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01. Gemma Stevens

Johan-Some (Yo Yo)

It was such a shame after they all performed lovely dressage tests but although it was very much drying ground we felt that for our horses it just wasn’t going to dry enough this time. 

For Jalapeño & Johansome it would have been their first competitive runs this year and neither are huge fans of mud either! 

Now if we could turn back the clock and I’d had Arctic Soul on the lorry I wouldn’t have even questioned it!! We’d have been out there giving it a good go!

I have no doubt people have had great runs today  but I felt it wasn’t the right thing to at this time of year and this stage with our horses who all have exciting plans this year!

It looks like we could have good weather forecast for the next few weeks and so we are quietly starting to think we might be able to look forward to the rest of the season with some super fit horses. Bring it on! 

I do want to say a massive thank you to Stuart and his team at BEDE Events, I thought they did an amazing job despite the weather and it was a fantastic course (a real pre- Badminton test) and I can tell you it was a seriously hard decision to make after two sleepless nights!! 🙄🙈 

A huge thank you to our wonderful owners who all fully supported our decisions this weekend - the horses ALWAYS come first with us all which is so important! 

Onwards and upwards now and we can’t wait to put all the training we have done over the winter into practice!
 
Absolute love all of the pictures of our three very special horses by the amazing Hannah Cole Photography, AGAIN.

We very sadly decided not to run our 3 lovely 4* horses at Thoresby. 

02. Gary Stevens

03. Charlotte Overton

We are thrilled to welcome Green Mile Bedding to Team Stevens as our bedding sponsor!

I’m really excited to be working with Green Mile Bedding. We have used many different beddings over the years, but Green Mile stands out from the others. It boasts a variety of health benefits for the horses, being lovely and clean, as well as dust free and easy for the yard team to manage!

Welcoming Green Mile Bedding to Team Stevens

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

Chilli Knight (Alfie)

Cooley Park Muze (Rex)

Cooley Couture (Penny)

Chilli's Jester (Jester)

Chilli King (Raff)

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 
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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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The Brendon Stud boys were pretty awesome this weekend! Thank god because Eventing this year seems pretty tricky! 🌧️🌧️ 

We started the weekend on plan, jumping (and  coming 2nd) in the 1.40M Handicap at Pyecombe on the Brendon Stud's lovely stallion Pandito Van't Merelsnest Z (Wifi)

We then set sail to Gatcombe on Saturday morning with Flash Cooley, Chilli King and Ophelie Van Prinseveld for the OI.

We enjoyed our rainy drive down the M4 for 3.5 hours to find out the rain had taken it's toll on the ground and the class had been abandoned.

So sorry to all organisers and everyone involved, it’s so much hard work and also Gatcombe is one of the absolute BEST events. Such a shame. Yet again another event cancelled due to weather! 

We then managed to  turn around in the gateway and cause utter carnage because I was absolutely not going to get stuck!!

I’m going jumping! 

So, off to Pyecombe we go to jump the 5 Bar Challenge with the Brendon Stud's other lovely stallion, Envoy van't Merelsnest Z (Dime Bar) He was a super star and won the class!

Then yesterday Klent Spot On (Kung Foo) was 3rd on the boss's orders in the Foxhunter and Wifi and Dime jumped unreal in the summer GP for 1st and 2nd. Such good boys. 

A rained off Gatcombe resulted in great show at Pyecombe this weekend

Firstly, what a week for British Showjumping!
It was genuinely unbelievable to watch the boys win the Nations Cup and that second round of John Whitaker’s was something else! Complete and utter brilliance 🤩
Then for Rob to win the King George on the lovely 10yo Vermento was so cool too - we have a yearling colt by him out of MGH Candy Girl!! Eeeekkkkk!! 🫢
I was incredibly lucky to be asked to ride for the BRENDON STUD.
First up was Pandito Merelsnest Z, (WiFi) a REALLY lovely 8yo stallion. We competed in the International 1* 8yo classes and I have only been riding him a week! We had some brilliant rounds and qualified for the final with some very big jumps. We had one green rail in a double but we were all so thrilled with how he went. What a future he has. Love him ❤️

Our lovely Dime Bar was 2nd in a 1.35m and then had a go at the Queen Elizabeth Cup! What an absolute honour to compete in such a historic class. 
Unfortunately he was a bit tense and worried and so had some mistakes at the beginning of the round but that’s horses for you and especially such a sensitive boy - we both learnt a lot! 

7yo stallion Klent Spot On was 2nd and qualified for the newcomers final at the September show, AND 4yo stallion - Gins Bud (yes I rode a 4yo) did some lovely educational, no pressure rounds getting him ready for Bolesworth young horse show! 

A super busy week, but our brilliant teams from home and from Brendon Stud made it happen!! What a lucky girl I am! ☺️


We had a very busy week but totally loved every second of it. 
We had some fab results with our own team, with Cinsey Blue PS qualifying for the B and C final in the main ring, just having one green rail in the final.
She was also the best 7yo in a very decent 6/7yo class to qualify for the final at the September show. 
Our young event horses, Cooley Couture, Cooley Park Muse and Chilli King put in some super rounds too!
I did one of my all time favourite classes - the Eventers GP with Santiago Bay and Flash Cooley this year🏇🏿💨
As always it was a brilliant and very exciting class!! 
Santiago Bay put in a brilliant and very fast round unfortunately adding 2 rails near the end and Flash Cooley, as defending champion, was last to go and flashed his way around until his stupid jockey asked him for a long one at the last. He wasn’t so keen so we rather went through it as a complete (rude word) up!!! We finished 2nd and 3rd which was a great result but I was very cross with myself!

Royal International Horse Show write up

It was a fantastic afternoon for Gemma and her two entries in the The Ashby Underwriting Eventers Challenge at the Royal International Horse Show, Hickstead this afternoon, finishing 2nd with Cooley Park Muze and 3rd with Santiago Bay.

Drawn 5th to go on Santiago Bay (Kizzy) Gemma set a great pace around the track, setting the time to beat of 130.52.

Gemma held the top spot until 15th drawn Fred Scala shaved just over a second off of Gemma's time, crossing the line in 128.84.

Last to go was Gemma and her second ride, Cooley Park Muze who finished half a second behind Fred, in a time of 129.59 seconds.



A double podium finish in The Ashby Underwriting Eventers Challenge at Hickstead

Brooke, Action For Working Horses and Donkeys, is an international charity that protects and improves the lives of horses, donkeys and mules which give people in the developing world the opportunity to work their way out of poverty.

Gemma is very proud to be an ambassador for this fantastic charity and support the work they do around the world.



Ambassador for Brooke, Action For Working Horses and Donkeys

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An Italian based company producing beautiful lightweight stirrups. Made from aluminium and combining safety with style, their range of stirrups and accessories is a great addition to any riders kit list.

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Johan-Some (Yo Yo)

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