A pretty routine day with the horses and all seem well. Paul Webber popped over to see his new purchase from the Cheltenham sales last weekend and seemed to like what he saw. It is one of the greatest pleasures I get watching young horses progress. I do my best to follow any horse that has been through the yard whether it be a flat or jumping horse.
I'll have to stay up later than normal tonight as I'll have to break the ice on the water buckets.
Tomorrow is a very special day as the 6 nations start and we have a cracking match against Scotland to get things underway. Rugby was my first love, when I was at prep school all I wanted to do was play rugby for England. I played 1st team rugby throughout my school life and even took it up again in my mid 20's and played for Stow on the Wold until my early 30's. In the end it was taking me until Wednesday to recover from Saturdays match. I keep telling Sholto that it is down to him now to get into the England squad. He has started training and goes to Stow every Sunday morning when we aren't racing. Hopefully he'll watch tomorrows match with me. He and Tilly are off for their riding lesson in the morning and come the summer I ought to get them swinging a golf club.
Made a few entries for Barbury this afternoon. Due to this weeks weather we missed our final bit of work for the babies at Towcester so we've decided not to aim them at Barbury but wait a week or two.
I made a fundemental mistake last night and started a thread on Jumping for fun. I suggested that we started p2ps in October. I feel that as I started it I ought to continue making comments as the tread gathers steam with other people's thoughts. It is painful! Not something I intend on doing again. However, I am rather opinionated and intolerant, not a good combination for web based chat rooms.........
