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Welcome to our Photo Gallery.
This page is regularly updated so please do come back and visit us again !!
Last Updates - Saturday 10th May 2008
Early Morning ....
and whilst these gentlemen
are on a 'Rest Day' the rest of the farm is already a buzz with staff preparing for the days bookings.
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| Brigadier & Freddie - May 08 |
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| John cleaning Harness - May 08 |
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Before every job Harness & Carriages must be cleaned and Horses bathed & groomed.
Harness cleaning is a very time consuming job but an expertly cleaned set of harness makes all the difference to the
final appearance of your turnout.
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Its important that each Horse always looks it very best - after all our Horses
are our reputation.
Shires are renowned for the beautiful 'feather' on their legs and to keep this in tip
top condition legs must be regularly washed & lubricated with special 'Shire Oil'
Each & every
horses is hand bathed before they go to work & their tails bandaged to ensure that they dont get dirty on their journeys.
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| Josie bathing Molly - May 08 |
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| Transporting a horse |
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| Loading horse into horsebox |
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Once all of the preparations are complete the Horses can be loaded onto our purpose
built Horseboxes.
Haynets are put up to ensure that they have food for their trip and buckets of water are on
hand.
All of our Staff hold the new WATO certificates to show that they are fully competent in how best to load
the Horses and knowledgeable as to how to make their journeys safe & stress free.
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Mucking Out
Once the Horses & Staff have left the farm its time to clear up whats left behind :-)
Whilst good old fashioned
man power & wheelbarrows are used to muck out the Barns, Stables & Stalls a dumper is needed to move the
sheer volume of muck to our rather large dung heap !!
So with Feeding, Cleaning, Loading & Mucking Out
finished it time to start on the rest of the days jobs.
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| Charlie inspecting the dung heap - May 08 |
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| Crystal - In Training |
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There are always a number of Horses who require training for future
years.
Paul trains all of the Horses himself on the farm and is
seen here with a Dapple Grey Shire.
The latest addition to our stable is another Dapple Grey called Milly
who we expect to have completed her training in readiness for the 2009 Season.
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In addition to our Working Horses, we also have a number of Broodmares and breed under
our stud name of 'Elyof'.
This is Big Kate with her foal Elyof Alfie at 3 days old.
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| Big Kate with Elyof Alfie - Spring 06 |
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| Reg - May 08 |
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From early evening Horses & Staff will start returning from their various jobs.
Evening feeds now need to prepared, fresh hay put in all the haynets & clean bedding put down
for the night.
Once all of this has been down & the Horses are bedded down everyone will usually be found
in the Harness room having a well earned cup of tea before heading off to get some sleep before it all starts again tommorow.
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Where it all started.
A very young Paul seen here with his late father Billy at a 1963 Carnival.
Clearly smoking cigars wasnt known to be bad for children in those days !!
Inspired by his father Paul has had a lifelong involvement with Horses.
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| Billy on King & Paul |
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We approach every job
with the same enthusiasm with which we did our very first !
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