a carousel ride and pull off a performance on the last day - What a blast! The photo shows the Carousel horses and the Ridewell Trainwell group.

Our trip included: visits to a stud farm, the Portuguese School of Equestrian Art, A day down to the south coast to be tourists for a day and watch an evening performance of the Valenca Classical riders and horses; 

Competing in the Iberian ring he took out Champion Ridden Iberian, Reserve Champion In-hand Performance Iberian and Julie was Champion Rider

Jez has completed his foundation training with Jody Hartstone and Holly Moorman at Hartstone Equestrian. It was exciting to have my first ride a couple of days before Christmas and he came home just before New Year.

The photo is our first ever canter together. He's a real dude. Our plan is to train just 4 days a week with lots of fun - going out hacking, a bit of arena work, pole work and liberty. Each month he'll have a week off to recharge the batteries and we'll see how things are progressing by mid year. 

Congratulations to Judith Hayes and her lovely homebred gelding Amaethon Bassanio (aka Nio) who cleaned up the Section 2 Championship, and took out the North Island High points and Overall Amateur Owner titles - with a maximum score of 100 and an average of over 73%! A lot of loot and was fun to go to with Judith to the awards and Dressage NZ conference in Blenheim. Of course we snuck off for a little wine tasting and to catch up with Sue Rudler of Saddles 4 U (Harry Dabbs saddles).

Judith and Nio also took out the level 1 accumulator championship for Dressage Waitemata and the Most Points over all levels.