Sorry folks. Google made a major change in their blogging software which made it impossible for us to update the Blog until we made a few changes.

AMAZING - that is the only way I know to describe Wellington. Yes - it the first time for Kilkenny Crest, LLC horses to show on the East coast - and here we are at the best venue in the United States!!!! And our horses are making a great statement for Kilkenny Crest!!!

This past week Wallis was 8th out of 34 horses in the 7/8 year old class and Achilles was 7th out of 22 horses in the 6 year old class!! I thought that was great, especially considering that most of the horses in these classes have had a lot more experience. Both of these horses were bred at Kilkenny Crest - I am so proud that we are producing such great horses!!! And I know Mindi is too!!!

In the WEG Trials Rindo ended up 12th out of 32 horses on Wednesday. And then on Friday he finished in the top three and took Second Place honors as one horse was showing for points only.
Considering these are the best horses in the country (Saphire [Mclain], Cedric [Laura Kraut] and Quick Study [Lauren Hough] have already been named to the team - which consists of 16 horses ) and most have been with the same rider for at least a couple of years - I thought Rindo and Nicki were GREAT. Wednesday was a big class which was held on the Steeplechase Field - on grass. After that class Rindo was sitting 19th. Then after his stellar performance yesterday he moved up five places. If he ends up in the top 16 he will make the team!!! Unbelievable!!! I would never have guessed he would do this well. Nicki is absolutely thrilled with him!!! One more trial - the $150,000 Grand Prix on Sunday, March 7th.

And then I will be heading back to Bend as we have foals due any day now!!! The horses will stay on and continue to compete for another month.

Hi there everyone

Hope everyone is ready for Christmas....
From everyone at Kilkenny Crest MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! We hope the festive season treats you well and don't forget to spoil your horses too during this time!!!

If you have to travel during this time, please drive safe and enjoy the view while you are at it!

Also just a special Christmas wish to the Boyd Family as they are the force behind the Kilkenny team.... Thank you for a great year... we couldn't have done it without you!!

Hope everyone is keeping warm... I know I am!!

Talk to everyone soon!!!

Hi everyone!

I must say... being on vacation and still just getting positive feedback from all our horses is an amazing! Makes us at Kilkenny Crest feel very proud!
Sounds like the horses are very happy, healthy and liked!

Also, can't believe the year is coming to an end. Hope everyone got to spoil their horses with a little "off" time, but not forgetting to spoil yourself every now and then!

Stay warm and hope everyone is getting ready for a cold Christmas ahead!!!

Talk to you soon!

Hallo there...

We are out of our shells to tell you this.... but Will and Nicole Shahinian Simpson are riding the Kilkenny Crest Show Jumping Horses!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't it exciting. All the way in Thousand Oaks, the horses are very happy in that great weather. And offcourse with the great riders...
They rocked it at the Del Mar International show and they will be at the Sacramento International Horse show as well as the Los Angeles Horse Show.... Don't miss it!

It was a sad day to say Goodbye to Rich Fellers Stables. We appreciate all that they have done for Kilkenny Crest and with no doubt the highlight was that amazing Saturday night in Las Vegas where Rich and Kilkenny Rindo won the $75 000 Grand Prix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, you can still have a look at that awesome night on Youtube... you can see it on our website too! Either look on the Kilkenny Homepage or Just go to "show string" and it is right there!!!
Thank you all at RFS for a great year!

Well...
Good luck to everyone at the shows and I guess get ready for winter!!!!

Hi there everyone...

So we had a slight technical difficulty with our websites blog... but it was brief, so no worries, we are back on track and stronger than ever.

In the mean time, we here at Kilkenny Crest, LLC have welcomed Daniel J Viviani to our team. Daniel is a young rider with a lot of natural talent and has the perfect attitude for working on all our young prospects. All the way from Santa Cruz, Daniel is ready to introduce the young Kilkenny prospects to the show world. Good Luck with that Daniel.... we know you'll have a lot to do.... we have plenty of good quality young horses!!!

So once again, WELCOME to the KILKENNY CREST team DANIEL VIVIANI.
Hope you are as excited to be here as we are to have you.

Talk to guys later
And don't forget to check out all our prospects.

Hi to everyone!

So the first 3 weeks we have spent at Thermal has been awesome! The weather is great, the horses are looking good, healthy and ready for some more action! We only started showing during the 2nd week of the show, but had really good results with all our horses!

Currently we have 7 horses at Thermal with 1 more coming down the last 3 weeks of the circuit... And off course Rich has his hands full with not only all our horses but those of his other clients also. He really did a good job at getting the horses settled in and relaxed in their new environment.

Sherry is having fun riding Lexus.And yes, he is making the jumps look like a game! Our "baby Wallis"-as Robyn calls her- is starting to enjoy the showring(and getting good at it) while Radinia is more relaxed and confident than ever! She won the Level 6 speed class, in the rain!!!! Randall Z is loving the attention of being back on track where he showed in the $15 000 Jimmy Williams Classic and placed 4th!!! Yeahhhhh!! Our busy body,Tupelo, has won most of her Level 5 classes which made her not only the Champion of the week but the Mid Circuit Champ!! Rindo has been amazing with his $25 000 and $50 000 Grand Prix classes!

We will keep posting our results of our latest news on this blog's "comment" box, so go have a peek if you see new comments!!! And good luck to everyone!