After a frantic month for Rose Equine last month, May was somewhat quieter on the buying and selling side- couldn't find anything worth buying ! We really shopped around, and those that seemed so promising on their adverts were a huge disappointment in reality! It just goes to show how many poor quality horses you have to sift through to find 'the one'. I went to one sale where many youngsters, particualarly the Welsh As and Ds, looked absolutely awful with shocking conformational faults that could only come about with random breeding. It made me realise how much I support breeding horses responsibly! Lets not ruin good breeds with ones like those.
On a brighter note, one sale did yield a fantastic find- a 14.2hh 3yo chestnut tobiano filly by Stetsen, Honeypot Sweet Pea. Was planning to break and sell her on, but once I got her home she looked even more impressive so will be retaining this one! She has just been backed and is walking around quietly, really excited about her future as an allround competition horse, so watch this space!
Penny had been jumping superbly this month, only to end it with casting a shoe over the bank holiday! Typical it should be when the farrier is on holiday! So she is temporarily off the scene until the farrier comes out as she struggles barefoot. Hopefully though he is coming out Wednesday, so am planning to take her cross country schooling to Pontispool sometime later in the week to get in some practice over some larger fences.
Now June has arrived we have a packed horse hunting schedule where I hope we will at last find something worth writing about! In the meantime, plenty to be getting on what with Honey to school on, Penny @ Pontispool and Merlin to gee up into doing any work at all ! :P Just wanted to say good job again for Clean Limbs- its worked a treat for him.
A really exciting development this month was the planning application for our new stables/arena had been submitted- so fingers crossed all goes through we may be looking at a brand new yard for Rose Equine come 2011!
