Everyone is moved

Well we brought the other mob of horses back to the farm on Wednesday and we moved Alice back today.
Considering she has only lightly ben handled she is so cool. She got her halter on (the only thing she objected to) and then led fine and loaded onto the float with a wee bit of encouragement. She was leading the big 14yo horse on. And while he dicked around she stood like a wee star.

KC was the mare that was a pain in the ass to load this time round. It was peppers turn last time. She was fine this time (as we decided to take her in the first trip) and Kase was the moron.

Good old Choccy and Rose literally ran up the ramp by themselves and made the job so much easier.

So we now have all the horses at the farm ready for worming, feet and the start of the season.

I got the local calendar for the season and it looks like the first show is in Early October and we have measuring on the 13th so am hoping to take 3 to that, Binky, Kenny and Blondy.

Blake went away with Toby to be schooled so they will also go to measuring.

I have a ride sorted with my friends on Wednesday so I cant wait Kenny is looking better, still not flash but he is getting there and I hope he will be ready for the season ahead.

Well seriously I am hopeless its official

Missy looking happy NOT Blerk this is why he wears covers

Crystal doing what she does best

Blondy

Kenny looking better, a wee bit I am told :-)

Its been forever that I have updated this thing and I am a bit embarassed about that but I guess I have been busy.... or not but thats the only excuse that sounds plausible.

Horses here are all doing well, I have a new big horse called Kenny he is a massive big TB but sadly is underweight and I am feeding him HEAPS to try get the weight on so I have a horse to ride through show season. He is getting his teeth done tomorrow and got shoes on today so he will be away and racing.

Blake is going away to be schooled for 6months (or close enough) I will have him back to maybe do Rai on?? Depends on how brave I am by then, and Im not willing rip him away from the person that will be doing alot of work on him.

Binky is now rugless and in a paddock by himself awaiting his first mares of the season. We have had a few enquiries with people interested in using him but nothing set in stone yet. He has a few of our own mares here so Im not too worried what he brings in from outside mares.

Toby is out with Kenny, looks rather entertaining with the big horse and little toby. I brought Mecca back to the farm as she is on the list to have her teeth done as well. She is in with Kenny and Toby and sadly they dont like her so unless Kenny needs a scratch they stay away from each other.

Choccy, Rose, Pepper, Miss, Whinny and KC are around at the runoff but we are hoping to bring them home in the next week or 2 and Alice will be coming home as well.

Blondy has put on a heap of weight from the first pics I took of her and I am hoping she gives us something special from Binky. She is in with Blake, Rewi, Dy and Crystal.

Rewi is still very wary. He is awaiting a truck to take him up north. I have got the farrier coming back out as he had foundered and the last people to have him didnt do a good job of his feet but he is fine to have the backs done but goes ape for the fronts so we will deal with that before he goes to his new home.

I will try to update this more as the season kicks off. I am hoping to take Binky whereever I can to compete him this year but we will see how we get on... Watch this space.

Well thought I should update again

Binky needs a bigger neck

My halo has slipped somewhat with the promises that I will update this thing every couple of weeks. As my archaic computer drives me up the walls that has fallen by the wayside a bit. Hopefully the new computer should be here in the next couple of weeks or I will be forced to throw this old thing out the window.

Anyway I doubt people want to read about that crap when this is a horse blog.

Anyway there is really stuff all happening on the horse front. They are all looking good. I have secured some grazing across the road from our place for Alice and Mecca. Only for the fact that they need a bit more and they can eat to their hairy little hearts content. And in the case of Mecca she needs it, being coming up 30 and all she can afford to be a bit podgy. So I am wondering if I can try that for myself I will be 30 in a few years so I am allowed to be fat HAHAHA.

Anyway I digress again I took Binky and Toby to the Nelson youngstock show I decided actually Alice couldnt go as she would have had heart failure and thats not how I would like a foal to have her first outing. So the dependable little welsh boys went out. I played with the idea of clipping Binky out as he really did resemble something out of the welsh marshlands (or whereever they come from), and I was the moron that clipped a chunk out of his shoulder when I clipped Toby out so really he did look rather not like the showpony he was meant to be.

Anyway we plaited Binky and left Toby unplaited as the weather came over really bad and we left the boys on our lawn for the night. I roped in a mate for the leading and away we went. As the doc said dont do the show, there was a heavy rain warning out for Nelson I was sorta thinking that I shouldnt really be competing but there we were on a fine morning.

Binky was fantastic as ususal he didnt act like a colt at all and was quite happy to stand by the float and be primped and preened by me :-).

He won the movement class which I was really pleased with as it was a big class and won 2nd in the manners, 3rd in the head class (against some very nice ponies), um 2nd in the welsh class, Res champ pony of Breed. So Binky and I got our res ribbon hehe, sadly the judge didnt like Toby tob, but she did say he would make a lovely childs pony but if I am honest Toby's Manners left something to be desired as they were appaulling. Suz did a great job of handling him when he was being a right prick. One would have thought he was the one with Balls.

All and all the day was a good one and I was pleased with both of the boys but stoked with Binky as people either love him or they dont. And its showing that a few people do like him which is great I will heavily campaign him this year stand him to a few outside mares and then open his book right up in his 4yo season. He is a delight to have in the paddock and is really cool, a right houdini and you dont realise how inadequate your fencing is until you get a welsh colt in the paddock and they find every little hole.

As for the others, Missy has put on weight, as has Blondy, Pepper is looking amazing, Blake is an idiot but is coming back into work, I am aiming him and Pepper for the Winter Woolies show at the end of June, Pepper inhand and Blake inhand and under saddle but I dont know how successful I will be. Need to actually get on the horse before I can compete it. Where are those concrete pills. All the other horses are looking and doing well I cant wait till they start having foals and we start serving in sept/oct should be exciting. Im sure Binky has a thing or 2 to teach me hehe.

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.

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.

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.