And they're off.......!

Got a phone call this morning saying the transporters were en route and they came to fetch the horses a couple of hours later. Met them over the road in the car park by the salle de fetes since there's a big car park for the lorry, and yes, it was an impressively sized lorry!

G, bless him, went straight in and Tari was trying to follow him before she was asked to, she spent a while standing up on the ramp then reversing off, so I just left her to it til she needed to go for it in earnest and up she went like it was nothing new :-)

Even the spotty oik decided to behave herself and go straight on, maybe she was worried about being left behind :-)

Dead posh in there!

Weird without them here, can't wait to go and join them now....

Horse shopping

Just got back from a couple of days in the UK with a friend who was looking for a horse. We had a few to see but the weather was awful, it didn't stop raining all day yesterday.....

My poor friend Tanya had to ride in the wind and rain, but at least it was a good test for the horses, if they can behave in this sort of weather, they will behave well anywhere.

We went to a place up near Stratford upon Avon called Featherbed Stables, where they specialize in safe cob type horses and they had quite a selection! Tanya tried a handsome little black cob first, then a grey, She immediately felt at home on the grey, she rode him in the (sodden) sand school first

then took him out on the very busy road, and he behaved perfectly. So she bought him, Chester is his name, he'll be coming over to France as soon has he's been vetted and transporters have been booked, then he can come out on hacks with us!