Wednesday, 11 April 2012

11th April 2012

Tiqris, Trouble Digger and Harris went for a walk and a trot all the others had routine canters. James and I backed 3 babies, 2 of which are easy enough, the 3rd is going to take a bit of time to get that extra bit of confidence.

Sophie has been laid up in bed all day being sick. I have had to be in more than 2 places at once. Tilly was on a woodland day, Sholto had tennis coaching and Panda needed looking after too. Luckily my mother-in-law came to the rescue and helped me out. After tennis Sholto was also sick at which point a horse arrived. A frantic trying day to say the least.

The rain that was forecast didn't arrive, I watched the channel 4 weather last night and they predicted a wash out of an afternoon.

Ben Case collected his horse that had been here for 10 days loose schooling. I did think after 5 days that he would never improve but by the end of it he was jumping much better, a pleasing result.

The report on Chiquillie is that his stomach is expanding by the day.