Osberton International Horse Trials
2*
6 th
CIC2* L
01. Gemma Stevens
on06. Chilli King
SIRE
DAM
SIRE OF DAM
2*
6 th
CIC2* L
01. Gemma Stevens
on06. Chilli King
CIC2*S
1 st
Millstreet International Horse Trials 4*
01. Gemma Stevens
on06. Chilli King
3 rd
ON
01. Gemma Stevens
onChilli King
National
13 th
ON
01. Gemma Stevens
onChilli King
Our 2022 Eventing season has come to a close with the very exciting 7yo Chilli King (Raf) competing in the CIC2* L at Osberton International.
Owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and Chris and Clare Mathias Raf is a big horse with undeniable 5* potential so we have really taken our time with him. He has been a little immature and so babyish until now, so he’s stayed at novice and 2* this year with no pressure and the time he has needed to grow and learn his trade.
It absolutely paid off this week when he was absolutely brilliant in all 3 phases finishing on his dressage score for 6th out of 128 starters!
He’s such an exciting horse for the future and is full brother to our amazing 5*
WINNER Chilli Knight which means I know how much heart he will have, it’s just my job to produce him in the right way. Watch this space!
The 2022 season hasn’t been quite what we’d hoped, losing my boy Arctic Soul was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to deal with. Add in some injuries to other horses, and it was a REALLY tough start to the season, but we managed to improve things a bit with a little mid-season marriage and some brilliant results by some truly incredible horses.
Now, I’m super excited to be heading to Vilamoura (Portugal) on a jumping tour with our 3 lovely jumpers and a new eventing ride I have for next year! 👀
I’m really enjoying the jumping and plan on keeping it up! But for anyone that’s worried I promise I’m not giving up the Eventing - we have a very exciting team of horses for next season!
Thank you to all of my amazing team, my loyal owners and super sponsors for all your support this year you really kept me going when it all got a bit tough!
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It’s a mission of a journey and we hit the ground running when we got back as we have the jumpers at Hickstead this week starting at 8am Wednesday morning! No rest for the wicked!
What a FANTASTIC event Millstreet is, from the friendly, helpful stewards & the fab parking attendants to the office team and the beautifully prepared and presented educational SJ & XC courses. The cherry on the top was the amazing ground on the XC - we absolutely WILL be going back!
All my horses went beautifully, their dressage tests just couldn’t have gone any better, their showjumping rounds were brilliant and huge improvements for both my young 7yo Chilli babies with just one very silly touch of one rail for Flash Cooley (very rare so we will forgive him…)
Every one of my horses gave me wonderful confident rides xc and I felt on good form too which is rare so super nice!
I felt all of the horses results were extremely well earned and deserved. Good ponies!!
🥇 Jalapeño owned by Chris and Lisa Stone 4*S
🥉 Flash Cooley owned by Pru Dawes 4*S
🥇 Chilli King owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and Chris and Clare Mathias 2*S
🥈 Chilli Wednesday owned by Chris and Lisa Stone 2*S.
Fantastic preparation for their autumn 3 days.
Thank you so much to my team at home for keeping all my other horses going. We had a win and a 2nd the first day of Hickstead with the jumpers and there is just no way I could do any of it without the whole team.