Shandiss Wewiora at Poplar Place

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It would have been hard to miss Shandiss Wewiora’s Rockfield Grant Juan going cross country around the Poplar Place Advanced track – first of all, he’s enormous, and second, so is his jump and his presence, but he’s still remarkably light on his feet and has a wonderful athletic gallop, he positively came bounding towards us, leaping over the obstacles in his way and made it all look quite easy. I was very happy to bump into Shandiss later in the afternoon and find out more about her lovely horse.

Shandiss told me a bit more about the Goresbridge Go for Gold Sales, and also that in addition to the sale in Ireland they’d also checked out one of the big sport horse sales in Germany and as you can imagine, she said the contrast could hardly have been more stark. From the Irish horses coming straight in out of the field, some of them barely broken, all rather scruffy, she said one lay down in the middle of the arena with his rider still on and started to roll, to the German horses which were immaculately turned out, all in matching tack, plaited, trimmed and prepped for the occassion but also quite a lot more expensive.
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Glencento – another of the Goresbridge Auction acquisitions, and an equally nice type.
As we chatted idly Shandiss spilled the beans that she and Jordan McDonald had very recently got engaged – our very best EN congratulations to you both! Thank you to Shandiss for chatting to me and introducing me to her lovely horses, I’m sorry my photos really don’t do them justice, and thank you for visiting Eventing Nation. Go Irish Sport Horses and Go Eventing!
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