Horse Of The Week - Opporto.

This Belgian Warmblood is 18 years of age, and is called Opporto. She stands at 16.1hh and has been owned by Nicole Cruse for 15 months. The combination have been competing in Pony Club and Riding Club Team Eventing. Together, they came first at the Area 14 Riding Club Qualifier out of 52 people and then went on to compete at the Aston Le Walls Championships. Opporto very recently won the Puissance at Broads Equestrian Centre, breaking their record at 135cm. Nicole explains: “Opporto is a Grade B Show Jumper, however has not competed in British Showjumping since 2011. Having had around ten or more owners, she is fairly high mileage. When I got her she had never done any eventing over 80cm, but I began at 90cm to 1 metre and she was brilliant. She was always slow in the field, and when getting her in I had to pull her along! During these last few months Opporto had been getting much worse, and she had begun stopping at jumps of only 90cm. She had not been schooling well at all and felt extremely stiff. She would go against my hand, and seemed to go wooden after 30 minutes.” “I then decided to take Opporto off of NAF Superflex as I felt this had no effect on her whatsoever. I then started feeding Feedmark’s ActiVet, and after a month she is like a different horse! She is much more active in her field and even bucks with excitement and also gallops around with the other horses (something that she would never have done before!). She is now jumping and schooling better than ever before! She is moving much more freely and more forward, and wants to work correctly through her back. After being in tears and thinking that she could not carry on competing because of her age, this supplement has now changed everything. Especially after she has just won the Puissance! I can’t thank Feedmark enough for giving my mare a new lease of life!" “Now I feel that Opporto can carry on competing, I will show jump with her and hopefully affiliate to British Showjumping myself. She just looks fantastic now, with such a shiny and healthy coat.” A FREE 1.7kg tub of ActiVet is on its way to Opporto for being our Horse Of The Week! Each week, the Feedmark team select a horse of the week from reviews, letters and emails sent to them. If you would like your horse to feature, then please send your horse’s details in to [email protected] or go online and write a review.