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Cottage Riding School, Malin
In the thirty or so days to
the 5th March 2010 we have been pleased to
welcome
visitors to this
web site from 102
cities
in
23
countries!
These countries are listed here roughly in descending order of
the number of contacts:
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Ireland
United Kingdom
United States
Germany
Finland
Italy
France
Australia
Switzerland
Spain
Canada
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Netherlands
Pakistan
Portugal
Japan
Malaysia
India
Malta
Ukraine
Unknown
Belgium
Isle of Man
Costa Rica
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Thank you all so
much for your interest. Do please come back and visit us again -
we have lots more to add in the coming weeks and months.
The countries and cities identified here are based on Google's
location of the top level domain of the requesting site. The hosting
server suggests even more! This is therefore only a very approximate
summary and may be incomplete but it is fun nevertheless. Under this
method of counting our record number for visitor countries in any 30 day
period is in August 2009 and stands at 26! |
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
2010 - LATEST NEWS!!
This time on the Dogs front not the horses!! Mia, our Siberian Husky,
won her class at a local show on 20th February 2010 and took
Best of Breed at The Belfast Queen Island Show.
She
came 2nd at Newtonards Championship Show, Sunday 28th
February and was again graded excellent
. She has qualified for Crufts 2010 and will be shown there on the 11th March 2010.
Watch this space!!
There's a bit more about our Dogs
here
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Hurrah, Spring is coming!! Kate has announced that now that the
evenings are getting lighter lessons will start again on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays in February!!
Get ready for our new season!! Give Kate a call if you want to be a
part of the Rose Cottage Riding Experience, there's none better in Malin.
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Well, do we have news for you? We are so pleased to announce
the birth of Lucas Gavin, (son of Samantha, our Assistant Instructor
and her partner Gavin), who was born on Boxing Day 2009 at 4:34 pm. He
weighed in at 8lbs 6oz and both mother and son are doing well.
Just have a look at these pictures. If you are near a bottle of
something appropriate - just possibly one of Irish Whiskey, then please be
upstanding and have a 'sip' to welcome our most recent family arrival.
Grandmother Kate and new Aunt Ashleigh and all the family are of course
delighted!
Somehow the Rose Cottage Riding School
business has taken a temporary back seat!!
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Kate McDermott and all at Rose Cottage Riding School hope
you all had a super Christmas and New Year and wish
their customers and web site visitors alike, a healthy and prosperous 2010.
Come back here soon to follow Rose Cottage as we move into the next
decade!
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Did you visit our Christmas Page this time? We had there our special Christmas/New
Year
card to you that you could print out and fold into a card, there's was our annual
link to an Advent Calendar of fun and games and if you were still short of
presents for anyone we offered Vouchers! PLUS (!) we had a few
Christmas cracker jokes just for you!! We offer gift vouchers all
year round so if you need to buy someone a present for any reason why not
buy a Rose Cottage Riding School Gift Voucher?
To find out how to buy a Gift Voucher click
here.
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Halloween
was fun this year. The weather wasn't what you might call 'fab' - in fact it
wasn't good at all (!) - but that didn't stop us and a really good time was had by all.
We have a few pics (well, rather a lot actually!) to show, courtesy of
Chloe and Miriam. You can see them on our Customer Page
here
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
In late September 2009, Kate took her
husky bitch Mia (Show name "Rottiron
Riva" ) to the
Belfast Championship Dog Show and won
SECOND
Prize!! Then in mid October at the Portadown Dog Championship she
came
THIRD.
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Our Pony Riders - together with a few others - took part in a
Handy Pony contest on the 26th August! Some of the events were
hilarious and everybody had a great time. Handy Pony tests are
a good way to develop a well trained (ie 'Handy') pony that
can negotiate obstacles and is a pleasure to ride. .See some of the
pictures here on our
pony Rider page and judge for yourself how they did....
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Kate entered her Siberian Husky Puppy Bitch Mia (Show name:
Rottiron Riva) at the prestigious Navan Dog Show on 15th August
2009. She won THIRD prize!! To watch a video of her being shown
and then to have a look at the Official Results go to our RCRS Dog's page
here.
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Here's a first for us! Danny Ruddy got married to Evelyn in
August and went to the church on horseback. He chose our mare Lee
and we were delighted to help More about this - and even a video! - on our
Customer page...
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Remember 'Little' Patrick, our mascot used as a link on our
home page? Well, he's two and a bit now and we have managed to get a photo or
two of him with his companion Music. They live out at a fairly
remote three acre field so it's more difficult to get good pictures of them
than it is of those who are actually located at Rose Cottage. As a
result when we do get to see them we take rather a lot of pictures!
The latest ones can be found here.
There are quite a few! Do please be patient whilst the page loads.
We think you'll find the wait worthwhile!
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
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An Ideal Gift! Did you know that we now offer Gift Vouchers?
Ideal if you want to give a gift of a riding lesson, a hack-out or of a beach ride
to a friend or child at any time of the year and they are available for any amount
too. What's more, they are valid for twelve months so the recipient can
choose when to use it. Just contact Katie on
+353 (0) 876311676 or send her an e-mail at
contact@malinriding.com and she
will let you know how you can arrange to buy your voucher. |
Rose Cottage Riding
School, Malin
Rose Cottage Riding School attended Carndonagh Show
on the 18th July 2009!!
The 97th Inishowen Agricultural Society Show was held at the
show grounds, Tulnaree, Carndonagh, about three miles from Malin. As usual
there was a wide display of goats, sheep, horses, cows, donkeys, dogs,
crafts, vegetables, cakes and other home industries as well as a variety of
stalls and fun activities for all. Rose Cottage's Kate McDermott was
there with some of her horses and riders. We have some pictures
here
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School, Malin
Biggles has been backed for the first time!!
Now that he's four it's time he was introduced to the saddle and to
riders. So, in early July, that's exactly what we did. If you are
interested, there's more about this - and some pics too - at our
Behind the
Scenes page.
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School, Malin
Another
foal for
Rose Cottage Riding School
in 2009!!
Ashleigh's
only pony 'Whisper'
had her foal on the 20th June. It's a gorgeous dun filly. All of us
and Ashleigh in particular, are so pleased. Have a look at the pictures
on our
Behind the Scenes
page - she looks great. More news soon we hope...
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School, Malin
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At the beginning of May 2009
Rose Cottage Riding School applied for and was awarded
the coveted Fáilte
Ireland
Approval.
Fáilte Ireland,
is the National Tourism Development Authority of Ireland and it was
established in 2003 to guide and promote tourism throughout the country.
Their seal of approval is only given to tourism-related enterprises after
a formal inspection involving a careful assessment against many criteria.
Rose Cottage Riding School
is proud to have achieved the necessary approvals
and our visitors from both from
Ireland and from overseas can
visit Rose Cottage knowing that we fully meet the standards
required by Ireland's National Tourism Authority. We look forward to
welcoming you! |
Rose Cottage Riding
School, Malin
Over the Easter weekend 9-13th April 2009, we held another of our Jumping
Days. We held several classes but in the Open Class The eventual winner was Ashleigh
riding Lee, second was Samantha on Valco, third was Immy
riding Barney. You can see some pictures of the competition in
progress here
Rose Cottage Riding
School, Malin
For the benefit of our many visitors for whom English may not be their first
language, we are testing the use of Google's web page translation facility.
On this page and to draw attention to it, we have placed a link to the left
of the visitor summary at the top of this page. However elsewhere on
this site the link is located at the bottom of each page
Automatic translation of web pages can of course be very variable and it might not be
as useful as we would like. However please do try it and let the
webmaster
know how successful you think it is.
Rose Cottage Riding
School, Malin
Our website e-mail address
contact@malinriding.com has recently been experiencing some problems and
you may have not been able to send us your messages. We believe the
problems have now been fixed but if you have had difficulties sending us
messages or perhaps had difficulties sending sending images for inclusion in
our web site, please do try sending them again. We do apologise for
this hiccup and hope that you haven't been too inconvenienced.
If you are sending us images for inclusion on the web site please consider
reducing the file size of them before sending since the images produced by
modern digital cameras can be huge. Where possible we prefer to
receive jpeg images each of between 500kbytes to 1 Mbyte in size. If
you have not got the necessary image processing software to resize your
camera images then PC users can get the excellent and widely acclaimed
IrfanView software FREE at
http://www.irfanview.net/. If you have any difficulties please contact
the webmaster at
webmaster@malinriding.com
Rose Cottage Riding
School, Malin
Here are two dates (well, only approximate dates because we
cannot really plan these things!) for your diaries. No fewer than two more of
our mares, Faith (who only has one eye owing to an accident in her
earlier life) and Whisper, are currently both in foal and, if after the
experience with Clio, you can believe forecast equine delivery dates ever again (!),
they are due to be delivered on the 16th and 18th of June respectively. Both
foals have been sired by our own stallion Woody. So do keep coming
back to see what news we have of them.
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
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STOP PRESS!!
After all the waiting and the worry, Clio's baby finally arrived!! It's a BOY!!
The colt - who has been named Óisín - was born
on Saturday 21st March!!
Have a look here
for the very first pictures!!. Mum and son are doing well. |
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
On St. Patrick's Day (March
17th), just for fun, we changed our Home page to green for the day and wished all our visitors
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh! (Happy St. Patrick’s Day)!! Maybe you
noticed it. However, more interesting was our own St. Patrick's Day fun games day at
Rose Cottage.
A few pictures have been placed on our Customer Page
here.
Rose Cottage Riding School, Malin
Regular visitors to this
web site may remember that last year we had the Irish National Broadcaster RTÉ's Travel Programme No Frontiers
filming at Rose Cottage. They filmed the Cottage itself and the presenter of the
programme, Katherine Thomas, was filmed at the yard and on our nearby
beach with our Assistant
Instructor Sam. It was broadcast
at 19:30 on RTÉ One on 22nd February 2009 and was titled Inishowen.
We are pleased to thank and acknowledge RTÉ
in using these stills from their video archive
If, for any reason,
you were not able to see it then, you can still watch this program by going
to RTÉ's program archive at
http://www.rte.ie/travel/nofrontiers/index.html
(you can also click on the image above to go there) and then selecting the edition
dated 22 February 2009.
Once there, click on the Inishowen thumbnail to watch a short video clip. Katherine was riding Tabs and Sam rode Zuko. You'll get a
great opportunity to see what galloping along
the beach at Rose Cottage Riding School is really like - and with empty beaches,
even in June too! You'll also
get to see a little of the Inishowen peninsula and can
read
a bit about it as well.
But, don't leave it at that! Why not come and try the real thing?
We took a few of our own
still photos on the day when they were with us. You can see them here.
Have a look....
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Courtesy of Weather-on-Line we now have a link to a
forecast of the weather at Malin Head on our Links Page. Click
here to go to it and
try it out. There are 1-4 and 5-8 day forecasts there as well as today's. Of course we can make no guarantee
of its accuracy and in any case Malin Head, being rather more remote than Malin Town, can
sometimes have its 'own' weather. Nevertheless, we hope it might be useful to
you when planning visits to the area or just for interest to compare our weather
with yours.
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
How well do you know our horses? We have just started
our own Quiz Page where we show you a part
of a picture of one of the horses and you have to decide which horse it is... To have a go click
here. Best of luck.
Rose
Cottage Riding School, Malin
Our First Pony Group Event of 2009 is coming
up!
A date for your diaries! The first Pony
Group Event of 2009 will be held at rose Cottage on the 16th February
2009 at 1pm.
If you are not already a Pony Group Member and would like to
enrol a younger rider please contact Katie on
+353 (0) 876311676
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Cottage Riding School, Malin
Regular readers of this News Page will know
that last year we had the Irish National Broadcaster RTE's Travel Programme No Frontiers
filming here for a programme. They
filmed the Cottage and the presenter of the programme, Katherine Thomas,
was filmed at the yard with our Assistant Instructor Sam. The programme is
provisionally planned to be broadcast by RTE on the 8th March. If we hear more
we shall update this News entry accordingly.
Rose
Cottage Riding School, Malin
A Happy New Year to you all!
In case you didn't manage to get a 'horsy joke' in your
cracker this Christmas, here are one or two to make up...
What's the difference between a horse
and a blacksmith? Nothing, they'll both make a bolt for the door
A horse walks into a bar and the barman says: "What's with the long face?"
What's got eight legs, three heads and two wings? A man sitting on a horse
holding a chicken
A white horse walks into a bar and the barman says "Hey, we have a whisky named
after you!" and the horse says "What, Eric?"
How do you hire a horse?" Put a brick under each foot
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