Early Success For Team Bardo

Jayne Webber and Carol Bardo took their talented team of horses to the British Show Horse Association Southern Spring Show at Crofton Manor Equestrian Centre. This show held on the 26th March was the first 'proper' show of the season for Carol and Jayne so the pressure was on to do well!


It turned out to be a spectacularly successful day, with four horses qualifying for the Royal International Horse Show at Hickstead. Cobs Darcey Bustle and The Keystone Cob both won their respective classes and then went on to be Champion and Reserve Champion Cobs. Berkeley Square and Comberton Clancy went on to do exactly the same in the Riding Horse class.


The success continued on into the novice classes, with the team winning two of the three classes. Pillowtalk won the Novice Hack class and Hannah Pavlova took the Novice Cob class before going on to be overall Novice Champion and then finally Reserve Supreme of the show. Comberton Clancy went one better and came in Supreme Champion of the show!


A great start to the season!

Inaugural PSO Prize Goes Down Under

The inaugural Absorbine sponsored photo-shows.co.uk best turned out class has been won by Australian Karen Hendley's pony stallion Sarahn Satalight.

Photo-shows.co.uk or PSO as its affectionately known by its members is the worlds premier online horse show. There are classes for champion show horses, ex-racehorses, a much loved family pet or anything in between.

Classes run from the 1st to the end of each month with full size rosettes to 10th place, sashes, trophies and more. With classes costing just £3 to enter, its easy to see why so many people are part of the phenomenon.

New for the February show was the Absorbine sponsored Best Turned Out class. It was a very hotly contested competition but the judges unanimously decided that Sarahn Satalight was the winner.

Karen bought Sarahn Satalight as a three year old from the USA, his breeding is Arabian pony cross Welsh section B. He is by Brampton Sinbad out of Richdale Shantilly. Karen frequently and successfully shows Sarahn Satalight in hand and he also stands at stud via AI each season. Showing victories for this lovely pony include champion led Arabian pony at the Royal Melbourne Horse Show.

Showing in Australia is very different from the UK, Karen says "we travel huge distances to shows, and have known some friends to travel a 7,000 mile round trip to compete at the Australian Championship!" Karen lives in the Otway Ranges area of Victoria where the temprature can get up to 40 degrees celsius in the summer. She owns a total of 13 horses all of which she looks after and trains herself. PSO is Karen's new hobby, at which she says "my beautiful horses have been lucky enough to be extremely successful at, and this is a wonderful and exciting passtime".

Many congratulations to Karen and Sarahn Satalight from all at Absorbine UK, hopefully your Absorbine prize will help make your horses already excellent turnout even better!

New ShowSheen - The Users Verdict

Laura Pyke, our tester of the new ShowSheen comes from the Vlacq Stud in North Wales. The stud is a family business, breeding both pure bred and anglo-arabs. Laura has tried out the new ShowSheen on all her animals....

"I've been busy washing tails and dressing manes with the new ShowSheen and its great! I've also done the collie and spaniel with it!

As we have Arabs, their manes are kept full and tails left natural. The outdoor horses inevitably get muddy tails and dreadlocks from the Welsh wind. The indoor ones get sticky tails as we are on rubber mats and half beds. I go along each row of four boex washing tails, rubbing down and spraying in the ShowSheen, then go back to the beginning with my trusty paddle brush and brushing through takes no time at all.

This stuff is great. Used dry on manes (too cold still to bath!) it lets tangles slide out without pulling out hairs, and applied to towel dried tails it gets all the twists and scurfy skin out just as easily. And it ensures grime slides off for a good few days as well, meaning fewer dreadlocks and longer between the washes.

The silent sprayer is great for the babies and any reactive sorts. Product smells great too and I've even dropped the can a couple of times and it seems indestructable!

I will be using it on the broodmares close to foaling to make cleaning up after the happy event (and covering) easier, and on the foals' tails in case of scouring.

Its also great on the feathered horses (we have 2 section C's) to get their legs in showring shape after a long winter out, and also prevent them bringing in half the arena surface after a workout. I would have thought it would be a must for people with M&Ms and coloureds with white legs!!

So yes, while I will be adding one to my show kit box for those finishing touches, I'll also have one in my maintenance kits in each vehicle (hoofpick, hairbrush, fly spray, sun block, eye cream, wound spray and now ShowSheen).

Come June/July/August I know I can brush all the horses lega and chests down woth it and keep the nasty bot eggs away too... And then we will be back into autumn/winter tail damage limitation and washing again, ready for the worst the Welsh weather can throw at us!"

ShowSheen Now With Silk Proteins and Continuous Sprayer

ShowSheen hair polish and detangler is better than ever! New and improved ShowSheen is now enriched with Pro-Vitamins and silk Proteins to nourish the coat and shine and strengthen

the hair to perfection.

Not only this but the new and improved formula is available as ShowSheen finishing mist in a 15oz non aerosol continuous spray, which uses the latest bag in a bottle technology. Even better, it is now on sale in the UK.

ShowSheen makes coats smooth and sleek and accentuates body tone and definition. It repels dust, dirt and stains keeping your horse cleaner for longer and can reduce grooming time by as much as 80%.

The continuous spray has been developed to make ShowSheen totally user friendly. It is economical with a fine spray and no waste, and the quiet sprayer won't spook your horse. It is perfect for last minute touch ups at shows and even sprays upside down!

New and Improved ShowSheen is available in a 444ml (Finishing Mist Spray), a 947ml refill and spray and a 3.79l refill.

For stockists information please email info@absorbine.co.uk

New Best Turned Out Class Sponsored by Absorbine

"Photo Shows Online" - the world's premier online horse show, is a great new idea brought to us all by Jemma Plester. Competitors enter by submitting a photo in a class of their choice. Shows run on a monthly basis and there are 15 classes each month. Go to http://www.photo-shows.co.uk/ to enter.

There is now an Absorbine sponsored Best Turned Out class each month with great Absorbine prizes to be won. Rosettes go to tenth place and the prize to the winner will be different every time. This month its the "bath in a bottle" - Miracle Groom.

Miracle Groom is a patented five in one formula that cleans, conditions, deodorizes, detangles and shines in just one application. It quickly removes dust, grime and even stubborn stains without the need for soap and water. Leading showing rider and producer Jayne Webber says "Miracle Groom is great for removing sweat marks or stains - and it is ideal for use in the show ring."

The entries for the February Best Turned Out Class are looking good - there's still a week left to enter..... The winner each month will also feature right here on our blog, with photos of them and their horse.

Horse and Rider Tried and Tested

Horseman's One Step Leather Cleaner and Conditioner from Absorbine.


Horseman's One Step was the convincing winner in Horse and Rider Magazine's February 2011 Tack Cleaning Products Tried and Tested Feature.


Rachel Taylor, testing the product said "This one-step cleaner picked up dirt well, and left the tack cleaner, more supple and with a natural shine. Anyone could use this product on any kind of tack. It even restored older tack unti lit looked like new! This was my favourite product out of all the products I tested."


Horseman's One Step is designed for the busy equestrian, it requires no water and combines cleaning and conditioning in one step. It is great for use on harnesses, saddles, halters, bridles, reins, boots, belts, luggage, shoes, sporting goods, handbags and most leather garments. It penetrates quickly, leaving no greasy residue.

Win a day with Jayne Webber

In association with Absorbine and Showing World Website.

The two lucky runner up winners have been announced:

Leanne Richardson and Helen Jeffrey will both win an excellent Absorbine 'goody bag' filled with top Absorbine products.

They will also receive useful showing tips from Jayne Webber and Carol bardo.