There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. Getting short of photographs again.
Sox.
Cockatiel on the balcony which there a lot and will feed from the hand. Once again from Australia. Elsie.
Picture for the Forum; taken in my garden in Wales. PM.
I met these two on the coast path between Boscastle and Tintagel. CH.
A waterfall in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland. Lindsay.
Thank you for all of your suggestion for the naming of Emmi’s Colt Foal. We have thought about what we would like, and although there were a lot of suggestions you sent in that we did like, the more we looked at him and his leg markings, we could not give call him Sox. The four white markings on his legs are in fact known as stockings, but we couldn’t really call him Nora Batty. Socks on a Horse, go to the first joint from the foot. The first joint being known as the Fetlock. Stockings go to the knee that Sox has.
Sox is very well marked Foal with four Stockings and a Blaze on the front of his face. Stockings on Horses do tend to make them stand out. Emmi has got two stockings and a sock. You may have seen how friendly Sox is in the stable. As far as he is concerned every person is his friend. He goes up to every one to greet them and he lets you know if you don’t give him the attention that he expects, by pushing you with his head. He is a happy Foal for ever bouncing and skipping about. The sooner Lady Foals and he has another Foal to run with the happier we are sure he will be.
I spoke a couple of days ago to the Stud in Ireland that we have our Horse at, that we are hoping to get in Foal. She has been to the Stallion twice. As of yet the mating has not been successful. She is going back to the same Stallion again this week and we can only wait again. Every thing is happening as it should. There doesn’t seem any problem with the Mare and the Stallion has already shown that he is fertile by getting other Mares in Foal this season. Now and then a Mare and Stallion don’t manage to produce a Foal. You put the Mare to another Stallion and they go straight into Foal. I will be disappointed if we don’t get a Foal from the Stallion that we have chosen as our Mares Sire and the Stallion we have chosen has produced Group three winner. We have started to look for another Stallion that she could go to if the mating is not successful this time.