bertie
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Post by bertie on Dec 16, 2005 12:46:48 GMT 1
With the extended break over Christmas and the New Year, do you have anything special planned with your horses? On boxing day, me and my wonderful O/H will be going down to Samares Manor to see off the Jersey Horse Driving Society's Annual Boxing Day drive! Everyone really gets into the spirit of the drive and turn out their carriages and horses with tinsel and some even with sleigh bells!! Then the next day I'll be boxing Bertie to my friend Laura's yard (on the other side of the Island) to have a festive hack with them. It'll be such great fun as Bertie hasn't been on the canter tracks on that side of Jersey for about a year (there are only a couple of tracks around where I live) and he gets really excited at the thought of a good blast! Quite a feat as he weighs in at about 925kg!! To me it's what Christmas is all about... being around the people that care about each other enough to stick together through good and bad times!  |
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Post by connymel on Dec 16, 2005 13:43:01 GMT 1
Sounds like yourself an Bertie'll have great fun.
I stubbornly ride out if only for an hour on Xmas day.
Last year my Connemara gelding had not long arrived from Ireland and was a just backed 3y.o. So I tentatively hack just up the road and back. Xmas day is one of the quietist traffic wise, so a good time to take the "Bairns" out. This year I can take him further as he's (hopefully) more sensible!
Next Xmas I'll be taking my homebred filly out for the Xmas day hack, as she'll be 3.
The ponies get sugar-free mints, apples and carrots in the Xmas day dinners.
Have a good holiday all.. I'm off-air after today, unless I get connected on my home PC.
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Jen
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Post by Jen on Dec 16, 2005 16:11:19 GMT 1
There are always a load of us that ride out on Christmas Eve (if it's a weekend like this time) otherwise on Christmas morning, covered from head to toe in tinsel, antlers and flashing red noses! We get so many lovely comments from the local residents, and often stop for a brandy and a bit of chocolate on route at someones house, causing havoc in the residential roads.
I can honestly say that it is the only day of the year when you don't get road raged drivers either which really makes a change!!!
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maislow
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Post by maislow on Dec 16, 2005 16:16:07 GMT 1
Nothing planned here. Crazy Christmas day am to get mucked out & ridden & home before the kids wake up. Then I might go for a nice ride on Boxing Day on my own as having a quiet day, as manic for the following 3 days. Not the best of riding where we are  |
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lovelylace
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Post by lovelylace on Dec 16, 2005 17:03:16 GMT 1
I'll be breaking my mare to harness over the x-mas break..well, we are going to start anyway...yay...so lots on new things to look forward to... ;D
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bertie
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Post by bertie on Dec 22, 2005 10:15:28 GMT 1
Hi Jen! How is your big guy??
Good luck loveylace - carriage driving is such a fantastic sport!
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amber
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Post by amber on Dec 22, 2005 12:28:53 GMT 1
The yard isoff out for a Christmas Eve Hack on Saturday morning,...all trimmed up with our tinsels plaited into his mane and trimmed around my hat!!
Looking forward to spending ooodles of quality time with my boy over the festive period....also going to ring my horse psychic in the new year (as she's away at present), to let my boy know that I love him to bits and see if there anything that's bothering him or anything he wants to say to me...
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Post by marywelsh on Dec 22, 2005 12:56:03 GMT 1
we are all going out tomorrow, can,t wait notice on our yard board was xmas ride 10.30 am come out for the xmas ride lots of bucking, shying and bolting  100 fags and 10 cans of lager per person rescue remedy, lavender oil, sedation all welcome excuses not accepted e.g broken legs, horse lame, husband ran off with the milkman this was wrote as 4 of us have new horses and shaky legs when out riding and all of us seem to find a different excuse not to ride (sitting here fingers crossed praying for rain he he) ;D |
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Post by jacqszoo on Dec 22, 2005 13:58:45 GMT 1
Unfortunately I cant ride Xmas day as I have little ones and it isnt fair. A couple of the girls are going for a xmas morning hack with a stop off at a local pub. The rest of us that cant make Xmas morning are having our own Christmas hack on boxing day - compulsory tinsel and a stop off at the local pub for a couple of drinks. Cant wait. Great company, wonderful beautiful horses, doing what we all love to do, a glass or two of something nice - my idea of total heaven.
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