Racebot

The sun was shining today and me and TW went off in the box for a new adventure!!! Today we went to Southwell Racecourse! It was fascinating! First off TW chatted with the Lucys and then some other people that came with their horses. I especially liked one called Cheeky. They chatted about what they wanted to achieve from the session then we got tacked up and off we went.

We had to walk between some buildings on sand and go through some gates. Then we were on a big track thing but this big track wasnt a grass track for nomming. It was a sand track for racing round!! Off me and TW went , trotty, walking, cantering around. There were loads of new things to look at, big colourful signs, rails around the track, wierd men in the middle of the track playing a game with little balls and sticks. Most odd!

TW said I seemed to have lost my brakes and we spend a while finding them again. Practising trotting and walking and stopping between the markers. I was sweating! But not puffing. TW was all unbalanced t begin with, the Lucys said her Jods were all slippery and so was the saddle. Not good. TW improved as we went round but I think she needs to be fitter. Coach Lucy said its important TW has a strong core to help me. Brack and Frank thought this was hilarious when I told them. Not sure why.

After four laps TW said I'd worked hard enough and I went back to the box for a snooze while tw had tea and cake, maybe this is to help her core? It was certainly apple cake. And apples have cores. The peeps all stood around chatting about heart rates and things and then TW gave me a bucket of lovely sweet water to see if I liked it. Nom! I necked a load of it.

Before long it was time to set off for home. Back at the yard I had a little graze and then went back to the boys for some more hay. They were impressed with my race horse day!

Hungry

By 6.30am I was in the stable nomming hay. By 6.45 I was tacked up and me and TW were heading out for our first hack in a fortnight. It was freezing. I was sprightly. TW was chatty.

I couldn't believe it when we went right out of the yard and headed through the village and on to the main road. We trotted up the main road as it was clear and onto the bridlepath. Te ground was hard and there was still alot of snow about. I wanted to trot , so we did. There was alot to take in but TW stayed relaxed and we carried on despite the huge bird scarer bangs. The snow was coming down all slow and wierd. TW said it was peaceful, I thought it was cold.

Normally when we get to the hedge on our own we turn round. Today we didnt. We snuck around the edge of the field to avoid the scary stuff then back onto the bridlepath and saw two collies with a friendly joggy lady. Along the path, dodging stones, round the little cemetery then heading back. I was alot more chilled by then. TW knew I was hungry so occasionally let me stop for a little grass nibble.

Homeward bound we were super brave and went alongside the space centre, past the fans ( they were off phew!) , had a few trots, back across the main road and home. Great stuff! Back at the yard I did some super grass nomming , had some hay and then tootled bak to the field for a snooze. All before 10am!

Sunshine

Today the sun came out and my rug came off. I ate lots of hay and had some kisses from TW. Lay down and snoozed with the boys and had sme lovely itchy rolls. No riding though. TW says the grass will be growing soon, that's good.

Nom

I hoped the snow would have made TW stay off work today but it didnt happen. She came up bright and early though before work. Result I reckon. We had a bale of hay but the wind was blowing it about abit which was annoying. The hay didnt last too long but fortunately ZM kindly dropped us another bale this afternoon. Nom.

ZM said we are hungry. I wonder if we could have three bales tomorrow? Not sure TW will go for that, she took Brackys rug off today and poked his ribs.

Business like

It's freezing at the moment, too cold for kisses, too icy for work. Shame really. TW bought us hay and grub which is always nice and checked we were warm. The weather is weird. The field is soggy. Not sure i like it.

Cold rest

The snow came down alot in the night. We watched it from the comfort of our beds, covering the ground and sticking, after a big breakfast we made our way back to the big field and then TW decided we were moving back to our field. Just the three of us.

It was very muddy and slippy and TW fell over a few times. Oh dear. We had to snuffle about under the snow to find some grass and then TW bought us some lovely hay. The snow us annoying though.....it stops us having proper hacking fun. It's a shame.

Day in bed

I was super happy to see TW today. Even better she took us all to the yard nd we had a day in bed nomming. She left us to it and came back at tea time , put us in the school for a bit and then back into lovely clean straw for more noms. Lazy day.