Friday, April 24, 2009

Man Im updating this quite a bit hehe

Miss after coming back from stud
Rose with Dys face in the way

Whinny letting down after racing









Dy with Crystal looking on



KC the grumpy old tart





Crystal looking as happy as ever





Isnt choccy cute, poser!!!








Blondy with her rug on








Blondy with a new hairdo







Well today the new mare arrived and Miss arrived back from stud.




















Miss has lost a bit of weight but appreciated the feed that I brought for her and Blondy.




















New Mare is a chestnut TB mare by Beau Zam out of a mare called Garnett Court. She raced under the name Zablond Coup. As she has a rather blonde mane and tail that is no big suprise. She is a bit light in weight but I doubt it will take long for her to pick back up. She came off the truck like an idiot but I bet I would too after being cooped up for awhile in a truck. She was really good for me to pull her mane while she ate her tea so Im hoping for a lovely foal out of her from Binky. He really wanted to test out his baby making equipment today when she got off the truck so Im guessing that he will think all his christmasses have come at once when breeding season starts.




















Miss was a bit wobbly when she got off the truck. The driver had sedated her for the trip with her travelling badly. So when she got off the truck she looked rather pissed if I am honest.




















I have decided that I will at least update this thing every couple of weeks over winter with regular pics of the horses. So here are the first few.




















Friday, April 17, 2009

Wild Steed has now been tamed... sorta

Binky (left) is now a led rein pony
Alice (left) Whinny (Below)




Toby doesnt have a bung mouth really (left)

Pepper (below)








And the choccy mare (left)











Over the last few days I have moved people around as Choccy is the size of a goodyear blimp and she doesnt need to be on the dairy grass. I only had her on the flats as a mate for Alice. So I so charmingly shoved Mecca in the paddock in the vain hope that she would be Alice's best mate. However that wasnt meant to be and though she isnt nasty to Alice she is a grumpy old bitch.












Well I won another stupid cow award cos I shoved Choccy back out on the hill with the rest of the broodies and tried to move Alice thinking that she would just follow Mecca through the paddocks. Well you know what thought thought, thought thought his arse was out of bed so he got out to put it back in. Alice said you can get stuffed on that idea and lets just say that it took a good 1 1/2 hours to get Alice across 1 bridge and 3 paddocks. However we got there in the end. I got my wee 2yo (actually she is HUGE) out of the broody paddock and put her in with Alice andthey have buddyed up really well. So now in the yard paddock we have Mecca, Alice and Pepper.












My reason for moving them all is that I would like to put enough work into Alice that I can take her to a show in the middle of may. As she is a wee feral beast I thought best I start now. Day one saw her come into the yards with Pepper and learn that actually I didnt bite. In the end she would stand in the yard so I could pat her. And I took her broken halter off her. Day 2 was much the same and yesterday I didnt do alot. It makes it harder that she has NO IDEA what hardfeed is so I cant bribe her like I do everything else hehe so I need to dig deep into my bag of tricks so Alice likes me for me not cos I am the one that brings all the feed lol.












When we went there today I put her in the yard with Pep and then took Pep straight out, Alice ran away once and then was fine to stand while I patted her, she is still rather feral in the paddock and I cant touch her out there but she wont run away at a million miles an hour now. I put Binkys halter on her and tried some leading lessons. She clicks on really well and now "walks on" when asks and "stands" when asked so that is awesome. I even took her out into the main paddock and she was still fantastic so I was really proud of her.














I now have Mecca, Pepper, Blake, Toby and Binky winter rugged. I try to take them off during the day when the weather permits as its pretty grey and shit at the moment so they have had them on for the last 3 days so here's hoping for some covers off weather so they can have a big roll!!!












Am going to get Toby, Binky and Alice ready for the youngstock show and see how they all go. Its a bit had trying to show both the boys when they are in the same classes but hey I can do it.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Marlborough Breeders

I thought that as the boys were such stars they deserved their own posting after all the rest of the ingreats.

I took Toby and Blake to the Breeders show over in Blen and they both looked and went SUPERB. I def think that giving Toby a tickle up with the whip before entering the classes was a great idea. He was forward and very well behaved. Blake started off acting like a right wanker and by the time his classes were over he was going very well and was rewarded by a 3rd in his manners class (shall we not tell him that the little black man won his mannered class ssssshhhhhhhh). Blake placed well in all his classes and the judge, whom is known for being a VERY hard judge commented to me that he was a very nice horse just lacked a few manners.

Toby however was a bloody wee star. He won Champion Saddle Hunter Youngstock, then went on to win the Champion Welsh Youngstock - Purebred. So I am so pleased with him. He also got a welsh rosette for his movement of which he placed 2nd in a very big class. The lady that was judging me (after 4 classes of which one was his champ class) asked me at the start of our 5th class with her oh is your pony clipped. Well hat off to the observant one!! We have only been in 4 of your classes so well done for noticing so quickly *rolls eyes*. Anyway she was a great judge and liked Toby so it was great. Blake stood at the float really well while Toby did his afternoon classes and at the end of the day it was 2 very tired horses we loaded back onto the float to go home. With the 2 wide purple ribbons!!!!

Seeing the photos of our showing expliots has shown me that I really need to stop eating!!! My god good year blimp here I come Im surprised that Greenpeace wasnt called (as we were showing at the airfield) with concerned people ringing up about the beached whale flapping about (you cant call what I was doing running).

However I am debating what I am going to do next show as its a youngstock show and I am hoping to get Alice together to take her in the foal classes then have the boys there for the afternoon classes but I dont like my chances of having Alice, leading, tying, and generally liking me!!! So it might just be Toby and Stinky that go out. I havnt sung yet so its not all over!!

Until next time.............

Heaps has been happening....

Right here is the update just for Nessie haha.

Starting at the start since last blog publishing thingee.

The float arrived a couple of days later due to the ferry crossing so Ness was only here for what seemed like bloody hours, weeks and months, when it was only just over a day. However she did bring Whinny and Alice with her. We have put Alice in with Choccy at the moment so that Cchoccy can be a mothering influence to Alice though I was hoping that Mecca would do that job so that I could put Choccy up on the hill and not have her getting even MORE fat on the flats but Mecca takes aversion to that job so Choccy the "Mum" it is.

While Nessie was here we moved the mares from the runoff to the main farm as I was expecting some sort of problems from alot of the horses the only mare that we were definate that she would get on is the trusty Choccy. However the other mares showed us that we have no idea what we are actually talking about and all walked onto the float with no issues at all which was GREAT. You can bet on it that if Ness wasnt there however they all would have been shitheads and I would have had untold trouble with them all. Bloody horses.

I had the church next door ask me whether they could have an egg fight in the paddock with Blake and Rewi in. They failed to notice that there was actually horses in the paddock however I told them pretty quickly that was fine I would move the horses out of the paddock and then they could have their fight without upsetting the horses. Well I thought no problems however as we have learnt with horses the "no problems" part is not always understood by our good mates the "noble horse". Turns out I moved Blake and Rewi into the next paddock Blake went first and as its a long taped off bit I put him into he decided that actually he shouldnt have been sacked as a racehorse and that he would show us all how fast he was. Shame about the bloody wire fence he didnt see in his quest for racetrack greatness, he didnt see it until it was too late and has chopped up his leg a bit. The swelling has gone down a bit but still what a bloody idiot. Give me a dependable, dopey SB anytime.

Then we get to said "dependable dopey SB's, I popped them all from the flat paddock into the hill paddock the look that I got from all the fat bitches was "you run up there looking for food yourself fatty" so I meekly took off before they got the SB mafia out at the meer thought that I would make them actually climb their bulks up a hill looking for grazing.

The wee men, time for their update, all I have to say is my colt is a shithead and now I know what it means when adults say that teenage boys will go anywhere for a bit of skirt (normally followed by a wink and a nudge), Binky decided that the paddock that I had put him in wasnt up to his furry little standard and that actually he quite liked the grazers paddock and her well in season filly, so he went across country through hill and dale (and gorse bushes, barbed wire, blackberry, you get the drift) to get to "his bit of skirt" so now we will have a vet bill to PG the only mare on the place that is NOT his and never will be!!!! In his quest for rooting he got a few surface wounds and looked like he had gone 3 rounds with Mike Tyson (right down to the chunk taken out of his ear) which normally wouldnt have bothered me a great deal but as he was due to go showing in less than a week I found it rather a piss off!!!!

So poor Toby was dragged in from the backblocks (ok I lie there is no excuse for him looking like some form of bloody yak) and he had to endure the clippers, of which me being the onto it horse owner I am hadnt thought to get the blades sharpened and did a mercy dash to the saddlery and managed to borrow a pair from Clinton, I was very pleased at how Toby turned out. He looked FAB.