So What's In A Name?

Many of you will know that there is a motor racing theme to the names of all of my animals as I love motorsport, particularly F1.  When I bought Monte he was known as Puzzle, but this was the name given to him at the yard selling him.  A good enough name for a coloured, but obviously not one that was going to fit in with my theme.  He had a passport with the most unfortunate & unlikely name of Holly Grail & there was no way that I was going to be calling him Holly so I decided to change his name.  Now many people believe its bad luck to change a horses name but as Holly wasn't an option & Puzzle had only been a recent name for him I felt there was not much choice.

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Happy New Year, on a very damp January night. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and Santa brought you everything you wished for - Topaz got a rosette display board in anticipation of our future events together; Kate said it is not big enough!

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Chairs report, 2023 AGM I find writing and delivering this speech one of the most daunting tasks of being your chairwoman. However, I can have a little fun with it as it is the one thing that isn't censored before 'going live' unlike everything you read in the newsletters which passes by Trish first - who is now panicking as to what I'm about to say next!

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BHRC is still busy, busy, busy! I spent last Saturday at Pontispool with 6 members and their lovely horses. Emma Pearce had organised mini cross country training with the fabulous Nicki Lumb. Although a little damp, it didn’t dampen our spirits and everyone had a great time and grew in confidence.

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Sunday 1st October found Topaz and I at the BHRC Autumn show at Heazle. During the many hours I have spent gazing at Topaz in adoration, it had dawned on me that he needed to be plaited if he is going to a show. I last plaited 20 years ago when my daughter was showing ponies, so I thought I may be a bit rusty!

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