This year seems to have gone past while I have stood still!
Sadly my leg has not recovered as I had hoped so life has changed as I know it. My physio has told me that I will never be able to cross country ride again, which after 10 months of hoping and going through the pain is pretty devastating. So decisions have had to be made and this was an extremely hard one, but my lovely eventer Hewston I have had to let go to a lovely new home. I am sure they will have lots of fun with him and he will look after his new rider as he did me.
We have also sold the lovely now 2yrs homozygous filly by Whats Colour to good breeders in the North Island that will use her as a broodmare in the not too distant future.
Stanhopes Magicians aka Marty's first crop of foals are all maturing nicely and all look leggy with good bone and great temperaments.
We are now awaiting the arrival of our homozygous Whats Colour mares first foal. She took first pop to Marty's frozen which was great. This foal is guaranteed coloured and maybe homozygous if we are lucky.
We have also decided not to show any of our horses this year as I am not able to lead them, so it will be pretty quiet on the home front. We will however update when we have a new foal !
