Chamfron Caramia at 20 Months old.

Looking good!

Mimosa and Parador away.

We delivered Mimosa and Parador to Northampton today. The journey down was utterly uneventful with both foals walking straight on to the trailer and travelling perfectly. Amazed (and frankly beyond jealous) to be able to drive onto the field and not even leave a track!

Journey back was more eventful, firstly we found out that petrol stations on the A1 are a bit few and far between and had to make the embarrassing "we've run out of fuel" call to the RAC! Then the A66 was a bit gnarly with snow and fog, you know its bad when the road is duel carriageway and everyone is still happy to sit behind a trailer. Phew, nice to be home!

Exbury Ghost Daughter

Thanks to Lucy Victoria Phillips for the photos of her Exbury Ghost mare (out of a QH/App dam). Always lovely to see photos of his older stock.

Angel Dust - seven months old.

Job for today was to get some new photos of the mighty midget, I tried to sneak in and snap but it was no good, she was there... right there... on the end of the lens, hmmm no Mark to distract her, what now. OK, bring in the hugely scary space hopper and snap the foal as it looks shocked and startled... errr no, she dashed over to see what it was and carefully nosed it all round the pen until she was back, with the space hopper, there, right on the end of the lens... again...

So I kicked it... (The space hopper, not the foal!) and over the pen it sailed, followed without a moments hesitation by the mighty midget in medium trot. Ah now the space hopper was behind the bale so this required great hurtling around and pouncing on it when it wasn't watching (and yes had it gone bang I have no doubt that five other ponies and me would have shot through the roof and one small foal would of stood and looked at us).

A sense of humour bigger than herself!!

More of The Reds!

Quick walk in the woods today, probably about ten squirrels hurtling around the trees above our heads. I don't have the patience for wildlife photography but I do want to use these guys for some serious practice this year. Not today though, unsuitably dressed and the day was running away from us!

Bad day for Chamfron Westminster.

Vets visit this morning, the new girls have been swabbed and turned out and poor old Wills is now a gelding.

New Girls.

Two new additions to the broodmare band! Both imported from Uruguay, the bay mare is Llamita (ex David Stirling polo pony) and the chestnut is Fatima (Criollo). Both will be covered by Arrayan in 2012.