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Susan: Posted on Monday, February 20, 2012 10:50 PM
Well it seems that young 6 year old Toby has been reading the last few blogs, where his little 4 year old 'brother' Callum Park Leodacaprio (by Dacaprio) has been starring due to his super recent performances and has not been content to be anything but number one son!
This weekend we travelled to the most beautiful Bradgate Park, home of the most generous John and Bev Healy, for the now annual fantastic CDI ably run by the champions of the Central West Dressage Group. The grounds are completely breathtaking with world class facilities, but the best aspect of the show (and I'm sure most of my riding colleagues would agree) is the fact that its just the friendliest comp, where everyone gets to rub shoulders with each other and catch up as well as compete. |
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Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:37 PM
What a great start to the new year for our youngsters at Callum Park. Fresh with super training from the great clinic we had with Natasja Van Den Bogaert, our 6 year old Don Rubin and 4 year old Callum Park Leodacaprio put their best feet forward at their first competition of the year, held at the beautiful grounds here in Canberra at the ACT dressage association's first competition for 2012.
We'd entered for the young horse competition up at Clarendon for the Saturday but sadly they had to cancel due to bad weather so we had Saturday off. |
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Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 8:42 AM
What better way to
spend the few days between Christmas and New Years than at Callum Park near
Canberra at a clinic with the delightful Natasja Van Den Bogeart? Many fellow keen dressage riders agreed
and the clinic was absolutely full to the rafters.
We were really
pleased with the response, as although Natasja has represented her country of
Belgium several times, she is not one of the “big names” instantly recognised
by the majority of Australian dressage riders…yet. But what she does bring is an unrelenting commitment to the
basics, the ability to work out each horse as an individual, and to produce
happy, forward, and supple horses. |
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Susan: Posted on Monday, December 26, 2011 1:28 PM
Just letting everyone know we are postponing the Masterclass with Natasja Van Den Bogeart, we are hoping to get her back three or four times a year (after she competes at the World Championships at Verden!) and will book one for later in 2012. |
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Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:41 PM
Well we made it to Werribee and back, and the gruelling 9 hour travel was well worth it in the end! All our horses showed great form and behaved very well for top ten finishes across the board.
Big Teddy got a 9th place in the freestyle after losing it a bit in the big atmosphere but he hung on and stayed with me and I was very proud of him, considering he's 18 hands high you'd think he would have some courage but no, his nickname at home is actually chicken heart! Very good job from him though and all good experience for the future. |
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Susan: Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:07 PM
Well the first young horse qualifier of the season has been run at the super grounds at ACTDA (which held up superbly after 50mm of rain the day before and a hugely soggy week - well done ACTDA) with super results for our young horses.
Our favourite first born foal Callum Park Don Rubin (by Don Frederik, pic below) kicked off the day with a win in the elementary (his second elementary, he won his first start at this level too - good lad!), and then produced a beautiful, soft and expressive 6 year old test with a 3rd place and a good score of 7. |
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Susan: Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 9:02 AM
We're so proud of our lovely rising 3 year old imported colt Starbucks, on Sunday Susan had her first ever sit on him and he was perfect! He had done a little work last Christmas with Russell (4 rides!) but has just come in beautifully after time off to grow and mature a bit more and behaves like an old hand! Calm, forward but quiet, and giving a very good back feel under saddle, "Bucky" then had to go off to Canberra Vets after his ride as our two mares decided they needed his services RIGHT NOW! |
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Susan Elekessy: Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:22 PM
Welcome all to our new web site! I will endeavour to keep everyone up to date with the latest news and information on Callum Park here. Please have a look at our events page to check out our upcoming clinics and masterclass with top International rider Natasja Van Den Bogaert, there's only a couple places in the clinics left so be quick! And get all your friends along to the Masterclass, it will be the usual fun with training sessions of fancy and beautiful youngsters to Grand Prix horses, freestyles and a stallion parade. |
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