This weekend Pascal and Ted (Undaunted) went to The  Addington Premier League.  Samantha had not ridden Pascal for two weeks but they came away with a second place in the Inter 2 and qualify directly to the National Championships in September with just over 70%. (more…)
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Success at Addington Premier League
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013Samantha in Saumur
Friday, May 3rd, 2013Samantha Thurman-Baker got off to a fine start with Douglas in Saumur.  She travelled out in fine style with Carl Hester and Dances with Wolves and Fine Time and Charlotte Dujardin with Uthopia, so had to pull out all the stops!  (more…)
Samanthas busy two weeks!
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013Samantha has a very busy couple of weeks coming up. Pascal has gone up to be with her at Carl’s before they head off to the Keysoe Premier League to compete in the Grand Prix on Friday and the Inter II on Saturday. She then has a fast turn around as she loads up Douglas on Monday to travel to Samaur in France to ride in the CDIO Young Rider classes. Good luck and keep us posted on your trips:)
Samantha competing at CDI Dressage – Addington this weekend
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Update:Â Really sad to say that we have withdrawn Douglas from the Addington CDI, with the virus going around it was decided the risk was too high 🙁
Samantha will be competing on Douglas at this weekends CDI at Addington
see http://www.britishdressage.co.uk/news/show/1663-home-team-looking-for-addington-advantage for full details.
Another Hester fairy tale in the making?
Monday, March 11th, 2013Samantha gets a great write up on the British Dressage web site..
‘Carl Hester’s magic seems like it could be rubbing off on another up and coming star with a win for Sam Thurman-Baker and her ride Douglas IV in the PSG’ and (more…)
Samantha wins at Myerscough
Saturday, March 9th, 2013Samantha has just finished  competing at The Myerscough Premier League on Douglas IV and has had  successful few days. On Thursday she came 2nd in the PSG on a score of 68.52, the test went fairly well but she felt there were improvements to be made. (more…)
New year catch up.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013Diane has just come back from taking Samantha, Pascal and Douglas (Carl Hester and Aram Gregorys horse) from World Class. It was the first of  the new selection so was very full on with Sam having meetings, lessons, assessments, physiotherapy and strength and conditioning. (more…)
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012
Well done to Samantha for getting on the World Class Program for 2013-2015. She is currently based at Carl Hesters yard in Gloucestershire so this is a very exciting time for her with access to the best trainers and support team in the world.
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Samantha to ride at National convention.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012Samantha is going to to ride at The  National Dressage convention this weekend.
She is working for Carl Hester and he  asked her to ride Golly (Dancing With Wolves) in his part of his demonstration. This is the horse that Carl won the Inter I and PSG titles with at this years Nationals!  Samantha rode Pascal there last year, so to ride there two years running is amazing. Hope it goes well Samantha…do us proud!
Samantha gets a golden opportunity!
Thursday, November 8th, 2012Samantha was recently offered a job with Carl Hester for a couple of weeks while one of his grooms were on holiday. It went so well she was asked to stay! She is involved with all mucking out, grooming, putting horses on horse walker, leading Valegro, (who doesn’t go on the walker), tack cleaning and the best bit riding! She gets the horses ready and warms them up for Carl. Being able to ride such wonderful horses she is a very lucky girl!
 Meanwhile Pascal has gone to Hartbury college, (after having had 6 weeks off work with a heel strain) to work on the water treadmill.  Samantha can go and see him as he is very close to Carl’s and hopefully if all goes well he will  join her in January.
We do miss having her at home with us in the yard but this is a job not to turn down!