Christmas at Black Towers was a fairly quiet affair with most of the family ill. It was pleasant though – traditional and understated. We’ve all had the flu now, and I blame the flights to and from Lapland. I’d love to see a statistical analysis of how much of the time people get ill after flights – if I’m a representative sample it would be a high percentage.
An otherwise quiet Christmas day was interrupted when a couple of horses appeared at the front of the house, having got out of the paddock – we resolved the situation fairly quickly and the gap in the fence was patched. My mares are all elsewhere, mostly at Newmarket. A couple of pictures arrived from Duke’s Stud, which I’ve scanned in;
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Shawhill is considered to be fairly severely “back at the knee” by Tom Goff – he also thinks she is a little light of bone but otherwise ok. I’ve cut and pasted her front leg and overlaid the outline of Veiled Beauty’s front leg for comparison – you can see that Shawhill’s leg goes forward below the knee by comparison to VBs........ ..
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