Sculpture To Wear

I had a really enjoyable day on Sunday. I went to the National Pony Society AGM and Luncheon. To a lot of people this wouldn’t sound like an event to get excited about. However, when I got notice of the event I saw that Peter Boustead was giving a talk.

I met Peter in the summer when we judged the Mountain and Moorland sections together at the Northumberland County Show. He is an extremely nice man with a great deal of knowledge. We had huge entries that day for both the flat and worker classes and we were the last judges standing at the end of the day….and then as we were the only ones left we were asked to judge the Supreme Ridden Championship.

“Our” Section D won it, with a lovely side saddle Ladies Hunter was Reserve Supreme.
Peter and I had a really enjoyable day judging together so I was interested to hear him speak.
I wasn’t disappointed!

Peter’s passion is breeding Fell ponies. This has become a rare breed now due to the many difficulties in recent years keeping these animals alive long enough to reach maturity. So of course I expected a serious talk on Gene Pools and Climate change!

Non of that!! Now Peter is a retired school teacher and of my era so I could relate to the type of “ossman” he was relating to. He had the whole room in shrieks of laughter about his tales of Cumbrian breeders, and “travelling Stallions” and all the fun that went with old fashioned methods of covering mares at their various Cumbrian out posts! He assured us that every tale was true!

The venue was the Walshford Bridge Hotel near Wetherby. They did us proud and supplied an excellent Sunday Lunch and it was great to catch up with friends that I usually only chat to from the other side of my trade stand counter.

This has been a good weekend. Got caught up with some outstanding orders on Saturday morning. I brought my mare, Clover, in for the winter. Due to the mild weather she has had an extended summer holiday. Saturday though was wild and windy we both nearly got blown away as we came down to lower ground from the hills. It gave the saying “blowing away the cobwebs a whole new meaning!

I love the winter evenings in my little cottage. With a fire roaring up the chimney, nice meal and the Tele! What more could one wish for!

Well on Saturday evening I had an added bonus! Paul Barker rang me from Rowallen to say how happy he was with Fabion (that’s Lux Fabulous’s stable name) He’d stepped him up into the Grade B and C class. The jump off was 1.40 metres . He jumped double clear and really well. He finished a very respectable 5th. He was probably the least experienced horse in the class so Paul was “over the moon ” with him.

Well done Paul and Lux Fabulous!

Whilst working at my computer adding additions to the website I had a call from Paul Barker who is at Rowallen Activity Centre this week, show jumping. He rang to say how well Sculpture to Wear’s horse LUX FABULOUS had jumped!

He finished 3rd in the 1.30 mtr and jumped really good. Well done Paul once again!!

We had a very enjoyable Cheltenham Race meeting last week. A bit chilly on the Friday but a good crowd for Countryside Day and all the trade stands enjoyed a good day’s business. Saturday, the weather was better (this really matters when we are outside in a tent, just in case you think we’re a bit obsessed with weather!)

We saw many of our regular Race goers and enjoyed another good day of business. Sunday was certainly a lovely sunny autumn day great atmosphere! All in all a really good three days!

Sculpture to Wear’s horse, Lux Fabulous and Paul Barker competed at Aintree Premier Jumping Show last week and was 2nd in the Foxhunter/120 class. There were 108 horses jumping in the class so we are delighted with him.

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