Rollestone Farm Stud & Livery

This afternoon we are off to the ECHA grading (ECHA is the German equivalent of CHAPS) with Jemima & Twinks, and Cocoa & Caramac. Paul (the superstar plaiter) was here for hours plaiting them up last night and they looked fantastic. Caroline helped me bath them all in the morning so as of last night they were gleaming although no doubt Caramac has found the pooiest spot of his bed to lie down in - like he does every night!!

Jems & Twinks stood like rocks while I bathed them - however Cocoa thought it was definitely something a black (very dark bay) horse should never have to endure! She had a crash course in 'lunging' while she was bathed but soon learnt that the hose followed her even when she trotted round me in circles and eventually gave up and just stood in a grump! (This was after I had the audacity to pull her mane - something she was NOT impressed with, and spent the entire time trying to stamp on my feet!) She looks lovely now though (or she did last night!)

Caramac - well apparently bathing him was a major violation of his equine rights so he proceeded to drag me round the yard on his hind legs...great fun when we only have a short hose - and he soon learnt the limits of the hose length lol But in the end I beat him - A bucket could follow him wherever he went so in the end I got the shampoo off by throwing buckets of water over him

Lets hope they behave themselves today!

Ooooo, sounds like you had fun bathing them! lol All the best for today, looking forward to some photos later, will be thinking of Twinks prancing around like a fine man he is!!

thats a briliant acount Sar !
good luck for today ,they ll be good as gold i m sure as they ll probably still be shell shocked after thier makeover experiences !
fingers crossed the sun will be out everything gleams better in the sunshine
GO WOW THEM!

Ah bless em! I read "in the end I beat him" and thought "its not like Sarah to resort to violence"!! DER!! Then I carried on reading!!!!

Have a fantastic day, can't wait to hear how they get on and see lots of piccies - good luck x

Good Luck

Hope you have a lovely day and can,t wait to see the photos

how did it go ?......hope you had a good day .....dying to see lots of pics

La La La La La "Not Tellin' Ya" La La La La La



Paul

La la la la *smacks Paul round the head for being a tease* La la la la

come on Paul ........i bet you took your camera

I reckon if we all work together we can overpower Paul and extract the information from him......!

come on Paul ( ).......give up those photos !
Sar where are you ??????????!!!!!!

OMG Sar, 48 hours after the big event and still no results or picsfor us to drool over, what are you playing at
Don't you realise that we've all been logging on 10 times a day to see how you got on?????
Please put us all out of our misery

Still not telling: I did not go, but have seen the photographs

Paul

Lol I was out all day Saturday and out in the evening too and have had people here all day.... Oh and now Paul is on his way up for a BBQ so I don't have time to reply now either ha ha!!

The boys behaved impeccably and Twinks got a foal premium so was very pleased with him. Caramac missed out by 0.1 mark! Mares were very good, and the foals did us proud in behaviour and attitude - will post pictures later or tomorrow - I promise!!

Oh, and now Paul has arrived so I'd better go eat some burgers and drink some beer!!

Glad to hear that they behaved well. I was beginning to think that maybe Caramac had decided to go round the ring walking on his hind legs and you were too embarassed to let us see the pictures!!

Congratulations on the foal premium awarded to Twinks and such a shame that Caramac missed out by only 0.1 of a mark. Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

Fiona