A perfect day for a drive!

Another fantastic day for me here at Calvert Trust Exmoor - I drove along the track beside the reservoir again & it was brill!!

I found it easier too; the hills didn’t seem quite so steep & I loved trotting along the track.  Plus it wasn’t raining, a perfect day for a drive!

I love my job!!

Being clipped for go faster stripes!

I’ve noticed some of the others have had part of their winter coat taken off, mainly from under their necks & belly. It looks very smart & no one has complained of being cold – but it got me wondering why?

I thought the best one to ask was my mate Teddy…
…he seems to know the answer to just about everything!
He’s also had some of his winter coat removed; it’s called being ‘clipped’. He said "with some of my coat clipped off I can work so much better & my big warm rug keeps me toasty in the field".  He then added, "I think I look rather smart; I call it my go faster stripe!"

Teddy having his belly clipped!

This has got me thinking; I wonder if I will be clipped as I’m doing more work now? I quite like the idea of having a go faster stripe; it might help me when I have my ‘race’ with Hendrix’!

Photo Shoot

Yours truly has been very busy…

I had a ‘photo shoot’ this afternoon; well not just me as some of the others got involved too! It’s nice to have a few new photos for my blog & the Calvert Trust Exmoor website.

 

Over the tyre

Perfect Parking (even if I say so myself!)

It was too wet to use the seesaw, but I had lots of photos on all the other bits of my agility course. I did some driving as well; it’s important that I keep practising especially if I am to stand any chance against Hendrix if we have a driving completion.

 We’ve not set a date yet...

...I think I’ll keep quiet for now & keep working on my turns!!

Working on my turns!

Rug Magic

Saw Brin coming in from his field………just as I thought his rug is now covered in mud & lost all its shine!!
Mind you he doesn’t care…….he told me that he’s quite happy; his rug’s keeping the rain off his back without him getting too hot!

Big Brin in the Arena

I’ll tell you something quite puzzling about our rugs;  Whenever we come in with wet rugs in the morning, they are always nice & dry when we go back out into the field!!

I don’t know how they do it, but I can tell you we are all very pleased that they do!

In praise of good teeth!

The vet checked my teeth today: not the most fun I’ve ever had, but the he was very good & took the time to make sure I was all right. One of the staff was with me too, so I got plenty of praise while my teeth were being done & when he’d finished. 

I Told Teddy about it and he said that all the horses at Calvert Trust Exmoor have their teeth checked regularly.  He said it’s ‘an important part of keeping us horses healthy as our teeth are growing all the time’. 

He also reckoned that if we didn’t have our teeth checked we could have problems eating! That got me thinking, if having my teeth checked means that I can eat what I want when I want, it’s ok by me!

Stop Press: I'm In Print!

Stop press!

Do you remember my blog post about becoming an author? (I'm an author!)

My article is now out, in the October /November issue of PosAbility magazine! (http://posabilitymagazine.co.uk/)

It looks like this!

Why not rush out and get one now, and turn to page 51 to read my story!

Driving me round the bend

I had a chat with Hendrix…….do you remember me saying that his main job is driving?   He told me that this year has been great as he’s done a lot more driving; I know he loves his job & I have heard the staff say how good he is (although I haven’t told him that!)

One of the things he likes is driving round a course of cones, especially when the turns are tight & the gap just wide enough for him to get through!!

He said it’s even more exciting now as there are different coloured balls on each set of cones………he has to get round the course without knocking them off!!!!

Sounds really cool & great fun; I can’t wait to have a go at this too! Maybe Hendrix & I can have a competition sometime…….but I will need to practice a bit first!

Me practising to beat Hendrix!