Richard Boatwright Haha it’s all good, I love winter and snow, we managed to get them out today and risk the walk of death across the ice, to be fair they were all very well behaved, even the yearling and 2 years ago old, they had a few hours out to let the steam off and groom and socialise so I’m happy, round pen is still an ice rink so can’t see any meaningful work until after the weekend been undertaken, I think Day 1 will be repeated for them all 🤣🤣

It was going well until we had a dumping of snow that has now frozen solid, can’t even get the horses out of the stables to the fields as it’s sheer ice and forecast to stay down to -6 c for the rest of the week so we have some frustrated 🐎 

Hope you guys stay safe in the bad weather and your fellow drivers are not as stupid on the roads as the UK ones are in snow! 

I’ll be interested to see how you deal with the digging as a few of ours think they are coal minors when tied up and it annoys the life out of me 🤣

Oh boy she looks like a cracker and a different kettle of fish to Ike, hope she’s still with you in April, is she as well developed physically as she looks on video? 

Richard Boatwright unfortunately the heavy rain has now turned to ice so frozen round pen has stopped play and no doubt when I return to work it will thaw 🤣🤣

snow warning now issues for the next few days…..roll on spring 

Happy New year to you all, hope it’s a good one for everyone 

Day 2 and what a grim day it is, high winds and driving rain, managed to get my old girl (Moony) out and practice the code, took a while as she associates the round pen with lunging from her former life before me as an English horse but we got there with some nice softening and yielding and attention, a bit of work on the snaffle and line has exposed a real resistance to one eye so we worked on that, more work to do before serious rain stopped play.

My better half managed to get day 1 in with her big dope of a Friesian (Sarge) which went well but also exposed some holes to plug .

Didn’t managed to get my young mare out (Seeta) but did some work in the stable with her feet and taking a bit which had good success in slow steps

Gave my young gelding (Stan) a groom and then retired home for NYE 

Hope you all have a great New Year’s Eve 

Attached is a picture of Sarge trying his hand at flagging 

Great video, I have a 50ft panel pen on Sand and I’ve put a barge board on at the bottom to keep the sand in but seriously considering boarding the whole thing soon for the reason you can see in the picture, they get easily distracted! 

Haha take your pick, they are all as unruly and disobedient as the others, but with the ES20 program hopefully the 2 youngsters may turn out half decent!