Busy Weekend!!

Dowhills Mr Harvey


Its been a very busy weekend. William went off to the New Vision Horse Show at the David Broome Centre we where on the go from 3.30AM and the fog on the motorway was horrendous!! but we made it. William was a bit naughty (!!!) in the colours and tried to buck the judge off!! but we found out after poor boy had been stung but we where thrilled with his conformation marks and he was top in that section ahead of horses qualified for HOYS he also had the same in the Lost and Found Hunter Class and as i have said we can work on performance but cant correct conformation. The comments through out the day where really lovely and all the judges thought him a classy horse but just needs to mature. So he has now finished showing and is off to Mathew Lawrence for 4 weeks before he comes home to hunt and do dressage over the winter.
Firefly (Fred at home) is our new purchase he is a 15.2hh 5 yr old bay Anglo Arab gelding by Daws Firebird a nice little horse that after only a week with us has changed so much. He has been to his first hunter Trail ever today and was clear and ended up 3rd (beating William into 4th) Lizzy was thrilled with him as we have a hairy few moments with him this week but have managed to sort them.

On Friday our 2 yearling colts Harvey and Max where cut. I still feel for them even though we have several done each year. This pic is taken of Harvey today (top right). He still looks well!! but don't know how long before he forgives me!!!
The other picture i found is of Dowhills Snow Patrol as a baby and thought it so sweet. Snow Belle is his full sister and is a much larger girl all round!!!