New Part-Owners for Steady Eddie

I’m very excited to announce that our pride and joy, Australian Thoroughbred Steady Eddie, has new part owners: Denise Lahey and Pierre Colin of Peterborough, NH have purchased 50% to join George and Gretchen Wintersteen of Unionville, PA in the ownership of this exciting and athletic young horse.
I was lucky enough to meet Denise and Pierre in Aiken earlier this year, where they spend their winters eventing. Both are huge supporters of the sport and it’s a phenomenal feeling, especially after last week’s tragedy, to have new people coming on board, supporting my up-and-coming horses.
Eddie has now been living in the United States for just over a year. He’s come up through the ranks of novice and training and did his first prelim at Waredaca last weekend, and is entered in prelim at Plantation Field Horse Trials this weekend, then he’ll have a nice rest since he’s had a pretty intense start to the year.
For those of you not familiar with Eddie, of “The Eagle” as I call him, I picked him up in Australia from a guy who got him off the racetrack. He has some phenomenal bloodlines and he is closely related to Blyth Tait’s Olympic gold-medalist Ready Teddy.

Steady Eddie Gets Well Deserved Break!

Steady Eddie in Action: Photo Courtesy Mike McNally

Eddie has gone on his first official holiday here in America. Since arriving here in the States in March, the 'Eagle',as he is known around the barn, has been hard in training becoming an event horse and he has done nothing but impress me so far. He has had three starts, with three impressive performances.

My plan is to keep him at his owners', George and Gretchen Wintersteen's (pictured above, photo courtesy Mike McNally) equine retreat for 3-4 weeks, where he will be living the good life with Gretchen's fox hunters. After that he will be back to work with me and Silva. Our plan is to take him slowly, keep working on his dressage, and maybe aim for a training level horse trial towards the end of the year.

George and Gretchen's other horse, Ringwood Murphy, is also starting to find some form. He was narrowly beat (by .01 of a bloody point) on the weekend at the Maryland Horse Trials. Murph has a few more Trainings coming up mixed up with a bit of hound exercising this summer.

-Boyd

Congratulations to the Wintersteins on Purchasing Steady Eddie

I’d like to congratulate George and Gretchen Winterstein from Unionville, PA for coming in and becoming owners of Steady Eddie, my most recent import from Australia. Gretchen and George are no strangers to owning top horses: Gretchen rides in the first flight of the Cheshire Fox Hunt and has owned many steeplechase horses, and George loves competition, too: he’s a retired race car driver.

The Wintersteins also own Ringwood Murphy, a training level event horse that has been imported from Ireland and is going to end up a fox hunter for Gretchen. We’ve started him eventing because she feels like it will be a good education for him before he starts his fox hunting career.

Steady Eddie’s eventing debut comes this weekend in the BN at Plantation Field HT on Saturday, so we’re all about to see if he lives up to my high expectations.

-Boyd

Videos of Boyd Jumping Rose and Eddie

Boyd checks in following a couple of days in Pennsylvania:

The Sunday night after Pine Top I jumped on a flight straight up to PA not only to see my loving wife and two pet cats but also to inspect my two exciting young horses that Silva and Caitlin have been working with.

Ambassador’s Rose, known around the barn as Rose has improved considerably with her jumping and the dressage since we parted company a couple of months ago. Kristin and Andy Sparks bred Rose and she’s a new competition horse for me to ride.The mare is showing good signs of promise and she’ll make her debut at the Plantation Horse Trials next month at the novice level.



I also got on Steady Eddie for his first jumping school on American soil and he did not disappoint. Right from the first fence he gave me a great feel on top and he’s showing good signs of promise. I still think he’s probably a couple months off starting eventing because he hasn’t seen any cross-country style fences like banks or water in his life. He looks like he’s gained about 400 pounds since I last saw him in Australia. We’ve got him on Nutrena Legacy feed three times a day and he’s starting to shine and really look good.