News and Information

December 2009

Chloe and Singing Heaster is out again very soon after the birth of Chloe's son MJ. Neither Heaster or Chloe was very fit as they have had six month off but managed to win their class beating 13 other horses.

Ultraflash and Clare win two restricted dressage classes yet again. Flash ridden by Clare Powell has now won 12 out of 13 competitions and seem to be an absolute dream horse. Ultraflash is for sale and still owned by The Singing Stud.

November 2009

Stef and Singing Hernando is at it again coming 3rd in a Prelim 15 with 66.9%. They also got 6 qualifying points for The Master Dressage Championship 2010 at Hickstead

Singing Ultraflash does it yet again winning both competitions entered with 77% and 65%. Well done Clare for riding him so well, we look forward to the next competition.

October 2009

Flash does it again with his wonderful rider Clare Powell and this time for real. Clare is now a member of British Dressage and so Ultraflash and Clare qualified for the Regionals on paper. We wish them all the best of luck.

Singing Hernando and Stef does good again coming second and qualified for their championship in March 2010.

September 2009

Singing Hernando and his rider and owner Stephanie Russell is at it again coming third in a Prelim 15, Hernandos first affiliated competition. Stef goes on to say " I was thrilled with him as he only spooked ones and if he had not spooked we would have been second. We are very excited to hear about their next competition and wish them all the best of luck.

Singing Horatio is invited by the car company Jeep to be the horse in their advert for HOYS 2009. What great fun and big honour for the Keatinge team.

Henna and Kim do it again and this time in a big way by winning two dressage tests with 74.6% and 75% with comments including " lovely horse with massive potential for this job. Great free flowing movements a real pleasure to watch" Kim goes on to say we are now getting ready for the winter leagues.

Flash does it again third time out. Ultraflash and Clare entered two Prelims and won both classes with 65% and 67%, this is their third time out competing away from home and they have now won 6 out of 7 classes and been second ones. Well done to them both and we can not wait for the next competition.

Singing Horatio won his event out with rider and owner Laura from Keatinge stud with Singing Urbanity coming third in her first ever event also ridden by Laura Keatinge. Well done and we wish Laura all the best in future events.

It is with great sadness that Unica had to be put down due to blindness. Unica lost her left eye in an accident in year 2007 and then sadly this year 2009 she went blind in her right eye due to something getting in and scraping the eye. Thoughts was made to keep her as she was as we thought she was coping very well, but she began to become stressed out and the very hard decision had to be made to say goodbye to this very big, strong and impressive mare. She leaves her wonderful black filly foal Singing Uzuri behind.

Singing Horatio gets invitation to Burghley stallion parade and is said to be the star of the show. He was stunning and behaved extremely well and had a lot of very good remarks on Horse and Hound chat line of people who where there to see the stallions at the show.

August 2009

Kimberly and Singing Henna does it again this time in dressage where they won their first dressage test and qualified for the uk riders topspec challenge for 2010. Judges remarked "fab paces and a clear prospect for the future" We really look forward to Kim and Henna's next outing.

Singing Ultraflash does his first British dressage prelim and enter two classes. The first class he is placed 2nd with a score of 71% and goes on to win the 2nd class with a fantastic 75%. This was Flash's second time out competing and he was again really well behave. Well done Flash and rider Clare Powell for an amazing performance.

Singing Herbstglanz pass his 70 day test in Germany and is 15th out of 30th. We are so delighted that Herbstglanz has passed his test and is sound and well. He is now having a well deserved rest and will then begin his training in dressage.

July 2009

Kimberly and Henna does it again by winning the in hand competition horse class on Saturday the 18th at the Gloucestershire and Border show. Kim goes on to say “She always attracts attention and compliments about her beauty and movement from judges, spectators, competitors and the photographer. We say well done you are doing great. Cant wait for next time Kim and Henna goes out to a show.

June 2009

Kim and Singing Henna sweeps the floor on their day out showing. Henna won her two classes and then went on to be Reserve Champion of her section for then to be awarded Supreme Champion of the show. They also came second in best turned out and Kim was told she let her horse down by wearing trainers. What else would she have run her horse up in ??? Well done both, we have always stated Henna would be like her mum Henny and she is well on her way to achieve just that with her wonderful owner Kimberly.

Singing Ultraflash and Singing Schwalbertanzer does well at the Arab and Trakehner show. Schwalbentanzer and his owner Vicky came third in the dressage competition and also took third and six place in the show jumping. They looked fantastic and very smart, well done to Vicky and Tanzer. Ultraflash had his first time out in competition and won all three classes entered in dressage with scores of 70% and above. He was ridden by Clair Powell and behaved like an angel and really enjoyed his outing with so many other horses around. Great job from Clair, both her and Ultraflash looked fantastic. Singing Horatio was also there and ridden by his owner Laura Keatinge who is doing a great job with him. They came second to Diomio, also bought from the Singing Stud, in the high point Championship and was placed second both in the dressage and xc and then they got a third in the show jumping. Well done both, we look forward to more news next time you have been out competing.

Our Premium mare Herbstwolke by Premium stallion Donauwalzer has died from gastric colic. Herbstwolke was bought from Neumunster auction in 2001 as a two year old and won eight Championships and was graded Premium mare here in the UK on her only year out showing. This is sadly not the first time she had this, as she was found in the field last year with gastric colic but we managed to get her up and run it of. This year however, very sadly, no one was there to save her life. She bred some outstanding foals, which all had her outstanding movements and quiet and kind temperament. She leaves behind a two month old filly foal by Arentino (full sister to our graded young stallion Singing Herbstglanz) and we feel very lucky to still have her and the Chabrol filly which will join our herd one day and hopefully carry on breeding the same outstanding high quality that Herbstwolke always did.

May 2009

Horatio has his first outing with Laura Keatinge at Solihull and comes fifth in the cross country. Julie `said " Basically the organisers messed up our entries and put us in for the event on the Saturday (but we where already at Solihull with two other horses) they then fitted us in on the Sunday but the times was to tight and they had shut the show jumping and xc before we got there with Horatio so they said we could run HC. Had we known that they where going to convert the scores and place him anyway we would have run him quicker and they would have won" Never mind, we look forward to next time Laura and Horatio is out and about

April 2009

Arentino seem to have suffered a very big stroke which has serious affected his neurological system. Everything it being done to try and keep him as comfortable as possible while trying to nurse him back to his normal self.

Luana von Steinberg finally has a very big and strong bay colt by Chabrol fourteen days late. This son of Chabrol have really long legs and fantastic conformation with three wonderful movements something which has become quite a trademark of Chabrol.

March 2009

Stephanie and Singing Hernando is at it again and out competing having fun. They went to Priory EC in Farnham where they where entered in two classes. The first test was ok, Steph tell us, but Hernando was a bit naughty and bucked a couple of times. Then when the test was finished, Hernando decided that he had not had enough time to show all the people watching him enough of himself and refused to leave the arena to big frustration for Steph. The second test went much better and the pair scored a very good 64% in the Novice 25 managing only one buck so a big congratulation to Stephanie and Hernando in their first competition of 2009.

February 2009

Foaling has begun and we have two wonderful foals born this month with two days in between. Monday the 23rd Ultravioletta gives birth to a wonderful proud strong bay colt by our homebred stallion Singing Herbstglanz and Wednesday morning Unica pleases us with a beautiful black strong filly again by Singing Herbstglanz, which has been named Uzuri, which means beautiful in Swahili.

January 2009

Finally a year after winning the right to build a staff house at our yard in Much Marcle on appeal, we get the design approved after four applications. Why it took so long to get a design accepted that even the planners helped design one can only guess.