Missy Moo & Crew

08/09/2026

Rich & Cersei made the British Breeders Stud Book, Trakehner News 🎉 🌟 Great exposure for Endurance GB to readers who have a breed not often found in Endurance!

Great Article in British Breeder this month.

05/09/2026

This mornings excitement is opening an email with the updated EGB Trophy League tables & seeing two Southwesties currently at the top - our awesome, inspiring Judy for our Senior Riders (age 22+) & our very own Zara for the Juniors (age 4-13) 😎. There's still another 6 weeks of rides to go & anything can happen between now & then but am keeping everything crossed for Zara & Mister, they've worked so hard to get here from Mister being a complete Novice when we bought him 2 years ago 🙏🤞🍀🏇

See the latest Endurance GB Championship standings across Senior, Young Rider, Junior and Novice levels. Follow the season and track your progress.

05/09/2026

Good Luck to everyone competing in the Endurance GB Home Internationals up in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 today! Go Team England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🤞🍀🏇

04/09/2026

It seems like we've missed Autumn & gone straight into Winter 🙈, plenty of rain, wind & Cornish Mizzle 🌦... On the plus side the fields are now green again but we're keeping a close eye on waistlines as fresh green short grass is high in sugars. Missy & Ben keep telling me they're starving though (they are getting some hay for long roughage), am sure Missy identifies as a Welsh pony as her & Ben have the same mindset 😆. Hoping we do get a nice few weeks of Autumnal weather dreckly 🙏.
Anyway, we have been hacking out & getting soggy regularly 🙈, the 🇬🇧 Endurance season still has another 6 weeks or so left!
Mister is back in full work, he wasn't 100% sound after his rest from the Elephant Rock ride, not hoping lame but just not quite right 🙈. We had our lovely McTimoney Chiropractor treat him, then our Vet checked him over, he's had some treatment, rest, we've been continuing his stretches & put him back to work gradually. Our Vet checked him over again today & is 100% sound & much freer 🎉. I suspect the prolonged period of hard ground is mostly to blame 🙈 ... Fingers crossed after his treatments & now the ground is softer he'll be ok, he's such a sweet pony & does love his rides🤞.
Whilst he's had rest Zara has been riding Ben a bit more, he loves it & Zara loves riding him, he's such a character!
Missy also has a new to us Specialized Saddle, an Ultralight which I came across in France 🇫🇷. Unfortunately Alan the Specialized Saddle fitter hasn't had enough clients in the West Country to justify coming down to fit it for me, so he kindly agreed to help me fit it via photos. I think we're almost there, have ridden in it, Missy seems happy in it & I love it, much lighter & comfier that the old one I have 😎. Now a Winter of overtime to pay for it & Vet bills 😫 💸

29/08/2026

Can anyone recommend a qualified & insured bit fitter that covers Cornwall UK please?

29/08/2026

Pay day has arrived 🙌 so we've entered EGB SWs' last GER for this year the Camelford moorland ride. It's a very scenic ride that goes past Rough Tor & Davidstow, as well as some lovely private fields, tracks & beautiful country lanes.
I have been brave & entered Missy to the 80km, hopefully tagging along with some fellow Southwesties 🤞😬. Zara & Rich are sticking to the 40km, hopefully this won't cause bedlam being separated 🙈.
If you're thinking of trying this ride do it, the late entry fee is looming (from 31st August).

25/08/2026

Official Barbury results, soo proud of our ponies, both bought as yearlings & trained up by ourselves who've been learning along the way (we've only been doing Endurance 3-4 seasons!). If we can do it, anyone can 😎

🏆 BARBURY CASTLE ENDURANCE RIDE – RESULTS 🏆

A huge well done to everyone who took part at Barbury Castle! 🐴👏 We hope you all enjoyed riding across the beautiful Marlborough Downs.

Here are the results from the weekend:

🥇 Class 2 – 80km GER
1st – Karen Cadman
2nd – Charlotte Robinson
3rd – Katie West

🥇 Class 3 – 65km GER
1st – Judy Holloway
2nd – Janice Cockley-Adams

🥇 Class 4 – 45km GER
1st – Zara Golding
2nd – Matilda Vaughan
3rd – Georgina Vaughan

🥇 Class 5 – 45km GER Novice
1st – Richard Golding
2nd – Sally McIlwaine
3rd – Sally Toye

🥇 Class 6 – 44km GER
1st – Julie Elvy
2nd - Miranda Kavanagh
3rd – Nicola Smith

🥇 Class 7 – 44km GER Novice
1st – Stephanie Waters
2nd – Nic Smith

🥇 Class 8 – 36km GER
1st – Jessie Lethbridge
2nd – Gillian Hasberry
3rd – Janthea Newman

🥇 Class 9 – 36km GER Novice
1st – Jack Monument
2nd – Arlene Mitchell
3rd – Laura Perry

🥇 Class 10 – 29km Novice Foundation
1st - Shelley Bates
2nd - Alexandra Moore
3rd - Asyl Hawa

📸 True To You Photography

True To You Photography were out capturing the action, and the official photographs are now available to view!

👉 View the photographs here:
https://ttyphotography.shootproof.com/gallery/16b88df2-d079-46f4-8122-44b7c93ae3f0/

👏 Congratulations to all our competitors, and a massive thank you to all the volunteers, officials, vets, stewards and everyone behind the scenes who helped make the ride possible.

We couldn’t do it without you! ❤️🐎

24/08/2026

Official Barbury photos by True To You Photography 📸 💖 There were some interesting ones of Missy trying to buck but seems Zara caught her in time 😎.

23/08/2026

EGB Barbury Castle Ride, 45km ✅️. The original plan for Barbury was to be Zara & I's first 80km, although we downgraded due to there not being any rain up there since June & I was worried about the ground being too hard. Then Mister wasn't 100% trotting up in the week, so the decision was made to withdraw him & Rich & Cercei to go instead (Rich was quite pleased about this as loves Barbury!). Zara was gutted about Mister & really wanted to ride Barbury, so I let her borrow Moo.
They had a lovely ride, the weather was good, not too hot & the going was good too, not as hard in the fields as expected, so they had some cantering fun, especially past the photographer (professional pics to follow 🙈😆). They took it steady otherwise, riding to the terrain, their fabulous crew (Me, Mum) made it to each crewpoint but missed them coming in the finish as was talking 🙊. Both poinies were quite fresh to start, although Zara coped well with Missys antics (can't wait to see these professional photos)!
They came into the Vet hold & pretty much went straight into Vetting after untacking & a quick wipe down - both passed 😎. It was a 40 minute hold before heading out for the last 16km, which they made in good time. They cooled down well, had a good wash down, checked hooves, had a munch & a wee, presented at 25 minutes & both passed 🌟, they were both quite fresh still, which is good to see, as I really want to get an 80 in with Missy this season🤞.
Whilst waiting for the results, we went over to the Baileys Horse Feeds weighbridge, to see Sophie their rep again, I wanted to find out if Missy had lost any weight since the end of July, where she was 428kg after a ride. Missy has been on a strict diet since & today she weighed 391kg (lost 37kg!!) & a score of 5.25, so nearly optimum weight 🎉. Cercei kept her perfect score of 5 too 😃.
Zara & Rich went to see if the results were in & were overjoyed to find out that they'd both got grade 1's & had both won their respective classes (Novice & Open) 🌟🎉🏆🌟🎉🏆.
Thanks as always to everyone involved with the organising and running of today's fabulous ride, as well as the kind landowners and sponsors, we'll definitely be back, hopefully Mum can ride next time 😆🤞🏇