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Here's our 2007-08 News - Scroll down to
read what we said in 2007 and 2008
Our News pages have been divided. Here we show the news items that we published before 2009. They are arranged with the earliest at the bottom.
Rose Cottage Riding School, Malin
November 2008. Some 'new' pictures of Domino's 2007 foal, Patrick have been found. Taken at the time on a mobile (cell) phone camera having only 2 Mp resolution and not transferred until now, these show him at two days old and still keeping close to mum. They also show how Mum was reluctant at first to share Patrick with these new two nosey humans but after she'd recognised that the new nosey human was in fact her former owner and his wife from England she soon came over to show off her offspring. Fancy seeing them? Take a look here.
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
We had another fun Halloween Riding Day here again this year, do have a look on our Customer 2008 Page for the pictures.
Rose Cottage Riding School, Malin
We're all still in a bit of a
tizzy here at Rose Cottage - you see we have
had the Irish National Broadcaster RTE's Travel Programme No Frontiers
filming here for a programme that is to go out early next year! They
filmed the Cottage and the presenter of the programme, Katherine Thomas,
was filmed at the yard with our Assistant Instructor Sam. Then as if that
was not enough we have also had the film crew from Sepia Films here to do
some recreational riding! They are in Inishowen at the moment filming on
location for A Shine of Rainbows, starring Aidan Quinn and Connie
Nielson. Go to our Behind the Scenes page to
see a little more of both of these and make a note in your diary to see both the
film and the programme next year if you can. Rose
Cottage Riding School is clearly the place to be in Inishowen these
days!!
Rose Cottage Riding School, Malin
The weekend of the 31stMay - 1st June 2008 marked the Anniversary of the formation of Rose Cottage Riding School and of its web site too. Recognising this occasion, we developed an on-line Newsletter which may be viewed and printed by going here to our Anniversary page. Kate McDermott, on behalf of all at Rose Cottage Riding School, would like to thank all those over the past year. who have been customers and all those visitors too who have logged into our web site. We try to report all important events and developments on this web site so please come back every so often and, if you are in the area, please do call in to say Hello. We'd love to show you around.
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
All those who took and passed one of the AIRE Amateur
Tests Awards in 2007 now have their names listed on the AIRE web site. The list
of names of those qualifying from Rose Cottage
can now be found at
http://www.aire.ie/news/article/aire_amateur_tests_awards_2007.html.
Congratulations are due to all on their success.
[NB Owing to the passage of time since this article first appeared, this information is no longer available on the AIRE web site and the link above is inoperative]
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Early in 2008, Rose Cottage inaugurated a Pony Riders Group
and it is becoming a great success. Aimed at and restricted to, those
children who are regular riders at Rose Cottage Riding
School the Group holds stable management evenings during school terms, ridden rallies in the holidays
and other special events. These might include dressage, beach rides,
jumping, treasure hunts, picnic rides and visits. We hope to have more on recent events soon.
Watch this space... Become a regular rider now if you'd like to be one of
the Group!
Rose Cottage Riding School, Malin
Two more wins in March 2008 for Rose Cottage by Sam McDermott - again riding Zuko and again at Greenacres too. She won both the In-hand and the Ridden Coloured Classes and took the Coloured Championship as well! As if this was not enough and also from Rose Cottage, Ashleigh Mc Dermott came second in a field of ten in the Family Pony Class and was even nominated as Reserve Champion in the Family Pony Championship. You can see more here
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
We were to have had a jumping day on the 4th
January 2008 - before the children went back to School - but it had to be cancelled.
It had snowed in the night!
But there were some compensations because, before it melted, it gave us the opportunity for
a few photographs taken behind the scenes, not least of some of our donkeys who grow the
warmest coats in the winter and often don't need rugs even in such weather, though they do hang around
looking rather nonplussed when there is snow!. Have a look
here for a few of these
photographs.
Rose Cottage Riding
School, Malin
One of our 2007 "arrivals", Patrick (by Dandy, out of Domino
and nearly 11hh by the end of 2007) was formally registered with the Irish
Piebald & Skewbald Association last year as a Piebald colt (Piebald
is the - now mainly Irish - name for a black and white coloured or pinto horse).
Regular visitors to this site will have probably noticed that Patrick's
colouring has caused quite a lot of comment over the past months - and not least
on an excellent American Horse forum (go to
http://www.thepetsforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=35 and look under
Breeds and Breeding) - from him being
brown/white at birth, to chocolate/white soon after, then several shades in
between and getting blacker as the months went on. Well, our vet finally decided
at the end of 2007 that he's a Piebald
and his registration was duly approved in November. He now of course has his own EU equine passport
too. You can see more of Patrick at and soon after, birth
here, at 6 months
here
and at approx two years old
here. Anyone who might be interested to understand more of the
Irish definitions of Piebald and Skewbald and the American influence on their
popularity in Europe might like to pop over to the IPSA web site at
http://www.theipsa.com/definition.htm. But do come back here!
Rose Cottage Riding
School, Malin
Santa Claus came
to us just before Christmas 2007 and stayed some time too! Have a look
here for some
of the photographs of that day.
We also had a fun 2007 Halloween Day here.
We ran a Fancy Dress Gymkhana for the
Children!
Do have a look at the pictures here - it's
surprising the horses weren't frightened!!
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