Easter Update

We had a very mild, pleasant summer with not too much hot weather. The worst part were the hordes of large, biting March flies, which generallly turn up some time in January and hang around until late March. The autumn came with a bit of a bang, a sudden onset of cold and wet weather. All horses grew winter coats in a hurry!

The new arrivals from Olivaylle have settled in pretty well, and have had some handling in the meantime. We are planning breedings for several mares in spring/summer of 2012. I'll post an update later on in the year. I think that foaling season in 2013 will be very exciting!

The summer months have seen some horse movements at Narrawin Stud. Ron (Narrawin's Spice Rum) went to his new home on the far side of Melbourne. Speedy (Narrawin's Speed of Light) and Macarena (Narrawin's Dance All Night) now live near Bendigo. Raffles (Macario NS) is headed for Queensland and will be leaving us just after Easter. Rolly (Narrawin's Romantic Courage) will be going to the Western Districts after Easter as well.

Macarena and Speedy in their new home near Bendigo, Victoria

The sales listing has been updated. However, I still have not had time to add all the new mares' pictures and information to the stud webpages.

We started some youngsters under saddle over the summer months, and will continue to be working and starting youngsters as time permits during the cooler time of the year. 

Saddlebreds

On going through my photos, I found a few nice pictures from back in August. Yes, furry Saddlebreds!

Of course they look nice and sleek now in their new summer coats. But these are too nice not to share:

Speedy a.k.a. Narrawin's Speed of Light. The mare behind him is Laura a.k.a. Narrawin's Midnigh Escapade. Both horses are for sale, more info here.

Molly a.k.a. Narrawin's Unchained Melody. Molly is also for sale, more info here.

Odine a.k.a. Narrawin's Against the Odds has been sold. Congratulations to Andrea Liebenberg from Mandreica Stud.

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 :-)