The British National Foal Show was the last show of the season for us and our bay colt Snelsmore Shamrock brought it to a close by received a second place in a strong colt foal class. It’s so amazing to see the foals being born, watching them grow up into little personalities during the summer…
Snelsmore Querl earns another good result for Snelsmore at Thame Agricultural show. While Snelsmore Madonna and Snelsmore Jasper luck ran out, on this occasion only managing third and fourth places under Mrs V Hampton, Querl’s winning streak continued. Mrs Hampton chose Querl our two year old bay filly by Kington Za Za Rac to win a strong…
Always love going at new venues, so completing at Usk Agricultural for the first time was no exception. It turn out that Usk was a lovely County show near Monmouthshire, Wales and we had some beautiful weather so we enjoyed wandering through some of the shows interesting trade stands after we finished the more serous…
Fantastic day for us at Stretcholt Equestrian centre. This is a lovely venue and for the mornings affiliated Shetland classes we took five ponies. They all won their classes under Mrs J Webb. This made the Championships very difficult for Cliff and I, many thanks for everybody’s help and patients on the day. Snelsmore Orlando…
Another long journey to Edenbridge & Oxted show on the 31st of August, luckily we didn’t get the bad weather that had been forecast. Edenbridge is a really busy agricultural show and a very different atmosphere from the Wessex group show last week for our novice filly Snelsmore Ragdoll. Just like her mum Benston Gloria…
It was lucky the Wessex summer show on the 23rd of August was held indoors at the Kingfisher Equestrian centre Lovington, as it was typical British weather, sunshine and showers. I didn’t really feel very inspired getting the ponies washed in heavy rain storms the day before, certainly didn’t make it feel much like summer. On the…
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…