News 2010

9th February

A Good Weekend for the Flute Boys:


It was lovely to hear from Debbie yesterday morning with news of Lochlands Principal Flute, he had been to the NPS Area 7 Winter Show on Sunday and was M & M In Hand Champion.

It was equally lovely a few hours later, to hear from Anne & Steve with news of Lochlands Treble Flute who also had a successful outing on Sunday. He won both his classes and championship at Port Royal, qualifying for the P (UK) Winter Championships.

Anne has kindly sent me the following photos of Treble Flute ( Belivat Muldoanich x Flute of Whitefield ) he will 3yo in May.

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3rd January

Happy New Year to all our readers, hoping that 2010 is a good year for everyone.

Sorry for the lack of updates recently, although during the winter months there is little to report. The ponies are all well and thriving in this wintery cold spell of weather, although I have to say I am pretty fed up with it now. We have mostly missed the snow and only had the odd flurry, so instead of nice scenic snow we have simply had ice.

We have had a few changes since the Autumn, you will see from the photos that the views have changed and also that a new yellow dun pony has appeared.

The ponies have all moved to new grazings, luckily we still have the same landlord, but have moved to a different holding. The ponies were a bit unsettled for the first week, as apart from the two old mares Mandy and Melody, the other ponies had never grazed anywhere different from where they had been foaled. However they soon settled and seem well content with their new views and environment now.

With the move came a few other changes, Sass has moved south to Yorkshire, to the Combebank Stud and Hazel of Combebank, a 2yo filly came northwards to us. Sass has settled in well and is very content with his new wives.

Silver Drum moved to his new home in Buckinghamshire in September, and we have had regular updates from his new owners, he is doing well and soon made friends and settled in with his two new highland pony friends.

We will hopefully have the arrival of four foals to look forward to this Spring. Magic due in April to Whitefield Prince Platinum, Moonlight due in April to Sass, Maddy also in April to Viscount of Whitefield and Sylvie in early May to Sass.

I would like to thank everyone who emailed, messaged me through the forum and sent cards and kind words after our sadness with the loss of Flute. The kind words were much appreciated and meant a lot to both us, thank you all so much.

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