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Colchester’s Rambler and I
went to Bathurst and had a really exiting time
there, what a super show incorporating Sanaf
graded and ungraded showing classes and jumping
and dressage. The show spread over four days.
Of the four 90cm show jumping events we entered
we came 3rd in three of them. In the
Dressage prelim we came 2nd, working
riding showing we came 4th. Just a
month later we went to Grahamstown for the
Settlers Show. Once again all the Sanaf
disciplines were incorporated. Our first
achievement was to get 60% in both the prelim
dressage tests giving us a 4th place,
not bad for a five gaited boerperd! In the
showing we entered the Working Riding class and
were placed 2nd thus having to
compete in the Champion Working Horse on the
Sunday, we achieved Reserve Champion in this
class and some great complements from an
international judge Mr. Greg Gross – so proud of
my Cape Boerperd competing against top quality
thoroughbreds and warm bloods. In the show
jumping we came 2nd in the 90cm
championship class on the Sunday. These
achievements spread over all the disciplines are
really testament to a horse breed of great
versatility and temperament.
Colchester’s Rambler is now 8 years old and I
have owned him for nearly four years. Together
with my instructor Tracy Kennedy of the
Homestead Equitation Estate in St. Francis Bay
we have worked hard on getting him to carry
himself in a way that is acceptable to the sanaf
disciplines of dressage and showing. The show
jumping seems to have come naturally and he is
very honest and safe to jump loving every moment
of it.
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Fotos geneem tydens die Performance kompetisie gehou te Hofmeyr
skou tussen die Kaapse Boerperd Performance team en OP Saalperd
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Go to this website to view pics of the
SA Champs 2010
http://silvermane.co.za/index.php/component/option,com_rsgallery2/Itemid,71/gid,192/
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Champion 5 gaited childs Riding horse / Stephan
Muller trofee
Skarumba - Jeanri Meyer
SA Champion Child's 3
gaited riding horse - Tibsaraeny/Frost
Trofee
Indiana Liewe Lulu - JP
Marais
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SA
Champion Single Harness
"Kaptein"
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SA
Champion Fine harness
"Lady Jane" - Hannes
Visser
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SA
Champion 3 gaited riding horse
"Indiana Coco" -
Francois Marais
 SA
Champion 5 gaited
"Skarumba" - Jeanri Meyer
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JHORDAN HIJACK - A
CHILD'S BEST FRIEND
We live in Cape Town, in
Rondebosch. The forest is still relatively safe for
the kids to ride in on their own, so they spend a
lot of time riding out up the mountainside. Jack
really enjoys that.
He has an interesting and strong
personality, and he is very expressive: if she
annoys him he will happily throw a buck, or swish
his tail around like a helicopter, and generally
tell the world that he is annoyed...likewise, if he
is happy, his ears are pricked, his tail goes
straight up like a real show off and he springs
along. He can be a real ninny...he's petrified of
lots of odd things, like man hole covers, water
puddles (although he likes to swim), flapping
umbrellas and jackets going on or coming off a
mounted rider, and yet he was happy to go to the
beach and splash in the waves, and he loves Socks
the stable cat, who will sit on his head and jump
off his face, even head butt him in the paddock!
He is thoroughly his own self, not a bit of
meanness, just a positive sense of what he will do
and what he won't, like it or leave it! He comes
when you call him (but equally can be impossible to
catch if he doesn't feel like it!) He goes a
stunning copper red colour in mid summer...he loves
the hose pipe and holds it in his teeth, with the
water gushing through his mouth. He has very good
feet which we have kept bare foot (no shoes), just
get a manicure every 5 weeks.
He is always the centre of attraction at shows
with the kids...he is very sociable and they
always hang out with him...he loves to kiss and
wiffle with his soft nose, he tries to steal the
bacon out of egg and bacon rolls, and he's happy
to follow along like a big dog on the end of his
lead rope while we cruise and chat between
classes.
He is a wonderful companion and friend and the best
pony a child could wish for on the ground..he
happily has hordes of kids in his stable (quite
often gets used as the Pony Club model), lets Emma
fiddle and faff with night bandages on his legs, is
a pleasure to deal with in bathing, plaiting and
feeding. He's always game and tries his best.
His main accomplishments so far are:
Western Cape Pony Club
Children's Victor Ludorum Winners 2008
(Hi-Jack has Pony Club colours for Equitation and
Showjumping) and he won all the Open events at Pony
Club Inter Regional in Cape Town last year -
Elementary dressage, Open showjumping and Open
equitation.
WP Pony Rider Lower Grade
Showjumping Champions for 2008 (based on
points for the year, combined E, D and C grades)
WP Summer Open Pony Rider
Equitation Super League winners 2009
WP Open Equitation Team
2009 for Pony Riders SA Champs in George
WP Pony Rider C-grade
showjumping team that won first place at SA
Champs 2009 - Jack came 8th individually.
With Lauren Ferrey he was in the
Eastern Cape teams for Dressage and Showing for Pony
Rider's Champs 2007.
Jenny Dickerson (mother of 13 year old Emma)
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Cape Boerperd Performance
teams Cradock 2009
Sponsored by LWO
SA Boerperd vs Cape
Boerperd - Cradock 2009
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Cape Boerperd Performance
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Cape Boerperd Performance teams Cradock SA Boerperd Performance Team Cradock 2008 |
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To Contact Us:
Phone: +27 (0) 42 247 2296
Fax: +27 (0) 42 247 2296
Email:
ezelle@capeboerperd.co.za
P.O. Box 55
COOKHOUSE
5850
South Africa
Sekretaresse: (042) 247 2138
(072) 709 4224
capeboerperd@EquineSA.com
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