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...
๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฑ๐๐ต ๐๐๐น๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ข ๐๐ข๐๐, ๐ก๐ข ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ณ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐พ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป. ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐๐ ๐น ๐๐ช๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ด. ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ง-๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ 4* ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ 3* ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ 25 ๐ด๐ช๐ฃ...
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 ...
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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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...
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...
๐๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ. 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 ladies๐) Ellie coaxed Albert...
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...
๐๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐น๐บ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ ๐๐พ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฒ, ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐ป๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ. 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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
ห"*ยฐโข.ห"*ยฐโข A busy week again for Koning Albert! โขยฐ*"ห.โขยฐ*"ห 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...
๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ค๐๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ฒ 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...
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...
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 ...
Koning Albert and Ellie Roberts nailed two tests today at Port Royal despite some improvisations made by Albert to liven up the test ๐คทโโ๏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...