24/09/2019
Hello!!! 👋
It has been a LONG LONG time since I have posted on this page!! ...
So I wanted to give you all a brief (hmm having now written this post, it isn’t very brief at all sorry! 😂) update on where everything is up to these days!
I had 8 months without riding, it was a bit weird but was really good to take a break and refocus. Oh and in that time I got married to the love of my life, Matt. We had the ceremony at our home in Waiau Pa & it was such a special day (have thrown a pic or two in here from the wedding ❤️)... so I am now Mrs Reid :0 (have to start properly being an adult now!)
I also followed my passion and started my own business in marketing, with two brands to tailor to different markets that I am dedicated to: “Ice Marketing” (which offers specialised equestrian industry marketing as well as general services) and “Restaurant Consulting Co” (which is specifically for the hospitality industry).
As you can imagine, these ventures were/are keeping me pretty busy so I wasn’t doing much in the way of horse activities over those 8 months, but (having been talked into it by a few people 😉), I did start to do a little bit of teaching again locally.
A couple of months ago, after some persistent, friendly “nagging”, Nic (who owns Tommy aka The Loveable Rogue) got me back on Tommy for a ride. I have always loved Tommy and had a great partnership with him, so it was such a joy to be back in the saddle (not so much the next day when I could hardly walk 😂)
Since then, I have just been riding Tommy twice a week, which has been really fun and been great to get my riding fitness back up and start playing with Dressage movements again. Tommy, who is a multi talented lad, has been doing quite a bit of jumping on his Dressage hiatus ( have thrown one of those pics in too- those knees right?? 😍)
Late last week, I saw that Kallista Field was up teaching in Karaka and we decided it’d be great to have a couple of lessons and get an assessment of where things are at and where we can go forward to. Well, was that ever a great decision!! The lessons were fabulous! Kallista really honed in on where we need to up our game and the result was a much more connected and powerful horse who felt amazing. Kallista was very complimentary about Tommy and his work ethic and potential. There are some very exciting plans forming in our future at this stage, so watch this space! 💫
I would like to thank everyone who has been so incredibly supportive over the last almost 2 years with everything our family has been through from the heartbreaking sadness with loosing Dad to the absolute joy of getting married. The journey life takes you on can be challenging at times, but what you make of the challenges and how you grow and learn from them, that ultimately creates the success and satisfaction in your life ❤️
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge all those amazing riders & Mum's who were a part of Team Beaumont for several years- It has been such a thrill seeing what you have all been doing last season! Special mention to Brina & Bella (who both train with Sheena Ross), congratulations on some very impressive results! I wish you all the very best for the new season that is kicking off now.
Thanks so much to you all for following this page, it will now be active again with updates so stay tuned 💙
