It's been a big day of upheaval for Copabella, Yandoo and Redleaf, which began with the sad process of weaning Luchia away from her mum Holland Rose, who returned to Redleaf to join the broodmare herd. Also joining the broodmare herd today was Courchevel, who is being temporarily retired to stud...

Freyr Colvin has been in touch with an update on her Visage filly, now six months old. Freyr reports: "Maisy is a complete delight with a very big personality. She is wonderful to handle,and leads really well, has been on the float, had a bath, ties up and is generally very amenable. I really...

Redleaf dominated the 1.10m class at Sydney Jump Club today. With Julia and Chris in New Zealand for the Horse ofthe Year Show, it was up to Aaron, Tom and Hayley to fly the flag, and fly it they did.Aaron won the class with Vertical Horizon and placed 4th with Gamelan, both double-clear. Tom...

There weren't many clear rounds at Camden today, with some quite tricky course building causing carnage, according to Julia, particularly in the 1.10m class. Georgie and Paris were not put off however, and went on to win the class with a text-book double-clear round, one of only four in the huge...

Sharon Ridgway's Puzzle completed a magic round in the 4-year-old class at Showjumping with the Stars today in Victoria, with Jamie Coman in the saddle. Jamie was understandably "gutted" when he realised he had missed one jump, meaning elimination. Both the Irish judge and Gavin Chester...

Stephen Smith reports being very happy with Layla's recent performance at Tooradin. Elmare Sporthorses, based in Victoria, purchased the Pinto mare from Copabella with a view to her joining the  broodmare herd. In the interim, they have a young rider campaigning her lightly, and the pair...

Proud part-owner Rona von Stein recently lined up an animal photographer to visit Copabella and get some shots of young Adonis. Unfortunately she also brought her Pugs, who kept stealing the limelight.Adonis (Visage-Krislin), bred by Karen O'Neile, is now rising three. He is the first Visage...

Excellent results from Scone on the weekend, with Chris and Alan Skinner's Haruzac leading in the 2-Star from the get-go. He also ran 4th in the 1-Star riding Electrocute. Aaron Moyes rode Gamelan in his first ever eventing outing, and was sitting 2nd after the dressage and showjumping, on his...

The final day at Castle Hill Show is a slightly more relaxed programme, focusing on height classes with divisions for Juniors, Young Riders and Open competitors.It was an ideal day to take Vigil and Vegas out for their first competitive go at 1.05m in the Open division, and the  boys were just...

It was a tightly fought class at Castle Hill today, with just six combinations making it through to the jump-off in the Mini Prix. And the winner was Julia riding Vedor, the only double-clear pair in the class. When the height was raised to at least 1.40m for the jump-off, there were rails as well...