Author Topic: One of our driving ponies (Read 5314 times)

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

doganjo · « **Reply #1 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.

sabrina · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2009, 11:40:28 am »

What a lovely picture, what make of carriage is that

Roxy · « **Reply #3 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!!

rustyme · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2009, 03:39:07 pm »

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

nice stuff at good prices.....

Roxy · « **Reply #5 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.

Tullywood Farm · « **Reply #6 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

Bodger · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2009, 02:10:13 pm »

Superb picture

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.