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…

Merry Christmas everyone!

All of us here at Snelsmore would like to wish everybody a very “Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.”  During the Christmas celebrations, things here on the farm are pretty normal, our work has too continued. I remember last Christmas Eve we were faced with heavy storms which meant our indoor stables were completely…

The movers and shakers at Snelsmore

Stud update; So much has been happening at the farm recently. As well as weaning our foals we have to say a sad good bye to a special mare, Benston Gloria, who will be making the long journey to Finland in December. Since buying her as a foal from Lerwick sales on the Shetland Islands…

National Foal Show: The Last Show of The Season

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…

Amazing dogs

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…

Wessex Group Show: Twenty-eight down, one more to go

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: An outing with the youngsters

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…

A little help from our friends at Newbury Show

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…