It has been a relatively quiet week on the yard this week. After the excitement of camp the weekend before and all the preparations leading up to it, this week has just been concentrated on covering staff holidays on the yard. It’s amazing how everyone’s holidays all covered the same period and now that we have a slimmed down workforce it means more time mucking out and less time in the office or the saddle.
There has been lots of reminders about family over the last week with celebrating Swedish Midsummer on Friday, my wedding anniversary on Saturday, Fathers Day on Sunday and my Mums birthday on Monday so I have collated a few photos below.
Our 3 year old Hero, by Maestro & is for sale, was gelded on Wednesday morning by Hannah from Wood Farm Vets in Wymondham. Hero is coping well, the dripping blood had stopped by Thursday morning but his bed did look like a blood bath! He was quite a large boy so he’s been on bute for a few days to help with the pain. The wounds are looking really good and there is no swelling at all. He’s being hand walked and going on the walker 4 or 5 times a day and then in another week we’ll turn him out, but there are too many flies around at the moment so the wounds just need to close up a bit more first so that infection can’t get in.
I mentioned it briefly then but the horse flies have suddenly come out in force (along with the pollen), so most of the livery horses are now in fly rugs and masks and resemble anything other than a horse! Gio is now living out 20 hours a day and has been given back the fly rug with lots of holes in – seeing as he was the one that put them in the rug in the first place it only seemed fair. Hubert is still rugless but with lots of fly spray on, the only fly spray that I have found in this country that works again horse flies is the Effol Horse Fly Blocker +, it smells like creosote but really works. I sometimes wonder when I ride whether to get Hubert a nose net, it just seems there is a lot of small flies around this year and he seems to snort quite a lot when ridden when they are about – maybe worth giving it a go? Has anyone else used nose nets?
I have been busy on planning more camps and some teaching clinics, more geared towards certain groups – so a young horse camp and a clinic specifically to help with confidence. These ideas are all in the planning stages still so keep an eye out for more information!
After the success of the camp a couple of weeks ago now we have arranged a clinic at Norfolk Equine & Pet Care in Swafield in between Norwich and Cromer for Sunday 12th July – it’s £35 lesson fee plus £10 arena hire. Please let me know if you would like to book a lesson 
I am on my own today with Nikolay so I better stop typing and get out of the office and make the feeds ready for this evening – I could carry on all night otherwise!
Enjoy your weekends and the sun and good luck to anyone competing!
Anna-Lisa x
