Thursday, 30 July 2009

Horses, horses, horses!




We ended up not running Marlyn Ridge last week as he rapped himself - who knows where or when! Why are they so prone to doing damage just before a run... Luckily he appears to be have done nothing to serious and is recovering well. He has had some serious trips to the hose pipe for cold hosing and is sporting a very fetching pair of ice boots!
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The others are all in fine fettle. We have a couple at grass taking a break, one being Madam Sylvia (the grey shown in the picture) who we hope to point-to-point this year. She looks like a barrel - a trip to Weight Watchers may be in order!







Welcome Releaf is a yard fav - he is such a lovely horse. Very enquiring, very cuddly and an expert Houdini- he can let himself out of any box, any time and any place. He is superb at letting himself out just as you nip in to fill up his water - he just checks when your back is turned and then slips the bolt when you are just that bit to far away to grab him. Luckily he is dead easy to catch! He was a bit of a space cadet last year becoming very stressed over silly things but since moving to Marsh Stables, he is a different horse. Horizontal infact! He is so good he has been turned into a card by a friend of ours, Serena Wyman who has her own card business. She recently went to the Festival of Hunting show with our sponsor, Blue Lizard Equestrian and Welks attracted two buyers!! Such fame!

Take a look at her other items at http://www.notnotrouble.co.uk/.

Friday, 24 July 2009

Nearly the end of a busy but good week. Always the Sun finally twigged what it is all about at Yarmouth this week and finished fourth. She is a great little filly but has a mind of her own! However, at Yarmouth she speed past quite a few and made up a good amount of ground in the final furlong. Daragh O'Donohoe gave her a great ride and I was really pleased with her progress.

Tomorrow we may be off to Salisbury with Marlyn Ridge. He has not run for a while and needs good ground so we are keeping fingers crossed for good weather. This is quite a trip from Newmarket and we will take Marlyn a companion in one of our unraced horses. This gives them the experience of going racing without actually racing - just absorbing the atmosphere and also gives him some moral support in the lorry! He is a lovely horse with superb owners - I would love to do well with him for them this year.

Monday, 13 July 2009



We are now pretty much fully moved into Marsh Stables - with many thanks to Cliff and Sue Lines.

We have around 14 residents, some of which are younger store horses and a couple are coming back into training after having a break. We have not had many runners this year and are still waiting for the elusive winner! It, as always, will come just needs a bit more time and patience!


Marsh Stables is perfect for us as we have around 24 boxes in total with 17 within the licensed yard. There is around 7 acres of paddocks which we have railed now into smaller turn-out paddocks and all of the horses pretty much go out in pairs or small groups daily. I am a great believer in turning out and like the horses to go out all weathers. We are about 10 mins walk from the gallops, again which is perfect as the horses have a good walk up and back to gallops.

We have a couple of nice bumper and jump horses coming up though which is giving us all something to look forward to.