7 June 2009

I had the interesting experience of driving both my mare Ruby and her son, Sonny, today. Sonny is an 8 yr old dark bay Fell gelding who came to my friend David Trotter for some mild discipline since he had "got boss of" his breeder. He's been with David about ten days and has now had his head turned gently around.

I sat in the exercise cart today while David drove, and took some photos and video (I'll post some pics but I think I should reduce the video a bit before I post it as it's 5Mb). Next week Sonny rejoins his Mum at our place, just to widen his experience and make sure he is obedient to a woman as well as a man.

It'll be fun to see how his Ma greets him when he arrives. She has missed having other ponies to play with. And it will be fun having another pony for me to play with too.

15 June 2009

Sonny's Blog

I'm not posting much at present as we are busy. Ruby's younger foal, Sonny, now aged 8, has come here for two weeks of mind-broadening. If you'd like to follow what we get up to, have a look at http://suemillard.blogspot.com.

Ruby - though delighted to see him again yesterday - has decided after 36 hours that he is just a stroppy teenager out to steal my affections, and is disciplining him accordingly.

I drove him for 20 minutes today, so from now on I'll be including him in my challenge record posting at the end of the month.

Hope everyone else is having as much fun as we are.