Dressage clinic at Alice Springs

Linda has just conducted her second dressage clinic at Alice Springs. The first clinic was held in May and was so well received the Alice Springs Dressage Club booked a second. And now after the July clinic will again be giving the dressage enthusiasts of Central Australia another clinic in September.

Good luck to all the riders who will be competing in the upcoming Northern Territory Dressage Championships which are held over two rounds, one in Alice Springs and one in Darwin, in August.

(left) The Arena of the Alice Spring Dressage Club. Who would have thought you would find such a high quality grass arena in Central Australia that many of us on the coast would give our right seat bone to have.

(above) What a backdrop to the clinic. These majestic hills boarder the Alice Springs Showgrounds on two sides.

(left) Virginia and her lovely standard bred gelding 'Riley' areboth a picture of concentration during their lesson in the early afternoon sunshine. Virginia very generously plays host and driver for Linda during her stay in Alice Springs.

Tip is Up Up and Away

Tip our Foxy X pup decided to try riding Cortez the morgan stallion during one of his training sessions. Much to Cortez's owners delight.

Rivers Rarity attends Qld Young Rider Clinic 24/25 April

Rarity was ridden at a receive Qld Young Rider clinic by Linda's student, Courtney Whiteman, after Courtney's competition mare was injured in the week leading up to the clinic. Courtney only had a chance to ride Rarity on the Thursday prior to the clinic. As usual Rarity did the stud proud by behaving superbly for Courtney at the clinic despit the new rider and strange venue. This is the stud's oldest progeny from IHB Rio de Janero and she is every bit what RRWS was hoping for from the Rio de Janero/Northern Classic cross. See more information on Rarity on our For Sale page

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Toowoomba Royal Show 2010

Linda represented Wilga Park Morgans at the Toowoomba Royal Show by successfully showing their horses in the Morgan Horse Breed classes taking out Supreme Purebred Morgan Exhibit with their fabulous buckskin stallion, Ranch Boss Cortez. Wilga Park also won champion purebred gelding with Roc the Boat and were first three placings in the Morgan under saddle class.

Later in the day Linda and Wilga Park were involved in the Morgan Horse Breed display at the Show. Linda choreographed, directed and performed in the performances given in the display by Wilga Park Horses including riding Ranch Boss Cortez for the stallion display, Mt Tawonga Oscar for the gelding display and coordinated and performed in a dressage Pas de Trois with riders/students Kirra Parks and Gail Smith.

Pas de Trois - from left to right. Kirra Parks riding Mt Tawonga Oscar, Gail Smith riding Mt Tawonga Nepean, Linda Shore riding Ranch Boss Cortez

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Mt Tawonga Oscar and Linda Shore showing that a morgan is versatile enough to go from elegant dressage horse to quiet stock pony with just a quick gear change. And that dressage riders really do know how to have fun with horses.

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Ranch Boss Cortez and Linda Shore.

Linda showed the quietness of this stallion by starting their display riding normal dressage with bridle and bit etc. then finishing their display by riding Cortez using only a stockwhip around his neck for control.

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Great Start to the 2010 Season

The horses bred and trained by River Range have had a great start to the competition season. Rivers Rarity has competed in her first 2 dressage events, one if February just 8 weeks under saddle and the second on 10 April. This mare is proving to be a delight to ride and compete as she is just so confident in everything she does and has absolute trust in her rider.

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The LEGS Autumn Classic at Gatton 10 & 11 April saw Linda compete Parklands Virtuoso (aka Liberty) for his owner Fiona Hanson in his first elementary competitions for fabulous results and a consistent average of 63% over 3 tests.

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Linda also competed Rebecca & Courtney Whitman's georgous warmblood mare Georgia Rain in the 5yo and Official Preliminary competition for excellent results considering Linda only got the chance to give the mare two rides in the week leading up to the event in preparation.

On a less positive note our fabulous young stallion Coupe de Grace is out with a hind quarter injury at present but is continually improving and we hope to get him back in competiton towards the later part of the year.

MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

RRWS and Linda Shore would like to wish our friends and clients all the very best for a safe and happy festive season and look forward to a busy and prosperous 2010.

Also many thanks to the management and staff at HYFEED for their continued support and sponsorship with their excellent feed products which help the RRWS horses achieve excellent results

Last two foals for the season - both colts by Rio de Janero

Foaled 10 December, Rivers Reno, colt foal from River Range Lucy (dam of River Range Calcutta)

Foaled 21 December, Rivers Rhouben, colt foal from River Range Coralanne (by Northern Classic). this is a full brother to Rivers Rarity

Babies growing fast despite the drought conditions

Pic left - Cattalina and her Rio de Janero filly, Rufina. Pic right - Windsong and her Calcutta filly, Cherubina.

Royal Hit filly from River Range bred mare

Congratulations to the owner of River Range M'Lady on the arrival of her Royal Hit filly, born 7 Decemer 09.

pic above at 12 hours old - pic below at 2 weeks old

First Foal for the season has arrived

Midnight on the 13th November saw the first foal for the season at RRWS arrive. A healthy bay filly by Rio de Janero out of River Range Cattalina. Rivers Rufina

Congratulations to River Range bred horses at 2009 National Dressage champs

Congratulations to Liaison and Claire Wallace competing Prix St Georges and Intermediate I and River Range Carolina and Tammy Stevens competing Elementary and medium. Outstanding results for both horses bred by River Range Stud.

Also congratulations to the Northern Classic bred horse, Hervey Bay, who competed in the Grand Prix CDN.

Mundubbera Pony Club Ride To Music

Artistic Director, Linda Shore, Congratulates Mundubbera Pony on the successful performance of their Inaugural Ride to Music performance held at their 2009 Pony Club Camp. The ride consisted of 16 riders from Mundubbera Pony club and 2 riders from Gaynda Ponyclub. They performed 6 choreographed rides inlcuding the finale to Queen's "We are the Champions" with all 18 riders in the dressage arena.

Coup de Grace wows with his first 2 official outings

Coup de Grace stunned the audience at the 2009 Qld Dressage Festival stallion parade with his amazing temperment and super extravagant movement. Coup entered the indoor arena at Pine Lodge like he owned it and seemed to enjoy showing off to the crowd.

The outing was followed by his first Official competition in the Preliminary classes at the 2009 Toowoomba Dressage Championships. Coup scored a 64% and 62% for his first 2 official preliminary tests for 7th place in each of the strongly contested competitions.

Coup's next events will be Sunshine Coast Dressage Championships at Nambour 26/27 September and 2009 Qld Dressage Championships 9 October.

Congratulations to Linda Shore trained riders from Zone 16 (Mundubbera, Eidsvold, Gayndah) competing at the 2009 Queensland Pony Club State Championships in Maryborough.

Bonnie Price and Coppergate win at 2009 Melbourne 3DE

Congratulations again to Bonnie Price and River Range Coppergate. They have won the junior one star event at 2009 Melbourne 3DE, finishing on their dressage score. Super job, outstanding result.

Coup de Grace attends his first competition

River Range's youngest stallion Coup de Grace attended his first dressage competition on April 26 ridden by Linda Shore. Coup was impecably behaved and performed superbly for a score of 69% and first place in his Prep test and 65% and second place in his Preliminary test.

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