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Sadly the Eventer died in 2011 of colic and Verna died in 2013 of Cancer. The TB was kept in the best of condition for 10 more years until an accident at age 21 left him in severe and chronic pain so we lost him in June 2023. Tim was fortunate enough to marry again in 2016. |
History
The decision to offer an editing service was encouraged by the success of these initial willing 'guinea pigs' whose efforts have helped me make the service effective. Several of them form the team we can call on for help - our test rider competes very efectively at all levels up to Advanced and our choreography adviser is an expert Dance trainer. We must be doing something right as the comments we continue to receive seem to show! |
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And now the Technical bit about any personal data we may receive We do need to know a few things about you to provide the service - things like your name and address, your horse's name (to help the competition DJ). All information you may send us is held securely and none of it is shared with anyone else. Any comments you send us are retained, always quoted anonymously, but otherwise precisely as given. Please do not ask us for anyone else's personal details, they will not be given. |
Tim Linton does the technical stuff, having been educated in things equine by his long suffering wife Verna.
They live in the beautiful valley of the river Towy in West Wales where Verna ran the local Riding club for most of a decade, and then focussed on the Dressage 'branch'. Together we ran a dressage show every month (on average) for the 20 years - lots of learning opportunities! In later years Verna was in demand at almost as many shows again, as a judge.
(Details of the Club can be found 
The Horse that educated us most was a true all-rounder having reached the BRC national championships in all the discilines - Dressage (both classical and freestyle), Show jumping, and Eventing. Although he was competing at medium in BD Dressage he always preferred Eventing. Sadly he had to retire from such strenuous competition. Late in 2009 he gained a young, 'rescued' racehorse, initally as a fieldmate but once he regained his strength he proved so helpful and trustworthy that Verna rode him almost every day.
Sapphire Sounds grew out of the needs of friends and acquaintances for good quality edited music to enable them to indulge their passion for Freestyle Dressage.
A science and music background with expertise in video editing and animation meant we already had professional quality software, ability and plenty of computing power so we were well set up to edit the music, though for Tim learning the tricks of the equine trade took longer - fortunately he had experts for teachers!