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Tracey and Mishka training at home
England at elementary - individual 3rd (winner
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first days) team 4th Summer regionals elementary level 6th Summer regionals at medium level 5th and 8th
Tack room chat with... Tracey Kibler
Introduce yourself My name is Tracey Kibler and I have ridden all my life from the age of 5. I have lived at and run Newlands Grange Training and Livery yard in Northumberland for the last 15 years. I am a BHSII, UKCC level 3, centered riding level 2 riding coach. I competed at BE for 15 years before concentrating purely on dressage for the last nine years. I have just stepped up to advanced medium this year with my mare Mishka and am just about to take my 4-year- old Isabella out for her first preliminary test.
Tell us a little about your horses My Two horses are:- Mishka, a lovely 16.2hh ISH 16yo liver chestnut mare who is competing at British Dressage advanced medium level. I bought her as an unbroken 4-year-old and I have backed, produced and taken her
Tracey Kibler and Mishka in competition
through the grades. We are now competing at advanced medium and hoping to still go further. This season we have already qualified for the British Dressage Summer Regionals at medium level and for the Area Festivals at advanced medium level.
Pagani Furst (Isabella), a black 4-year-old, 16hh Olderburg mare by Furstenball.
I bought her as a just backed three-year-old who had been imported from Germany six weeks previously. I have been producing her this spring and we are just about ready to go out to our first competition.
What do you feel are your greatest achievements in your equine career to date? There are many days that I remember feeling we had done well, including:-
Senior inter regionals at elementary level - individual 5th, team 1st Home internationals representing
In early 2016, Mishka got laminitis and then injured a check ligament, so we had the whole of that year off from competing. This year we achieved our medium level qualification for the summer regionals before trying our hand at advanced medium level. We have only done two tests at this level so far, but have managed to qualify for the Area Festivals, so we will have a shot at that this year too. Not quite so recently, a homebred and produced horse Hindley Camargue (Buster) was my super event horse. We had many years with numerous wins in British Eventing competitions. The best one was winning on home soil at Hexham Horse Trials in a novice section. We were the only ones on the day to go cross country inside of the time; what a machine he was. He was by Eugano WB out of my ISH mare Hindley Tamsin, so not really built for speed.
What three tasks do you carry out on the yard each day? I have no staff so I run the yard on my own, with a little help from my sons who do the tractor work and the odd handy man job. Every day, my list of things to do includes: 1. Keeping the yard clean, tidy and functioning, which includes poo picking levelling schools, fixing fences general maintenance. Making sure the liveries have everything they need.
2. Being organised by keeping on top of messages, phone calls, paper work, entries, lessons, farriers etc.
3. Keeping the girls’ work and care routine up to date for their next competition. The days are never long enough and I often find myself still riding at 8-9pm.
Hacking along the private farm and woodland rides from Newlands Grange
What happens next? Looking ahead, I have great hopes for Isabella and my ambition is to train her up the levels and get as high as we can. I would love to ride in a tail coat and hopefully this will be on Mishka first, fingers crossed! I could also see myself one day being a breeder/owner and watching someone else ride my horses.
Finally, thinking of just one horse ... Mishka
Irish sports horse 16yo
Competing British Dressage advanced medium level Feeding regime – Mishka had laminitis 18 months ago. At this time of year (Summer) she lives out in a restricted grass paddock with access to hay. I believe this is much better for both their mobility and their brains. She comes in through the day, just how long for depends on the weather and flies. She is fed twice a day with Spillers light and lean balancer and happy hoof. She also gets a joint supplement, garlic, linseed and salt. I keep her routine as normal as possible on competition days; the only change is that I give her electrolyte salts for two days before, the day of and two days after a competition. She also gets these on days she has worked hard and sweated quite a bit or has travelled anywhere in the wagon.
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