Oxford Retirement Livery

06/03/2025

OOOOOOHHHHHHHH YES 😎😎😎😎😎

It’s nearly rolling / harrowing / fertilising time… 😍

26/12/2024

🎁🎄🎁You could trust any of our beauties to do the most important job there is 🎁🎄🎁

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I have blatantly stolen this from another page, I loved it, substitute some names and.....
Happy Christmas from all the team 🎄🎄🎄

‘‘Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the yard
Santa was wondering-
‘When did things get so hard?’

Comet had a virus,
Blitzen pulled up lame.
Prancer had a stable cough,
And Vixen had the same.

Dancer had started napping,
And Donner had a splint.
And Rudolph’s nose no longer glowed,
And Dasher had a squint.

Vets bills were fast expanding,
The reindeer just weren’t fit,
Christmas eve was fast approaching!
St Nick was really in the s**t.

Mrs Claus was worried,
But she is a tour de force-
“Santa we can solve this!”
She had a plan, of course.

“You need a beast with courage,
Who can fly and stay the course!
With guile and heart and intelligence.
Why, you need an Ex Racehorse!!

Santa clapped his hands with glee!
Mrs Claus was right!
Now he just had to choose his team,
And all was saved come Christmas night.

It soon came time to load the sleigh,
And what a glorious sight!
Necks arched, ears pricked and all alert,
Coats gleaming in the moonlight.

Led by the greatest of all time,
The mighty Super Duty
And after him came Battleship Boy
Then Magnum, what a beauty!

In fourth was Severnwind
Next to him came Clarey,
Guinness looked a bit keen,
And Tim a little lairey!

The final five brought up the rear
Ottis and Louis and Elvis
Henry next trotting along
And Cyril slipped a pelvis

A little trouble with the brakes
Super Duty pulled pretty hard.
A quick pitstop to change his bit,
And up they flew again, onward.

All went well until the pyramids,
Where Magnum had a spook,
“It’s fine!” Cried Boy whilst locking on,
His brilliance is no fluke.

Around Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower
The team flew on the right courses
Sydney Harbour was a breeze,
For such magical racehorses

With such fine horsepower at the helm,
Santa was home in record time!
The horses never missed a beat,
Well-the line up was sublime.

Boys and girls around the world
Awoke to Christmas Day beauty
With thanks to Santa and his steeds,
And the plucky Super Duty.

So if on Christmas night, you wake
To hooves upon the roof,
And soft whinnying in the dead of night,
Well now you have the proof-

Santa sacked his reindeer,
He saw the error of his ways.
He far prefers ex racers,
To deliver Christmas Days

22/12/2024

🥳🥳🥳 WE MADE IT!! 🥳🥳🥳

🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄

We celebrated the shortest day yesterday in the true equestrian style of sugar consumption…. Toasted marshmallows at Blenheim Palace’s Christmas Lights 🤩

… and a trip to the wholesaler so that Father Christmas can visit our furry friends next week 🥰

🎅🏻🥕🍏🥕🍎🎅🏻🥕🍏🥕🍎🎅🏻🥕🍏🥕🍎🎅🏻

01/12/2024

Forking haylege up before first light this morning… and the reward of that beautiful golden sunlight when the ☀️ *finally* showed her face this afternoon!

The water meadows are still flooded 🌊 but the clue is in the name… at least they grow 🌱 in even the crispiest droughts! (Remember those?! 🤦‍♀️)

The rest of our fields are brash soil on the top of the hill so are holding up well 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Happy 1st December! Three weeks 🗓️ until the evenings / mornings start getting lighter… ⏰ 🌅

23/11/2024

🕰️ A blast from the past! 🕰️

A few years too early really, James would melt with excitement if we had reindeer in the yard now! 🤩

I remember being fascinated by the specialist bagged feed they ate… dried lichen! Not a Father Christmas carrot 🥕 in sight 🙊

If you look in the background you can see the huge straw bale wall we built to stop our more reactive horses from having a meltdown… only two so much as turned a hair at the arrival of their strange looking neighbours! 🫎🤩

The reindeer travelled down from Scotland in a HorseBox with no partitions… they lie down to travel - clever creatures 🫎😍 and the calves are the cutest things I’ve EVER seen 😍😍😍

19/10/2024

😍 🌊 ✨ HELLO BEAUTIFUL ✨🌊😍

After months of the old “office” washing machine sounding like a jet plane at takeoff 🙈 🙉 ✈️

We have a brand-spankers new 10kg drum washing machine 😍😍😍 (complete with heavy duty filters & a long warranty 🙈🤫🤭)

ALLLLLL fly masks & fly rugs washed / dried / put away ready for next year… now just the endless towels from farrier day / tail washes etc to keep up with! ✨✨✨

🤩🤩 SO HAPPY 🤩🤩 I have palpitations about piles of dirty stuff 🙈

12/10/2024

Looking forward to cake-for-a-good-cause with our AWESOME vets 🤩

TUESDAY 29th OCTOBER

🍰☕️ 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲 ☕️🍰

Below are further details for our Macmillan coffee morning - everyone is welcome, kids included!
Throughout the morning we will have demonstrations by our vets on laser therapy, acupuncture and taking a TPR (temperature, pulse, respiratory rate). So come along for a catch up and hopefully learn something new!

Please contact us by phone, email or socials if you know you'll be coming 💚

11/10/2024

👏🏻👏🏻 I say this ALL.THE.TIME! 👏🏻 👏🏻

One of THE most under-diagnosed diseases, which can utterly transform quality of life when properly identified / treated / managed 🙏🏻

1 in 10 horses over 10 have Cushing’s – use our checklist to identify if your horse would benefit from a free* test this autumn

Learn more: https://careaboutcushings.co.uk/how-to-spot-it

10/10/2024

😬😬😬 UMMMMMM…… 😬😬😬

I hope not 🤞🏻🫠

Sending our fellow horse lovers & custodians in Florida & surrounds our thoughts & prayers… I can’t imagine the horror of trying to protect them from a hurricane 💔