Victory!!  We took 7 horses to the Shine & Shine Only FEI * 50 and ** 75.  All 7 finished.  All but one horse were entered in the FEI rides.  The horses did awesome on the extremely mountainous course.  We also lucked out with the heat, it was very warm but not impossibly hot like it could have been.  The horse and rider teams on the FEI* 50 were, Fuego IA ridden by Tim Reynolds, TA Tiran ridden by Sarah Schick (who flew in from VA), Stratagem ridden by young rider Ildy Nadasdy, and Makazin ridden by Kim Danardis (who flew in from NY).  In the AERC open 50 was ITA Chicashah Bey ridden by Megan Doyle. 
On the FEI **75 we had two horses, My Mamselle ridden by Jeremy and Ssamiam ridden by myself.  All in all it was a great weekend.  I would like to thank all of our riders for doing a superb job of getting the gang through safe and sound. 

Wow,

I have not been writing or doing any computer related things in a long time.  We are still in the Bay Area and still house hunting.  I feel like we have had a temporary lifestyle for WAY too long now.  The endurance horses are doing great.  We have a wonderful group of 10.  This does not count Gem who is in foal and should bring a bundle of talent to us sometime in March 2010.  The 10 endurance horses include two 4 year olds so in reality we are dealing with 8 working race horses plus client horses.

All of the horses ran on the track with the exception of Rising Heat and Stratagem.  Fuego ran and then was used as a pony on the track which came in handy last weekend at the Redwood Ride where he handily caught a loose horse in the morning.

We will be taking 6 of the horses to the Shine & Shine FEI ride on Aug 8th.  This is a logistical joy for me:)  Any how we will have Fuego IA, Makazin, TA tiran and Stratagem on the 50 FEI *.  Ssamiam and My Mamselle will do the 75 FEI **.  It should be  great ride with a lot of hills and heat ( at least it won't be humid!)

Our friend Sara is flying out from VA to ride TA Tiran, Sara rode with us when we were back East and had many adventures with us back there (including driving a stick shift for the first time, which was the dually that she crewed for us out of at the Old Dominion ride.  Oh, did I mention it was raining and muddy.  She handled it like a champ!)

Well, we are off to Robinson Flat in the morning to crew for a long time friend Jeff Townsend and his great horse Seize the Breeze aka Breeze.  It should be a great time for all.

I will try to write much more frequently.

Heather

We have a website!!  It is so exciting.  So far so good.  We have been riding a lot.  On Valentine's Day we had a great ride on the beach with our good friends, Megan and Maddy.  We took four of our horses: Strut, Smitty, GT and Miles.  Smitty of course went way further and faster then the rest of us.  All of the horses did great and we didn't get rained on!!

Jeremy and I are working on getting a full endurance operation going in the Bay Area.  We are living in the Almaden area in South San Jose.  The hills are big and the weather is generally nice (although at the moment it is really wet!!

We have many horses in training and we are really looking forward to the 2009 season that is in progress.  Our first ride will be at the 20 Mule Team ride

I am now working at one of Skip's Tire and Auto shops doing accounting, then I train horses as well.  Jeremy is trimming and training.  He will be doing a clinic sometime very soon to teach people how to apply the glue on boots.  Overall we are pretty busy and that is fun.  We are also able to see a lot of good friends again, although we now miss all of our new friends... that's always the case isn't it?

Working in Southern CA at the vitamin company ended up being very beneficial as we have designed a great supplement for performance horses that will be available soon.  We have been racing with it and it is pretty darn cool.

I forgot to keep you all posted on how Wild Man did.  He was looking strong in the last turn but then ended up third!  He will now continue his racing.  He is in Texas now preparing for the next leg of the "triple crown" for Arabians.

I hope that I see all of you soon.

Heather