Enjoying the sun and working hard!

Hi there, it’s you mini reporter once again, with all the news from the stables here at Calvert Trust Exmoor.
You may have noticed that I’ve not done the blog for a while…

……been busy enjoying the sun and working hard of course!!!

I do love a good roll in the sunshine!

The new chap, Henry, has settled in really well.   He’s in the same field as all the others (except for Bailey & I that is) and seems to get on with everyone, just like yours truly!

I've just had a lovely day working with some of our guests.  

I didn’t do much agility, it was more about them getting to know me and feeling confident walking with me on the yard.

They all did well and I could feel when they began to relax and gain confidence in themselves & in me…

...it’s one of the many things I love about my job!

New things are happening!

A strange thing happened last week……… a big yellow ball appeared in the sky! It suddenly got warmer and the grass started to grow!  I checked with Duke and he told me the sun was out!  Hopefully that means summer is on the way and we can all enjoy lots of grass! :-)

do you remember I said there was lots of work going on in our indoor arena? Well I've been in there now, and its great! 

We've got a new super springy floor that's great to run around on, and a rain making machine so we can have rain indoors even if its sunny outside! (I'm not quite sure why the staff want to make it rain indoors, but they seem pretty excited about it!)

The rain making machine in use, and our lovely new floor!

I've also heard the staff talking about getting new windows in the roof of the arena, they said we are looking for 96 people to each buy one, and we have 61 so far, so it won't be long until we have lots of light in the arena too!

If you want to be one of the "Noble 96" or just find out a bit more about it, there is a page about it on the Calvert Trust Exmoor website.

Henry is settling in...

Our new stable mate Henry is doing really well. He has become Dukes best friend which is great; Duke's been here a long time and he knows all there is to know about being a Calvert Trust Exmoor horse!

Henry enjoying our outdoor arena

He has been training every day with Nicky and Abi and he tells me he is learning new things all the time. He gets ridden and I have heard the stables staff talking about him pulling a carriage in the future – I bet he’s not as good as me at that though!