MAN OF DREAMS WINS FOR THE 3RD TIME IN A ROW AT NEWBURY on the 25th of June
FRENCHIE AND DACE MEET THE QUEEN!!!!!!
Brilliant performance by Frenchie and Dace to come 3rd in the Windsor 2* 120K at nearly 25K/hr from 48 starters.
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With Tresham cancelled we made the long trip to the Southdowns ride in Sussex for Arnold's final novice ride of 40K. This meant leaving the yard at 5.30am but at least the sun was shinning. Arnold and Dace rode the entire ride on his own at a good speed of 14.3K and finished on a grade 2 so mission accomplished and now ungraded to open
Our third outing of the season was to compete in the CEI 2* at Kings Forest. With the weather forcast predicting snow there was a big doubt that the ride would ever go ahead, but after receiving a optimistic report from the ride organisers we decided to make the long trip. The snow started falling as we arrived and quickly covered the events field. Luckily the organisers had a plan and re-marked the course with paper arrows to replace the ground marks that were covered in snow. The next morning the van was telling us the temperature was -8 with the snow driving down we started the ride with the plan to take it easy and see how conditions rode. Everything went brilliant, frenchie was first to vet on each loop and went on to record a comfortable win in just over 17K the fastest speed of the day!
Our second ride of the season saw us make the long trip to Cannock after our local ride Jubilee was cancelled at the last miniute. This was the first opportunity for Dace to compete frenchie in public and we were very happy with our Grade 1 in the 64K class.
Great first ride of the season with Terminators Dream (Arnold) and Lorna gaining a grade 1 at the Forest of Dean ride
2012 What a season! - Frenchie completing his first 100 mile (160K) ER at Euston in 6th place, together with a 3rd place in the 120 at Haywood and a 5th place in another 120K at Euston. Mayday won his first 120K 2* at kings and Pavie come 2nd in the National YR champs in a very fast 80K at kings
The National awards for the 2012 season were held at the Daventry hotel in November. The team brought home five trophy's. Plus numerous place rosettes, what a night! French Lieutenant and Lorna finished the season in 5th place in the season championships and won the Ross trophy for top homebred, Senior Grand Prix top ER horse, G Putnik (Top ex.arab racehorse) and the GB FEI championship! Mayday Dream and Dace finished 6th in the YR championship and won the Merlin memorial trophy for top YR FEI horse.
The wessex awards dinner was held at the Sherbury hotel in January 2013. Another great night for the team with Pavots Dreamboy and Sammy winning both the Gold Emblem (Top Arab) and Young rider Trophy together with been a member of the wining Epistle Trophy team
The Iceni awards were another great night for the team with Frenchie and Lorna winning the: Highpoint advanced horse Valentine salver, Highpoint ER horse - Iceni shield, Highpoint homebred horse and Hightpoint Arab - The Angle Face Trophy.
We are proud to announce the arrival of RAINBOW DREAM (Dantes Dream x Benamer) on the 10th of May.
Picture at 5 months
Malibu and Stacie
Have a brilliant day at the local Haselbury show gaining a 3rd in the 3ft, 2nd in the 2.9ft and a brilliant win in the 3.3ft class. Sadly Malibu is now offered for sale to make way for the youngsters, see our sales page for more details
Mayday and Stacie enjoy another good day at the Pheonix ride gaining their fifth grade one of the season
Mayday Dream has a good day at the Quantock ride on the 26th of March gaining his 2nd grade one
20th November 2010....MAN OF DREAMS 1ST DAY OUT
Man of Dreams (Nizam x Dantees Dream) enjoys his first day out under saddle
ECHO has a good day at the Wessex open show
GOLDEN DREAM - Wins her first race at Huntingdon on the 14th of August, ridden by Ollie Gardner Goldie came out the 2 length winner of the Athbah Stud Handicap Stakes over 6 Furlongs
Madam Dynamite - upgrades to open with a grade 1 at Tally Ho
Pavy finshes 4th in very competitive 80K FEI 1* at Euston Park in 19.36K.
CIRENCESTER PARK
We had a good weekend at Cirencester Park with Pavy and Lorna finishing 3rd in the 100K ER on the Saturday and Madam Dynamite successfully completing her 2nd competitive ride with a grade 2 on Sunday
Pavots Dreamboy - Wins the 80K ER at Dukeries in 17.7K with Lorna.
DANTES DREAM - Has been confirmed in foal to the Amer son Benamer for a 2011 foal
PAVOTS DREAMBOY - Started his season off with a grade 2 in the 64K at Tresham ridden by Lorna Kidson
COUNTDOWN & STACEY ENJOY THE BOXING DAY MEET
Countdown is for sale, see more details on the sales page.........
RACING....2009
Warwick 10th of October
Mayday Dream finished his first seaon of in style, by comming a fast finishing 3rd in the Jebel Ali bronze final
HUNTINGDON 1ST AUGUST
Mayday Dream made the long trip to Huntindon for his debut and was a star. He Behaved brilliantly and took everything in his stride. Mushammer made his return to the racecourse after a 257 day absence and ran a brilliant race just being touched off in the final strides in a strong 14 runner field. All being well both horses will make a quick return to the racecourse at Wolverhampton on the 9th of August.
Mushammer & Mayday Dream enjoy working in preperating for their first run of the season at Huntingdon on the 1st of August.
ENDURANCE
Madam Dynamite and Countdown Successfully complete their first competitive rides at Tally Ho with Alice and Charlie in the saddle.
MORETON TRAINING RIDE
The first training ride of the season of approximately 10 miles, we used this ride as Countdown's first venture away from the farm and I must say she behaved impeccably. Countdown was joined by Pavots Dreamboy ridden by 13 year old Charlotte Freeman.
Pav and Charlotte enjoying the winter sun at Morton
EGB AWARDS 2008
Well done to Lesley Helliwell and FRENCH JUBILEE (Sihrea Crystal x Frere Des Loups) joint 2nd in the Novice Championship
NAF RED DRAGON - OCTOBER 2008
A brilliant end to 2008 with French Lieutenant winning the 2 day 100 mile Red Dragon by nearly 2 hours, a brilliant performance by both horse and rider in terrible weather conditions, well done both frenchie and Lorna. And thank you to all the sponsors and especially Les Spark's for providing a Free and easy saddle to the winner.
Frenchie modelling his new thermatex rug.
Birkshire Downs 07- Mystic Dream wins the 84k Tyro Race ride in style. This was also Liz's first race ride, a brilliant performance by both.
Berkshire Downs 07- Mystic Dream wins the 84k Tyro Race ride in style. This was also Liz's first race ride, a brilliant performance by both.
A smiling Liz collects the goodies
MARGAM PARK - 13TH MAY 07- French Lieutenant comes a very close second in the 80K ER, (50 miles) by a whisker in a racing finish under a brilliant ride by Lorna kidson. The rain never stopped all day, which made this tough ride all the harder, but frenchie was full of running at the end and we will now aim for a longer ride this season
BREAMORE - 10TH JUNE 07- Mystic Dream and Liz came a very good fourth from a starting field of 21 in the 82K ER finishing in a riding time of just under 5hrs and a speed of 16.6K. The very hot conditions made the ride even harder, with large quantities of water required to cool both Mystic and Liz at the vet gates! Both Mystic and Frenchie are now being aimed at Cirencester in 2 weeks time.
CIRENCESTER - 23rd/24th JUNE 07- A wonderful weekend, with Mystic Dream winning the 100K Denbeigh slate at a speed of 16.4K and French lieutenant winning the 80K National young riders in a total speed of 17.93K, he did a amazing final loop in 28.5K!
Liz with the cirencester silverware
RED DRAGON - 30th September 07- With Racing at Wolverhampton the day before, the crew had a 4am start, but it proved well worth it, with a 1, 2 in the FEI 80K ER. With both horses well in front of the field by the 2nd vet gate it was decided that they would race from the final field to decide the winner. With Frenchie beating Mystic a head at the line, a well deserved win for Lorna after Margam Park earlier in the season. So the end of a wonderful 2007 season, the best achievement being our 100% completion rate.
SCIENCE SUPPLEMENTS HARLING DROVE - 16TH MARCH 2008
Our 2008 starts as 2007 finished with a one, two in the 81K ER at Harling Drove, this time Mystic with Sam Mowatt riding finished 6 minutes ahead of Frenchie with Lorna Kidson in the saddle in a amazing speed of 23.07K!!!! Beating a very impressive field, we have now made the decision to take Frenchie to Sangatte with the British development squad leaving on the 16th of April and Mystic will be aimed at the 2 day 160K at Berkshire Downs
RACING 2007
HUNTINGDON - 2nd June - Mushammer comes a very creditable 2nd beaten only half a length in only his third race of his life.
FONTWELL - 16th June - Fair deed Dash finishes 3rd on her 1st run of the season and Mushammer is a fast finishing 4th
EXETER - 30th June - Mushammer wins his 1st race over 1Mile 6 beating Dave Paton's Anganate Safinat and Pavots Dreamboy storms home by a easy 2 lengths over 6F. A double for the yard and jockey David Turner
LINGFIELD - 7th July - Mushammer wins again under a penalty again beating Anganate Safinat, this time by 4 Lengths.
HEREFORD - 14th July - Mushammer makes it three Jebel Ali qualifiers in a row carrying 11 stone to victory by a 1/2 a length
NOTTINGHAM - 18th August - Pavots Dreamboy runs a wonderful race to get within a length of Gill Duffield's Furaat over 6F
NEWBURY DUBAI DAY - 26th August - With Mushammer balloted out, Pav was our only running finishing in the money in the Emirates Premier Handicap carrying top weight over 7F, not a bad result for the oldest horse in the field.
SALISBURY - 9th September - Mushammer runs a brilliant race to finish 3rd over a inadequate 7F. Golden Dream shows plenty of speed to lead the field for the first 4Furlongs of her 6F race, finishing a creditable 6th.
STRATFORD - 22nd September - Fair Deed Dash running her best race of the year when running Bonham to 1/2 length over 1 mile 4F
WOLVERHAMPTON - 29th September - Mushammer wins his 4th race of the season under Pat Murphy over 1mile 4F
WARWICK 6th October Final's day - Pavots Dream boy runs a game race to finish 5th in the Gold Final, his stamina just running out in the last 100 yards. Mushammer carrying a 6lb penalty finishes a very creditable 2nd to Pavot Al Kyle a horse carrying 11lb less and Fair Deed Dash finishes 4th in the Bronze final. All in all a good finish to the season with all three bringing home prize money.
THE ARO RACING DINNER AND DANCE - The whole racing team enjoy the dinner and dance where we are presented with the AHS Small Owner and Trainer awards together with the Champion Pure Bred Arab for Mushammer's brilliant season, 4 wins, 1x2nd, 2 x 3rds and 1x4th in eight races. Well done everyone.
Our third outing of the season was to compete in the CEI 2* at Kings Forest. With the weather forcast predicting snow there was a big doubt that the ride would ever go ahead, but after receiving a optimistic report from the ride organisers we decided to make the long trip. The snow started falling as we arrived and quickly covered the events field. Luckily the organisers had a plan and re-marked the course with paper arrows to replace the ground marks that were covered in snow. The next morning the van was telling us the temperature was -8 with the snow driving down we started the ride with the plan to take it easy and see how conditions rode. Everything went brilliant, frenchie was first to vet on each loop and went on to record a comfortable win in just over 17K the fastest speed of the day! 
Our second ride of the season saw us make the long trip to Cannock after our local ride Jubilee was cancelled at the last miniute. This was the first opportunity for Dace to compete frenchie in public and we were very happy with our Grade 1 in the 64K class. 
The National awards for the 2012 season were held at the Daventry hotel in November. The team brought home five trophy's. Plus numerous place rosettes, what a night! French Lieutenant and Lorna finished the season in 5th place in the season championships and won the Ross trophy for top homebred, Senior Grand Prix top ER horse, G Putnik (Top ex.arab racehorse) and the GB FEI championship! Mayday Dream and Dace finished 6th in the YR championship and won the Merlin memorial trophy for top YR FEI horse. 
The wessex awards dinner was held at the Sherbury hotel in January 2013. Another great night for the team with Pavots Dreamboy and Sammy winning both the Gold Emblem (Top Arab) and Young rider Trophy together with been a member of the wining Epistle Trophy team 
The Iceni awards were another great night for the team with Frenchie and Lorna winning the: Highpoint advanced horse Valentine salver, Highpoint ER horse - Iceni shield, Highpoint homebred horse and Hightpoint Arab - The Angle Face Trophy.
Pav and Charlotte enjoying the winter sun at Morton 
Frenchie modelling his new thermatex rug.
Berkshire Downs 07- Mystic Dream wins the 84k Tyro Race ride in style. This was also Liz's first race ride, a brilliant performance by both. 
Liz with the cirencester silverware
THE ARO RACING DINNER AND DANCE - The whole racing team enjoy the dinner and dance where we are presented with the AHS Small Owner and Trainer awards together with the Champion Pure Bred Arab for Mushammer's brilliant season, 4 wins, 1x2nd, 2 x 3rds and 1x4th in eight races. Well done everyone. 
Collecting the AHS trainer award