We have just had a visit from Mike Clark
from COUNRTY HARVEST together with his stunning horse THORNEYSIDE
THE FORMAN. As many of you will know George (his stable name) is none
other than HARNESS HORSE OF THE YEAR. This season Mike will be
competing George in Light Trade classes and we are delighted
to have built him an elegant Trade Delivery Van. This vehicle has swan
neck shafts with traditional fittings and the rear of the vehicle is fitted
out with shelves and baskets. Mike opted to have the carriage finished
in traditional coach builders bottle green unders with a black
body.
The carriage fitted George beautifully
and we are sure everyone will agree that they make a lovely
turnout. Our signwriter is about to spring into action and sign write
the vehicle.
Standby to see this stunning carriage in the
show ring in the not too distant future!
A delighted
Sara Howe - National Pony Team Champion - took delivery of her new
HARTLAND TEAM STAR - a pony team carriage specially built for her team of small "pocket rockets"!! This smart 3 phase carriage can be used for driving either a pair or a team. It can be weighted up from pony pair weight to pony team weight and it has the necessary sport suspension to give a really good ride in both classes. Sara won the National Championship this year with an older HARTLAND carriage and decided to upgrade. It is important to her that she can use the carriage for when she teaches pair driving and for schooling her leaders and wheelers as pairs. She did not want to have to have two carriages, so our engineers designed the Teamstar for her.
HARTLAND TEAM STAR - a pony team carriage specially built for her team of small "pocket rockets"!! This smart 3 phase carriage can be used for driving either a pair or a team. It can be weighted up from pony pair weight to pony team weight and it has the necessary sport suspension to give a really good ride in both classes. Sara won the National Championship this year with an older HARTLAND carriage and decided to upgrade. It is important to her that she can use the carriage for when she teaches pair driving and for schooling her leaders and wheelers as pairs. She did not want to have to have two carriages, so our engineers designed the Teamstar for her.
Watch out
for Sara at next years National and International Team competitions in
her new carriage.
Congratulations to Sue Cole with Vlaq Redwood Reflection at BDS Area 37 with her HARTLAND Gig winning all four of her classes and taking a Championship and two Reserve Championships, as well as numerous Best Turned Out Whip, Best Turned Out Groom and Best Novice Rosettes.
Well done to our Team on winning the Multiple class at Edenbridge Show on Bank Holiday Monday. they used our Hartland Show Harness with full collars and Joanne drove them in our Hartland Body Break.
CONGRATULATIONS TO SARA HOWE. 2009 National Pony Team Champion, using a HARTLAND carriage and Hartland Hi Tech harness. (Her new carriage for 2010 just arrived!!!!)
At the Heathfield Show in May our Friesian
pair Star and Metts had a good win in the large private driving then
went on to take the Driving Championship. Joanne drove them to one
of our lovely Mills spyders. They also had a good win at the South
of England show in June and were second in a HUGE Concours class
there too. Michael, driving Taggart and Tyson his coloured pair
were 4th at the South of England show, using our new Round
Backed Phaeton. At Smiths Lawn Star and Metts were best pair
in the multiple class and Michael and Taggart and Tyson took the honours
in the coloured class. Obviously the harness used was our lovely
Hartland Show harness......
In her first outing with a Hartland
Mills Spyder Clare Wigmore won the Concours at Smiths Lawn with her
gelderlander pair. Well done Clare.
Tabe Annema has just taken Reserve Champion
at Cranleigh show with his Hartland Original Dog cart with his lovely
Friesian mare.
Rupert and his
Micrasport
Now for some very exciting news.
Rupert Barnard - young son of Minta Winn LHHI - is driving a
couple of our carriages now. He will be out and about on the
indoor circuit this year. He is driving Buster a 12.3 hand Hackney
pony. He had an outstanding success last weekend at the
International CKD cup where he won a Gold and was part of the Silver
winning team,......Rupert commented how well his Micrasport went cross
country and how nicely he felt it "followed through"" on
the cone rounds. This carriage is particularly well suited to
smaller ponies - we also now offer a Micrasport that can be used for
single and pair driving. Check these out in our Micrasport
section...................
Well good news just coming in from Wales!
Penny Wear who has just bought one of our spyder phaetons had a good win
at the weekend........more photos and details to come.....!!
Sara Howe in action with her pretty
team
Sara Howe, who runs Bradbourne Driving
Centre in Kent is having a great season with her new team of chestnut
ponies. Sara has ordered a brand new Teamstar carriage from us and
will be getting this very shortly...... In the meantime she is using one
of our Olympic Pony pair carriages with
team equipment fitted....she has many wins so far and is surely a
contender for the British team. Once her carriage has arrived we
will be putting photos up on the website!!
Sara drives here team using
the Hartland Hi Tech harness.
It is so light , strong and easy to use, just the thing for a team!!