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Basil continues to have a sucessful season with good wins in the Hoys Class at PUK and then going on to stand Champion, and then on to the rescheduled Derbyshire Festival where he won another Hoys class and then went on to stand Reserve. Basil looks fabulous this season, much credit to Robert and Sarah for as always doing a brilliant job.  Thank-you!!

Robbie qualifies for the Maxi Cobs for HOYS at Kent County, in what was a huge class, with us all chasing those elusive "Golden Tickests". It was a very wet and muddy Kent County, we where lucky not to lose it to the weather, with more mud and rain in what seems to be normal this summer, sadly! We will be looking forward to HOYS with Robbie having the coloureds as well as the Maxi Cobs.

We have a busy month ahead with The Great Yorkshire, Kent County, The Royal International and Hampshire and New Forset, with friends arriving to stay with horses for various shows, more friends and family coming to stay for the Olympics, two foals due and one born this week, and 3 litters of puppies, I may be a little frazzled round the edges!!

The weather has played havoc with the season so far, having been cancelled at Windsor, having been towed in twice, ploughed through the mud, got the horses worked and settled, to find it cancelled! Luckily we hadn't set off for Derbyshire Festival, as there might have been one or two long faces. Things are looking a little dicey for Basil this week at The Great Yorkshire, and I hear Hampshire and New Forest is under water, we keep our fingers crossed for Kent next week. The horses haven't had the outings they would normally have, but I guess we are all in the same soggy boat!!. We really need dry weather in more ways than one as hay and feed prices will rocket, so I keep looking at the weather forecast...................