With Christmas celebrations over it’s time to look forward to 2015.
January’s wet weather is making life hard on the farm at the moment. I cant wait for the spring time! Last year’s foals are maturing nicely into yearlings with a few looking like early show prospects and a lot of ours mares are looking in foal. So, fingers crossed we have some exciting times ahead for us at the stud.
I don’t think it’s any great surprise to a lot of you that Cliff and I have agreed to take on the task of running the Southern group for this year to see how it works out. With an already busy lifestyle caring for eighty miniature ponies, seven Dexter cows and producing our home-bred show jumper Buster, managing all this is going to be a tough challenge for us. Our main aim for the Southern group is to create a friendly meeting place for Shetland lovers to show off their ponies. At the moment, we plan to take one day at a time but naturally we will keep everybody aware of our ideas through the groups website and Facebook page.
We will continue to sponsor the Gelding classes at several show this year with a new designed rosette, it would be lovely to see pictures of some of the wining geldings on our face book page and website, so why not get ahead start by grooming those geldings
Both Cliff and I are keen to show as much as possible again this year although it will be hard to better our last year’s results of fifthly three first places and thirty-one championships! In early August we are looking forward to the Society Breed show coming to the South of England show ground. Hopefully our more backward yearlings will be ready and we will have some mares and foals to choose from, as well as our more established ponies.
Looking much further ahead, we are also hoping to support Reading sales again this October. Nearer the time we will have a page on our website with the ponies we are taken.
Happy New Year to all the followers of our stud
With Christmas celebrations over it’s time to look forward to 2015.
January’s wet weather is making life hard on the farm at the moment. I cant wait for the spring time! Last year’s foals are maturing nicely into yearlings with a few looking like early show prospects and a lot of ours mares are looking in foal. So, fingers crossed we have some exciting times ahead for us at the stud.
I don’t think it’s any great surprise to a lot of you that Cliff and I have agreed to take on the task of running the Southern group for this year to see how it works out. With an already busy lifestyle caring for eighty miniature ponies, seven Dexter cows and producing our home-bred show jumper Buster, managing all this is going to be a tough challenge for us. Our main aim for the Southern group is to create a friendly meeting place for Shetland lovers to show off their ponies. At the moment, we plan to take one day at a time but naturally we will keep everybody aware of our ideas through the groups website and Facebook page.
We will continue to sponsor the Gelding classes at several show this year with a new designed rosette, it would be lovely to see pictures of some of the wining geldings on our face book page and website, so why not get ahead start by grooming those geldings
Both Cliff and I are keen to show as much as possible again this year although it will be hard to better our last year’s results of fifthly three first places and thirty-one championships! In early August we are looking forward to the Society Breed show coming to the South of England show ground. Hopefully our more backward yearlings will be ready and we will have some mares and foals to choose from, as well as our more established ponies.
Looking much further ahead, we are also hoping to support Reading sales again this October. Nearer the time we will have a page on our website with the ponies we are taken.