Holme Grove Baroque, Bay filly by Holme Grove Solomon out of Holme Grove Barkehman born 2002
In June 2004 Dawn Terrill came to visit us to purchase a youngster to bring on for dressage but fell in love with two and couldn't decide which to buy so she bought both! Both are by Holme Grove Solomon. Holme Grove Cinnebar was a very immature 3 year old and Holme Grove Baroque a 2 year old. Nearly 4 years on and Dawn has backed both of them (backed Cinnebar while she was pregnant!) and is now competing both of them very successfully. She has called me with updates several times and she has kindly now sent an email update to share
E-mail update received 21st March 2008
Hi Susan
Summary of what I've been doing with Baroque and Cinnebar:
Cinnebar still seems to be growing and, due to his overall size/length etc., he has taken a lot longer to get his work established than Baroque (he also has not had the advantage of a naturally strong topline that she has). Having said that, when everything comes together just right he is absolutely great and has achieved scores of nearly 74% at prelim level and nearly 73% at novice.
Cinnebar competed at the winter regional championships at Addington but, unfortunately, the results in no way reflected the way he is going as he spent the whole time calling Baroque in the lorry which affected him very badly. Both of them travel very well alone and I think in the future that is the way it will have to be.
More recently he has done his first elementary test in the training section and would have been second with a score of 65.2% if he had been competing.
Baroque is probably the most focused, consistent (and prettiest!) little mare I have ever had the pleasure to work with. She had a couple of blips to her consistency last year whilst she had splints forming in both hind legs (at separate times). One of these was unfortunately during the summer regional championships. She was a very close third in the Strada Saddles 5YO championship with a score of 8.24, having qualified on an even higher score - she scored a 9.5 for her walk.
Baroque came third in the winter prelim regional championships at Addington, a great result but it is tinged with disappointment as I know she would have won it very easily if I hadn't taken Cinnebar as well. Whilst she didn't call as much as him, it was enough!
Baroque won her first 2 novice qualifiers for the summer championships so we are now just doing some elementary training tests (scoring 67.5% and 66.89% in her first ones, which would have been an easy first had she been competing).
Photos still to follow.
Dawn