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April
8th, as Charlie is on the side lines for the time being, we might as well start breaking in his 2 year old sister, Missy. This should be fun!!

March
3rd, Jazz came in, he is our first orphan of the year to hand-rear.
6th, Billy goes back into training, if he can do half as well as he did last year, we will be so proud of him, not that we aren't already.
12th, (what a busy couple of days these turned out to be). Summer went off to Sussex to be a foster mare so we start to hand-rear Sunny, & Pedro, our third orphan came in; he is going to be fostered though.
13th, Matilda, our fourth orphan came in to be hand-reared and Hannah came in to foster Pedro. The fostering went very well.
18th, Paddy our fifth orphan came in. We are going to hand-rear Paddy for a few days, then he will get fostered.
22nd, Paddy got fostered onto Flash, again the fostering went really well.
26th, Charlie struck into himself very badly, so unfortunately that has put a stop to his training for a while.

February
1st, Zoe starts at the National Stud doing the Diploma course.
12th, Summer gave birth to a gorgeous colt foal by Billy. although he is born brown, he will end up going grey just like his Dad. We have named him Summer's Sun, his stable name is Sunny and when he grows up he will do his Dad's job of being our teaser.
23rd, Blondie foaled, she had a beautiful Filly (alright I'm bias). We have named her Billy's Girl, appropriately, although her stable name will be Shelly.

January 2010
We start to get Charlie & Winnie fit. lets hope we can get them both on the track this year and have some fun with them.
20th Our first boarding mare of the year arrives, lets hope it's the first of many.
26th our first foal of the year is born. Snakes Head, (one of our permanent boarding mare's)had a very strapping bay colt by Bahamian Bounty,he has been named Brandy Snaps. it is always a relief to get the first foal out of the way.

An up date on some of our orphans.
from 2006, Salybia Bay is in training and has been placed 9 times. Florentia has won twice and been placed 6 times. Risque Belle is in training. Joey(he is non-thoroughbred)has been showing at county level in hunter classes. Summer(she is also a non-thoroughbred)is at home with us being a foster mare herself.
from 2007, Never the waiter has won 1 & been placed once, Bull Terrier, Statuesque, Tamtara & Atomic Twister are all in training. 

In 2009, Although it was alot quieter on the stud side this year, we still delivered 11 healthy foals, hand-reared 6 orphans and carried out a successful fostering for 1 of them.
Billy covered 2 mares, Blondie & Summer, then he went into training and ran a total of 7 times, a 1st, 2nd, 2 x 3rd's, 6th and 2 x 8th's. We couldn't have asked for more from him, Thanks Billy. 
Charlie had his first run and finished 6th, showing alot of promise of things to come next year.
Treacle Tart, (although we don't own her any more we still follow her closely) has run twice and finished 4th both times, again looking very promising for next year.

In 2008 Malcolm joined our team.
Billy ran 4 times, twice finishing 2nd, 1 of these was in a group 2 race at Newbury.
I did my first ever working lecture at Rossdale's Equine Hospital on fostering the orphan foal. Zoe, our eldest daughter has left home and is now working in Essex with horses, and she has brought Baby(Spanish Princess) as a riding horse. We hand reared 5 orphans, carried out a successful fostering for 1 of them and delivered 19 healthy foals.

In 2007 we hand reared 10 orphans, carried out successful fosterings for 3 of them, and delivered 22 healthy foals.

In 2006 we hand reared 8 orphans and carried out sucessful fosterings for 2 of them. We also delivered 15 healthy foals.