This weekend Mike and I took a few of the event horses over to Bruce's Field, here in Aiken, for the dressage show. It was fun trying to mix it up with the fancy dressage horses and it was an especially good experience for the Kyra and Cortez, who will be competing in the LiftMaster Eventing Grand Prix at Bruce's Field in a couple of weeks. Thanks to Silva’s owner Joan Fenton-White, who took photos of some of the horses. Results can be found at Foxvillage.com (links below)
RESULTS BOYD
RESULTS Read more...Windurra Eventers at Dressage at Bruce’s Field
February 18, 2019 by 1 Comment
This weekend Mike and I took a few of the event horses over to Bruce's Field, here in Aiken, for the dressage show. It was fun trying to mix it up with the fancy dressage horses and it was an especially good experience for the Kyra and Cortez, who will be competing in the LiftMaster Eventing Grand Prix at Bruce's Field in a couple of weeks. Thanks to Silva’s owner Joan Fenton-White, who took photos of some of the horses. Results can be found at Foxvillage.com (links below)
RESULTS BOYD
RESULTS Read more...New Boyd Martin/ETB Equine Construction Schooling Course Open at Stable View
February 6, 2019 by 1 Comment
It was great fun to get out and school the upper level oriented course that I designed and Eric Bull built in a back field here at Stable View. All of the jumps are newly built and are offered for sale, and I will rearrange the jumps on a regular basis so that riders can train a variety of questions.
Here's a video of Lillian Heard giving it a test run:
https://youtu.be/URFii4zAOpY
Read more...Rosa Cha W to Return to Grand Prix Competition
January 11, 2019 by 1 Comment
At the end of 2017, just before Dressage at Devon, my Grand Prix mare Rosa Cha W foundered as a result of contracting Potomac Horse Fever. Rosa had been vaccinated against the disease, and the founder diagnosis was devastating. We thought that she might never compete again.
We bred Rosa, who is now 13 years old, in Australia. She is an Oldenburg by Heath Ryan’s stallion Regardez Moi, out of Jasmine W (by Richmeed Medallion), and she is like part of our family. Rosa took me to my first Nations Read more...World Class Grooming with Emma Ford
February 22, 2018 by 1 Comment
The past few years I have brought in top eventing groom Emma Ford to spend a couple hours with all of the staff and go over the grooming of all of the horses. Emma, who along with Cat Hill authored the book World Class Grooming and offers seminars on grooming, has traveled to three Olympic Games with Phillip Dutton and is very particular with the car of the horses. She is also good mates with my head girl Sidney. It’s always good bringing outside people to look over how things are done in Read more...
Update from Silva: Three Shows in Aiken
February 20, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I have some catching up to do on the blog, so I will talk about three shows here, beginning with Dressage at the Park, held at Bruce’s Field here in Aiken.
I’m so excited that I have two newly minted FEI horses, Hannah Lu W, owned by Joan Fenton White and Sara Reese, and my own Jada W. Both of these homebred mares just recently moved up to the FEI levels, competing in the PSG here in Aiken, South Carolina.
Jada won the PSG; Hannah was a little hot in the canter and made some green Read more...
Windurra Young Event Horses Compete at Stable View Dressage
February 15, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today was the first official recognized dressage show at Stable View Farm in Aiken. I was busy working the Advanced and Intermediate Horses with US Team coach Erik Duvander, so my right hand man Mike Pendleton rode four of the young event horses in the Training and First level dressage classes.
Looking at the results, I see that young Mike did a stellar job with the horses. The two Irish Sport Horses, Classic and Carl, won their tests, and the two new German horses, LuLu and Monty, made their Read more...
Erik Duvander Coaching in Aiken
January 19, 2018 by 1 Comment
The new US Eventing Team coach Erik Duvander was in Aiken this week, coaching at Stable View. He worked with Shammie and he even hopped on and had a feel of him. Shammie looks in great shape and I plan to take him to Wellington, Florida in early February to do some pure dressage and jumping.
-Boyd
Below are a few pictures:
2018 Season Kicks Off at Stable View in Aiken!
January 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
2018 fan club update from Boyd and Silva Martin, located in Aiken SC at Stable View. Read more...
Back to Stable View
January 4, 2018 by 1 Comment
After a tortuously cold December in Pennsylvania we’re happy to report that we’ve relocated to Stable View Farm in Aiken, South Carolina. It's a little chillier than usual right now but it beats the snow storm hitting the northeast at the moment!
This year we’ve got an awesome team of staff and we’re very lucky to be in such a world class facility. Compared to our stable block at home in PA, we’re spoiled to be in this luxurious barn and we’re also very lucky to have Read more...
Videos of Contessa Schooling at Stable View
March 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Here are some quick videos of Contessa, owned by Gloria Callen, Densey Juvonen, Fernanda Kellogg, and Kelly Morgan, schooling at Stable View Farm in Aiken, SC. We decided to put a number of the cross country portables, built by ETB Equine Construction, in the outdoor jumping ring, which has excellent all-weather footing by Attwood Equestrian Surfaces.
As you can see, Contessa is a jumping machine!
Link to Videos courtesy of Courtney Cooper and Neil Camens. Read more...
