Magazine Photoshoot

Jive Pony is going to press again! We did a photoshoot a couple of weeks ago, and did a little bit of everything. The photos above are a bit of a taster, the full articles will be appearing in the August issue of PONY Magazine (out at the end of June) and hopefully in a future issue of Horse and Rider Magazine, so keep your eyes peeled for all of us! Casper will be appearing in the article alongside Ronan and Tinker for the first time, and also watch out for Thunderhoof!

Rosie xx

Click here to see lots more photos from the shoot!

Funny Man!

Hooray! We've found a new glamourous asisstant! He's called Simon and he's very very funny! We had our first rehearsal with Simon and Ronan together this afternoon, and you'd never guess Simon's only been on a horse a couple of times, him and Ronan looked like they'd been together forever. He also rode Thunderhoof really well (not as easy as it looks) - as you can see from the picture!

Hopefully Simon will be with us for most of the summer, so make sure you look out for him in the shows. He's got quite a big part in the new duo show, so along with learning our other three shows he's got quite a bit of work to do! Click here to see some photo's of Simon's first rehearsal.

The countdown has begun and it's now less than four weeks until our first show, when Rebecca, Simon, Ronan, Tinker and I will be heading off to Woodgreen Animal Shelter in Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. If you're anywhere nearby make sure you come and see us, we're looking forward to seeing everybody again!

See you soon,

lots of love

Rosie xx

Happy 2008!

Happy belated 2008!

Preparations are now well under way for our 2008 season, which kicks off in just six weeks! Rebecca and I have been very busy rehearsing our current shows, writing a new duo show, making new soundtracks, getting new costumes together, sorting out props, as well as getting ourselves and the horses fit!

Tinker and Ronan both had a nice relaxing winter, but are now both working really hard on their vaulting and their dances, hopefully we'll have a few more tricks to show you all this summer! Sonny is going well and should do a few shows this year to help ease the load on Ronan, and Casper's range of tricks means he should be able to perform a dance by the end of the season. Fingers crossed for both of them!!

Due to changes in circumstances Duncan won't be performing with us this year so we've been on the look out for a new glamarous assisstant - it's a tricky role to fill, Thunderhooves is not an easy horse to handle!! Watch this space to see how we get on...

We've got shows all over this year, from Ayr to Devon, Suffolk to Carmarthen, so we're bound to be near you at some point! Check out our calendar to see where we'll be, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Hope all of you and your horses and ponies are well and happy,

lots of love

Rosie x

Truckers!

Even though we've not got shows on at the moment, both Rebecca and I are managing to keep busy. Most exciting is the fact that we've both managed to pass our HGV tests, so now we can both drive the lorry. It'll make life a lot easier being able to share the driving, as poor Duncan has had to do the whole lot on his own until now. It just means we'll take a lot longer to get anywhere!

We've also been busy planning new shows for next year, and tweaking the existing ones, so nobody gets bored! We've been taking a lot of bookings so hopefully we'll be somewhere near you at some point next year. Make sure you have a look at the calendar on the website to see when!

In the mean time I hope you and all your horses are wrapped up against the cold - Tinker and Casper definately are!

Have a very happy christmas and new year,

Lots of love,

Rosie xx

CASPER!!

Exciting Jive Pony news! I've gone and bought a new horse! I bought him home on September 19th, so I've had him for just over eight weeks now. His name is Casper and he's only two years old. I bought him to match Tinker but I have a feeling he's going to grow slightly taller than Tink! Although Casper is still too young to learn about riding and vaulting, he's starting to learn some tricks already and so far he follows me forwards and backwards, holds things in his mouth, and is starting to cross his legs both ways. His favourite thing so far though is definately standing on the pedestal, he loves being extra tall! As soon as I can I'll get some photo's of him doing his tricks but for the mean time have a look at when him and Tinker first met by clicking here.

Lots of love,

Rosie x

West Country Equine Event

We had a really good day at the Bath and West Showground on Sunday for the West Country Equine Event. The four of us (Rebecca, Ronan, Duncan and I) were a bit worried we may be a bit rusty having not done any shows since the end of August, but a good rehearsal on Friday soon put paid to those worries, and both shows were fantastic! We tweaked both shows slightly and there was a definate improvement, so now we have to remember the changes for next year!

We're now into winter training, and although Tinker and Ronan are having well deserved rests, Rebecca and I have our work cut out preparing for next year. We've been busy doing plenty of mailouts so hopefully we'll be getting lots of bookings for next year - we'll keep you posted!!

Hope you and your horses are wrapped up for winter!

Rosie x

West Country Equine Event

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