Connegar Farm

Connegar Farm Connegar Farm, Dorset - Icelandic Horses

08/09/2026

Karlslund Rideudstyr

Connegar Farm is inviting you to join us at a One-day competition on October 10th 2026!Classes available are as follows ...
06/09/2026

Connegar Farm is inviting you to join us at a One-day competition on October 10th 2026!

Classes available are as follows (£20 each to enter):
Sport A - (T1, V1, T2, F1)
Sport B – (T3, V2, T4, F2)
Sport C - (T7, V5, T6)

This will be the first trial run of a mixed judging competition! We are very lucky to have our own regional and international judges in the UK who will be judging on the day, but we will also be videoing the sport B and A tests and two judges from abroad will be judging them on the same weekend, to give more feedback and a ‘real competition feel’ of up to 5 judges (at a fraction of the cost)! (Final results will be collated and winners will be announced by the end of the weekend for Sport A and B). Sport C finals may be run if there is time, but results will be awarded on the day.

The competition will be held either indoors or outdoors depending on the weather!
Arrivals can be by prior arrangement from Friday Oct 9th 2pm
Limited stables are available at £10 a night, Hay is also available. Stallions take priority.

It would be lovely if you could bring an item for the ‘sharing snack table’ for the day! As always, Tea/coffee will be available with hot water and a microwave, but please bring your own lunches etc.
Please send your entries to [email protected] – we look forward to seeing you there!

04/09/2026

Friday hill day! 💪🏻

Getting out between the ⛈️
28/08/2026

Getting out between the ⛈️

Feeding time at the zoo 🐴
21/08/2026

Feeding time at the zoo 🐴

20/08/2026
MEM ‘26 - we got there in the end (minus horses)! It was a really great competition to be part of, even as support crew ...
17/08/2026

MEM ‘26 - we got there in the end (minus horses)! It was a really great competition to be part of, even as support crew this time 🫣 We saw some amazing horses and riders, watched our Team GB riders do a brilliant job, and got to be part of the team activities which was lovely so Thank you to TeamGB, Kirsty as Team leader and Ellenbach 🥰 Hopefully next time we’ll make it with 🐴🤞!

Disaster struck for us once again! After starting our journey to MEM early on Sunday morning the lorry decided it didn’t...
06/08/2026

Disaster struck for us once again! After starting our journey to MEM early on Sunday morning the lorry decided it didn’t want to go to Germany! 5 hours later, 4 horses and a lot of belongings and kit made it back to Connegar as the lorry was towed off to be fixed 😢 After 24h of many phone calls and discussions (coinciding with an all day electricity cut 🫣) it was concluded that getting the horses to MEM 2026 was not going to be feasible (wonderful Brexit - coupled with a lot of other horses getting to Europe this week!). However, we regrouped ourselves and once the lorry had been fixed 2 days later, we repacked and made the drive anyway arriving at MEM late last night ready to support the other riders. We are very happy that Cristina Edwards has managed to find a horse to ride at MEM as we couldn’t bring Vefur for her ☹️. We look forward to watching the team and all the riders at MEM instead!

Hello from Ellenbach, MEM26!
As the sun set over Ellenbach on the eve of our team competition… we could not have had a more complex, stressful, tiring, emotional and long few days since our team literal journey began on Sunday morning.
Sadly, en route to our UK horses leaving UK, a mechanical issue meant that they missed their export appointment and with all the will and effort in the world (coupled with stress), we were unable to get a new export slot in time for the start of the competition. 😢
This means that those 4 horses will not start here at MEM.
Whilst this happened back home, 3 of our other team horses arrived at MEM, training began, phone calls continued and thoughts of starting as a team became overwhelming!!
BUT, today is day one of MEM’26 and we are ready to go…. support and work as a team… (in our own special way!)
Millie and Crissie will both start today (yes- we have managed to train with a new horse for Crissie!!!), Charlotte will start tomorrow.
Sadly Mike and Jem only arrived after sundown yesterday (having spent days at home trying everything to get the new paperwork ready….) and will not start 💔

BUT, we are here as a team together, we will support each other as a team and we will have a lot of fun here at MEM’26 with our EU neighbours!
Our ‘radio silence’ was to allow us time to try everything we could and we did… but now we focus our hearts on the competition for our team and we look forward to the next days ahead with each other and in the company of our MEM friends!

We have everything crossed for rain 🌧️!!
30/07/2026

We have everything crossed for rain 🌧️!!

Ready steady go!
23/07/2026

Ready steady go!

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