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

out riding..

Yvonne and I have been out riding. Riding meaning taking you youngsters and broadening their horizons :-)

Here we took out Dacio a day after some heavy rain. We made good use of existing scary objects, which included puddles. After a couple of minutes of discussions and a big leap over the big scary puddle, Dacio happily walked through it on a loose rein. How good was that?

That's how we spent most of May. Taking out youngsters when time and weather permitted.

We've had a lot of rain, so the paddocks are nice and green. Although it's getting a bit cool...

April roundup

The colder weather has started. The horses are sporting lovely winter woolies!

Due to studies, I haven't had the chance to get quite so much riding and horse training happening, but we are working with Ron and a couple of Yvonne's youngsters. We've had a few rides out with friends, and both Smokey and Max were roped in for riding duties.

We've been working on upgrading existing fences and making new ones. All yards are now divided by 6 meter laneways, so we can keep stallions in any of them, or if we have visiting horses, they can be kept isolated. No squabbling over fences! Aside from being more practical, the new wooden posts on all corners also look much nicer. Still a lot to do, but we are making progress.

March roundup

Well, the summer is over and autumn has started. That means the hot days are over, and we're seeing the last of the March Flies (which were early, as usual).

We've been working Carol's gelding Chappy (aka Rizalio NS). He's grown into a lovely horse and he's a smart cookie. So he's been a lot of fun.

For fun, I've started a facebook group called Paso!. Have a look in there and say hallo if you are interested in Pasos.

On other news, I've started studying at the University of Ballarat. I still have time to ride, but there won't be (m)any outside horses started this year!

January update

A happy and propsperous new year to everyone!

The sales listing has been updated, as well as the gear for sale listing. In additions, several other pages were brought up to date (stallions, mares, links, foals).

We've had positive preg tests for Flamenca and Samba. We've also bred Molly to Rolly, and from this mating we've ordered a stunning filly :-).

Congratulations to John Simonetti on the purchase of Eladia NS and Intrepido NS. They've safely arrived at their new home in NSW. We had a lot of fun riding Eladia before she left Narrawin.

We had several visitors to the stud this month to see our stallions and horses for sale.

If you are interested in Pasos, please check out PasoCentral. I've finally done some updates and there will be more news regarding the Paso Registry shortly.

Last but not least I'd like to let everyone know that I will be commencing full times studies at Ballarat Uni from March 1. Therefore I won't be taking many horses in for training. Instead, I will use my spare time to start some more of Narrawin's youngsters and further educate the ones which are already going under saddle.