Komik on her way to a clear xc at her first prelim at Rocking Horse Winter II
It’s been far too long since we caught up with Allie Knowles and her two, now six-year-old mares Komik and Roxy. Since our last installment Allie has spent a couple of weeks down in Ocala training with Buck Davidson, and competed at the Ocala Horse Park and Rocking Horse Winter II. There’s almost too much to catch up on in one go, so I visited her barn on a blustery day and watched her do some fittening work with both horses before we had a brief chat, and promised to catch up again and get more competition footage at Southern Pines.
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The horses going up the hill.
Allie mentioned that it’s been a huge adjustment moving from California to Kentucky and getting used to the tracks over here, the weather and consequently making allowances for the footing, and also taking her mares’ temperaments into account as she gets them fit for competitions.
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My greedy gannet of a black labrador (four-legged rubbish bin) can attest to how delicious the Triple Crown feed is as you can see him in the background of the video hoovering up every last crumb from the ground, I can’t watch that clip now without wanting to throttle him! Allie and I are both refreshingly ignorant geography-wise but we reckon it’s about nine hours drive or so to Southern Pines from Kentucky and she’ll be taking a full trailer load, with Last Call running in the Advanced and Juicy Couture in the Open Intermediate. If you have any particular training questions you’d like Allie to tackle please leave them in the comments section below, and we’d be happy to address them in the next edition. Thank you of course to Allie, and thank you as always for reading. Go Allie and Go Eventing!
