Gew Comet

Height - 16.1hh

Colour - Chestnut

DOB - 1995

Sex - Gelding

Breeding - Sire Elegant Monarch Dam Gew Cassiopeia

BE Points - 2

Comet was bought from his breeder Brigid Jasper a good friend. He was a smart TB that we had always admired from a foal. We bought him as an unbroken 3 year old and broke and brought him on. He was the first horse I had done totally from scratch and his lovely temperament meant he was relatively straighforward.

We took him slowly and didn't start eventing him until he was 6 which turned out to be foot and mouth year. He did 4 PN's just out of the placings and then at his first Novice at Penzance Horse Trials he was 5th.

The sad thing with Comet was he turned out to be a very unlucky horse. A virus as a 5 year old resulted in 6 months off and then following his good placing at Novice BE he strained a tendon. He came back from that injury only to damage a fetlock. Convinced he was not going to stand up to competition work I sold him to be a happy hacker. Even that did not turn out well when a year later he broke a leg in field and had to be put down.