The Royal Stables

20/12/2024

This lad knows how to clear my head. Sometimes you just need to ride your horse! Horses know how to mend your heart as well as break your heart.

20/12/2024

Pearls Update: Vets just called, she’s still not herself and still sore, but it’s expected after colic surgery. However she’s still not out of the woods. She’s not wanting to eat any of the mashes that the vets have given her, but did take their hand off for some grass, so that’s positive. Come on my baby Pearly-Whirlies!

Pearls Update: she’s now standing after surgery and has an IV in with fluids and drugs to try and keep her right. She is still critical and she’s not out of the woods yet at all.
If she pulls through they said that she’s got to go on a diet (which we knew already), and has to look like her former model self.

19/12/2024

Pearls Update: she’s now standing after surgery and has an IV in with fluids and drugs to try and keep her right. She is still critical and she’s not out of the woods yet at all.
If she pulls through they said that she’s got to go on a diet (which we knew already), and has to look like her former model self.

19/12/2024

Pearls Update: The vets rang me this morning and it looks like she’s eaten a stone (even though she has ad-lib hay and grass). So she’s now in for surgery. Please keep her in your thoughts, it’s all very touch and go still.

18/12/2024

Pearls was treated yesterday with a suspected colic and came round nicely. But this morning I found her covered in mud and in distress again. She was loaded immediately into the trailer and is now in UCD. They aren’t certain if it’s colic but it could possibly be atypical myopathy (aka sycamore poisoning). We have no sycamores around us so Storm Darragh must have blown in some seeds. If it is this disease the survival rate is low. Please keep our Pearly baby in your thoughts. She’s in the best place she can be.

17/12/2024

A nice and clean shelter for King and Pearls ❤️
Din and Grogu’s is getting a makeover on the weekend

15/12/2024

Today is the day I never thought would come, yet here it is. 16 years without you. I had you for only barely 16. This year has been crazy, in a good way, and there have been so many time where I wish I could call you and say “wow, you won’t believe this” or “what do you think I should do”? Or times where I want to show you what I’ve built. I know people will say “oh she’s there with you” and I know that. But it’s not the same as having you physically here, hearing your voice - which I’ve forgotten the sound of - or seeing your face - which I can’t picture in my mind’s eye any more. I know that everything I am is because of you, and everything I have is because of you. Next year time will weigh more towards without you than with you, and I just have to live with that. Love you, miss you ###

“It has been said that ‘time heals all wounds’. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

15/12/2024

And that’s a wrap on therapeutic sessions for 2024! Can’t want to restart in the new year and see what 2025 brings! Happy Christmas to all our clients and we are now closed until the 5th January. The office is also closed so no emails/calls/messages will be answered until the 5th January.

11/12/2024

We’ve had Hannah here all day from . She is still here in fact (almost 5pm) and finishing off the last of the horses by generator light.
She knows our horses inside out and can see the slight changes in them. Today Bella, Domino, Beau, Dumbledore, Thomas and Harvey are all getting nice treatment!

09/12/2024

Home ❤️

08/12/2024

Therapeutics in our arena today!!! So amazing to have this space where we can facilitate new riders for years to come!
Thanks to Shona, Aoife and Chloe today!

07/12/2024

That feeling riding in our own arena ❤️❤️🤩
Arthur was his magical self, I’m so proud of this horse. He’s been off work for months as I’ve been so busy and I hopped on him today and he was perfect. He used to be so tense in an arena and today, even with the storm raging, he was relaxed and so easy. I was so good to be back on his back again ❤️ can’t wait for what we have planned!

05/12/2024

And just like that! We have an arena!! I am so so so happy! I want to thank the amazing P McParland LTD who made this process so easy, relaxing and stress free. They answered any silly questions I had, advised on the care of the arena. And made sure I know I can call them for anything in the future. I couldn’t recommended them anymore, they were so genuine and lovely. Thank you to Phelim and Kieran for such a fantastic job.

30/11/2024

What a fun afternoon!! We headed over to Cheval with Penny, Flex and Rosie. Sophie and Flex had a school as they’re getting ready to step up a few height classes, they were absolutely flying! Penny had the best time schooling with Frances and even showed us how much scope she has! She was such a brave baby! Rosie and Grace had a nice chill time popping around some jumps.

28/11/2024

Love our decals on our new trailer! Still a few finishing touches to go, but thanks to David at Signs Asap! Thanks also to Peter Hosey Trailers for supplying a lovely new trailer for us! I bought my first trailer from him years ago, and it was fabulous. Can’t wait to have many adventures with this one!

26/11/2024

While there’s dry ground the Royal herd got out for some grass! Theses horses haven’t really seen grass in almost a year, it was such a joy seeing their patience with us humans be rewarded.