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…
After a busy time at the stud and a few sleepless nights foaling, we left 20 minutes later than we really should have for our second show of the season at Stretcholt Equestrian Centre on 11th of April. Even though we had been to Stretcholt before, I didn’t read the Google directions properly. We took…
Can’t believe the show season has come around so quickly. The winter seems to have ended and spring is finally here. The snowdrops have just about finished and daffodils are almost in full bloom. Unfortunately it’s not quite t-shirt weather though, I still need my winter leggings and a fleece coat as there is a bit…
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…