2008 has seen Henry approach the training of his string of young horses with greater maturity and a solid underpinning of his knowledge acquired by spending some time in Germany at the end of last year with Skyrocket, his 6-year-old German bred gelding by Sandro hit, training with Wolfram Wittig.

Henry is concentrating on moving all of his horses up a level with the help of Daniel Greenwood and Carl Hester. Urban, a 7-year-old Dutch bred gelding by Obelisk, is now working confidently towards Prix St George and showing a talent for Grand Prix in the future.

V Max, a 6-year-old Dutch bred gelding by Gribaldi, is following his successes last year, being placed 9th at the National Championships in the Nuumed Potential International Dressage Horse Championship and 3rd in the DHI Challenge, is working with enthusiasm at medium at home,  and showing solid progress with his changes and pirouettes, showing that all the movements up to Grand Prix are well within his scope.

Skyrocket, a syndicate owned 6-year-old German bred gelding by Sandro Hit out of a Romadour 11 mare, will be making his debut in British Dressage competition shortly. This very talented horse is being produced slowly to ensure that he will in time be the best that he could be.

Sadly, just this week, we have taken the decision to retire DHI Winddancer from competition. Despite making great improvement with his Grand Prix level work, he is not consistently sound enough to compete, and have therefore withdrawn him from the Inter 1 Freestyle at the Winter Championships. Henry will however still be performing the Rocky Horror Quadrille at the 2008 Winter Championships with Annie Perry, Lara Griffith and Charlie Hutton partnered by DHI Faederlite, the great horse that was Prix St George Freestyle Champion with Henry in 2005.

Basilio, an 8-year-old German bred horse by Beltain, owned by Lisa Moyes is moving on from his 7th place at the National Championships at Medium in 2007. This superb 18hh gelding will be making his advanced medium debut in 2008.

Henry also is training Maybe, a 17hh, 4-year-old mare by Sandro B, out of Annabel a Danish bred mare trained to advanced medium by Dawn Johnson. Maybe will be contesting 4-year-old classes in 2008.

We embarked on a new venture in partnership with Biddi Lewis, Sinelli B’s owner,  in 2007 to breed a foal from the successful mare Sinelli B that partnered Henry in 2006 and 2007 using embryo transfer technology. We transferred 3 embryos into 3 recipient mares, but at the 60 day scan only 2 of the mares were in foal. These mares are expecting their “twins “, by the stallion Rubinero in July 2008. Sinelli B is continuing her career partnered by 14-year-old Emma Nixon who is based at Radway and is training with Henry.

Henry decided he wanted to compete seriously in dressage 7 years ago at just 15, and between the age of 15 and 20 he represented Great Britain at the European Championships as  a Pony Rider, Junior Rider and Young Rider for 5 consecutive years. He won Team bronze as a Pony rider in 2002 and again in 2006 as a Young Rider. He has won 2 National Titles at the British Dressage Winter Championships, the Medium Championship in 2002 when 15yrs of age on DHI Peppino and the Prix St George Freestyle when 19yrs of age on DHI Faederlite.

He has been selected to be on the World Class Start programme since 2003 with the sole aim of winning medals for Great Britain.

From Henrys success and promising young horses Henry's goal of winning medals for Great Britain looks achievable, we would like to invite you to be a part of this and share in the success.