So that he doesnt feel left out, we treat Mr. Koning Sport Horses to a dressage outing 🙈 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...
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...
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...
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...
𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗢 𝗙𝗢𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢 𝗙𝗘𝗘 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘝𝘋𝘓 𝘹 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘹 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘴. 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧-𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 4* 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 3* 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰 𝘉 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 25 𝘴𝘪𝘣...
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...
𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐩𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐂 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬. 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 ladies🙈) 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...
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...
𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝗹𝗺𝘀 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲, 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲. 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 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...
˜"*°•.˜"*°• A busy week again for Koning Albert! •°*"˜.•°*"˜ 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...
𝐖𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐣𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 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...