Spring..

Sunday April 10th… Any anti-climax after the Grand National is quickly dissipated by the discovery of a free CD with our Daily Telegraph, music for the Royal Wedding, marvellous, what could be better, the journey today to Morpeth will fly by as I rejoice in anticipation of the big day….. what will they think of…

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Big day..

Saturday April 9th … Glorious spring weather today and after arriving back late from Aintree last night it was straight back to work with 30 plus horses fed by 6.30 and lots going on on the all weather and schooling ground throughout the morning.  It’s unfortunate that it looks like we will have to run…

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Blogamus, blogatus, blogant…

Friday March 25th – Well she says they are getting boring again, can’t read them without yawning, he says what do you expect, he has had toothache for two weeks and has lost his sense of humour, can’t eat properly so making up for it by overdosing on ice cream, not even losing any weight…

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Sunshine

Thursday March 24th – Glorious spring weather today, warm and sunny.  The horses that worked hard yesterday were allowed to take advantage of it and went for a long hack up the hill and through the forestry, others worked in the round school, on the all weather and on the rapidly drying out grass.  The…

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Wednesday

Wednesday 23rd March – Plenty happening again this morning with “Alf,” Minimo and Four Fiddlers all working nicely at Lucinda’s all-weahter, “Alf” showed particular improvement on his earlier visit there which is just as well.  Back here Daasij, Amulree and Papamoa worked on our all-weather and the point-to-pointers who are likely to be running on…

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Routine

Tuesday March 22nd – Back to routine work here today with most of the horses working on the all-weather this morning, Minimo & Commercial Express schooled over fences and then this afternoon Peter Buchanan came in and we schooled “Alf” over poles then Little Glenshee, Papamoa, Four Fiddlers and Forcefield over hurdles – all went…

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March 11th – OW!

Satisfactory day at the office yesterday with Amulree running better & finishing 4th (a bit remote!), Native Coll also finished 4th and Little Glenshee made a most encouraging debut to finish 6th in the bumper.  Blizzards on the way home though and this weekends runners will very much depend on what the weather does, if…

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Tue March 2nd – Perth…

Another fine day, worked 7 on the grass (Saturday’s potential runners and those planned to go away to work on Friday), all went nicely but Northern Flame particularly caught the eye, he is a horse I have always thought the world of and he is scheduled to make his handicap debut on Saturday, I am…

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Gardeners get ready for spring

Now that spring is finally just around the corner we welcome back our ‘Garden News’ pages in your March issue. In it  you will find lots of tips on what to do in the garden at this time of year to ensure that everything is in top condition for a colourful year. There are also…

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Let it snow, let it snow

Well the new year has started with a flurry – a flurry of snow that is! Like the rest of the country Scotland has been shivering under a blanket of the white stuff. Getting back to work  after the mince pies and chocolates of Christmas, has been a bit of an effort as everyone has…

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