December happenings...

We have a lot going on in the next month!

There are horse shows at Worcester Stables (Our Farm) on the 17th & 18th. And a series of shows there between Christmas and New Years. Please go to our horse show calendar to view our show schedule and let your trainers know which shows you'd like to attend.

http://banburycrossltd.shutterfly.com/calendar

The BC Christmas Party will be on Friday, December 30th at the O'Connor residence. The party starts at 6:30 pm. Put your party pants on and come ready to celebrate the great year we have had. You can sign up in the tack room at the barn to bring a dish.

Our December clinic was a blast and VERY challenging! Everyone learned a lot and had fun. We are looking forward to our January clinic which will be on Friday, January 6th. We will send an email out with details.

Happy December! Stay warm!

CONGRATULATIONS!

To Nan Latimer on the purchase of "Denny." Denny is a lovely 5 year old Hanoverian who is sweet and adorable. Nan has found her new man! We are so excited about this new relationship. Congratulations on finding your dream horse Nan!



And to Carter McFadden on finding her boy, "Hey Boy." Hey Boy is a wonderful quarter horse who stole Carter's heart. They are perfect together and we are so thrilled that they found each other! We wish you the best with Hey Boy Carter!

CCHSA Medal Finals!

We had so much fun at the CCHSA Medal Finals last weekend! The courses were very challenging but our riders and horses performed beautifully! Sam and Slater picked up a blue ribbon in the Novice Eq jumping class! Gabby rode great despite a minor "green" moment from Ponyella! Our adults were a blast... all 5 of them! Had the outside warm up ring been judged, Shelby and Tommy would have won that class! We had some good ribbons (blues included) in the Adult Eq division by our team. In the medal class Erin & Mojito, Krissy & Johnny, Kaley & Christopher, and Amy & Excel placed 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th respectively. Congrats to all of our riders! Go Team BC!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the tailgate party! Jeff Camp set up his camper and we had hot chili, cold drinks and everything in between to keep us warm and full in between classes! Thanks for a great time!

CCHSA MEDAL FINALS!

We wish EVERYONE showing at the Chester County Medal Finals this Sunday at Wyndsor GOOD LUCK and lots of FUN! We are excited to have a big crew joining us this year! We are having a tailgate party (organized by Amy Thompson!) at the trailer so please come and enjoy food, beverage, and friends and cheer your teammates on! Stay tuned for results.

The Cross Country Clinic was AWESOME!!

Everyone had so much fun on Friday jumping down banks, in & out of the ring and over the bounces! We rode all over the farm and jumped whatever we saw! Lynn said she was "riding cross country in her head" hours later! It was a great fun day! We will plan to do some more cross country riding before it gets too cold.

Wellspring's Gala - Available For Sale!

WELLSPRING'S GALA

2005 13h Bay Mare
"PonyElla" is a very sweet and willing pony.She is beautiful to look at, jumps and moves in gorgeous form and is a pleasure to work with.

She has been started correctly and is currently showing successfully in the Children's Hunter Pony division. PonyElla is brave to the jumps, swaps her leads and is great with children.
She could do short stirrup through the pony hunters and is ready to go!

She is eligible green.

What a Weekend!

We had quite a horse show weekend at Banbury Cross this past weekend. Denise wins the trainer award for the weekend, that is for sure. She started early at Wyndsor on Saturday, went to Our Farm with ponies, and then back to Wyndsor for the late shift. Then she was up early and off to Our Farm again Sunday morning.

Add Teo's party and a few lessons in there and that's a pretty busy weekend!

Thanks Denise for being so amazing!

We had lots of tricolors this weekend, including Gabby and PonyElla, Logan and Sundance, Erin and Mojito, and 2 for Christopher - 1 with Kaley and 1 with Casey!

Everyone did a great job and won ribbons in their divisions - JD and Cheyenne, Sam and Slater, Cawood and Johnny, and Kayla and Tucker all had successful shows.

A special congratulations to Logan on winning his FIRST blue ribbon and his FIRST reserve champion ribbon! Way to go team BC!

Horse Shows, Horse Shows, Horse Shows!

We have some very fun fall horse shows coming up the next few weeks!

• Saturday, October 29th - Brass Ring Halloween Show at Wyndsor
• Sunday, October 30th - Radnor Hunt Country Horse Show at Ludwig's Corner
• Saturday, November 5th - Wyndsor Farm Horse Show
• Sunday, November 6th - Our Farm November
• November 9th to 13th - Woodedge Stables November at the Horse Park of NJ

And don't forget our next clinic will be held on Friday, November 4th! Emails will be going out soon with more details but our focus this month will be on the cross country jumps! Get ready for some fun!

Happy Fall!

Banbury Cross Clinics!

We had so much fun with our first of many mini clinics this past Friday and Saturday! We had 3 groups on Friday and 1 group on Saturday. We did some basic flatwork and then moved right into our grid, building as we went. Once we mastered the grid we moved on to a course of gymnastics. There were some funny moments but every horse was wonderful and every rider rode great! It was a great start to our clinics and we are excited for the next ones. Thank you everyone who helped to make it a wonderful time. Denise's decorations were beautiful! Of course we were busy videotaping and teaching and didn't take any pictures!

Great day at Fox Heath Show!

Sunday October 2nd we went to the Fox Heath Show in Furlong, PA. We are so glad that we did. The jumps were decorated for fall and it was a well run show.

Cawood and Johnny were super consistent in the pre-childrens getting two 2nd's, a 3rd, and 4th in the hack just missing reserve champion!

Shiree and Bobby McGee were Champion in the Pre-Adults winning two of the three jumping classes and also 6th and 3rd in the hack! They have come so far!

Lynda and Barre had a fun, successful day ending up reserve champion in the modified division with a win in the flat class and great ribbons over fences-nice work!

Cheyenne and JD showed in the Large Childrens Pony division and were Reserve Champion. These two have become quite a team and are off to a great start for the year!

Thanks everyone for a great day and to Missy for the extra help-go BC!

Upcoming Events

Hi BC Family! This is just a reminder for some events we have coming up in October.

• Sunday, October 2nd - Fox Heath Horse Show! Please sign up on the sheet in the tack room and tell your trainers if you are planning on showing.

• Friday, October 7th - BC Clinics at Journey's End Farm - focus this month is gymnastics. If you haven't done so already, please reserve your spot by emailing us at banburycross_ltd@hotmail.com.

• Saturday, October 15th - The Horse Power for Life's 4th Annual Woofs 4 Hoofs Cancer Walk & Picnic at Hickory Park - 351 Park Rd, Chester Springs, PA. For more information and to register, go to www.horsepowerforlife.org and click the link New/Events and then click on Annual Cancer Walk. This is a great event with lots of fun things for kids, adults and dogs!

Sunday's horse shows!

Congrats to everyone who showed this past Sunday! Cheyenne and JD were Reserve Champion at Hollyhurst Farm in the Large Children's Pony Hunters out of 21. Way to go!
At Radnor, Lynn and Excel were Reserve Champion too! Barbara and Harvey, Gabby and Pony Ella, and Cawood and Johnny all received great ribbons in their divisions. Congrats on another super weekend everyone!

Twelve Oaks Horse Show at Radnor

It was a beautiful day on Sunday at the Radnor Show grounds. Our horses and ponies were all wonderful from start to finish. There were a LOT of entries and everyone got ribbons! Our competitors were Cheyenne and JD, Cawood and Johnny, Gabby and PonyElla, Kayla and Tucker, and Sam and Slater. Marybeth and Katie were there to help and to cheer! Thanks girls for your help and support. Marybeth took a TON of pictures (mostly silly ones) so I uploaded them to our photo gallery. Here are a couple of the "kids" hanging out! Congrats to everyone on a great day. It was fun!

Congratulations...

To Grace Connolly on the purchase of Piper! We are so excited that Piper has found a wonderful home at Thunderbrook Farm. Grace and Piper are currently winning in the lead line division in the Chester County Horse Show Association! We wish you continued success and many years of fun together.

More Ludwig's Pictures!

I added more pictures to the photo gallery at www.banburycrossltd.shutterfly.com!
Here's a preview:

and yes, there are a million of Ainsley! Sorry!

Ludwig's Corner Horse Show!

Banbury Cross had a fantastic Labor Day Weekend at the Ludwig's Corner Horse Show! Thank you to all of our BC Family members for making it such a great weekend! Our horses were wonderful, our riders rode great and our helpers on the ground were fantastic! Congratulations to all of our riders! Everyone won ribbons and we had a few champions and reserve champions as well! Here are a few pictures from the weekend. Please view our photo gallery to see all of the pictures from the weekend. If you have pictures from the weekend, feel free to add them to the album. Here's the link: www.banburycrossltd.shutterfly.com

Check out these websites for more pictures from the Ludwig's Corner Horse Show:

www.springtreephotography.com

www.dlkillingerphoto.com

More horse shows!

Our crew did great on Saturday at the Pickering Pony Show pre Hurricane Irene! Our pony riders, Logan, Jane and Audrey had so much fun and looked beautiful on their ponies! Here are pictures of Jane and Audrey with Early and Logan and Sundance...

Pictured below are Nina and George and Caywood and Johnny showing off their ribbons! Nina and George also earned a champion ribbon!

Not pictured are Kaley and Chris our wonderful adult team who won Reserve Champion in both the adult equitation and the adult hunters! Congrats on a great day!

Good luck to everyone showing at Ludwigs! It's going to be a fun and busy show for Banbury Cross!

Horse Shows

Congratulations to Cheyenne and Cawood on a great show at Worcester Stables on Wednesday! Cheyenne and JD won champion in the Large Children's Pony Hunters and Cawood and Johnny got great ribbons in the PreChildren's Horse Division. Way to go girls!

Good luck to everyone this weekend at the Pickering Pony Show!

The Twelve Oaks Horse Show scheduled for Sunday has been postponed and moved to Sunday, September 18th.

Stay dry this weekend!!

Fun at the Farm!

Here are some pictures of our awesome girls having some end of the summer fun at the barn! Thank you girls for all of your wonderful help this summer taking such great care of Ainsley, Eva and friends!

Shelby and Eva! MB and Gabby with A! Ella and A running free!

Cheyenne and MB! E helping clean tack. "Grammy" with her girls!

The Proud girls with Sunny! A and E on Sunny the Man!

K teaching A how to pick feet. Amy and Kayla!