Patches - 20th Jan 2011

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Foaled:  May 28th  2007

Sorrel Mare, very kind, and very inquisitive, always wants a stroke when she sees you, and very interested in what you are doing.  She is out of Shortie who is an all time favourite here on the farm.  Still got some growing to do, with nice paces.  Again some lovely breedlines.  A nice mare,  we are keeping her, and hopefully she will produce us some nice colts for starting. 

David Stuart started and she has been out on experience rides with him too.  She was ready to hand over very quickly, but we find the combination of our own foals with his starts very pleasing. 

20^th Jan 2011

We tend to push to the side our own stock we are keeping and concentration on the ones ready for sale, and because of this Patches, like Sassy has only previously had one very short ride on her since David handed her over.

David Stuart - starting Patches

JB on Patches - 20th Jan 2011

However today she did not let us down, she stood still for grooming, and stood tied very nicely around the sand school.  You can tell instantly she has had a really good foundation on her, follows the feel nicely and now ready for some progression work.  We couldn’t do much with her today as the ground was still frozen this morning, but what we did do was very nice.  She was a little hesitant jumping a small drainage ditch, but perhaps needed a bit more time to put her nose on it.  She was a good example of a horse not having focus, and was unsure as to how big and deep it was. She got there in the end and became very confident with it.