The reality of life can sometimes be a little overwhelming and occasionallys its nice to just forget the things that make life complicated and have a little fun, especially if it will make the kids laugh. I guess one of the side effects of G’s illness is that we do appreciate the little things in [...]
Well here it is the day before Christmas Eve, this year has seemed to simultaneously stretch for eternity *and* move at warp speed…some days the contradiction really plays with your mind! I’m not sure if I can even remember what I wanted to right about since my last post… Settlement on both properties went smoothly [...]
Made the long haul trip up to Pinjarra and back to collect Billy who officially retired from racing last Friday. He is in beautiful racing condition, just needs to put on some ‘hack fat’ to round out his athletes body. He is a gorgeous boy, very affectionate and HUGE! Getting on him is going to [...]
All four equine members of the family have settled into life at Eagleburra really well. B1 has had her first rides on Sandy who is turning into a very good lead line pony, I think they will be ready to start riding off the lead line after Christmas, as long as I can get B1 [...]
Our Sandy Girl – “Sandy” (Tommy’s half sister) Foaling Date: 05-Dec-2003 Sex: Mare Sire: OUR SIR VANCELOT NZ Dam: BLUE VAULT Colour: Brown Height: 14.2h Country of birth: AU Prizemoney: $8,462 Starts: 49, Wins: 1, Seconds: 2, Thirds: 2, Best Winning Mile Rate: 2:02.3MS Last raced: 12-Mar-2009 GEELONG
Tazzy is our “honourary” Standardbred and the colour in our paddocks – a 13h gelding, light palamino, welsh quarterhorse pony. We purchased Tazzy as a five year old, but according to the dentist who removed a few caps from his teeth he is only rising four. Although Tazzy was broken to saddle, had professional natural [...]
Happy Knight NZ – “Tommy”, 16.1+h bright bay gelding Foaling Date: 01-Sep-2000 Sire: OUR SIR VANCELOT NZ Dam: HAPPY SUMMER (NZ) Country of birth: NZ Prizemoney: $16,956 Starts: 53 Wins: 4 Seconds: 2 Thirds: 6 Best Winning Mile Rate: 2:03.1MS Last raced: 19-Jul-2008 BUNBURY Tommy is my special boy, affectionately called ‘Thomas Humongous’ because of [...]
Meridian Sundial – “Flicka”, 1990, 15.1h brown mare Sire: The Sunbird Hanover USA Dam: Sweep Hand Prizemoney: $16,550 Starts: 99 Wins: 6 Seconds: 6 Thirds: 9 Best Winning Mile Rate: 2:03.1MS Last raced: 24-Mar-1999 HARVEY Like many retired race horses, Flicka’s story is a sad one. We are her sixth home in the past three [...]