Rob has been asked this year to be the jumping trainer for the Sherelle Duke Memorial Fund Training, a scheme set up in memory of Sherelle Duke, an incredibly talented young event rider who died tragically at Brockenhurst Horse Trials. Her family along with her Trainer, Dot Willis, have set up an excellent scheme to help Ireland's most talented young riders, giving them access to top class training. Rob is honoured to have been asked to travel to Ireland once a month to train these youngsters.

 

His Previous Achievements include;

 

·         Longlisted for the Sydney Olympics

 

·         Being the first Recipient of the Jemima Johnson Memorial Award from British Eventing for the Rider who Best Optimises the Sport of Eventing

 

·         Wins at Punchestown, Blarney Castle and Wargem CCI's

 

·         Competing at numerous 4* events, finishing in the points at Burghley and Bleinheim.

 

 

·         Wins and Top placings from Advanced level CNC's to Pre Novice too numerous to mention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rob trains all levels from Pony Club/Riding club to British Team Members. He is particularly skilled at solving jumping problems and is excellent on flatwork too. His ethos on training is the confidence and enjoyment of both horse and rider is paramount - it‘s meant to be fun, not just hard work!

 

 

Rob is excited about his string of up and coming young horses, which were produced slowly, winning at the end of last season and have started this season well.

 

We have many long standing owners, including BE officials , to whom we are very grateful for their continued support.

 

Having finished our new yard, we are now going to expand our string and are looking for all levels of talented horses. 

 

We are lucky enough to have several syndicate owners looking to help fund talented horses.

 

Please get in touch if you would like to get involved.

Most of Rob's jumping training has come from Peter Robeson -Olympic Medal winning Show Jumper. 

 

Rob now trains on a regular basis with esteemed Eventing trainer Dot Willis. He has also recently had some extremley helpful training with Mark Todd, whom he hopes to use alot more while he is based in the UK, almost in the next village! 

 

He has also benefited from training with British Team Trainers, Yogi Breisner, Lizzie Murray and Tracie Robinson thanks to the 2012 training pathway.

 

 

 

He has gained his experience from working with top riders in England and America, and produced young horses for The Cabalva and Welton Studs selling many of them to the USA.

   "It's so nice to find a trainer who is so instantly attuned to rider and horse's needs"

Annali Martin, Pony Club Mother

 

Rob has been the Pre-Novice Three-Day-Event trainer at Aldon Horse Trials for the last four years, he really enjoys helping people at grass roots level and is an excellent source of knowledge.

 

 

Robert Stevens is a BE Accredited Coach and International Event rider

 

He has been competing at International level and teaching for over 20 years.

Rob is also an EHOA Trainer meaning that all Event Horse Owners Association members can redeem their training vouchers with him. We aim to run a bi-annual 2-day training camp with the EHOA. Please contact anabel@brunners.org for more information.

Becky Stevens

Yard & Business manager

Evented from Pony club going up through Juniors and then Young Riders  finishing in the top 10 at Bramham CCI***National Young Rider Championship 2 years on the trot and  short listed for the British Young Rider team. Didn’t make the team the first time of being shortlisted due to an injury sustained at the final trial, but did manage recover in time that autumn to go on and jump clear and complete Blenheim CCI***.

The following year went on to compete in her first Badminton CCI**** with a fantastic ride cross country unfortunately twicked a tendon so didn’t get to show jump.

But was also lucky enough to be fit and sound to go back to Badminton again the next year with much more knowledge of how tough and demanding a CCI**** was, both horse and rider better prepared and this time as well as another fantastic ride cross country  they managed a excellent show jumping ride as well!

Becky has taught numerous pony clubs throughout her career and this year taught at VWH junior camp, and teaches the working pupils & students at Field Farm Stud.

Strengths treating horses as individuals enjoy understanding what makes them tick and learning how to get the best out of them, by how they like to be handled, to who they like to be turned out next to, which fields / stables they prefer, to what feed suits them best . Teaches working pupils and students the art of stable management to ensure maximum happiness and performance of all horses and show how attention to detail and really getting to know the horses makes all the difference!