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We always take it for granted that there will be alot of work running up to our Open Day but we rarely remember that clearing up afterwards also takes time and energy. For example, despite having an industrial bin from the council, it has taken us all this time to get rid of all the rubbish left around everywhere - so goodness knows how long it takes the Glastonbury organisers to clear their site.
We are back on track with working the horses - and we do have a number of potential carers that are coming along who seem to be fairly realistic upon what future career our horses may be able to embark upon. Harriet who helped us to such a great degree with the PR for our Open Day (and also sat on the Newbury Raceday Committee) has been coming in most mornings to give Robbie a hand working Scotty's. We did encounter a bit of a set back when it appeared that Scotty's was feeling his back a bit, but we asked Richard to come in and x-ray it and although he is a tiny bit sore there is nothing sinister going on. Harriet rode him for the first time yesterday and I think that she and Robbie will be taking Scotty's out for his first hack later on this week.
We are in the midst of organising putting the wonderful piece filmed by Attheraces on our website and perhaps utube, so for all those that didn't manage to come along you will at least have a bit of a taste of the day. Other than that there is nothing much to report, funding is as difficult as ever and it doesn't help that Malapropism seems to be singlehandedly working through our vet budget - he went out into the field for the first time along with Aldo, Ravastree and Poltergeist; and despite going into our safe post and rails field came back with a wound that needed staples and stitching and he had to have the vet again yesterday because he had an extreme allergic reaction to..........flies, and this was the horse that I thought would be relatively easy and not quite so high maintenance as some of the horses we take in!!