Lots of news

Loads of exciting news today!

Firstly, big well done to Martin, who passed his Stage 3 with flying colours. It's a difficult exam to get as it involves riding and stable management, but he did really well and got the whole thing so now both Hannah and him are fully qualified!

Our haylage baling also went well - we managed to get 168 bales, which came from the field across the road, the cow fields and the front field nearest the road. This means that we have the mast field and hill field still to cut, and hopefully a second cut from the cow fields and field across the road, so its all go and we're praying for good weather again!

We have also welcomed three new liveries in the last couple of weeks - Toastie - a big grey gelding, Possum - a 14.2h.h. grey mare and Meghan, a 14.2h.h bay mare s0 its nice getting to know all the new ones.

Jumps have arrived!

Great news - the new jumps arrived on Friday morning so we now have a lovely course of showjumps up in the sand paddock, and cross country jumps waiting to be secured and pegged down into the field. We used the showjumps in our lessons last night, and they went down a storm so the horses seem to like them! As they're wooden, we'll be painting them each year with new colours and designs, so it'll keep them looking fresh.
The cross country jumps also look brill - there are lots of variety with brushes/rolltops/houses e.t.c. We're also planning to get a digger in to do some work to the field to make bumps/ditches e.t.c. so hopefully in around 5 weeks we'll have a new play area in one of the fields!
We're busy on the horse front as well, with 3 new liveries coming in this week - they are all existing clients who have bought new horses, which makes it easier as they know where everythng is and the yard rules, but it is still hard work as each horse has to get settled into its new group, get tack organised and all the other little things that we forget about until its time to get another new one!