Hack Up Ltd, owned and managed by Alex Gingell, has supplied the cream of every discipline for many years and is the first to provide a BESPOKE service for people who really care about what their horse needs. A 5 minute phone consultation is all that's required to formulate your unique supplement.
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Please note we supply all the products previously supplied by Mile End Supplies (mileendsupplies.co.uk), including the Vital Equine (vitalequine.co.uk) range and Zeolite. Call Alex for further details.
An almost fatal accident forced Alex Gingell to re think his life with horses. A scholarship with a British Team trainer, dressage judging and a decade of supplying supplements to horse owners and trainers in his impressive portfolio is now combined in Hack Up Ltd for 2011.
Alex was born into a family steeped in horses. His late grandmother, Betty Gingell was the longest serving master of a pack of harrier hounds ever (52 years) and was an extremely well renowned showing competitor and judge. The family have owned and managed the Cottenham Point-to-Point course near Cambridge for generations with father and brother being amateur champion jockeys at one point in their lives.
Alex came through the Pony Club ranks winning virtually everything (from Area Dressage and Horse Trials to the Calvert and Gosling Cups) and was supported enormously by mother Angela who was DC for 12 years in the Newmarket and Thurlow branch. Alex began junior trials at the age of 14 on Countryman and was long listed for the Junior British team in the following year. Having been placed in every trial, Alex was selected to compete in Punchstown for the team when his horse developed tendon trouble.
In 1991, Alex was ranked 31 in the top 100 with Eventing magazine when he suffered a serious head injury at Weston Park Advanced. During his convalescence he became a dressage judge, reaching list 4 within a few years and studied a Ba Hons in Equine Studies at the Warwickshire College of Agriculture. He created Horse Health Newmarket Ltd shortly afterwards and has been supplying the top Newmarket yards with veterinary products and nutritional advice for 15 years. Equine Oxyshot came to Newmarket in 2006 and Alex took the product on nationally due the obvious calming effects it had on tense horses. He was responsible for distribution of the product to over 500 stores. Now settled on the outskirts of Bury in Suffolk, Alex splits his time between dressage judging, dressage training and formulating / creating supplements for customers.
Alex is currently a List 4 Judge and so is able to judge Prelim, the competitions in East Anglia will take preference. If you are a show organiser and wish for Alex to judge at your competition please click here to email Alex stating the following:
1. Location (give postcode)
2. Date
3. Standard and test
4. Approx numbers in class
5. Contact details of organiser
Please note that weekdays are preferable and that Horse Trials will take preference to Pure Dressage. There will be a fee over and above mileage which will depend on the venue and the number of competitors in the class.
Get trained by an ex-international rider, a list 4 dressage judge and an experienced trainer – at the same time. Not many trainers know how to train a rider to get the best marks in their dressage test. Ring craft is crucial. Only dressage judges know what they want to see Having obtained a training scholarship with Gill Watson in the 1990’s, Alex now has 15 years experience training / instructing all standards and ages from total beginners up to international Horse Trial level. Alex will drive to you and train you in your own arena.
Cost
£40 for 1 session, £60 for 2 sessions, £80 for 3 sessions (1 session = 45 minutes approx). Sessions to be back-to-back. Mileage charged at 40p per mile, if further than 20 miles from Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3SG.
To enquire, click here to email Alex outlining:
1. Name
2. Location
3. Standard
4. Sessions per month required
