For the past 2 weeks its been a challenge to exercise the horses with rain, frost and snow. Every night the yard has been freezing making it difficult to even take the horse out of the stables to the walker let alone to exercise them. The temperature has been rising through the day, melting the snow but then freezing over the night to leave us with thick ice all over Aberdeenshire. Big effort by everyone, at the yard and on…
On a very snowy Thursday morning we set off with Lovely Schtuff and Welcome Ben for Musselburgh on Thursday and Doncaster on Friday. This was Lovely Schtuff’s first run for us in the bumper at Musselburgh. He was quite green but he got the hang of it and managed to finish strongly and was a pleasing 5th. We then headed on to Doncaster for an overnight stay before Welcome Ben ran on Friday. He was up against some tougher competition…
On Saturday the 11th we ran Micks Wish, Amilliontimes and Welcome Ben at Kelso. Micks Wish ran in his first hurdle and found the pace quite hot. He jumped nicely and he will hopefully build in confidence from this run. Amilliontimes performed as he always does, jumping well and trying his hardest. He finished in a pleasing 4th up against some stiff competiton and was seen to bleed afterwards. Welcome Ben jumped and travelled amazingly throughout his race and was…
On Wednesday the 8th we ran Bright Prospect at the first jump meeting back at Musselburgh. He jumped well and ran a good race to finish 2nd. A great result since he as been out of action since April.
On Saturday the 28th October we headed off to Kelso with Mo Rouge. Unfortunately yet again he didn’t enjoy himself. He returned home with a nasty cut on his back leg which resulted in a detour en route home via the Royal Dick Vets in Edinburgh! After a long and windy journey home, he will now have some time to recover from his injury. A great picture by Dennis Penny!
