On behalf of all of us at Gledsmuir @ Mooikloof, I would like to wish a very warm welcome to you all.

This is our first attempt at creating our own website, but thankfully one of our liveries, Brigette, gave us a good kick in the right direction! A couple days of hard work and countless youtube videos later, we seem to be well on our way to our first website!

Here on our Blog page, we will have an assortment of content, including feedback on clinics, shows and training days we attend, interesting articles written by one of our knowledgeable instructors and updates on projects we’ve begun at the yard.

This month we finished our stunning 4 berth wash bays, complete with nonslip rubber matting, started building paddock shelters in our ‘over the road’ paddocks, as well as refurbishing our large grass arena. The process of refurbishing the arena includes spraying a herbicide on the existing surface, reseeding the arena with Kikuyu, top dressing and watering from our borehole.

I’m very excited to see how our grass arena turns out, hopefully we will be able to host a few showing shows here and there once the grass is established.

Although it is our wonderful maintenance team doing all the hard labour, I do feel I’ve played an integral part in the refurbishment process, as I have accidentally dyed both hands blue whilst opening a bottle of dye to add to the herbicide. After such hard work, I do think I can justify having a doughnut for lunch today.

Warm regards and Happy Riding,

Ashleigh