Not such a frantic day, taking horses off galloping is essential experience for them but very time consuming, yesterday 5 of us were gone from 6 AM until 10.30 AM. Today, all the horses cantered on the wood-chip, their workload will be increasing all the time from here on in. Lets pray for a sustained dry spell. We are hoping to school everything tomorrow and I've spent a fair bit of time this afternoon on the schooling ground. Where we have opened up the ground on take off and landing sites it has become pudding like. I can't get the tractor across the gallop to move the fences so I've been repairing the ground as best I can using sand to fill in. The change in 4 hours this afternoon was incredible, the wind was blowing strongly and it soon stated to dry it all out. If we get a dry night I think we will be able to carry on as planned. If not Billy Biscuit and Full Shift will be the only 2 schooling. It seems ridiculous but if this wind were to blow for 2 more days it is highly possible that our grass will become too fast. It is on Cotswold brash and drains well, the middle 3 furlongs of it is already good ground after today. Only where we have opened up the ground is it softer.
I seem to run on very little sleep when we enter some of the babies and start to worry all day and night about it. It is also compounded by tax bills that need to be paid by midnight tomorrow. HMRC are great lenders, their interest rates are much lower than banks!
