change in direction

I am nearly through with my uni exams. So I will sit down and do a website update shortly.

In the meantime, a decision has been made. We will disperse our remaining small herd of American Saddlebreds. We will keep a couple of them as personal riding horses, but the remainder will be up for sale. They will be offered as two breeding packages or individually. We are not in a tearing hurry, and preference will be given to the right homes. Saddlebreds are fantastic horses, and it will be very sad to see them go.

With my other commitments, I'm no longer able to indulge in two breeds and I have decided to carry on with the gaited horses. I've also been given the opportunity to acquire some good Pasos to add to our group of gaited horses. So that's the direction we will be taking.

We still have some gaited Paso Creole geldings for sale. As soon as the weather improves, we will advance their training.

long weekend

We had Gordon, the farrier here yesterday. Luckily, the rain held off until after we were finished. We even had a few rays of sunshine. Generally, standing still and holding horses on a cold winter's morning isn't nice. But yesterday, it wasn't too bad.

This morning, we worked Funa again. We are still at the groundwork stage with her. Yvonne took some photos the other day. Today, I decided to play with some of the photos, because I think the mane looks incredible. Here is one of my experiments.

a nice morning

We had a relatively pleasant morning. Sunny but a horrible cold breeze. This afternoon or evening, we expect more rain.

We worked Funa for a while and then we went and rugged most of the horses again. I took out my new camera to take photos of the stocksaddle I have for sale. Please check out the gear for sale page shortly, I'll be putting those photos up. Please note that the Syd Hill swinging fender saddle has been sold.

While I had the camera out, I visited the stallions, and managed to get a sleepy pose from Ramirez, and a curious look from Rolly. No decent photos... Max decided to get excited, and I did catch him a couple of times while showing off. Here he is...

winter is ... brrrr!

We have Nele's Icelandic mare Funa here for training. Luckily it's nearly mid semester break for me, so I have a bit of time.

We've had heavy fog since last night, and it wasn't in a hurry to lift this morning. When it did, there was wind and drizzle. So lovely. But we did work with Funa for a bit. I must say though that it was nice to come back inside and warm up my feet again.

Yesterday, I played around with my new little compact camera. I have a lovely SLR camera, but it doesn't lend itself to going places inside my pocket, it's just too big. So I've been toying with the idea of  something small for a while, and the other day I bought a Nikon Coolpix.

Yesterday evening, when the light was low (but at least we had sun!), I took a couple of photos of Speedy (aka Narrawin's Speed of Light). The moving photos are blurred, as I didn't have the camera set correctly. But here's a nice head shot of Speedy.

And doesn't he have a lovely winter coat :-)

sales listing update

I've taken down the current sales listing as I'm about to review it completely.

I've changed my mind on selling some horses, so they will be no longer available. All prices are also under review and will be published within the next couple of weeks. Hopefully with new photos and current information.

The new list will replace and supercede all previous lists and advertised prices.

If you have a question about horses available in the meantime, please get in touch with me.

Chris

out with the old, in with the new

I have been thinking of transferring the news and updates section to a blog for a long time.

Now it's done. This allows you to use all the great blog features such as tags. The old page was getting too long and cumbersome in any case...

So here it is. Enjoy.

Chris