This is my Smarty Jones filly who started life as a chestnut- now she is a striking grey with red hair!!! Mane anyway. She and the dark brown Freisan Fire look like a set of piano keys as they play in the field. I love having the foals back, it is the best part of the breeding game, watching them grow up. We are off tomorrow on the last trip to Kentucky to bring the last set of mares home. Fingers crossed all goes well and they stay in foal. Already lost one that reabsorbed after 45 days. It is a little crushing after all the time and effort and then Mother Nature steps in and says, "Sorry- not this time". The summer is almost half over and I can feel the urge to ride starting to return. Told Joanie next week we can start singing....Back in the saddle again!! I do enjoy my four months off, time to do other things and be lazy. The foxhunters enjoy the lazy time too, but Red and Polly look ready to get back to work. Lily is still hurt, she broke her coffin bone last January and is still a little gimpy. She gets more time off and can babysit the weanlings in September
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