OUR VALUED OWNERS (IN ALPHABETICAL
ORDER)
BURRIDGE,
Julie
Julie started riding as a child in the UK and her first
introduction to the “racing world” was at the British
Racing School in Newmarket, England. She has trained
under well-known names such as Susan Piggott (wife of
the legendary Lester) and Clive Britton. Julie has
ridden in the UK, Australia, Japan, Malaysia and New
Zealand before finally settling down in Singapore to
work in partnership with husband/trainer Steven
Burridge.
Julie and husband Steven operate the successful Burridge
Racing Stables at Kranji Racecourse in Singapore, with
approximately 50 horses in work at one time. Julie has a
keen interest in the well-being of all the thoroughbreds
in their care with a particular focus on feeding regimes
and physiotherapy programmes to get the very best out of
each horse. Julie spends her mornings riding track work
and gallops or taking horses through their barrier
tests. www.stevenburridgeracing.com
We first met Julie in 2006 when she purchased the grey
warmblood Robert Emmitt to take back to Singapore for
jumping and dressage competitions. Although pressure of
her racing commitments have since led to her selling
“Robbie” on, Julie has not lost her touch for jumping –
as we found out recently when she paid us a visit. Not
only is Julie one of our valued owners, she has become a
great friend. Julie is an accomplished jockey, a
competent equestrian rider and most importantly a great
horsewoman in every respect (who else would go on a
1000km ride in the Mongolian Desert for charity!).
Photo – Julie in racing mode
COONEY,
Marcus, Angela & Alice
Marcus and Angela Cooney are originally from Adelaide
but have spent most of their married life in Singapore
bringing up two children and operating a successful
business. They visit Adelaide regularly to catch up with
family and friends and give daughter Alice a chance for
some extra coaching and competition experience.
This year will see Alice studying at University in
Melbourne and competing in Young Rider classes at some
of the bigger shows on the East coast of Australia on
her warmblood mare, Belcam Alida. The
other three quality showjumpers owned by the Cooney
family - thoroughbred gelding Galvey
Bay, warmblood gelding Caveton Park
Genesis and their
new Hannoverian gelding recently imported from overseas
- Silvo. - will be stabled in our
yard under our full time care for Alice to compete on
when she is in South Australia.
Alice has rarely been out of the placings the past
couple of years having won Junior and Young Rider Championship classes
as well as some FEI and open classes overseas. Her
recent successes here in 2010 on Galvey Bay including
winning a round of the Tekna Young Rider Selection
Series at Kapunda Agricultural Show and a credible
performance at the Australian Showjumping Championships
qualifying for the Junior Championship Final finishing
with a total of four faults over the two classes.
Photo – Alice on Galvey Bay training in Adelaide
DAY,
Anne
Anne is originally from the UK and has know us for
around 13 or more
years having been introduced to us by her
mother-in-law, Vanessa Day. We have crossed paths on a
number of occasions when the family were living in Hong
Kong and then Singapore. Now work has brought them home
to Australia and we are glad to have them here.
Anne is the owner of two exciting mares stabled in our
yard : B Grade Showjumper Lolita by Lux Z out of
an Imperial Seal mare and the classy youngster Trick or
Treat Day, by Trak and out of the same mother as Lolita.
We have become very good friends with Anne and her
family (husband Chris and their two children Lianna -
who enjoys riding, and Max). It was great to have their support at the
local showjumping competitions whilst they lived in
Adelaide and even though work
commitments have now taken them to Sydney we are sure
they will be back to Adelaide regularly to catch up with
family and sneak in a show or two!
Photo –Anne Day & Stephen Devine with Lolita after winning
the 2009 Victorian Junior State Champs.
LINDH,
Mark & Belinda
Mark and Belinda have two young children and live on a
beautiful, property in the Adelaide Hills close to Mt
Barker. They have "purpose-built" their horse facility
to accommodate their string of Polo Ponies, team
of Showjumpers and all the young stock they have bred.
Mark, is not only a successful
businessman (Adelaide Equity Partners), but is also a
very skilled horseman, leaving no stone unturned to
reach his goals. After making the move to
Showjumping only a couple of years ago, Mark has already
become a very competitive rider in the senior ranks,
performing extremely well with his team of showjumpers - Coolio, Jokerman, Six Pack
and Salsa DeRosa - in competitions in Australia and
overseas in Canada.
Mark riding his imported horse Coolio won the SA State
Country Showjumping Championship, holding the title for
2011/2012. As well as being self-disciplined and
hard working in preparing himself and horses, Mark
always strives to improve by working closely with his
friends and mentors Clive Reed, Rod Brown and Jonathan
Asselin.
Belinda is also a rider with a couple of nice horses
(Military Road and new horse Equus Lulu) who she
plans to compete in showjumping and dressage competitions
when she gets the chance. As well as managing the
family and the property business, Belinda is also
involved in the management side of the Adelaide International Three Day
Event.
Our friendship over the years has
led to the Reed-Lindh ownership of a couple of Contenda
youngsters - a filly we bred out of the late Lux Z
showjumping mare Lilly, and a gelding we purchased out
of Kinnordy Sabrina.
Photo – The Lindh family in Canada
PHILLIPS,
John & Charlma
We have been good friends with the Phillips family for
over 10 years. John and Charlma and their two daughters
Sarah and Alex live at Caveton Park - a large farming
property in Mount Gambier, South Australia.
As well as farming, John has a keen interest in horses
which was developed early when Alex was successfully
showjumping. Over the years John has become quite a
successful breeder of quality warmblood performance
horses and today he is still an active member of the Mt
Gambier Showjumping Club.
As an owner, he has had some well-performed competition
horses in our yard for most of that period – all of
which have been sold on to competition homes both
interstate and overseas. John currently has a couple oof
young horses here – Taku (full brother to Tra La
La) who has just started his competition career showing
lots of promise, and a nice young mare Caveton
Park Bling (by Budweiser out of Swing).
John’s breeding program has proved successful with quite
a few exciting youngsters now running around the Caveton
Park property. The breeding includes Lux Z, Contenda,
Valhalla, Trak and Jubilee Bay.
In all this time, John has been an absolute pleasure to
work with in every respect and John certainly has a good
eye for selecting quality horses and we value his
expertise and friendship.
Photo – John Phillips & Conor Reed at the Caveton Park
Property
RODGERS,
Nick
Clive first met Nick in Hong Kong many years ago when he
was the Chief Riding Instructor at the prestigious Beas
River Country Club in Hong Kong and they have since
become great friends. Nick is a very competent horseman
in every respect, as well as a true gentleman.
Originally trained in the UK, Nick competed with success
in all equestrian disciplines and was fortunate to work
and train in many professional equestrian yards all over
the world. He is a BHS Instructor and was General
Manager / Project Manager in RDA Hong Kong for a few
years before taking on his latest role as Steward
General for the FEI Para-Equestrian discipline. Nick’s
current appointment takes him all over the world working
with competitors, judges and stewards.
As well as being one of the part-owners of the
exciting young Budweiser gelding Brandenburg, Nick also had a couple
of other horses in the yard that he has since sold on,
including Tra La La. She was a horse that Nick selected
un-broken and we are now fortunate to own her ourselves.
Photo – Nick Rodgers inspecting potential young stock.
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