Becca's Life┃ { December 13 } a day in bramona

[Marakatha]

aww, he is going to be a great horse!

[paige]

he looks so good in red! <3

[rebeccafox]

UPDATE ON PANDA

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So long time no see! But Panda has been growing so much. Her fatty stomach actually has a meaning now! With the regular ultrasounds, everyday caring has been so overwhelming at times that I often forgot to capture moments. I mean, it had no purpose to me because my main priority was taking care of her and her babies. The picture above was taken around 3 days ago, where I had this strong feeling that she was ready to pop. However staying up all night watching the stall cam was not the correct thing to do as I felt as I was living through the quote; "a watched pot never boils". And of course, the night where I am so tired and have to sleep it happens. Luckily the stable hands watched over and the stall cam recorded so I could watch the birth.

The first foal was born at 10:45 PM, the birth went smoothly and the foal was walking around within minutes. However the second foal had some issues, the birth took longer and the foal was not standing for a longer period of time. The second foal is also weaker, smaller and has already presented many health issues. For this reason, the second foal will be kept separate as to avoid accidents and will be taken care of with extreme care. The first foal, is strong big and healthy which is relieving. Tobi and I have already discussed the future of these guys but I will mention it in future posts. For now, here is some information about the foals: they are chestnut, both are colts and they may or may not grey out in the future. I am excited and nervous for the future, foal 1 will have its first adventure outside soon and I will be sure to snap some pics of that. For now, it is time to rest.

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[Marakatha]

Noo little babyyy! Get well <3

[Tobii]

good to see that Panda got through it okay! Looks like the little guys already have quite a resemblance to their sire! Lets just hope they both make it

[rebeccafox]

MOVING TO THE UK

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After almost a year of construction and many years of planning, my own private stable yard is almost complete. While the stables and main arena are complete there was still many unfinished parts however, I could not wait to move in. With a mere 6 stalls, there will be an extra stable block to house my trainees. Located in the far south of the United Kingdom, my previous home, in basically the middle of nowhere with the nearest town being around an hour away. However this type of seclusion I enjoy. While living in Brazil was amazing, it became clear to me that it was not my place. So when I got word of my own little farm being okay to move into, I had to. Of course all my specials have made the long journey, including Panda's two babies who I will update about soon! But there are also some new faces which I will also introduce soon enough.
Another thing which I like about the area is that, we are not far from my mothers old farm. My mother was a four star eventer who unfortunately was tragically killed while at an event. It is actually the main reason I stuck to show jumping instead of eventing, however I have come to terms with my mother's death. It has been 7 years and some of her horses are still at the old farm, as my father agreed with them when they took over. Some of these horses will be coming to stay with me, while this is exciting, I also need to emotionally mentally prepare myself for seeing these horses that I have not seen for so long.
With my new farm , I also have a new business plan: training up young horses to showjumpers. Of course I will only start my program once everything is ready and all my personal horses are settled in. But I am excited for what the future holds. To the UK and our new home.

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[Tobii]

eyy welcome back to the UK, only thing is that my stables is up in the north, darn. I wish you best of luck at the new place, i hope all the horses settle well!

[rebeccafox]

thank you! well at least our horses can travel to eachother a little easier than from
brazil hahaha

[rebeccafox]

DUSTY & ROSELLE

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The sun had just nearly risen bringing light to the present overcast which held the rain of the day. No surprise there. Today I planned go make use of the new arena and take Dusty and Roselle for a ride. Duskanny aka Dusty, my 13 year old gelding, and one of the newer faces; Roselle, my 6 year old mare. (thanks to @paige & @wynlet ) They were one of the first horses to arrive at the new barn. The air was still, chilly, almost time for thick winter blankets.
I snapped this quick photo of Dusty and Rose this morning in the tacking up bays.

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[rebeccafox]

LITTLE UPDATE

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Ros's new matchy matchy set finally arrived in the post. I have to admit, I was not sure about yellow being her colour but I think it suits her pretty well! We are still in the process of getting to know eachother which has been both interesting and enjoyable. I normally hate getting to know a horse, such unknown grounds, but with her I have been enjoying it. I think that she is just a nice little mare to get to know. With easy come, easy go attitude riding her is like a dream. I hope to start jumping her soon and see what she really is made of.

Dusty has been progressing very nicely, for the first few months that I have had him it has been pleasant, do not get me wrong, but we never really clicked. Recently I have been trying new bonding exercises with him and I finally feel like a partnership is building. He is such a great jumper, careful and smart. While everything at the new barn is still getting set up I have not had the opportunity to jump a full course with him but hopefully that can happen soon enough. I actually plan on ordering him some new tack as well, if you have any suggestions for what colour please let me know! I suck at choosing colours for horses, hahah.

And two new faces. I tend to be...well...a bit compulsive. I could not resist these two handsome gentlemen. I have the tendency to fall in love with horses so fast, wonder what my mom would think of me. She was the complete opposite, checking and vetting every horse to the death of us. But anyways, time to introduce.
The sore looking black paint is a 4 year old Irish Sport Horse stallion. His name is Rosco for short, but Deep Line is his show name. His previous owner describe as being; "tough to get to know, but a great jumper". Of course with all my experience, I saw through this but I felt something with this guy. So here we are, a grumpy inexperienced paint who has already tried killing the barn dog and given me plenty of new scars... Let's just hope he rides well?
While the gorgeous grey is called Cornet 39. I am still thinking of a nickname, I want something unique. Anyways, if you can not tell he is not like the demon...I mean horse...standing next to him. He is a 7 year old Dutch Warmblood stallion, who is an amazing jumper. While I have only seen videos of him and have yet to ride him, his scope is on the next level. His jump and attitude may be pleasant, after a bad fall he has lost a lot of his confidence. I hope to bring this back up and start showing him. While Panda (my main competing mount) is down, I have been on the search for something to keep me busy. And yes, I may be taking that a bit too literal, I can not help but see a great future with these horses!
(Can not thank @GatewoodEquestrian enough for these guys <3 Trying so hard to not request another!)

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[GatewoodEquestrian]

Their personalities seem to fit them perfectly, I love it!!

[rebeccafox]

a day in bramona

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On the chilly morning of December 11th 2017, the two young colts were brought in from the fields. After their short year long traumatic lives, things were finally looking up. Born early, weak and close to death the twins somehow survived. Breeding Panda and Robin seemed like the best idea until the foals were born and developed problems after problems. Getting to the 1 month mark was the biggest relief. At around 6 months, the weaning process was begun. This was not an easy process. However they both yet again proved to survive and happily spent 6 more months in the field with other geldings. Now as yearlings, it is time to start their training.

The more palomino colt is called Gisbourne. Despite him being the smaller, he was actually born first and was born as the healthiest. The darker chestnut is called Little John. They are produced from EYEC Robin Hood and BE Pandora's Box meaning they are thoroughbreds x KWPN. Tobi and I have long discussed the future of these foals and it has been decided that Little John will be going off to EYEC. Therefore, trailer training is first on the agenda. Meaning that Gisbourne will be staying at Bramona, be trained up and hopefully sold in the future. I will be documenting the growth and training of Gis while you can find regular updates about EYEC in Tobis album.
(thank you so much to @Tobii for this collab, it truely has been amazing working with you)

training with dusty

Before the rain decided to join in to the day, Dusty and I had a good training session. Dusty seems to sometimes be lazy with his feet and neglect to put effort into picking them up. With this I have been going lots of grids including bounces, one strides and two strides. This results in him being able to pick his feet up faster. It is all about focusing on the small stuff in order to build up on the big stuff. I am still slowly working through every little issues that he has (even though he does not have many) until we jump a full course. However he is a very sweet and kind gelding to ride and I am happy that our partnership is continuing to grow. His showjumping career will start in January of 2018.

[GatewoodEquestrian]

Lovin Dusty's coat!