The way to heaven is on horseback

Recently I was contacted and asked if I would mind sharing a competition that would appeal to horse lovers! Of course I said yes, so here it is. Fidelity is proud to sponsor the Blenheim Palace International horse trials 2013 for the fourth consecutive year. The 1st place winner will receive £200 to spent on Ariat Equestrian Products at their marketing stand at Blenheim plus pairs of  tickets to the 2013 Fidelity Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials plus a years subscription to Eventing magazine. Nine Runners up will also recieve pairs of tickets for more information click this link !  Now you might be wondering how you can enter the draw and here is how! Follow @FidBlenheim on twitter and send them a tweet during the competition period using the hashtag #fidelityblenheim at the beginning of your tweet followed by a description of why and how much you love eventing. You can enter as many times as you want to. Additional entries will also be accepted by posting phot...

It was a good night at pony club today and we all managed to pass our pony club handling and grooming badge so this was great. Next week we will do another badge, I think we agreed on points of the horse. I'm going to have to do some brushing up on them as I find them really hard to remember.  When we got there we talked about what we were going to be doing, we then got two horses and split in to two groups, four of us had Hazel and the other three had Big Rocky. The first thing that we had to do was lead the horses in a straight line, then round a certain block, back again and halt. Making sure to use our voices and actually talk to the horses. We then put Hazel back in her stable and left Rocky tied up while Fiona got Daisy out. We then had to show that we could tie a horse up using a slip know, this time I got to work with Daisy who is so adorably cute.  We all went in the tack room for cake and drinks. After we had done we all had a piece of paper and a pen, in fr...