December just flew by......

Tiger ( Taiaka ) ridden beautifully by Nick Brooks won their class at Puhinui by a good margin once again... much to Nick's delight, they even scored a 10 in the dressage along with many 8's to finish on 26 !!!

Great news, the 6 horses travelled up to Taiwan well and arrived in very good condition, even put on weight .  This is a credit to Seahorse Sea Freight and there attention to detail .

We are taking  2 weeks off from riding to chill out before the busy season starts up again .

November was  an  exciting month for us. The highlight has been sourcing  " Parklane Hawk" for  William Fox-Pitt  , leading British event rider   . We feel  very privileged William chose QNZH  to go shopping for horses and we are immensely  proud we were able to find  him a world class horse that he loved and just had to have....  and believe you me, he has people looking out for him all over the world and the horse he chose was from NZ !!!!
"Parklane Hawk" was competed here in NZ by Mathew Grayling and  William was very impressed with the superb job Mathew has done in producing this talented 9 yo TB off the track to 3* level.   He is a  16.3 hh pure TB by Grosvener and a ball of muscle and power with wonderful movement and a  very scopey careful jump.
Parlane  travelled brilliantly and has just arrived safetly at William's yard in Dorset, UK.

Meanwhile talented Young Rider Nick Brooks is having loads of fun on  our lovely horse Tiger ( Taiaka ref E 196 is For Sale ) . His first show was pure SJing  and he was brill then we went to Woodhill Sands HT and scored 33 dressage and double clear.  Their next outing was Richfields and he did a super dressage of 30  and won  his class by 8 marks.
Nick was also 2nd on his talented  young horse Tangleton much to his delight.
Nick looks really classy riding Tiger and is doing a super job. Big thanks Nick !!!

I have been lightly competing Milly ( Millinka )  and Gizmo ( Mr Gizmo ).   Milly is looking fancy and going really well in all her shows. Gizmo  is a TB off the track  being carefully produced to sell on -  when  I feel the time is right and  right person pops up. Having done a  few shows now, he does ooze  talent and I love riding him. 

We have just got  our next smart  homebred Topper back from   Nicoli Fife. She has  kindly been schooling him in dressage for me  while I had such a busy month and has done a super job. I am very excited about him and hope to get out to shows in next few weeks jumping . He is a full brother to  our 2* eventer  "Quincey"  in UK and " Thats Smart" ( ex Amy Tryon and now  ridden by Karen O'connor )  in USA .  At the moment Topper  is gleaming steel grey with 4 flashy white socks .

Our 3 foals have moved  back from Seaton Park where they were born , onto our small farm .  So nice to see them playing together, happy families !!!

We have just had our 3rd and last foal for the spring season. 
Missy ( Miss Inca ) had a lovely bay filly by Charlton Javelin.  
She is already turning grey which is great.  
This is Missy's first foal and she is a very protective mother indeed.
Has inherited Missy's huge generous eye and her ' big ears ' !!!!!!!

Hendrix the  lovely 2* eventer we sourced   for our very good client Alfonso Gomez , flew out 30th November  on his way to his new home at "Gold Chip Stable's "  in Texas with Mike Huber.  " Jimmy "  has been schooling and competing dressage successfully with Nicoli Fife in last 6 weeks and was looking superb as you can see from this picture taken day of departure.

Good luck Jimmy and Alfonso !!!!!