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25.01.2022 So 11 months after The World Pairs Carriage Driving Championships, so much uncertainty in the world with Covid19 and many months of hard work we have finally managed to make it to a competition..... however, we are now a team of 4 The two gorgeous boys (Harry and Felix) owned by Owen and Janet Pilling have now been joined by our own and Ross and Miriam Carbery's beautiful Carbery Estate girls (Cato and Chino). Bred by Ross and Miriam in Australia! They stepped out yesterday... in Tor's first ever Four-in-Hand Dressage competition in Lähden, Germany at the Sandmann's wonderful property. It's a great first outing as we got to compete in a dressage competition before the Four-in-Hand Combined Driving Competition begins today (for those of you that don't know, the Combined Driving is Dressage, Marathon and Cones). We were so proud of how the Team came together and very excited for their future! So many people to thank as we absolutely couldn't do this without you..... our amazing owners, who we're very upset can't be with us this weekend, Owen and Janet Pilling, Ross and Miriam Carbery Boyd and Preetha for all your help and support, new Team members, Ludo and Denise Hertrojis, Kamiel de Quick. Our support from Aus, in particular Stuart Smith for your daily laughs and moral boosts, our long time sponsors and to our one and only Catharina Matschurat we'll keep everyone posted on the weekend ahead. Xx See more
21.01.2022 Massive THANK YOU to our wonderful sponsor #EDWARDSSADDLEWORLDTOOWOOMBA For our fantastic Aussie trot up bridles...... can't wait to use them this month at Exloo CAI2*-H4 on the 26th - 29th Mar!!
21.01.2022 Well earned hack out for the boys after a big week #PrydesEasiFeed #Kelato #toowoombasaddleworld... #carberyestate #manuelequinetransport See more
21.01.2022 An absolute honor and privilege to be named The 2019 Finch Farm Athlete of the year!!! So many people behind this award...... thank you so much to the owners of this very talented pair of horses, Owen and Janet Pilling. Thank you to the maestro himself Boyd Exell for getting me ready and believing in me to take on such a big goal in my first year of International Driving Competition and to him and Preetha for having us "crash" their yard. Thank you to the hundreds of supporters from Australia and all around the world and thank you so much to our wonderful sponsors that have supported or International endeavors!! #PrydesEasifeed #KelatoAnimalHealth #ToowoombaSaddleworld #CarberyEstateCarriageHorses #ManuelEquineTransport #HorseGymAustralia #OPG
19.01.2022 Beautiful winters day hack out with Heineken and Carbery Estate Chino
16.01.2022 Home from our first competition ever as a Four-in-Hand Team and couldn't be prouder. So privileged to have such wonderful horses owned by Owen and Janet Pilling and Ross and Miriam Carbery..... can't thank you enough for this amazing opportunity the boys and girls worked beautifully together. We were 3rd in the dressage, 11th in the Marathon, 5th in the cones so ended up 7th overall in a strong field. Thanks to back stepper Ludo for doing a great job on the carriage for his first competition in this sport!! Thanks to our massive support crew here, in Scotland, England, South Africa, America and of course Australia and a massive thank you to Boyd Exell for all your help and guidance..... you are a true master of the sport #BEinspired
16.01.2022 First Four-in-Hand Horses Marathon course for Horses, Driver, Navigator and Back Stepper not perfect, things to work on but very happy!!!!
13.01.2022 Back from our first CAI3* Horse Teams competition..... it was a week of highs and lows. We headed off in a convoy with Boyd Exell and Elizabeth Lawrence from Australia. We took 5 gorgeous horses to the wonderful property of Christoph Sandmann's in Lähden. Our team of boys owned by Owen & Janet Pilling and girls owned by ourselves and Ross & Miriam Carbery along with Wayne Van Niekerk's beautiful "Officer " who he kindly lent us for a spare. Thanks so much Wayne!!! In Carriage Driving you are allowed to take an extra horse to substitute if you want or need to. We were very happy with the dressage. Sitting in 6th position in a strong field.
09.01.2022 Exciting day yesterday..... sitting in 3rd position after dressage here is a little snip of yesterday. Looking forward to Marathon today and just aiming for a confident run
07.01.2022 *LONG POST ALERT* As we find ourselves somehow at the start of March 2020 all of us at Team Van Den Berge want to wish you a belated Happy New Year, and the hope for a happy, and bright year ahead. It has been so hard, while we are over here in Holland to see the devastation of our beautiful country with fires raging beyond imagination and now the flooding rain. Homes and lives lost, lifestyles shattered and the massive loss of our unique wildlife. Our hearts are breaking fo...Continue reading
06.01.2022 Yesterdays results thanks Lindy Roothans for the gorgeous photo
06.01.2022 Must say we have the BEST clients!!!! Over 110 lessons done in 9 days with Tor the week before Christmas so exciting to see the improvement in all the riders and horses and starting to develop the higher movements with some very talented horses. Also having fun on the very talented Remi Vigneron who comes for his monthly week while still breeding!
05.01.2022 Saturday was the fun stuff...... we had 7 challenging obstacles over an 8km course. The horses were fit and keen to go. This young team tried their hearts out and we came home really happy with them. A couple of quick changes of course from Tor when things didn't go exactly to plan but no balls and everyone getting more confident with every obstacle! We were sitting in 12th after Marathon.
