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01. Gemma Stevens

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Photo Credit: Hannah Cole Photgraphy

Not the result we were hoping for this week  leaderboard-wise but we have a very happy, healthy, none-the-wiser ginger pony who is an out and out winner in our eyes… 🧡
He tried SO hard to jump out of Huntsman’s and he would have actually won without the flag penalties too 😬
He showjumped unbelievably around a really technical and tough track for one light touch, I was so proud of the way he jumped today. 
I am so very fond of this little horse, he might not be the flashiest or fastest but he has the heart of a lion and gives me everything he’s got every time we compete.
One day I will do it… I’m so determined to win on the greatest stage in the world. I’ll just have to keep at this eventing malarkey for a bit longer won’t I?! 

We’ll re-group and go again at the next one! 
A HUGE thank you to my whole team, I can’t say it enough - without them, none of us would have been here this week - they are quite phenomenal.

Special thank you to Alfie’s owners Chris and Lisa for their ongoing unwavering support. 

To Charlotte for caring for Alfie’s every need and my husband Gaz for constant encouragement. 
All my family, my girls and my friends, you’re all a massive part of it. Thank you 🙏🏻 🥰

Cross Country day was quite a day!
Having to wait so long to jump round the biggest track in the world is never fun, but my team and I had our plan and Alfie and I arrived at the start box feeling prepared and 100% ready to trust in each other! 
Getting this horse back to 5* has taken a village and all I wanted to do was bring him home safe for them all 🧡
Having said that he never changes no matter where he is, the little monkey went on to prove me wrong yesterday and was WILD out there! 
It wasn’t my most stylish round and there were places I would have liked to have had a little more control, but that’s what we got for having him fitter than he has ever been, he absolute ate it all up out there - what a horse! 
While our 15 flag penalties were annoying and dropped us out of the top 5, I have a healthy, happy ginger pony having jumped around one of the toughest Badminton courses I have ever seen! 
Alfie thinks he jumped clear - so we’re not going to tell him otherwise! 🧡🧡

A HUGE thank you for all of the lovely messages, pics and videos we’ve received - they’re all gorgeous - thank you! 

And to Charlotte Overton who has looked after both me and Alfie so well this week, Alfie’s owners, personal assistants (my incredible team), our sponsors and my amazing family - thank you for supporting us - we’ll head out today to complete and look forward to the next one ☺️

Back to day 1, Dressage!

Where do I even start with this incredible horse?! 🧡
Alfie was an absolute dream to ride wherever we are… even in the main arena at Badminton!!
He might not be as flashy as the likes of London 52 or Valegro but he always tries his very best and allows me to ride every single movement, step and blade of grass. 
I couldn’t have been more proud of him, he just went in there and did his thing and sat us in =10th going into the Cross Country 🧡

(To be in the top ten after dressage was a massive stretch goal of mine 🤭🫣)

Charlotte Overton had Alfie looking out of this world today - there is absolutely no way we could have got him here without her or the rest of my incredible team - their attention to detail and commitment to the horses is utterly amazing 🙏🏻



Chilli Knight (Alfie)

03. Charlotte Overton

My Badminton 2024 round up with Chilli Knight (Alfie)!

The star of the show was Envoy Merelsnest Z (Dime Bar) who won the 1.45 GP on Monday, having already won the 1.40 on Saturday!

We adore him and I’m so lucky to have the opportunity to ride him. Thank you to the Dime Syndicate and Shirley Light. In 2nd place in Saturday's 1.40 was the Brendon Stud's Pandito Van't Merelsnest (WiFi) he’s been away competing and winning with the amazing Richard Howley so I was very anxious to try and do him justice. Phew 😮‍💨 good boy!! 

RSH Monbeg Marshal (Basil) - who is for sale - came 3rd in the 1.30 on Saturday, and 2nd in the 1.40 on Sunday!

The Brendon Stud's Ashent Go Ballistic (Azure) was 4th in the Newcomers on Sunday, with Klent Spot On (Kung Fu) coming 5th in the Foxhunter, and then 3rd in Monday's Foxhunter.

WiFi won the 1.40 on Sunday with Basil coming 2nd!

It was great to have Johan Some back in the showjumping arena, with a lovely double clear in the 1.30. 💙💙 💙💙 💙💙 

It was a boys trip to Pyecombe with 4 stallions and 2 geldings all jumping superbly over the 3 days!

Photo credit: Hannah Cole 📸

Just when I thought last week was long! 

Today my alarm went off at 1.10AM, again Charlotte Overton and April Kitchener were earlier! 

5 horses, 4 humans 3 grown up dogs and 7 puppies to Osberton! 

The horses all went super around some really tough courses today. 

2x 🥈 places, the two 7yos both placed and one super but steady XC round. 

These 5 young horses are probably the best I’ve ever had so it’s worth it for them. The rebuild is real! 
I cannot thank my whole team enough, serious dedication. 
Gary Stevens for driving both ways, we needed that today. 💙💙 

Love these horses so much.


Chilli's Jester (Jester)

Chilli Morning IV (Quattro)

Chilli King (Raff)

Cooley Park Muze (Rex)

Cooley Couture (Penny)

The young superstars all have great runs at Osberton International

We managed to put the struggles of the last few weeks behind us and had some great runs on some very special horses!
First up was Cooley Park Muze owned by the Rex syndicate who had his first intermediate run and lead from start to finish with a super classy performance to take the WIN what a horse for the future 🥇 
Then Chilli’s Jester owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and Chris and Chris and Clare Mathias, and Cooley Couture owned by Pru Dawes were in the Novice. Both horses gave me such beautiful rides and  finished on their good dressage scores for 3rd and 8th - they are such classy young horses. 
Chilli King, also owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and Chris and Clare Mathias, was up next in the 3* he produced a super test and finished on it with a beyond classy double clear for 5th out of well over 80 competitors. This horse reminds me of Spike, his gallop is unbelievable, with so much scope and bravery. So exciting 👀
Last but definitely not least was Chris and Lisa Stone’s Chilli Knight who was having a prep run in the 4*. He performed a lovely test and a foot perfect double clear with planned time faults to give him a nice fitness run, keep him in one piece and to keep our eye in ready for that “pony club” event next month!! 
We could have been right up there with the leaders but I chose to keep it steady (much to Alfie’s disappointment!) and wait to unleash him in a few weeks time. 
5 horses 5 double clears and 5 brilliant XC rounds, feel like I’ve retrieved my mojo and am so excited that the rebuild is starting to come good. 
Thank you so much to Musketeer Events for putting on a brilliant event and organising such superb weather! It was like being in another country☀️
Huge thanks as always to all my team and my owners for being so very supportive - even through the rougher bits!
Thank god for some good results 🤪
📸 Hannah Cole Photography

What a weekend at Barefoot Retreats Burnham Market International Horse Trials!

Photo credit: Hannah Cole

Great day with 3 seriously talented novice horses on Sunday at Tweseldown. 
Cooley Park Muze was a winner with a foot perfect Novice run 🥇 
Cooley Couture produced a perfect double clear with a little bit of time XC and Chilli’s Jester had a valuable learning day but jumped a super clear XC in a decent novice. 
I’m completely thrilled with all of them and the feeling they give me in all 3 phases is unreal. Such talents for the future. 
Massive thank you to the whole team at Tweseldown for putting on this Event for us, it was brilliant with great courses and perfect ground!

The novice horses impress at Tweseldown!

For those of you who loved her like we did, we are thrilled to have sold the gorgeous Ophelie Van Prinsveld to the most fabulous new home!

She’s a very long way from here having landed safely at her lovely new base in Australia!🇦🇺 

A huge thank you to Lissa Green Eventing for being so brilliant to work with. We both pride ourselves on honesty and openness and it was such a breath of fresh air to work with her on this sale!

We wish Ophelia and her new owners a huge amount of luck and love! 🤎

We currently have some very smart and top competition horses for sale in the G S Sports Horses yard. We have both Eventing and Showjumping horses available with everything from babies (both discipline) to 2*/intermediate eventers and 1.40m showjumpers. 
Please get in touch if you are in the market for a new equine partner! 

Good luck to Ophelie Van Prinsveld in Australia 🇦🇺 

📸 Hannah Cole Photography

Good first run back at Tweseldown with all the gingers 🧡 (even if they were slightly fresh and pretended they had never jumped on grass before! 🤣🤣)
Strangely someone said to me my god all your horses look the same - that could be because I actually had 3 full brothers and a half sister at Tweseldown this weekend! 
Chilli Knight, Jalapeno & Chilli King were all having a very steady run in the OI on Saturday - there are some very exciting things in store for them this year!
The lovely Chilli’s Jester then won his 100 section on Sunday! This horse has come back from a very near death experience so it’s just incredible he’s back bouncing and so happy to be out. He’s such a massive talent for the future. 
🧡🧡🧡🧡 
Also well done to my stable jockey Hannah Lavender for a lovely DC and 4th on Tillingbourne, another ginger! 🤣🙈
A huge thank you and well done has to go to the Tweseldown organising team who had so obviously worked incredibly hard on the ground to give us the best possible footing! 


A great start to the 2024 eventing season!

5 horses over 4 days of jumping in every weather from “feels like” -10 degrees to gale force winds and rain. Thank god for our WeatherBeeta UK rugs to keep the horses snug and for Coldstream Equestrian for keeping me from losing my mind from the cold 🥶 

Dime Bar was an absolute star with placings in 2 1.40m classes and then jumped super in the ranking Grand Prix for just one down, we haven’t jumped a Grand Prix since August last year so I was thrilled and great practice for Spain! 
Cooley Park Muze (Rex) and Monbeg Marshall (Basil) were super all show with some great placings and they both learnt so much.
Cooley Couture (Penny) stepped up to jump in the 2 star 1.30m with a brilliant clear in the small tour Grand Prix - we’re all chuffed to bits with her - she’s only 7yo!
Chilli King forgot to pack his brain for this show 🙄, but it was very very good learning curve for him.

Huge thank you to Kelsall for taking the plunge and running a fab international. There were a few teething issues but the team were great at fixing them all quickly - it really is the most brilliant facility, with a top class surface for the horses. 
I will definitely be supporting in the future. 

If next time they could organise the weather to not be quite so horrific, that would be even better!! 🤪

Envoy Merelsnest Z (Dime Bar)

🤩 Brilliant, fast, careful, brave showjumper 🤩
Absolute super star of a horse sadly for sale. 

9yo 16.1hh bay gelding. 

This horse started out his career as an event horse, excelling with a perfect record and never touching a showjump! 

He has now turned to pure show jumping and is being absolutely brilliant. 

He has got his 4 Newcomers and Foxhunters double clears in just 4 outings! 

He came with us to Spain and was absolutely brilliant, winning at 4* 1.20m and 1.30m and stepping up to be placed at 1.35m and jump his first 1.40m clear!! 

He’s so careful, snaffle mouthed, easy to ride, he’s fast against the clock and absolutely loves his jumping. 

He absolutely has the scope for some bigger classes and with his Eventing background he would also be brilliant at Derby classes too - he’s so fast and careful he would be so competitive. 

He has a small amount of veterinary background but has been fully re-habbed and is absolutely fit to compete and have a long successful career. 
He’s a really quality, very well schooled seriously competitive horse for anyone to take on!

Decent but realistic 💰 required for a very special horse. 
Can be seen at Chard international this week - 18th - 21st April 2024.
 
gemma@gemmastevens.com 
07787531629

RSH Monbeg Marshall (Basil)

A fabulous Kelsall Hill International Show Jumping Show! 

I’m really looking forward to doing this demo for Horse&Rider Magazine at Merrist Wood Arena  on Thursday 26th October.

Tickets are available now for just £35 plus postage and doors open at 7pm with me hopping on my first horse at 7.30pm.

I will be bringing a mixture of young event horses & a few more experienced ones too as well as one of our lovely show jumpers!

We will explain the differences between them all and demonstrate how we train a very young horse to start understanding about jumping a skinny.

It will be a fun and entertaining evening with plenty to watch and learn about and I’d love to see you there - so much so that we are giving away two free tickets!

Head to 👉🏻 https://www.horseandrideruk.com/.../an-evening-with.../ to nab your tickets now! 
(They’re selling faster than we thought they would )


Don't miss an evening with Gemma!

Thank you for coming to read this. I’m on a little mission again. 

The horse I rode in the Hickstead Derby, Envoy Merelsnest Z (Dime Bar) is very sadly for sale.

He is only a 10yo so has plenty more fun years ahead of him. He’s an absolute sweetheart of a horse, very gentle and kind. 

You can find out more about Dime Bar on his profile here: 

https://gemmastevens.com/horses/envoy-merelsnest-z-dime-bar

We’ve struck up such a great relationship together in a very short space of time, and jumped some very big tracks! 

The aim would be to compete in as a many big shows and Derbys as we can fit in, which could be such a fun thing for people to be involved in. He would be the sort of horse that could jump in all the big GPs and world ranking classes, plus Derbys and even maybe puissance’s. 

There is plenty to still improve on,  and he will be very easy to pick up around our Eventing schedule. 

So if any of you or if you know if anyone that could be interested in a share in him then please let me know. 

You can contact me directly on:

gemma@gemmastevens.com

Thank you.

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