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Pets & Working Animals => Horses, ponies, donkeys & mules => Topic started by: Roxy on August 10, 2009, 11:05:43 pm

Title: One of our driving ponies
Post by: Roxy on August 10, 2009, 11:05:43 pm

We went to a big agricultural show on Saturday.  Lovely weather and lots to see .....cows, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, oh, and I fell in love with a litter of piglets!!

Did the driving class with one of our Dales ponies, Molly.  She got 3rd rosette, and won us £15 prize money too!!


I took a pic of her and Rick my OH
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/dollylane/halifaxshow8thAUGUST20090003.jpg)

Title: Re: One of our driving ponies
Post by: doganjo on August 11, 2009, 11:14:16 am

Oh, she's so lovely.  Only one real regret in my life - that I never got round to having my own pony/horse.  never seemed to have the money and the time to spend on them at the same time.

Title: Re: One of our driving ponies
Post by: sabrina on August 11, 2009, 11:40:28 am

What a lovely picture, what make of carriage is that  :)

Title: Re: One of our driving ponies
Post by: Roxy on August 11, 2009, 03:09:33 pm

The carriage is one that we use every day -we entered the exercise class.  Its called a Hillam.  We like it so much, we have two!!  The other is slightly posher.  They can adjust to be pulled by a pony from 13.2hh up to 15.hh.  you can get a 4 wheeler version, which then splits to make a two wheeler like the one in the pic.  We use ours out on the road, going round cones, up rough tracks......have had it years, and cannot fault it!!

Title: Re: One of our driving ponies
Post by: rustyme on August 11, 2009, 03:39:07 pm

http://www.hillamvehicles.com/index.html

nice stuff at good prices.....

Title: Re: One of our driving ponies
Post by: Roxy on August 11, 2009, 04:37:25 pm

They also make and sell farm machinery too.  The good thing is that the owners, do actually drive carriage ponies, so they will have a very good idea of what makes a good carriage, and I do think they are reasonably priced compared to a lot of brands.

Title: Re: One of our driving ponies
Post by: Tullywood Farm on August 12, 2009, 10:50:06 am

What a beautiful animal - should have got 1st, she is well turned out and has a lovely long tail

Julie

Title: Re: One of our driving ponies
Post by: Bodger on August 12, 2009, 02:10:13 pm

Superb picture :horse:
My OH are not really horse people but we do have a horse mad daughter. She's living away from home at the moment and we've copped for looking after her horses. I do some of my best thinking when I'm out in the fields poo picking. :)