22/06/2025
2025 is rushing by! I can't believe it, May went in a blink of an eye and now June is almost over! Where has the time gone!
At the beginning of May we welcomed Olive, she's been a ray of sunshine in a pretty awful month.
I waited 10 weeks since the scan for her to arrive, we had sleepless nights, camera malfunctions, late night checks, false alarms for what seemed like forever, then I missed the whole thing! No joke I didn't even see the foal on any camera checks even once it was born!!! 🤦🏼♀️ I've obviously played back the camera and it was all done and over in 20mins....Ebony was brilliant no stress and she's continued to be the best mother to Olive!
Ebony has always been nervous and a little worried about new people and this worried me about how protective she'd be with her baby, she thankfully has let George and I be present and we've had the pleasure of plenty on baby cuddles. Olive is now finding her feet and being very mischievous! She's almost 7weeks old now and I'm still not sure what colour she is going to be!! 😮
I try and keep everyone in the loop of the good and bad sides of here and in May we said a really sad goodbye to Megan, each one of theses horses means the absolute world to me and every time one goes a little part of my heart goes with them 🥺 it's crazy because I've had to say so many hard goodbyes but it's never an easy decision. Megan had a lovely retirement here and hasn't done any work for the past two years! She's been my favourite old lady for the longest time!
Over the past couple of months I feel like so much has happened!! We've welcomed some new horses, had mare and foal photoshoots, round two of the equine dentist, vets visits, swarms of bees and the usual escaping ponies!! 🙄
Megan Blake Photography did another fantastic job of photographing Ebony and Olive, the photos are unreal and such a lovely thing to have to look back on as she grows up and changes. 🩷
We had the arrival of Buster, Ronnie, Merry and Bee who I will post some pics of below, I will do more about each of them once they are ready to join the riding school. I like them to have time to settle and get used to the environment here, some take more time than others to adapt to the riding school life. 😊
Delilah has another recruit to her escaping habits! Honestly it's like being in the New Forest but with fat black and white cobs roaming! It's always Delilah, Diamond and Annie! Although this morning Prince joined them, he's in a completely different field and
accompanied them in free roaming the yard! Prince isn't about the living out life! He jumped out the paddock and wanted back to bed! Anyone who knows him knows he's a bit of a Princess!
We've had some extremely hot weather the last week or so, thank you to all our understanding riders who have been great with taking the lessons a lot slower. We've been washing horses off, feeding electrolytes and they've all had recovery mashes for lunch! Also I've used countless amount of suncream on all the pink noses! 🐽
The team here have worked super hard to make sure the welfare of the horses has been the upmost priority! ☀️
Chloè 🤍
