The British National Foal of the Year Show held at Solihull on 30th November was sadly our final outing for 2014. It’s always-difficult washing ponies so late in the season, but it has to be done. The standard of turn out of ponies these days is so good; you need to be on top of…
I love the buzz from all the activities here on the farm. It’s really interesting seeing the dogs training at Q-Me Agility, getting to meet some lovely people and amazing dogs, have a look at some action shots from a session with Dave Munnings. For those with dogs why not visit Dave’s website, www.qme-agility.co.uk, for some…
With only a few more shows to go for our 2014 season our enthusiasm is still surprisingly strong. The Wessex Shetland Pony Group will be our twenty-eighth show with twenty-four different ponies. The Wessex Group’s final show of the year was on the 26th October held at Kingston Maurward College Equestrian centre. For us it was nearly…
The Southern Group Show was held at the Priory Equestrian centre, Farnham Surrey, on the 5th of October. It was the first introduction to the show ring for our strawberry roan colt, Snelsmore Orlando. He has been given time to mature, so we were especially pleased with his results on the day; Ms G Wright placed…
Wow! What a busy week; from TV star on Tuesday to showing champions on Sunday. The week started with filming for Meridian television. The news team approached us to be part of a short piece for the local news about the preparation needed to compete at the Royal County of Berkshire Show. We were interviewed…
The Downs group show on Sunday 10th August continued regardless of the bad weather warnings. We Woke up to find the weather wasn’t as bad as forecasted, so off we set for The Downs group show at Cherry Tree farm, Surrey with five ponies abroad. As we trundled down the M25 the weather gradually deteriorated…
