Noora's successful, long-term companion Curry H moved today to breeding.

Curry H, soon 12-years old, experienced and always doing extremely much for her riders, ends her career on the top and still being healthy.

Curry H came to Finland in the spring of 2001 and was first ridden by Ms Henrietta Mikkola. Mikko got soon involved with the mare.

Immediately after the same year Finnderby (FIN) Curry proved to be unsuitable for Henrietta.

Mikko and Curry convinced immediately in their first common international competition in Mariehamn, Åland (FIN).

Int Class 01, 145cm against the clock, 57 starts.

Winner: Dubbeldam, Jeroen and Balaboeska R - 0/56,31
19 Forst?n, Mikael and Indira - 4/60,85
49 Pentti, Noora and Campari - 16/73,89

Int Class 02, 150cm in two phases, 52 starts.

Winner: Engemann, Heinrich Hermann and Hollywood - 0/26,25
18 Pentti, Noora and Isaac du Jonquet - 4/31,37
26 Forst?n, Mikael and Melansa - 8/34,98

Int Class 05, 155cm against the clock, 56 starts.

Winner: Pollmann-Schweckhorst, Alois and Candy - 0/63,32
16 Forst?n, Mikael and Melansa - 4/69,21

Int Class 06, 150cm tabel C, 49 starts.

Winner: Engemann, Heinrich Hermann and Candela - 59,77
20 Pentti, Noora and Campari - 72,64
33 Forst?n, Mikael and Popcorn LCH - 82,37 (74,37)

Int Class 07, GP over two rounds, 35 starts.

Winner: M?hlbauer, Thomas and Asti Spumante - 0/42.68 (2. round)
26 Forst?n, Mikael and Indira - 16/65,52

In December we'll report from 4 major events:

• The First weekend of the month (2.-5.12) we participate in Munich CSI****.
• The months second weekend (9.-12.12) Mikko starts in the Geneva World Cup
• Whereas Noora at the same time starts at Maastricht CSI****.
• Directly after Christmas (26.-30.12) it's World Cup again, and this time in Mechelen Belgium.

Here is a link to our calendar, where you can find respective websites of each event.

We will report from these shows on all our activities, as well as the most interesting results overall.

We participate now at Munich Indoors 2004.
Sunday: Mikko in GP with Indira.

Wednesday morning, and after a few quieter weeks, the car is loaded for Munich Indoors 2004. The show is jumped between the 2nd and 5th of December.

Mikko is starting with Popcorn LCH, Indira and Melansa.
Noora starts with Isaac du Jonquet and Campari.

Thursday

The event started with an international warm-up today at 17.00. All set for tomorrow Friday, when the actual jumping starts.

Friday

Yesterday's warm-up was a success for all horses. In the mornings first class we have Mikko with Indira and Noora with Campari. Mikko with Melansa and Noora with Isaac du Jonquet start then a 150-class, where Mikko with Popi (Popcorn LCH) plans to go for 145cm tonight or 150cm tomorrow.

In the day's first class Mikko and Indira was fast, but had one unfortunate knock-down. Noora continued with Campari to explore new heights for the only 7 year old stallion. This time a few mistakes summed up, and the result was 4 knock downs, leaving room for improvements later in the weekend.

Second class: Both horses were ok!
Mikko and Melansa opened the event with two small errors in the second phase of the 150cm course, with Melansa being slightly tense now. Noora and Isaac were one step better, and not far from a placing, with only one unfortunate error in the second phase; a solid performance on this level.

Tomorrow, Saturday Mikko starts with Popcorn LCH and Noora with Isaac in 150cm. Mikko and Melansa starts in the 155cm GP-qualifier, a class which is also the "Riders Tour" final. For Campari's part, we decided to let him rest the remaining weekend, so he can be fresh again in Maastricht next weekend!