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Will Rawlin Eventing (WRE Partnership)

A good weekend with all three horses doing very nice double clears..............in the sun!

This weekend was also interspersed with celebrations for my 30th Birthday -  It was lovely, with no actual competing to do on the Saturday, that we were able to get off site and go to the Beach.

Ballycoog Breaker Boy (4*S) did a good test but we fluffed a change which was costly as they are double points in that test, but the rest of his work was good. He then did a great show jumping round and accurate cross country round which was planned to have some time penalties.

The Partner (4*) did a good test for him and great to have his show jumping back on form following  Thoresby and he just felt mega on the cross country track. 

Camee de Muze's dressage didn't go according to plan - this was his first stay away and he was a touch over excited. However, he more than made up for it with his excellent jumping both sj and xc. 

Also, Well done to Marianna Sawyer, who completed her first 3* with a great XC round.

Next outing at Kelsall with the youngsters and then 7 rides at Cirencester over the following weekend. 

A big thank you to Hannah Cole for the fab photos as always. 





Achievements in 2023

17th - Blenheim Palace 4*L
1st - Cornbury 3*S
19th - Arville (Nations cup team) 4*S 
4th - Bramham 4*S
5th  - Burnham Market 3*S

2021 Top Results

4th - Osberton International 3*L

8th -  Blenheim Palace International 8/9 year old Championships CCI4*S

10th -  Houghton Hall International Trials -CCI 3*L 

2nd Cirencester and Somerford OI

3rd in his first Advance at Aston le Walls

Other Achievements to date: 

Placed in the top 10 in National Young Horse Championships as a 4,5, 6 and 7 year old.

2020

Bicton Arena International CCI3* - 3rd

Kelsall Hill Intermediate - 3rd

2019

Osberton 7 year old National Championships CCI3*S -6th

Aston le Walls IN - 1st 

Upton Novice - 1st

Withington Novice - 1st 

Tattersalls 6/7 year old young horse Championships CCI2*L - 7th

Chatsworth CCI2*-S - 4th 

Insight: 

William had 2022 out as he had a stable injury - however disappointing this was at the time, he has definitely physically benefited.  He is stronger than he has ever been and we feel our patience is paying off. 

Purchased as a 4 year old, he has been  very successful ever since.  During the winter following his 5 year old season, with time off, he grew a huge amount. This then followed a few months off as he pulled his hind muscles getting cast in the stable.  This lead to a late start to his 6 year old season which actually was a blessing in disguise, as it gave him a chance to adjust to his physical changes. As he is a tall horse we are taking time with him as he still has more strength to develop. Having been a quiet gentle giant as a 5 year old he turned into a demanding teenager as a 6 and 7 year old and is never happier than when he is working.  He really enjoys the challenges of Eventing and seems to like the big stage.


Ballycoog Breaker Boy (William)

Always great to share the occasions with family and supporters

The Partner  - 4*S


The Partner (Conquer) is part of an Experience Syndicate for £95 per year - This is run by Event Horse Owners Syndicate.  For more information please contact:

https://www.eventhorseownerssyndicate.co.uk/buy-a-share/the-partner/

Conquer is bred to show jump and we bought him as a 6 year old.  He likes his own space and given the choice wouldn’t have anyone in the next door stable. He is a sensitive character .  His confidence improved hugely over the years and this shows in his results and achievements.  

When away at big competitions we have to be one step ahead of him in how to keep him relaxed. He is a machine cross country. Where errors occurred they were not his doing.   He had a very good first half of 2022 finishing at Bramham 4*L with a good dressage, double clear with time faults keeping him out of the prizes.  We then gave him the rest of the year off as he had a small injury but he is back out in 2023 starting with a 7th in the Lincoln OI.

Top Achievements 2023:

Completion of first 5* at Luhumuhlen 
Bicton 4*S - 12th
Cirencester A - 3rd

Achievements to date: 

2022 
Bramham 4*L - Double Clear. 
Burnham Market 4*S 7th 
Pontispool OI  - 1st

20/21
Somerford Park OI - 7th 
Burnham Market International 4*S - 9th

2019

Withington Advanced - 7th

Aston Le Walls Advanced - 10th

Belton international CCI3*-S 12th

Double clear in his first CCI3*-S in 2019







The Partner  (Conquer)

The Partner showing his SJ is back on form.


A very exciting horse that joined Will Rawlin Eventing in June 2023 having been beautifully produced by Lauren Innes. 

We are very much looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together.  He is currently running at Intermediate/3* with a successful double clear at the 7 year old Championships at Cornbury International 2023.  2024 will be spent consolidating this and started with a good solid run at Oasby where he finished 6th in the I. 

Sire: I'm Special De Muze
Dam: Camee

He is owned by Caroline Leng and WRE Partnership. 


Camee De Muze

Camee de Muze loving his XC.

Ballycoog Breaker Boy on his last xc run before Badminton 

Burnham Market

A civilised time leaving the yard to drive to Norton Disney with Cullion Womanizer and Mackenzy. This was our first trip in our Owens 3.5Ton and what a difference it makes to the journey!

It was a VERY windy day, but pretty much dry so we were all happy and the ground had dried well since Friday.

Cullion Womanizer did some great trot work but having got spooked in the canter work decided to carry this through for the rest of the test!! He then did the same in the Show Jumping but again there was some good jumps also!.  I was really pleased with him in the xc despite a stop at a step down which in all honesty he hasn't seen recently,  as we haven't managed to get out enough xc training - can't think why!!!

Mackenzy was his normal consistent self - very good dressage with one "scoot" and then a lovely Clear SJ round - probably his best and a lovely steady XC finishing in 3rd place!

Next up is Burhham Market with the 4 big boys - in the 3* and 4* - hoping for a dry few days!

Then off to Kelsall.



A very exciting prospect for the future.  Taken slowly to allow him to develop. Easy to handle on the ground and really enjoying his job of Eventing. 

2023 is really his first year competing and will start at BE 100 - He is very talented and we are lucky to have Caroline Leng as his owner who wishes to take his progress slowly and harness his talents, with the long game in mind. 


Mackenzy

Happy with the test!

Mackenzy fully focused. Norton Disney Novice. 

An exciting prospect that has joined the team in November 2022.  He has been bought to bring on, develop and sell.  He is to be aimed at the 7 year old Le Lion Championships in October 2024. 

He has a lovely character on the ground and has lots of ability in all three phases.  He is particularly talented cross country where he is confident and always looking for the next set of flags. He was XC clear in all competitions in 2023 and stepped up to Novice at the end of the season.



Cullion Womanizer

Cullion Womanizer on the run home in the Novice at Norton Disney. 

Norton Disney


Ballycoog Breaker Boy has achieved a top 10 finish in every age class.  My aim for the 8/9 year old Championships (4*S) was a top ten finish - great to achieve what we set out to do.

If I am honest I was slightly disappointed with the test and therefore the mark. He wasn't carrying himself as well as he has been and therefore his engagement from behind wasn't as good as it could be. He did everything I asked and it was a clear round test. 

I was glad not to be early in the Show Jumping as the fog was really bad and made the arena quite eerie - it was still there for us but the sun was just breaking through. Luck was on our side as we touched just about every fence but managed a clear. It was a full up twisty course with big crowds and he slightly distracted - I think these young horses have really missed the experience of having crowds over the last couple of years. 

Having had a fall on Saturday I wasn't in a great place both physically and mentally, the morning of cross country.  A mixture of Indiba's electromagnetic current treatment, both Saturday and Sunday, being strapped up and the belief that I was on a very good horse got me round the course.  The ground was the best there for years and an extremely good inviting course which was a real joy to ride with Ballycoog Breaker Boy being honest and straight from start to finish. We just had a few time penalties which left us in 8th place.

This horse just keeps giving and I would love to find people who would like to join in his journey to 5*. He has a lot more to come which is super exciting.

The Partner performed his best test to date at 4* (2nd best score) but he was the most rideable he has ever been in a big arena. I was thrilled with this as this part of eventing doesn't come naturally to him. Unfortunately I fell off him on the cross country (he didn't fall).  The Partner was absolutely mega around the course and giving me one of his best rounds cross country. He seemed to be coping with the crowds,  which were huge. This is very encouraging as he is a bit of a worrier.  The fall was a lot heavier than we thought and having checked my back out there are a couple of broken transverse processes (wings of the vertebrae). Nothing can be done about this so just sorting the bruising and pain.  The Partner came bouncing out on Sunday thinking he was getting ready for his show jumping and looked so well.  

A big thank you to Michael Hewlett for looking after the horses so well and picking up the slack this week. 

The Dominator PFB and Ballycoog Breaker Boy are at Osberton in the 2*L and 3*L at the end of the month. - Then a holiday for all!!















This Horse does it again......

Caught on Camera - by Catherine Barr - amazing sequence of photos were sent

Galloping on between fences

Grit and determination!

Full focus in front of Blenheim Palace

Beautifully turned out by Michael Hewlett.  - Thank you.

Ballycoog Breaker Boy on his way to 8th in the 8/9 year old Championships

Flying the cross country in front of Blenheim Palace

So pleased with the test 

That shine! 

Dad watching from the side (eye's shielded)

A little loving before the trot up 

The Partner being presented to the ground jury

Huge shout out for the team at Tweseldown who put on a fantastic event in 4 days following the cancellation of Cirencester. Incredible - thank you to everyone. 
Camee de Muze and  Tenz, in the Intermediate, Mackenzy and Cullion Womanizer in the Novice.  I was really pleased with all the horses and particularly their Cross country and SJ.  Finishing the day with Camee de Muze and Mackenzy in the top 10 of their sections - both owned by Caroline Leng who was over from Jersey to watch them.

The first international at Thorseby went well and again a huge shout out to BEDE Events for the huge effort to keep the show on the road with all their advanced planning.  A great event.  Both Ballycoog Breaker Boy and The Partner were in the 4* Grantham Cup which read like the who's who of eventing. 

Ballycoog Breaker Boy was feeling on great form and produced a very good test (30.4) with two obvious mistakes preventing it from being lower.

He jumped well in the show jumping with 1 pole and was excellent cross country - he so enjoys this  - I do have to remind myself to concentrate and not sit as a passenger!

The Partner also did a very good test (32.6) but we missed a flying change and a little tension in the canter work but otherwise I was very pleased with him. Sadly not his day in the SJ ring  - he was far too excited to get out on the cross country so had a couple of poles which is very unlike him.  As a result we didn't run him XC

Both these horses, Camee de Muze and Tenz are heading for the 4*s and 3*S at Burnham market in a couple of weeks. 

We are just rejigging some of the horses runs as Portman and South of England have been abandoned. 

Mckenzy and Cullion Womanizer are now heading to Norton Disney on the 7th April -followed by their first 2*s at Kelsall Hill -  fingers crossed they run!!



Tenz is owned by Suzanne Houchin and Nigella Hall and joined WRE in November 2021.

We had an exciting year developing him in 2022 having 2 good finishes at Cornbury 2*S - 2nd, Bicton 2*S 6th.

2023 looks like another exciting year building on 2022 with Bicton 2*L as the first goal for this year. 

We are looking forward to his journey together and stepping him up to Intermediate this year and will continue to develop his strength and ability.  





Tenz

Tenz - Intermediate  - both spotting the Hannah Cole with the camera!

Cullion Womanizer loving cross country - ears pricked all the way. 

Camee de Muze - Tweseldown I.  - 6th Place

Knees up Mackenzy finishing 3rd in his Novice section at Tweseldown 

Team looking happy after 4* Dressage with Ballycoog Breaker Boy - 

Will and Conquer debriefing some of the EHOS syndicate members

Sponsor's Sundown Bedding SJ fence in the Grantham 4*S 

The Partner loving the Gin. 

Ballycoog Breaker Boy fling into the water in the Grantham Cup. 

Huge Shout out and update

We have had a successful start to 2024 and have managed to run at Poplar Park, Oasby and Tweseldown.  These runs were to get the horses back out, see how our winter training has benefited them and have steady cross country runs.  

It was a good start with 5/5 clear cross country and 4/5 clear SJ  - William just rolled one pole at Poplar Park, but more than redeemed himself with a Win in the OI at Oasby and Camee de Muze was 6th in his I section - also at Oasby.

The dressage has been good although The Partner and Tenz were both very spicy in their first tests - both very excited to be back out.

Sadly Moreton was abandoned for the youngsters so they went to practice their dressage in competition mode -doing 2 tests each -not quite the same as having fun round the cross country!

Lots more to come - fingers crossed Cirencester goes ahead where all the horses are running followed by Thorseby with Ballycoog Breaker Boy and The Partner 





The Partner doing what he does best - Oasby OI March 2024

Ballycoog Breaker Boy - Lets hope all his halts are this square!

Camee de Muze  - I at Oasby 

Camee de Muze Flying! - Oasby I

The Partner - loving life  - Oasby OI SJ . 

Ballycoog Breaker Boy - Why jump higher than you have to?!

2024 is up and running!

Ballycoog Breaker Boy had a brilliant run at Blenheim Palace 4*L. His dressage test was good. I know we are capable of better so was a little deflated afterwards.  However, he stayed in touching distance with the top ten and it certainly wasn't going to be a dressage test only competition. 

He gave me a mega round in the cross country and made it feel very easy  - just one combination we had to make it happen otherwise a foot perfect round with just a few time - and climbing into the top 10 as a result.  The cross country certainly caused problems with many top horses not having such good rounds. 

He sailed through the trot up.  The results were very close with minimal points between everyone so sadly our one pole dropped us to 17th.  

I was thrilled with his performance and very excited for 2024 as he will now have an early holiday and aiming for Badminton next year having got our qualification. 







Always a lovely shot in front of Blenheim Palace

The team at Blenheim - Will, Ballycoog Breaker Boy and Becca Nicholson

Last push

Becca Nicolson very happy with her charge!

Successful trot up completed 

Stepping out!

Full focus 

Dressage done!

Giving his all to the end of the course. 

On the way home through the Blenheim Palace Lake 

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This Horse does it again......

21 September 2021

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