Little Lexi

Lexi (known as Bomber) is a 15.3 hands 12 year old Irish Sport Horse mare by Captain Clover. She came to join us in May 2013 having already had her first experiences of going out and popping some small fences. She had obviously not enjoyed her journey south and was very immature and weak so we decided to give her time to mature mentally and physically before starting work on making her a little event horse.

She came back into work Spring 2014 as a very anxious pony and slowly progressed towards her BD debut in October that year at Eaglesfield scoring 70% in her Prelim. She has continued with jumping practise through the winter and did her first two hunter trials in Spring 2015, and some unaffiliated and Riding Club events including a 3rd place in a Felbridge BE80 combined training that summer. She can get very spooky and stressed, especially in the ring so we are slowly plugging away with helping her cope with life. She is also still maturing physically and has grown a good inch. She spent a large part of the year just hacking to increase her confidence.

She hunted a few times over the winter 2015-16 with Martin and jumped double clear around the Munstead BE80. She then went off sick for several months with a nasty infection in her leg that had her boarding at Bell Equine. Since coming back into work we seem to have made quite a lot of progress and were absolutely delighted when Martin and her won their BE80 at Horseheath on their dressage score of 22.0! She finished her eventing season 2016 with four double clears from four BE80 events and a 1st, 2nd and 4th place.

She worked through the winter and started evening at BE90 in 2017, winning at Horseheath on her dressage score of 23.0, coming 4th at Chilham and winning again at Borde Hill. She did four BE100s finishing with an 8th place at Horseheath but just didn’t seem herself after that. Blood tests were all normal so eventually she went to the vets for investigations and despite being sound we found some problems in both hind suspensories. Poor girl had been trying so hard all summer. Just as we went to bring her back into work she fractured a pedal bone in the field. We decided that a full year off was her best chance of a full recovery.

She came back into work at the end of August 2018 and finished the year with a few preliminary BD outings with Janine, then onto 2019 making her debut at Elementary and skipping into the 70% club. She qualified for the BD Elementary Area Festival Final and Summer Regionals, the Freestyle Music Elementary Winter Regionals, has done her first few Mediums with 68%, her first few Advanced Mediums with 66%, and was even 2nd in the Stratford Hills BE80 with Janine who hasn’t evented, or even jumped, in years.

She got cast in the spring of 2020 and damaged her patella ligament, and with Covid we decided that a quiet year was best for her. She then made her BD comeback after a 15 month break in 2021 with her debut at Advanced Medium music with 69% and her first day out in tails at Advanced gaining a brilliant 65%

This Irish pony rocks 😍

About

Janine is a British Dressage Recognised Coach and Group 3 Rider based in Kent. She has trained and competed from Prelim to PSG but with a background in the training of young event horses she is also very popular for show-jump instruction and cross-country schooling. She is a UKCC qualified coach, is on the BHS Register of Instructors, is a Centre10 Advanced Coach (Applied Psychology for Equestrian Coaches) and a Pony Club B+ Test Assessor and instructor.

She has always had a broad range of clients with numerous wins in British Dressage including the all important qualifications to the Regionals and National Winter Championships. She has lots of British Eventing clients with qualification to the much sought after Badminton Grassroots Regionals. On the showing side there has been a National Side-Saddle Working Hunter Champion, and riders at HOYS in the Search For A Star classes. With a very diverse bunch of clients nothing gives her more pleasure than to receive a text with the day’s results. However she is happy teaching all levels, so long as you want to improve.

Janine is based at Carmen Court near Tonbridge (owned by one of her sponsors Louisa Day Photography) but also teaches from home in Swanley Village. Most of her teaching is in Kent and the local Sussex area but she can travel further by arrangement.

There are very popular show-jumping clinics at Carmen Court from April to August each year, and clinics through the winter under cover at Four Elms Farm. Janine is always happy to do clinics at other venues in the South East.

She has been very successful with rider confidence problems and helping with the psychology of training and competing. As coach, Janine is often very much part of the team as required.

Janine and Martin are sponsored by Simple System Horse Feeds and are Product Ambassadors for Equilibrium Products. They can be found on Facebook under the name Team Lamy Wright.

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