Hercy died in 2015 Hercules, or Hercy as he is mainly called, came into our lives in 2004. A big hairy English Cob, he was brought over to Spain by his previous owner who had purchased him in the Uk …
R.i.p my beautiful Caprichosa
This morning when I went down to feed the horses I found my beloved old lady dead in her paddock. At the age of 31 she had had a good life, especially considering that up until we rescued her at …
Bracken’s Story
Born 1998 Bracken is semi-retired, but sometimes takes very young children on lead rein Bracken is our cheeky little Shetland pony. We bought her off of a Spanish school friend of the children in 2001. When the children came home …
Alfie’s Story
Alfie came to live with us in 2002 . She belonged to an English family that lived near my parents. They had bought her on a whim, not knowing anything about horses at all but thinking it would be nice …
Lola’s Story
Born 1998 Lola was purchased locally by a friend of our daughter, who wanted to keep her own horse on livery at ours. Unfortunately after a few months, things were not working out and we took the decision to buy …
Morena’s Story
Morena died at the age of 32 in 2015 We heard of Morena whilst looking for a horse for a friend of our daughter Elizabeth, who wanted to keep a horse of her own at our place. She had been …
Leo’s Story
Born 2nd February 2002 Leo is suitable for all riding abilities Leo was our first ever foal, and to us in some ways he will always be our baby. Lucy, his mum seems to feel the same way, as until …
Andalucia’s (Lucy’s) story
After the sad death of our lovely old Caretta, we were back down to two horses again and felt the need to replace her as soon as possible, so that the children were back to having a horse each. Polly …
Blackberry’s story
Born 1996 Blackberry is retired but sometimes used in clinics for ground work In the September of our first year in Spain we went to a horse fair in a town about an hour away. A stupid thing to do …
Caretta’s Story
We heard about Caretta when we were looking for a companion for Polly. She was an old horse , about 18, and lived in a hilly mountain village in a small stable, with no other horse for company in fact …
Polly’s story
Polly was our first horse: When we moved to Spain in the December of 1999, we knew that we would like a couple of horses one day – little did we know what lay ahead! Just two months after moving …