I’ve always slightly blamed myself for Snelsmore Nightingale losing her first foal last year; I wasn’t there for her and have never forgotten it. This year she didn’t help me make up for it and with no warning and no udder to suggest she was ready to foal, she popped out a baby all by…
We always stay away for the Royal Welsh show and once our ponies have been settled into their stables we enjoyed our evening in the beautiful surroundings of Wales. With every thing organized on the farm for our evening away, we head off for the long four hour journey to the shows camp site armed with…
Time seems to have flown by. It’s the 11th of July and we’re off to the Three Counties Show Ground again, this time for the National Performance Show. I Couldn’t help remembering the last time we made this same journey we had our little wrens chicks aboard. The little stowaway chicks have now safety flown…
Unfortunately we missed the South of England show waiting for Snelsmore Illianna to foal. Typically she hung on to the early hours of this morning to give birth to a little filly. Never mind it all went well and we definitely made the right decision in staying at home. Fours hours later, with her foal happily drinking…
It was really early 4.00 o’clock start on the 24th of May for the long journey to Heathfield Agricultural show, East Sussex. The weather was not great but the day turn out well. Our judge Mrs M Sargeant picked Snelsmore Ruby Tuesday to win the Yearling class followed by Snelsmore Pavarotti winning the 2 & 3…