We like to keep a tidy yard, office and club room at Ravelrig, not sparkling because let’s be honest, there’s too much mud and hay for that to be possible. However, Harris was giving us a helping hand or tongue today and giving the window in the office a good clean.
Not sure I will ask him to do anymore though.
Can you help out with the Jumble Sale?
We will be setting up the Jumble Sale on Friday 25th January from 4pm – 8pm in Balerno High School and will need help putting the items we have collected on display.
Or could you spare some time on Saturday 26th January from 9am – 12noon to help run a stall? The Jumble Sale is always really popular and great fun to be part of.
If you can help at either or both please pop your name on the list on the noticeboard in the Club Room.
Or, could you bake a cake for us to sell on the day to help raise more funds?
Thank you
Thank you to everyone who has sent kind words for Harris. Thank you also to the wonderful vets and students at Dick Vets who have treated and cared for him so well.
We visited him a few times and saw the improvement in him and his wound throughout the time he was in. He is back at Ravelrig, much to everyone’s delight and is on stable rest for the next few weeks.
Harris back home at Ravelrig
It was all go this weekend at Ravelrig RDA with the RDA Regional Dressage Competition on Sunday 27th May.
On Saturday there was a hive of activity in the stables with cleaning the horses, tack and trailer and making sure everything was looking their best for the competition.
Thank you to everyone who came to help on the Saturday and Sunday and made the event such a success.
Ravelrig RDA riders did exceptionally well and congratulations need to go to the following.
Pamela Johnston who has just been riding with Ravelrig RDA for 6 weeks!
Eilidh Angus is 12 years old and this was her very first Dressage Competition.
Diane Allan
Rachel Ferguson
Here’s some photos from the day.
It’s always lovely to see the Ravelrig horses playing with each other after doing their RDA work. With the sun out and the grass growing they are full of beans.
Here is Teemo and Thumper giving each other a good back scratch. Who needs to find a fence post to scratch on when you have a good friend about?
Good friends
Sally and Irene went out on a short hack earlier this week on Paco and Buddie. They had a great time and the sun was shining all the time for them. Paco and Buddie were so well behaved and enjoyed stretching their legs outside Ravelrig RDA.
They also looked super smart with their new numnahs that Irene had bought for us. They are a lovely purple with Ravelrig RDA embroidered onto them in gold thread.
The Ravelrig horses are all out in the green fields eating the lovely new grass that has eventually started to grow now the weather has improved.
The last few weeks they were getting eager to leave the hay behind and venture out to the grass and Paco even made a bid for freedom, much to the confusion of the others. They all seem very happy to be out in the fields today soaking up a bit of sun too.
Sunshine at Ravelrig
Can you believe it’s the end of April already!?!
With spring finally here and summer just round the corner, we are well and truly in planning mode for our Summer Open Day.
It’s going to be Sunday 17th June, 12noon – 4pm, so make sure you keep part of that day free to pop along and join in the fun in the sun!
See you there!
Winter has certainly dragged on this year, but we are not letting it get us down at Ravelrig. We had a visit at the end of March from the Multiple Sclerosis Society, who are running a project called MSS Active Together to help build motivation and confidence for those affected by MS to get more physically active.
There were six riders who joined us, with Thumper and Teemo helping show them the ropes. Some of them had never ridden before, so it was lovely to see smiles and laughter from everyone involved.
Tracey from the MS Society said “The session could not have been any better, we were very thankful and appreciative of the support received from your marvellous team of volunteers”
We hope to welcome the six to regular lessons here at Ravelrig.
Tess from Dick Vets arrived at Ravelrig yesterday to give each of our horses their annual health check. Tess had a good look at each of the horses in their stable to begin with, checking their eyes, heart and bones.
After Tess had given them a good look at in the stable, each of them were led out by Barbara and walked up and down the yard. From doing this Tess was able to have a good look at each of them and how they walked to make sure they were not lame or looked like they were holding themselves differently.
Then, much to Barbara’s delight they each had to trot, so Barbara must have run at least a mile yesterday with all of the horses.
Each of the horses were given a clean bill of health and Tess was really pleased with them.
Thank you Tess!
