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The journey down ...

Posted by Mary-Jane on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, In : The World Pony Driving Championships 

Left nice and early on Friday to get to Dover. It was a beautiful sunny eve and the white cliffs looked very inviting and we were all in great spirits. This was soon dashed when Mr Sea France man said we didn’t have our export licence and we couldn’t travel! The atmosphere in the camp soon changed and everyone realised it was rather serious- eventually a very nice man from DEFRA turned up from Ramsgate and issued us with an emergency one. We missed the first ferry at 6.40 and ende...


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The big day HAS arrived ! WE ARE OFF !

Posted by Sara Howe on Friday, September 16, 2011, In : The World Pony Driving Championships 
Well finally, the big day has arrived. 

The horse box has been washed and cleaned, everyone has packed and the ponies sorted.  Bless them, they think they are going to a party after all the pampering they have had in the last few days !   It's just that the party might take a little longer to get there than they anticipate .... I'm sure we'll be hearing plenty whinnying from the Gingers asking "are we nearly there yet?".

We only have 3 hours to go before we leave Bradbourne to catch a 6.40pm f...
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We're just about done - T minus zero days and counting !

Posted by Amble on Friday, September 16, 2011,
Well its time and all the packing has started ready for the off on Friday and guess what as Big as my Lorry is  were not sure we are going to get it all in !! 

All the ponies are looking so good,  they were clipped on Monday and had a bath yesterday ,   Sara and Trisha were also clipped yesterday.  Thursday was also Vet's inspection day to make sure everything was fine and we were all fit to travel (obviously Sara and Trish didn't need an inspection!).

Arm bands packed  for all the ponies...
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16 days and counting ..... ! From Amble

Posted by Amble on Friday, September 2, 2011, In : The World Pony Driving Championships 
Well folks, we're all quaking in our soon to be re-shod shoes.  We only have 16 days before we head for Slovenia.... can you believe it ?

All eyes will be on us, so we have plenty to do in two weeks.  We are off to Windsor Park on Sunday 4th to keep ourselves trim and to iron out any last minute issues.  We will be so focused on listening to Sara that we might even forget to doff our brow bands at the Queen, should she be there.

I was a very brave pony and had my flu jab yesterday. The vet said...
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