British Pound Sterling

Gemma Stevens Equestrian

Business

winterGrey

Gemma's Story

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.

Would you like to join a syndicate with us?

17. Ophelie Van Prinseveld

01. Gemma Stevens

04. Jalapeno III (Jala)

16. Envoy Merelsnest Z (Dime Bar)

10. Cooley Park Muze

05. Flash Cooley (Casper)

09. Chilli Morning IV (Quattro)

06. Chilli King (Raff)

14. Cinsey Blue PS (Cinsey)

01. Arctic Soul (Spike)

13. Balou For Pleasure (Clint)

03. Chilli Knight (Alfie)

02. Santiago Bay (Kizzy)

07. Johan-Some (Yo Yo)

08. Chilli's Jester (Jester)

12. MGH Candy Girl (Candy)

15. Kildress Blackthorn (Miley)

⭐️⭐️Super star ⭐️ ⭐️ 7yo event horse for sale. Top horse for the future. 

Chilli Wednesday, 16.1 gelding by Chilli Morning. This horse would be easy and genuine enough for a junior but also has the talent to add to a professionals string. 
So much blood and gallop with a scopey jump. Brilliant brain on the flat and lovely paces. Always scores well. Recently 2nd in a  2 star Short at Millstreet with a great double clear and also a super clear XC in his first intermediate at Gatcombe. Fit and ready to crack on. 

For sale as his owner is cutting down. 
Good set of X-rays taken at the beginning of this year. 

07787531629 
Gemma@gemmatattersall.com

Chilli Wednesday

Y/S - Looking Chilli

Y/S - Quick Chilli

Y/S - Latseycopple Candy

Y/S - Moves Like Jagger

Just A Spice (Ali) is a very correct, blood, modern sporty type with a lovely kind outlook on life and an amazing attitude to learning. He has lovely soft athletic movement and a serious scopey jump with incredible ability even the very first time we jumped him, he was naturally so careful, clever and brave.

We truly think this horse could turn to Eventing or Show jumping with his blood and breeding he could be a top-class prospect for the future.

His pedigree is impeccable with Colmar competed at the very top level in the show jumping world under Shane Breen, behind Colmar we find Cornet Obolensky, another world stage winner and proven super sire.

The dam, Just a Chilli is by Chilli Morning who of course was the phenomenal stallion in the eventing world with the Olympic Games in his repertoire. On her dam line we find Catherson Liberator (by the full TB Liboi) who competed BE Advanced, PSG dressage and BS.

You can view his vet report here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GmvpFUcdUfL1wIBtzgEAVKQcCBcHYs7h/view?usp=drive_link

You can view his X-Rays here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rtNcyoaC6BISEIkrg9KNK7nhW8Z6RxWk/view?usp=sharing

Y/S - Just A Spice GSE

Y/S - Rockachilli Bella

Y/S - Fizzy Cola GSE

Y/S - Walk The Line GSE

Y/S - Mento GSE

Y/S - Chico's Luck GSE

Y/S - Silent Wings GSE

Y/S - Starburst GSE

11. Cooley Couture (Penny)

Chico Bella P

Y/S - Chico's Fortunato GSE

Y/S - Opal GSE

MGH Candy Girl was star of the show at Hickstead today, blazing around the Breen Equestrian 1.40m Open to take the win.

Having sped round the day before in the quickest time, just having the last rail, Candy truly deserved her win today in the International Arena.



A win for MGH Candy Girl at Hickstead!

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!

☀️👈🏻🚚💨

Osberton International 2022 - Team Tatt’s final event of the year!

What a great week we had with Jalapeño owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and Flash Cooley owned by Pru Dawes. 
Both did super tests with a few little mistakes here and there to lie 2nd and 10th respectively. 
I had the most amazing xc day with both horses flying around inside the time and finishing so strongly and feeling incredible, was beyond chuffed with them both!
They both trotted up perfectly the next day with a real spring in their steps!
Flash Cooley then jumped an immaculate clear SJ round to finish up 5th and Jalapeño unfortunately touched one back rail which fell to end up 7th - that was expensive! 
But 2 in the top 10 was a brilliant way to finish and to have Flash Cooley go so well around his 1st 4*L was just brilliant - I am so excited for the future with this plucky little super star. 
Jala is feeling as good as ever and maybe just maybe we can win a big one she’s so capable!
Massive thank you to Charlotte Overton who turned both horses out absolutely immaculately all week and works so hard at home as well to make sure they arrive in the best possible way. 
I know she’s very fond of both of these ponies and also loves Blenheim so it was a good week! 

Blenheim Palace International

Absolutely honoured, proud and lucky to have ridden and produced this gorgeous boy to his very first event. Chilli Morning IV (Genetically identical clone to Chilli Morning)
We have done some showjumping over the summer, but this was his very first dressage test and first xc. He was just lovely, first to go this morning, beautifully behaved for a stallion, 27.8 dressage and finished on it for a clean sheet at his first one! So chuffed. 
We finished 4th but honestly that just doesn’t matter as it’s all about building for the future. 
Thank you to Chris and Lisa Stone for giving me this opportunity. 
Hannah Lavender for helping with the schooling at home. 
And to Gaz for helping handle him as he can be a handful on the ground!! 
Here’s to a fun future with this lovely horse.

Chilli Morning IV's first event

Everyone, meet Cooley Couture (Penny), a beautiful new Eventing ride for me! 
Penny is a 5yr old and we have very high hopes for her future as we fully believe she has all the attributes to be a top class event horse. 
We will be very carefully producing her with future championship teams in mind 🤫
I want to say a huge thank you to one of my biggest supporters and friends Pru Dawes-Rowland, who owns the gorgeous Flash Cooley and now this lovely mare too. 
We couldn’t be more excited for the future with both of these very talented horses. 
A big thank you also goes to Richard Sheane and  his team at Cooley Farm for matching us with Penny - he delivered exactly what we asked him for!
Here’s to the future with a very, very exciting string of horses 😁

Introducing Cooley Couture

Because what is published online is so much about people's successes, I'd like to show when I make a mistake, so everyone knows it’s not always about the times we do well but sometimes about the times that we mess up! BUT I wasn’t going to let it get to me. Today Candy and I jumped in our biggest Grand Prix to date and second time for either of us at this level. The course was massive and really tough with two verticals at 1.60m, really wide oxers and tricky distances. I made the mistake of going too quick into the combination and paid the price of having to pull out at the last part because we were not going to get the distance. BUT we both fixed it, took a breath and jumped around the rest of the course clear! There was just ONE double clear and only two clears in the first round, it caused carnage, so although I’m super annoyed at myself for making a mistake I’m proud we managed to fix it and finished more confident than ever. AND we cleared that last vertical which was honestly just enormous! 
Moral of the story is….. we all make mistakes but it’s what we do about it that counts, get up, get on and make it better! 💪🏻
Candy is beyond a super star, she is just AMAZING 🤩 I LOVE HER!

The one with the whoopsie!

So pleased that our 4 lovely horses have made it to VillaMoura Equestrian Centre safely thanks to Gary and Charlotte who have driven and looked after them on the way down. 
They are now happy and settled in their stables, munching and drinking.
Absolutely thrilled with our new branding, keep your eyes peeled for a little announcement soon! We’re launching something exciting 👀


We've arrived in VillaMoura!

MGH Candy Girl you are a total FREAK of nature, the bigger you jump the better you get ❤️
Today we jumped in a MASSIVE 3* Grand Prix European Championship qualifier - stupidly big jumps (top of the wings infact!!) and so so technical as well, so much to think about! 
I’ve never counted strides like it! We had one touch but we were still placed in the money and Tina Fletcher pointed out to me that we were top Brit 🇬🇧 (Not bad for an event rider!)🤣🙈
Beyond CHUFFED. What a horse she is 🍭 🍬 🚀 
I can’t even begin to thank Isabel Fox (Candy’s owner) for giving me the chance to ride this unbelievable mare. 

Best of the Brits in the VillaMoura Grand Prix!

We can’t keep them secret any longer… Meet two VERY special 3 yr olds! 
Twins from our wonderful Quicklook with Chilli’s Prince (full brother to Chilli Knight!) as their sire - we aren’t sure you could get better breeding for Eventing!
Embryo transfer babies after we flushed two embryos (at the same time) from Quicklook, they planted in 2 different recipient mares and were born within 3 hours of each other!! 
This was their first ever time jumping under saddle! What naturals they are! 
They are both owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and I want to say a HUGE well done and thank you to Hannah Lavender for doing such a wonderful job of breaking them in. She has taken her time and made sure they are super confident with absolutely everything before moving on (and all while we’ve been competing in Vilamoura! What a team I have!
We can’t wait for their future. 

The secret is out!

First off the yard outing of year with some very exciting young event and jumping horses yesterday. 

All ridden as always in Childeric Saddles and Equitex pads and I’m dressed head to toe in fabulous Coldstream Equestrian who all support Team Stevens because they are the very best in the business!

In the order the horses appear:

Chilli Morning IV 
Cooley Couture 
Cooley Park Muse 
Chillis Jester 
Balou For Pleasure 
Cinsey Blue PS

The future is look VERY bright ⭐️

Out out for the first time in 2023 ⭐️

Having spent the last few years being a little low on horse power, we’re pretty sure we have built a lovely team back up and we’re ready and raring to go for 2023!

I personally think these are some of the smartest young horses around and we couldn’t be more  excited to show the world what they can do. 

We took them out XC schooling for the first this year and it was the first time with me for 3 of them! I got off each and every one absolutely buzzing (which is totally unlike me, XC schooling isn’t my favourite!)

In order of appearance - 
Chilli Morning IV - 6yo stallion
Chillis Jester - 7yo gelding
Cooley Couture - 6yo mare 
Cooley Park Muse - 7yo gelding (we’re looking to syndicate his ownership!)

The most exciting young horses around 💥

Absolutely thrilled with our lovely 7yo Cinsey Blue PS who jumped clear and nabbed 3rd in her first 1.40m. She really is stepping up to be a serious horse for the future. She was also 3rd in the 1.30m. So lovely to have her coming up through, she has absolutely done what I asked and stepped up after Candy left! LOVE riding her. 🥰🥰⭐️⭐️ 🧡🧡🧡 

Thank you to her owner Emma Lancaster and so glad she could be there to watch her first 140m!!

Cinsey Blue PS - the loveliest 7yr old jumper... 

Thrilled with all 4 of our lovely horses at the first event of the season at Poplar Park.

Chilli King had an easy run in the Open Novice and performed a lovely dressage and such an easy double clear for 5th. He’s very ready to step up now. 

Flash Cooley had a wonderful time in the OI for a 26 dressage and another super steady double clear for 8th, he’s feeling on top 🔝 form. 

Chilli Morning IV and Chilli’s Jester (making his first event appearance) both ran in the 100 with good dressage tests and steady educational double clears. 

4 dressage tests in the 20s and 4 lovely double clears at our first 2023
event…. I’ll take that! Good boys! 💙💙💙💙

Poplar is a great event with very educational xc courses, it might have been super cold and a VERY long day, but it was very much worth it!

A HUGE thank you to Hannah Cole Photography for the gorgeous pics of Flash Cooley - isn’t he just so cool!

Four tests in the 20s and four beautiful double clears...

Johansome (Yo Yo) headed out to his first party for a while! 

He was so so happy to be out at that wonderful Coombelands Equestrian, we are so so lucky to have such a brilliant facility so close with super courses and a great surface.

Yo Yo jumped a beautiful round in the 1.30m and he even added in some extra jumps just because he loves it so much 🫣🤪

He really is the most wonderful horse to ride, I’m so very very lucky and so excited to have him to produce this year for some very exciting things. 

Now at 9 years old he’s ready for some VERY grown up parties!!! 

Thank you so much to his owner Linda Allan for all her support with this beautiful boy💙💙💙


YoYo's first party for a while...

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. 

We were so lucky last week to make the trip down to Somerset to simply the best XC schooling facility in the world at Team Dumas’ Rosamund Green Farm and we were even blessed with a gorgeous warm sunny day! After all the awful weather we’ve had recently we made the most of it and gave all the horses a brilliant xc school ready for this weekends competition at Burnham market. We had 11 horses in total from the yard 7 for me 👇🏻Cooley Park Muse, Johansome, Jalapeño, Chilli Morning IV, Chilli King, Chilli Jester & Flash Cooley. I want to say a HUGE personal thank you to the Dumas for all their effort with the ground, the jumps, the facilities and just being a class above. Makes a very long day worth every second

A trip to THE best XC schooling facility in the world!


We had our 3 big baby boys all competing in the BE 100 on Friday…

Chilli Morning IV owned by Chris and Lisa Stone, was just incredible in his first phase to lead the dressage and he went on to jump a super SJ with just a baby rail down and a beautiful clear XC to WIN his section. I have to pinch myself that I get to ride him 😍

Cooley Park Muze owned by the newly formed Rex Syndicate was having his first ever BE run an wow did he impress everyone (including the judges who gave us a score of 15 - yes you read it right!! A 15 dressage!! He then jumped a slightly green showjumping round in the mud but went on to have a superb xc round giving me a serious feeling to finish 5th! He is such an exciting horse for the future 🤩

Chilli’s Jester owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and Chris and Clare Mathias, although very green was such a good boy and did a lovely steady double clear after a slightly wobbly dressage.
He’s a full brother to our amazing Chilli Knight so we have high hopes for his future but he needs plenty of time to strengthen and mature.

What an exciting bunch of baby boys we have!! 💙💙


Babies' day out at Burnham Market International Horse Trials

 As well as the babies, we also had our two lovely advanced horses - Jalapeno owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and Flash Cooley owned by Pru Dawes - in the 4*S at Burnham last weekend.

Both of them did seriously smart dressage tests which I was thrilled with and both sat right up in the top 12 after the first phase, in a VERY competitive section.

They both went on the jump immaculate double clears and allowed me to give them both a good lung opener but I absolutely didn’t go flat out as they have some exciting 3 days coming up so we were there as part of a bigger picture for them. 

I was so so thrilled with how fit and well they felt and how strongly they both finished. I was also happy (and secretly relieved) that I hadn’t forgotten how to do it and although I felt a bit rusty for the first few fences it didn’t take long to feel right back into it! 

Jalapeño finished 8th and Flash Cooley 12th both placed and in the money. 

A HUGE HUGE thank you to Alec and the Musketeer Events team for all the hard work with the ground and the course - including the mammoth task of moving the showjumping to better ground! SO much work goes into running these events and I am so grateful to everyone who enables them to happen and us to enjoy our wonderful sport! 

📸 Hannah Cole Photography (as always ❤️)

The “Grown ups” at Barefoot Retreats Burnham Market International Horse Trials!

It’s been a VERY good day with these 3 lovely young horses. I’m absolutely honoured to ride them all. 
I want to say a Huge thank you and well done to Horseheath Horse Trials what a lovely event, from the friendly people on the gate to the lovely xc course and perfect organisation. I will most definitely be going back. What a lovely educational day for all our horses, plus it’s always great to win…. X3!! 

Thank you to all my amazing owners and my team for all their support. We’ve got a bright future with these wonderful horses. 

"Not only have we seen some fantastic competition in the BE100 Classes this afternoon – but we’ve ended the first day with a phenomenal dressage score of 9.8. Yes, that’s right…nine…point…eight! 😳  

It came from Olympic eventer Gemma Stevens on her first ever visit to Horseheath.  Gemma had a brilliant day here today, winning three out of the five BE100 classes. 

👉 BE100 Section G – riding Chilli Morning IV, a clone of the the world and European eventing medallist and Badminton champion, Chilli Morning, owned by Mr Christopher Stone.

👉 BE100 Section H – riding Cooley Park Muze, finishing first on her dressage score of 9.8

👉BE Section I – on Chilli’s Jester, owned by Mr Christopher Stone and Chris and Clare Mathias"



A 9.8 for Rex at Horseheath

What a day we had on Saturday out Eventing at the brilliant Horseheath Horse Trials! Such a friendly event with great educational courses. 

Our 3 lovely young boys were competing in the BE100👇🏻

Cooley Park Muze owned buy the newly formed Rex Syndicate won on his dressage of 9.8!!!!! 🥇⭐️😱 

Chilli Morning IV owned by Chris and Lisa Stone won on his dressage score of 23.0🥇

Chillis Jester owned by Chris and Lisa Stone and Chris and Clare Mathias also won on his dressage of 27.3 🥇

What a future all 3 of these horses have, they all give me the most amazing feeling. 

3/3 WINS at Horseheath

So this happened last night after 11 nights of her people checking her hourly every night! 

Just unbelievably special and she waited for us to get home from jumping in Wales. 

The most special little mare ever - from representing Team GB at the Olympics and European championships to giving us the next generation. 

I will be forever indebted to this wonderful special darling mare. 

Thank you Gary Stevens for staying by her side for nights on end and being her very own personal midwife and Charlotte Overton for helping with night checks too. 

Foal is a gorgeous filly by Colmar


Pebbles has her baby...

Badminton Horse Trials is in fact a complete marathon but it’s absolutely definitely a wonderful one - even in the mud!! 

It felt SO good to be back and to get that buzz that only comes with the really big ones!

We finished up a brilliant 6th (and best of the mares!) after just touching the very last fence which was such a shame. Showjumping is not Jala’s strongest phase but she tried so hard yesterday and I was so so proud of her 🥰

It’s been such a journey getting this horse here and it has genuinely taken a village!

I want to thank my own world-class team - Charlotte Overton being by my side on the front line (and in the mud this week!) and my other brilliant girls who hold the fort so beautifully at home when we’re travelling all over the place! 

Ed Lyall Jala’s vet, Jim Cooper her farrier and Liz Oakenfold her osteopath - honestly we just couldn’t do it without any of you!!

Thank you to my bonkers but amazing husband - he’s had his work cut out recently picking me up mentally after a few tough moments this spring. 

I also want to say a special thank you to the whole team at Badminton - the volunteers, officials, supporters - what an effort everyone put in and what an event they gave us! It’s just the best in the world and everyone rallied in such terrible conditions this year - always with a smile. 
Even at the very end of a ridiculously wet week the guys towing us all out in their tractors in the (still) pouring rain were bloody brilliant!

Lastly a HUGE thank you to Chris and Lisa Stone who have believed in me and been so patient with this beautiful horse. I know how much they enjoyed this week and my god do they deserve it. 

For now I’m happily exhausted but already planning our next visit 😉

📸 Hannah Cole Photography, Steady Shutter & Hayley Chamberlain

BACK AT BADDERS!!

8yo Chilli King (📸 pictured) ran in his first Intermediate and finished a super 4th. He is genuinely feeling every bit a serious horse for the future, he’s so exciting but I won’t be rushing him. I’m pretty certain he’s our next 5* superstar in the making!

Then our 3 babies, Chilli Morning IV, Chillis Jester and Cooley Park Muze all finished on their dressage scores in the BE100 for 3rd, 6th and 5th in their sections respectively. 

All 3 feeling like they are top class for the future. 

We might not have a huge team of horses but the ones we do have in our stables we feel are world class and that is just the way I like it 🧡

Great few days competing with our young horses at Aston le Walls Equestrian Centre.


Cinsey Blue PS has been unbelievably consistent in the 7 year old classes at Wellington Riding School International this week.
3rd the first day
4th the second day 
and 
3rd in a tough and very competitive final today. 

Barely touching a pole all week. 

What a horse she has become. 🧡🧡🧡 I’m so enjoying producing her for her lovely owner Emma Lancaster.

Cinsey Blue PS at Wellington International 

It's a good job I actually got married because I seem to have a bit of a case of "always the bridesmaid" when it comes to the big ones!

I am thrilled with Flash Cooley in Ireland this week though - he really showed all of his class to give Pigs a run for her money!! 

Flash Cooley nabs 2nd in the CCI4*L at Millstreet 🇮🇪

Such a great week,  we all loved every single second of it! 

We managed some brilliant results, learnt so much and I couldn’t be more chuffed with all the horses.

It was amazing to get to know Dime Bar at our first show together AND to be back jumping some big ranking classes again after missing Candy Girl so much AND AND to have Santiago Bay back in such blistering form (told you it was a good week 🤣)

So fun and such a privilege to do the master class with Nicola Wilson and Geoff Billington on our wonderful Flash Cooley! 

Just some of our results 👇🏻

Santiago Bay 🥈 Eventers GP 🥈1.25m jump off and 4th 1.35m speed 

Cinsey Blue PS 🥇 7yo speed 

Balou For Pleasure placed day one 1.40m 

Envoy Merelsnest Z (Dime Bar!) jumped unbelievable in the two Ranking 3 star classes 1.45m and 1.50m. 

Cooley Couture jumped some serious rounds in the 6yos!

Thank you so much to my girl Hannah Lavender for some seriously hard graft! And to Gary Stevens for being there for every jump! 

And thank you to all my owners - Caroline Teltsch
Shirley Light, Emma Lancaster, Pru Dawes-Rowland, Lisa Maynard &  Chris Jackson - your horses are all MEGA!! 

BRILLIANT BOLESWORTH

What an unreal & surreal week spent at the Al Shira'aa Hickstead Derby Meeting. A real dream come true and what an incredible privilege to get to compete in the iconic Hickstead Derby! I feel very proud to have given it a bloody good go! 

Having only ridden Envoy Merelsnest Z (Dime Bar) for less than 6 weeks and this being only our 2nd show together AND my first time competing at 1.60m, it was a big ask. 

Everyone around me has had an unbelievable amount of belief and faith in  both of us which was very encouraging! 

We jumped the 1.60m Derby trial on Friday and just had one down to come 8th which SERIOUSLY helped the confidence!

We had a wonderful round in the Derby, was it perfect, no... But it was smooth, calm and felt completely stress-free! 

Dime Bar was so with me and he tries so hard but we had 2 very unlucky touches and 2 mistakes. We so easily could have had a bit of luck and just had 8 faults but we ended on 16 which was still placed and in the money. 

We were all absolutely thrilled with how beautifully Dime went and so excited to maybe try again one day! 

What a lovely horse he has been to work with and hopefully you may hear more from us! I absolutely love him!

Massive massive thank you to Shirley Light, Dime's owner for thinking of me and asking me to ride him, her belief in me has been quite unbelievable and genuinely made me feel that I could do it! 

Thank you to Gaz for always believing in me and everyone else who has been unbelievably supportive this week. 

Honestly….. CHUFFED TO BITS to tick the Derby off my bucket list, I can't wait to do it again!!! 
The big question everyone keeps asking, is it as good as going around Badminton and Burghley - the answer YEP IT ABSOLUTELY IS!!!!!! What a BUZZ!!!


A SURREAL week at Hickstead!

So excited to be CHIO Aachen bound with the two superstars, Flash Cooley who is heading over for the Nations Cup and Santiago Bay for the Ride and Drive! 

Got to get my Eventing hat back on this week after a few fantastic weeks showjumping but I can’t wait to get stuck in! 

With us travelling so many different horses to so many different places around the world, we genuinely don’t know what we would do without our amazing WeatherBeeta UK kit (www.weatherbeeta.co.uk)

The travel kit is just so brilliant with heaps of choices for all types of weather - we’ve chosen this lightweight micro air cooler for the special two this week - just to keep the chill off their backs but as it’s so warm it also means they don’t get too hot or sweaty. 

Weatherbeeta have supported me for as long as I can remember, and it really does make all the difference knowing that our horses are so comfortable when they are travelling the world!

On the road to CHIO Aachen 

What a week at CHIO Aachen! It felt so good to be back competing on a GB team after a few years of re-building my string!

I was back in the position of path finder this week, which isn’t my favourite place to be but I’m always happy to do it for the team 🇬🇧

Pru Dawes’ GORGEOUS Flash Cooley performed a brilliant test trying his absolute best, he’s not a super flashy, tall, beautiful mover but he’s an out and out trier and he never lets me down. He scored a very respectable 31 in top class company to sit just inside the top 15 and to help the team sit in the lead going into the jumping that evening.

We were super super unlucky to have one tiny touch which was a great shame as he jumped the most amazingly polished round, but the team were still in the lead overnight! 

I went out on the xc like a demon on a mission and our little man answered every question with so much guts and trust.

I am unbelievably proud of him and how far he has come, crossing the line just 4 seconds over the time which was joint fastest time of the day!
Sadly we were deemed to have missed a flag, I genuinely didn’t think we had….. he absolutely 100% jumped the fence and tried so hard to stay the right side, but that’s the sport and it was their final decision. 

Without the flag we would have been 6th in a world-class competitive field and whatever the result I am so proud of this little horse and super excited for what’s to come with him. 
What a day of emotions with the team! Yasmin Ingham was simply unbelievable all week and her and beautiful Banzai fully deserved the individual win! 

The team finished 3rd even with a few mistakes, so we know with those ironed out we absolutely would have come out on top. 
Huge huge well done to all of my teammates, I know we all learnt so much about our wonderful horses on this trip.

We finished off our Aachen week last night with a crazy trip around the jump and drive! 
Soooooooo much fun!

Caroline Telsch’s Santiago Bay LOVED galloping around that main arena jumping jumps and I hung on the back of a 4 horse carriage at speed! Loved it and we finished 3rd! 

Quite simply THE best show in the world - until next time Aachen! 
But now it’s time for some 💤💤💤💤
📸 John Stroud, Peter Nixon and British Equestrian

CHIO Aachen - Nations Cup and Jump and Drive

Breeding just doesn’t get any better than this. This mare means the absolute world to me, she was simply the most talented horse I’ve ever ridden and had the heart of a lion plus she’s the sweetest most gorgeous person. I adore her. We have a few foals on the ground (links to Chico's Luck GSE born 2022 is below) and they are just STUNNING, so modern and blood, this is a chance in a lifetime to purchase a very very precious embryo out of her. 💕💕💕💕

You can follow the auction here:
https://sovereignauctions.com/

You can read the full article here:
https://news.britisheventing.com/snap-up-some-olympic-genes-at-the-sovereign-auctions-supreme-summer-sale/

Chico Bella's offspring:

Chico's Luck GSE: https://gemmastevens.com/horses/youngstock-chico-s-luck-gs

Chico's Fortunato GSE:
https://gemmastevens.com/horses/chico-s-fortunato

Rockachilli Bella:
https://gemmastevens.com/horses/rockachilli-bella

Chico Bella P Embryo to be sold in the Sovereign Auction's Supreme Summer Sale

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

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

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

JM Horseboxes

Childéric Saddles UK are proud to support Gemma. Tricia Bracegirdle, Childéric Saddles Specialist is also an integral part of Gemma’s team. A former event rider, Tricia is not only approved by Luc Childéric to fit and sell their bespoke saddles here in the UK but has also added significant design input into their range of saddles and accessories.

Childéric Saddles

Weatherbeeta are a very well known and longstanding equestrian brand who have been producing top quality horsewear around the world for over 35 years. They have a fantastic range of rugs and can provide your horse with a stylish outfit whatever the weather!

Through the use of only the most advanced design and materials, we’ve been setting the trends since the very beginning.
In fact, our experience, technology, design and sheer quality have made us the world’s leading equestrian brand!
Whatever the weather — there’s bound to be a WeatherBeeta rug for your horse.

WeatherBeeta UK

Gain Equine Nutrition is the equine feed arm of Glanbia PLC, the global nutritional solutions and cheese group. While Glanbia PLC has a strong focus on human nutrition, Gain focuses solely on equine nutrition. Manufactured in Co. Wexford in Ireland, Gain prides itself on producing consistent, palatable, dust free feeds of the highest nutritional content to cater for all sectors of the equine industry. They support Gemma and keep the horses looking and feeling on top form.

GAIN Equine Nutrition

NAF is one of the most respected and well known supplement manufacturers in the UK. They use natural ingredients to create an extensive range of products offering something for every horses needs. They support Gemma and provide supplements for the horses which keep them on top form.

NAF 

Charles Owen

Treehouse Sporting Colours

Established in 2013 by childhood friends, Marcus Fairfax Fountaine and Felix Favor Parker, Fairfax & Favor has descended upon the footwear industry as a luxury, British-born lifestyle brand. Designed as a line of footwear and accessories with a commitment to innovation in craftsmanship and design, Fairfax & Favor aims to create a timeless, fashion investment in every piece.

Fairfax & Favor

Gemma J Jewellery

Timothy Foxx Clothing

EQU StreamZ fetlock bands are part of the StreamZ product range; specifically developed for the equine market. Deploying a completely new technique in ‘magnetic therapy’ StreamZ have proven to support a variety of health issues within horses and provide an ongoing tool for managing competing horses. We use the bands to keep our horses in the best condition possible; naturally.

EQU StreamZ

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.

Tech Stirrups are conceived for all those riders who are looking for exceptional performance thanks to their unique design and features.
Tech Stirrups are patented horse-riding gears, made in Italy. They are made from aluminium billet and fitted with stainless-steel screws.
The treads and the rings are undergo a 20-micron anodization process to enhance their aesthetic quality and resistance to scratch.

Tech Stirrups

EcoVoltz

Equitex

FLAIR® Equine Nasal Strips are drug-free, self-adhesive nasal strips that support horse’s nasal passages and promote optimum respiratory health of equine athletes.
The spring-like action supports the soft tissues over the nasal passages, the narrowest part of the upper airway, so horses can breathe easier and perform their best in training and competition.

FLAIR Equine Nasal Strips

Gemma is a long term member on the World Class Development Programme. The programme is funded by the National Lottery, and provides support for athletes who are potential Olympians. The Eventing programme is divided into Start, Potential and Elite squads. Gemma is on the Elite Squad, and really enjoys the training and other support she gets. ‘I get a lot of support and help from the programme, and the training especially helps me – I have always enjoyed having lessons, and the lessons I get through the programme are from the best trainers in the country’ said Gemma.

World Class Development Programme

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

The Coldstream range, like the horse, reflects high quality and performance, delivering innovative, technical, and on trend pieces.

Coldstream

More than luxury.  Excellence

Since 1924, “FABBRI Boots” have maintained the system of handmade-working with times of 20/25 days for the manufacturing.

The principal technical characteristic that distinguishes these boots from the others is the adaptability: they perfectly and immediately settle and model at the foot and at the leg of the rider. A particular attention directs to the choice of the material of working: some kinds of hides tan only for our production. All parts of “FABBRI boots” are absolutely natural; these are not plastic or synthetic materials that could cause a weariness with an enduring use. We produce a high level of hygiene and freshness, representing a style, class and elegance.

Fabbri Boots

Green Mile Bedding is made from corrugated cardboard cut into fine strips, as a result creating a unique design which helps to increase absorbency.

Green Mile Cardboard Bedding has many features you won’t find in other types of horse bedding. Not only is it scientifically proven to be the most absorbent on the market but also it contains almost no dust so highly recommended for all animals, especially those suffering from COPD.

01. Gemma Stevens

Related Sponsors

Recent Results

Montelibretti

Bicton International

Oasby

South of England International

Related Media

Related Horses

01. Arctic Soul (Spike)

02. Santiago Bay (Kizzy)

03. Chilli Knight (Alfie)