Hovis goes a hunting!

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Firstly apologies for the lack of diary on friday - we were in the process of doing the completion on the house we are selling so I wouldn't let Hovis near the laptop!
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Yesterday I realised my little boy has finally grown up!
As I am a total whimp / wuss / cr*p rider I let a friend take him blood hounding for the first time to see how he coped. Hubby took omar for his and hubbys first time also so it was quite a day for them both.
Sporting his newly done trace clip it was still funny to see my big hairy beast let loose amongst all these sleek hunters! I have to say Omar looked the complete part. Hovis was so easy to pick out though - this huge fur ball hurtling across the fields, feathers flying!!
My baby boy was a total star! His aunty Sarah is a fab rider, very confident and so I think that helped keep him calm. He didn't bat an eyelid at the hounds, didn't pull her arms out (or so she promises me!!) and kept up all the way. He didn't get silly or behave like a prat and looked like he'd gone all his life. He has also won an army of fans!!
I was so proud of him. Hubby and Omar also had a fab day and no one could believe none of them had been before. It was only training so I know next time might be very very different but I was one very proud mum.
Now i've just got to get some guts and take him myself....
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Well done big hairy boy.

I wanted to go autumn hunting with Stinky, but until this weekend ground has been so hard couldn't risk the show legs.

Shame as now nice but the two outings I could make start at 7 am and I can't face getting up at 4 in the morning now it is so dark.

I pray that when I take Stinky out at the deep end of proper hunting he is as much of a star as Hovis is.

Farra ...... she prefers a life of being daddy's girl and is so unfit at the moment. Maybe one day I will show them what a heavy can do (or maybe not).
 
I must admit if the ground hadn't have been good where we went i wouldn't have gone. Around our way the ground is like concrete. They actualy moved the hunt to take advantage of good ground.
I'm sure stinky will be just fine!
 
I would hog him but i think his face is too soft to carry it off? He's got such big doe eyes and a stupid sopy expression on his face most of the time that i think he'd look daft?
I was swearing whilst removing the vast number of sticky buds from his feathers last night though!!
 
My boy ben is a piebald traditional cob and he went out for his first day hunting yeasterday with the draghunt. My daughter took him and like yours he was a billiant boy, did soak his feathers in show sheen before he went which worked really well as he stayed at the back of the field and was covered in mud, but brushed out really easily. He is also turned out at night and by using the show sheen it makes morning clean ups a breeze. Just a thought, did pick this tip up from top show producer and works a treat.
 
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