Jirrima Performance Horses

Last updated
5th November, 2008

Wagga Wagga Horse Trials
Results

4th 1* Jirrima Variety Show
3rd Prelim Jirrima Yabba Dabba Doo
7th Prelim Jirrima Yorkshire

Congrats to CSUHT committee for doing everything in their capacity to provide a good weekend for the competitiors. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be able to get a break. The June event was cancelled due to the one day of rain we did actually get in winter and this time it was the dust the caused discomfort. No fake tan needed!

4 Horses for the weekend. J Variety Show and Yabba Dabba Doo were the stars. Variety Show finished on his Dressage score for 4th in the 1* while Yabba Dabba Doo was 3rd in the Prelim. Jirrima You be the Judge making his debut in the newcomers. he was very good for the little work he has had but the thought of getting those white socks wet was all to much for "Boots".

J Vareity Show 4th 1*	J Yabba Dabba Doo 3rd Prelim	J You be the Judge	J Yorkshire 7th Prelim

30th Anniversary Celebrations

Our first foal of the season marks our 30th Anniversary for breeding horses(Jirrima Slopes Arabians) and the 10th Anniversary for breeding performance horses(Jirrima).
Oh Boy, is she a nugget and a half. An Irish Sporthorse by J Vintage Jet. She is extremely athletic and very cheeky. Already named "Daddy's Girl". Four white socks and you should see her move them!

Daddy's Girl

Baxter Boots NSW State Eventing Championships~ Lynton

Winner Oakgate Rising Star Award and 7th 1* ~ J Variety Show
3rd Preliminary ~ J Yorkshire

Big turnout of top riders, beautiful location and a techincal course encouraged strong competition all weekend. Both horses performed well with no margin for error. Variety Show pulled the cat out of the bag and scored a 68%+ for the dressage to go into the lead in the class of 49. Unfortunately 11 time faults XC couldn't be avoided and let the more speedy combinations to jump ahead of us. Yorkshire also did his best dressage to date and finished 6th. He remained on his dressage score, even finishing the XC with 1 sec to spare and climbed to 3rd.

J Vareity Show Note the green green green grass!!	J Yorkshire

Congratulations to:

Everybody is full swing into competitions and enjoying their horses again after the pain of EI. I have received lots of news from Jirrima owners in the past couple of weeks

Update: Jirrima Unofficial Superstar, Partbred gelding was 3rd Elementary Dressage at Sutherland Shire Horse Owners Association Inc Event Day.

Update:
Rhonda reports from Queensland: "We've got two more shows to go before the end of the season, start off again in March. X-Roads has had a good year having about 20 outings. He has been quite competitive, being placed about 40 times with 11 wins, not all official though!"

J X-Roads These pics are the 1.10cm, which he was unplaced in (too slow) but he won the 1.20cm!!

Update: Maria Deleeuw riding Jirrima Royal Wish, Pure Arabian gelding, scored 74% at the Grampians Riding Club Dressage Jackpot Day to win Level 5

Update: Jirrima Smooth Sailor went to Queensland for the premier endurance event, the Tom Quilty. 160km Good Luck. 1st Junior 115km at Harden.

Update: Jirrima Yakety Yak, a 5yr old first cross andalusian has 5/6 champions showing, has won all his dressage outings and is doing a Young Horse Qualifier in Nov, He is currently a beautiful Blue Dapple grey. We are always having people offering to buy him!

Update: Lucy Kolomanski of Vic riding Jirrima Royal Command finished 8th at the pony Club of Australia National Dressage Championships 2007. Last time I heard from Lucy she was eventing Royal Command!

Jirrima Walk Tall

Just thought I'd let you know all is going incredibly well here... loving my boy! went xc with Nat Davies last week and he was fantastic... nothing bothered him at all in a group of 5 horses with a couple behaving badly 'walk tall' became the lead horse! he's taking good care of me. Thanks Deidre. Great to hear the good news. He is one very lucky boy!

Wagga Ag Show
2nd Pair of Hacks ~ J Yorkshire and J Ya Jet
1st Novice Hack ~ J Yorkshire
2nd Open Hack over 16.2hh ~ J Yorkshire
2nd 80cm SJ ~ J Yorkshire

A Big Thank You to Annie who was Head Groom and Cook for Wagga, Culcairn and Walbundrie Shows. I've never been so well fed at a comp!

Culcairn Ag Show
90cm 2nd J Yabba Dabba Doo 3rd J Yorkshire
D Grade 3rd J Variety Show
C & D Grade 3rd J Variety Show
Open 4th J Variety Show
1st Child's Hack ~ Hollie Atkins and J Ya Jet

Walbundrie Ag Show
J Variety Show ~ Champion Arabian Hack
1st Derivative Hack/Bridle Path Hack/Pleasure Hack
2nd Working Stockhorse
1.05cm J Yorkshire, Clear but rider missed jump
80cm J Yabba Dabba Doo , Clear

Canberra CIC
J Yorkshire ~ Preliminary~ 8th
J Variety Show 1* ~ 22nd~ 3rd after dressage
Jet Set Diva (X J Vintage Jet) Pre-Novice ~ 19th

A weekend where nothing seemed to go right. Mainly due to the fact that Variety Show's rego papers were not in the folder with his performance cards and so it looked as though he wasn't even going to get a run. Many thanks must go to the committee who bent over backwards to assist me in my dilemma. Variety Show produced a good dressage and finished 3rd in a strong class. Upon leaving the arena ID inspection was conducted. Aahh, where are the papers???? Must produce ID by next morning. Only walked the Prelim XC and glanced over 1*. Next morning 50mins before XC ride I manage to get the green light but must now organise gear and find out where the course goes let alone distances. Variety Show is excellent on course and is starting to show greater confidence in this class. Hestitates alittle at the top of the bank and cops an unlucky 20 penalities. SJ is also coming together. Very pleased with his performance even though result doesn't reflect his progress.

Jirrima Yorkshire had his first Prelim start and showed alot of promise. Finishing 3rd in the dressage is good as he still gives so many marks away. He doesn't batter an eyelid at the various new types of jumps or the bigger XC fences. His showjumping was disappointing, however. I think he will be going to a few Ag shows to fix this>)

Ken Gibbs Memorial August Comp

Open 1.35m 4th J Unbeleivable

J YoubetheJudge had his first competition and behaved beautifully amongst the other horses in the congested warm-up arena. He also jumped well but clearly beaten by those speedy kids on their PC mounts.

Spring Competitions are starting

Congratulations to Hunter Doughty and his JVintage Jet youngster who had their first Pre-Novice start on the weekend at Friends of Werribbee. They improved on their 14th after the dressage with a solid XC to finish in 8th place.

One the same weekend Hollie Atkins had success with J Ya Jet also a Vintage Jet offspring with a Res Champion Pony Club Rider.

Competition Updates:

Hunter Doughty and Jet Set Diva (X J Vintage Jet) started their spring campaign with their best foot forward when they won the preliminary at the Sydney Eventing July Weekend ODE with an impressive 77% dressage test to put them in the lead and was able to finish on her dressage score. Then at Harden Horse Trials 2nd in Dressage with 72% and again finished on her dressage for 2nd place in prelim, Hunter has now set his sights for Pre-Novice at Friends of Werribee in September.We wish them the best of Luck.

Aimee Rixon and J Xecutive have had pleasing results at the Kyabram and Tocumwal PC ODE's finishing 3rd each weekend in grade 3. They are now training for their first Grade 2 ODE in a couple of weeks.

Latest J Vintage Jet Offspring going undersaddle

This photo was taken after only a handful of rides. This impressive gelding will be starting his saddle career this spring.

Weanlings graduate from'Bootcamp'

Over the past few weeks the weanlings have been taking part in 'Bootcamp' and all have graduated with A+'s. During their time they had to complete a number outcome based components each with its own assessment task. The mandatory Tie Up, Lead, Feet handled and Rugging were pre-requisites for the second term units. Obstacle course including water jump, checkerplate bridge, dragging bags and ropes, loading and unloading off truck, leading in groups of 2,3 or even 4 and just to finish things off, drenching! No wonder they were glad to stretch their legs in the paddock on graduation day!!

Cobram PC ODE
Sunday was a magical day. I was curled up in front of the wood fire listening to the glorious rain tumble down on the tin roof. I did spare a thought to those more dedicated or mad than I who went one day eventing in the cold, wet conditions of Cobram. Holly continues to form a solid partnership with her new mount Ya Jet. Competing at a new grade they finished 3rd. Special congrats to Amelia who competed in her first ODE. Look forward to seeing you at the next one. Also competing on a Jirrima horse was Aimee who finished with a clear SJ and XC after a 3rd in the dressage.

Holly & J Ya Jet	J Xecutive & Aimee

Congratulations to CSU

On Wednesday 9th July, Charles Sturt University officially opened its new Veterinary Teaching School. This state of the art facility cost $8 million and although is able to perform small animal procedures is prodominately an equine facility. The facility is designed for the training of undergraduate students in clinical veterinary medicine, surgery, diagnostic imaging and reproduction and also includes Ultrasound, scintigraphy, tomography. The complex will also be open for the general community to take advantage of.

CSU Veterinary Clinical Training Centre	General Courtyard	X-ray and Surgery Room

Updates

Jirrima Ya Jet and Holly Atkins enjoyed success at Narandera last weekend with a first for the Riding class and then teamed with Aimee Rixon and Jirrima Xecutive to win the pairs. Well done girls!
Hunter Dougherty continues to do well with Jirrima Vintage Jet daughter Jet Set Diva. They enjoyed the great Canberra weather in the Prelim Division at the Horse Trials. Another Jirrima youngster enjoying the Canberra weather is 4yr old Arabian Warmblood filly Jirrima Yasmin and her new owner Kirsten Whiting who has commenced her dressage career with success at the Monaro Equestrian Centre Dressage Days in the Preliminary sections.

Canberra HT

Results
J Yabba Dabba Doo 11th Prelim
J Yorkshire 8th Intro even after speeding!!!

After the disappointment of the previous week (Wagga HT) we headed to Canberra, a place well known for its bitter weather and would you believe they had the most perfect weather you could have hoped for! Only two on the truck this time, which was nice to really focus on the one horse rather than racing back to get the next one ready.

Both horses performed well Yabba Dabba Doo has really come along in his dressage during the past weeks. Unfortunately rider had a lead foot on the XC for Yorkshire so after sitting 4th probably slid down the order.

Last event for the season.

J Yabba Dabba Doo	J Yorkshire

Melbourne 3 Day Event Update

J Variety Show Dressage m3DE	J Variety Show XC m3DE

Well, what a week it was! Overall I am very pleased with our performance. The dressage was most pleasing as J Variety Show returned to his normal reliable self and produced a lovely calm and accurate test but this time the work we had been doing at home to increase the bounce and swing also started to show. So at the end of day one we were sitting 8th on 51.2 penalties behind leader Seaumus Marwood on 45.7 penalties. Day 2 was a rest day for us while the remaining 20 competitors in the 1* did their dressage test. So after two days of competition we were sitting 9th.

The Cross Country was a little more challenging than the previous year but again was a beautiful solid and jumpable course, although there were some sticky moments for many, most made it home with no penalties. JVariety Show put in some fantastic jumps and really settled into a rhythm during the second half of the course. Unfortunately, he wasn't settled by the first water jump and incurred 20 faults at the second element. On the reapproach he put in a huge jump into the water and jumped the mushrooms out with ease. In hindsight I really should have ridden this fence differently to my original approach, but one must live and learn. In all a costly day down to 43rd position.

Final day, very early start for the 7am trot up and we are given the green light to get ready for the Showjumping. David Sheppard designed a lovely course in the indoor arena which was to prove very challenging. The first 8 riders averaged 12 penalties and then it was Variety Show and all those days doing Showjumping at the Ag Shows has certainly paid off as we were the first and only one of thirteen out of 48 to have a clear round. So after the three days we finished in 34th position from 43 finishers and 60 starters. Already looking forward to next year!

Thanks to everybody for their support and well wishes throughout the week. It was really very nice!

Wagga Wagga Dressage May Comp

Debut for J Walk Tall, behaved perfectly and scored 68% in his first dressage test:)
J Yabba Dabba Doo and J Yorkshire fought it out in the Prelim. Looser had to buy chocolate for the other.

4th 68% J Yorkshire
6th 67% J Yabba Dabba Doo
5th 62% J Variety Show

Ballarat Horse Trials ~ May 2008

Results

2nd Jirrima Yorkshire
7th Jirrima Yabba Dabba Doo
16th Jirrima Variety Show

J Yabba Dabba Doo Preliminary	J Yorkshire Introductory	J Variety Show CNC 1*

In the week prior to Ballarat I made the idol comment that the afternoons were getting cold quite early. Since returning from 3 days in Ballarat I have had no problems wearing T-Shirts well after dark. Who in their right mind would voluntarily live at that place? Cold was the understatement. First XC ride on the Sun meant three layers of clothes (normally wear T-Shirt XC). Came back and found another 2 layers before the next XC round and still froze.

J. Variety Show sympathized with me and together we didn't have the best of weekends. Nothing really went right, niggling errors in the dressage, SJ was good with an unfortunate rail on a technically challenging course (many riders had 3 and 4 rails). XC was not great which was disappointing after the positive round at Wangaratta. I headed to the warm-up 15 minutes before my start time but organizers changed their minds as to the time between riders. This meant a 30 minute wait. A fall on course and we blow out to 50 minutes. We were frozen to the bone and never really settled into the twisty course and an uncharacteristic 20 faults resulted.

J. Yorkshire was the star of the weekend and could do no wrong. I had altered his training program at home over the last three weeks and am already seeing the positive influence it is having to his performance. He finished the weekend on his dressage score and only his jockey's absent mind(error of course) in the dressage cost him a win.

J. Yabba Dabba Doo also had a good weekend. An improved dressage from Wangaratta, clear SJ and a speedy confident XC put a solid performance on his record book.

Looking for a home

Full sister to J Variety Show, successful 1* Eventer, Supreme champion show horse and champion dressage horse.

Jirrima Zafirah would suit dressage or jumping and would be an assest to any future breeding program.
Arabian Warmblood Bay Filly, 3yr old. Ready to start saddle career. Lovely bodied filly, with three powerful ground covering paces.
Sire: HP Lonzo( X Lander) Dam: J. Onyx

For more info go to Sales

Jirrima X Roads has gone 'C' Grade

Update from Queensland. Now with the lift of EI bans. Jirrima X Roads has started showjumping again. This talented 5yr old has just been graded 'C'. He already has 2 points and is happily jumping 1.45m fences.

Wangaratta Horse Trials

Results
1st Jirrima Ya Jet Intro (He won Training last year.)
5th Jirrima Variety Show 1*
22nd Jirrima Yabba Dabba Doo Prelim
11th Jirrima Yorkshire Intro
2nd Jirrima Xecutive Intro (Congrats Aimee)
Jet Set Diva Prelim (Congrats Hunter)

J Ya Jet	J Yorkshire	J Xecutive	J Yabba Dabba Doo	Jet Set Diva
J Ya Jet	J Yorkshire	J Xecutive	J Ya Jet	J Variety Show

What a weekend. Four horses went to Wang this year, so indeed it was always going to be busy. Variety Show was having his first 1* start, Yabba Dabba Doo his first Prelim start, while Yorkshire was having his first eventing start. Another Jirrima connection at the event was Jet Set Diva(X Jirrima Vintage Jet) ridden by Hunter Doughty, from Wagga. Jet Set Diva was having her first Prelim start after confidently completing Intro at Wandin HT in the previous weeks.

It was easy to locate the Oxley Reserve, just look for the cloud of dust high in the sky above the hundred or so riders working down their horses on the Friday evening. Saturday saw the dust continue in the warm-up arenas, no meals required but definitely teeth cleaning was needed. Yorkshire had an early ride of 8am. Yuk! However, he saw no hassles and produced a calm test with improvements from Wandin positioned 11th. So the bar was set for the remaining three. Ya Jet had a point to prove as this was his last outing on the Jirrima truck before beginning new adventures at his new home. He produced a solid performance and went into the lead. Very pleasing to see in the same section was Jirrima Xecutive with his new rider Aimee Rixon. He did a lovely test and was only a couple of points off the lead. Variety Show was tackling his two track work with gusto and gave the 3.2 test a real crack, he settled in for third. Yabba Dabba Doo didn't think much of the harder tests for Wang and believed sitting trots are only for fools, mid- field for him. Saturday didn't stop there though, Intro horses had to do their showjumping. Xecutive jumped clear putting the pressure on Ya Jet. He didn't buckle though and also jumped clear. Yorkshire is still discovering were his feet are and had 8 faults.

Those above must have heard the unrelenting complaints from Saturday, as that night it began to RAIN and rain and drizzle. So XC Sunday was a repeat of last year, wet and greasy. Variety Show was second horse on course and handled the bigger grade like a pro. Double apex's and double oxers and not to mention that sunken road, all clear! Slightly over on time but nothing to worry about. Yorkshire, Ya Jet and Yabba Dabba Doo all followed suit. All clear:) Xecutive stayed hot on our heels with a clear XC. This meant a Jirrima 1,2 double in the Intro class!!

Another performance of note was Guest of Honor and Andrew Cooper who were 1st in the 1*(Div B). Guest of Honor is a half brother to Jirrima Cool Dawn.

First of the A's under saddle!! Jirrima Air Hostess

Very impressed not only by her party trick of cracking stockwhips but she also looks the part when going. We are continually impressed by the Vintage Jet progeny.

Wandin Horse Trials on the Easter Weekend
Results
J Yabba Dabba Doo 2nd Introductory
J Ya Jet 6th Introductory
J Yorkshire 4th Young Event Horse

Always an event to look forward to. Unfortunately this year definitely had its ups and downs. After arriving friday evening, unloading and giving Yorshire and Yabba Dabba Doo a gentle work, noticed the Variety Show was out of sorts. He quickly deteriorated and we had to seek the assistance of a vet. Not the easiest thing to do on Easter Friday Long Weekend!! Some 3hrs later Variety Show is looking more comfortable and hoping for a good prognosis. The morning is a different story and the vet has a return journey and I will be glad just to get him home in one piece. Neither to say he was scratched.

So only the young horses to compete. With the worry of Variety Show there wasn't much time to spent on warm-ups etc. So I was really pleased with the mature attitude of all three youngsters. J Yorkshire creates an impressive picture and all judges gave really positive feedback, including "Big, Bold and Beautiful" from Richard Mitton who judged the paces section. He just showed moments of greenness giving the older horses the edge.

Both Ya Jet and Yabba Dabba Doo backed up from Wodonga Show with pleasing performances in all three sections. Yabba Dabba Doo finishing on his dressage score while Ya Jet just added 4 faults from the Showjumping.

Big thanks to Kathy Minchin, Andrew Whiting and the Wandin Park HT Committee for their assistance with Variety Show.

J Yabba Dabba Doo 2nd Introductory	J Ya Jet 6th Introductory	J Yorkshire 4th Young Event Horse

Wodonga Show
Results
Yabba Dabba Doo 3rd 90cm
Unbelievable 2nd C and D
Variety Show 3rd C and D, 4th A and B Open

Showjumping if you can find the jumps from the dust. Border District Showjump Club hosted the program and tried their best to overcome the dust bowl created by the earthworks program that is currently in progress at the Wodonga Race Course. The course was watered throughout the day to reduce effect which is more than can be said for the Hack ring which spent all day cantering around in a haze.

Yorkshire, Ya Jet and Yabba Dabba Doo all started in the 90cm with Ya Jet and Yabba Dabba Doo jumping clear and into the jump off. Yorkshire had an unfortunate 4 faults but has really progresed from his outing at Gundagai a fortnight ago. In the D Grade Variety Show and Unbelievable both had 8 faults. Disappointing as they had both being going clear the previous weeks. They redeemed themselves in the C and D to finish 2nd and 3rd. Many combinations were unable to successfully negotiate the difficult combination oxer to upright to oxer all 1.20m and 1.20m wide on the oxers.

Next, was the challenge. Variety Show for the A and B event. Course was set around 1.35 and oxers were wide. One clear round as the short distance in the treble proved to be a challenge. Variety Show jumped very well as his first A and B start. Finished 4th.

Geelong HT and Tonimbuk HT
Back to Eventing. Bring on the XC!! For the last two weekends J Variety Show has brushed off the cobwebs and hit the eventing trail. First was Geelong, glorious weather and a relaxed atmosphere led to good performance. Clear XC and SJ to finish 2nd.
Next was Tonimbuk. Now was that a drive and a half. No prob's to Melbourne but then who would think of driving through the centre of Melbourne at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend? So as we hit the Bernlie? Tunnel Variety Show decides the he needs a leak. You have no idea how much that tunnel echoes as he stomps his feet indicating that we should stop immediately and off load. Yeh Like fun! So for the next 3hrs I refine the art of riding the clutch while Variety Show tap dances in the back:))
Again beautiful weather all weekend. Although a good dressage test just didn't nail it and the division was strong. Made up ground in the XC with a fast clear to finish 6th.

Photo Credit: Derek O'Leary