Tiny Ponies and Medieval Horses

Just around the corner from my house, there's a stables that has 3 huge horses and 2 tiny Shetland ponies. The owner of the farm, Emily, told me that I could come over whenever I wanted to groom the little ponies! Mom is scared of horses but she bravely entered the ponies' enclosure to groom them!

Emily has said that I can ride one of her horses as long as I ask her first. I'll definitely be going over there to see them soon!
There are also rare-breed sheep who are very good at jumping the electric fence, lots of chickens roaming free and 2 gorgeous spaniels. One of the spaniels is deaf so he needs looking after, especially when there are tractors around as he doesn't hear them coming.


Last Sunday we went to the Medieval Horse show at Northcote Heavy Horse Centre. There, we spotted a very serious looking Lipizzaner horse. On his stable door, there was a sign that said that he loved back-scratches. When people scratched his back, he made the funniest face! Of course I had to scratch him and mom took some great pictures of his funny face.

Before......

After.....

He Loves his back scratched.

There was also a Medieval display on horseback where 4 people competed in different games like jousting.

There was a jester but he didn't have a real horse; he was riding around on a toy hobby- horse. He was really funny! The crowd instantly fell in love with him, so at the end of the games when the crowd had to choose a winner, they went straight for him!

Looks like the Jester is riding on the horse's nose!

It was a great day. There were lots of lovely horses, birds of prey including a naughty vulture who just didn't want to perform and an amazing falcon who swooped in and out of the crowds.

 

Sweet little pony.

My favourite was definitely the funny faced horse...