Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:00:37 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/ The Mare & Foal Sanctuary en-gb http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/images/logo.gif http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/ webmaster@mareandfoal.org http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article542.html We have several Special Offers running in our online shop, all the items in this section are of limited stock so hurry before they are all gone! Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:00:37 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article541.html John M Hope - SOMEWHERE A ROSE IS BLOOMING This wonderful collection of poetry is being published in memory of John H. Any profits made from the book will be split equally between Quantum Leap - a poetry magazine he loved to support, and The Mare & Foal Sanctuary in Newton Abbot, his favourite charity, which rescues and looks after mares and their foals, giving them a home for life. It can be ordered now - please send your name, address and appropriate payment to; Q.Q.Press(ROSE), York House, 15 Argyle Terrace, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, PA20 0BD, Scotland. UK Cost is £4.00 UK, £5.00 rest of Europe, £6/£12 US/Rest of World. All Cheques/Postal Orders payable to A. Carter. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:20:21 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article540.html Hi Syra, Hope you are all well. Josie continues to be better and better every day. She is now on Glucosamine for her joints and she seems to be doing very well. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article539.html Hello all I realised this weekend that I have not contacted you for ages to let you know how Ziggy is getting on and you are perhaps wondering about him. Sorry! Life has been very busy, partly work, partly children taking A levels and GCSEs, partly ponies! Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:44:26 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article538.html Yes, its true, we are buying Coombe Park Equestrian Centre, near Totnes in Devon. It has been the biggest secret in the horse world but I can now tell you that we are buying this well known Equestrian Centre. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:52:51 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article537.html Yesterday was our Midsummer Fun Ride and despite a 40 minute hold up at the start due to a large group of people having a party on the course all went very well! [img]http://www.mareandfoal.org/img/get_thumbs_on_fly.php?imgid=1649&nw=413&nh=349[/img] Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:30:40 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article536.html [img]http://www.mareandfoal.org/img/get_thumbs.php?id=1342[/img] Its the last few days where you can get a discount on your Midsummer Fun Ride entry, you can enter through the online shop or via the post. Adult Entry is just £8.00 and under 15's £4.00 when your space is booked in advance. We will need to receive your postal entry by Wednesday 18th but you can enter through the online shop up until Thursday 19th. For more info please go to our Events page. Visit our shop Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:44:38 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article535.html A couple of weeks ago we had a visit from Horse and Pony Magazine, they came down to take some photo's of our equines for a write up in next months issue of the magazine! [img]http://www.mareandfoal.org/img/get_thumbs_on_fly.php?imgid=1627&nw=283&nh=188[/img] Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:33:08 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article534.html On Sunday 22nd June our Midsummer Fun Ride will be taking place up at Haldon Forest Park. By kind permission of the Fire Fighters Charity this years route benefits from the addition of an extra loop through the stunning grounds of Harcombe House! Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:32:58 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article533.html The rain, when it came wasn't normal. Sat, 31 May 2008 12:32:00 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article532.html There have been men going round photographing horses Fri, 30 May 2008 08:31:21 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article531.html A letter from one of our carers, letting us know how they're getting along. Hi Syra Thanks for your recent letters, sorry its been ages since we gave you an update, but of course in the meantime we have seen Russ the Homechecker two or three times and he's taken lots of photos and we enjoyed a walk out with my girls on their ponies when he last came, so hopefully he's shown you the photos and updated you! Tue, 13 May 2008 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article530.html Shoppers in Newton Abbot Sainsbury’s store very kindly donated £450 to our charity last year. Thu, 08 May 2008 15:58:31 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article529.html Ruby, the Dartmoor mare rescued from market has given birth to a lovely colt foal. Sun, 04 May 2008 16:35:43 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article528.html During the early hours of the first day of May, Ruby - a wild Dartmoor mare we rescued from Tavistock market gave birth to a healthy foal. Read on for more details and videos! Fri, 02 May 2008 09:28:00 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article527.html All of the horses and ponies we have here at Honeysuckle Farm have interesting histories and stories so it is sometimes hard to pick one to write about, however this month I thought I would tell you all about Meg. [img]http://www.mareandfoal.org/img/get_thumbs_on_fly.php?imgid=1612&nw=500&nh=375[/img] Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:40:00 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article526.html Our yard at Honeysuckle Farm is now open to visitors. We are open every day except Wednesdays between 2pm and 4pm, please pop in and visit! More details... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:30:31 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article525.html Another month has gone by and I have another amazing horse to tell you about! Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:03:49 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article524.html Someone asked me to write Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:52:25 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article523.html Old friends Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:56:42 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article522.html Someone's keeping watch! Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:35:45 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article521.html Ruby is one of our rescued Dartmoor mares in foal. She came from last October's drift sales. Ruby is still a wild mare, she is brought in every day to get her used to being around people, but no other training is done until the foal is born. As she is an older mare, she needs to watched carefully. Things can go wrong for any mare in foal, wild ones included! Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:39:05 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article520.html We're starting an email newsletter! If you're interested in receiving the occasional email from us, just enter your email address here and click Join! We absolutely won't pass your details onto anyone else, and we won't post too often - maybe once or twice a month. Every mail is sent with a one-click unsubscribe link so you can opt out at any time, no questions asked. We hope you like it. Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:06:52 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article519.html Our Valentine Fun ride is taking place on Sunday 17th February 2008! By kind permission of Exeter Racecourse & Haldon forest Park. [img]http://www.mareandfoal.org/img/get_thumbs.php?id=1342[/img] Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:38:40 +0000 http://www.mareandfoal.org/html/Article516.html The last tests are clear. We are free from strangles! News from the vets has just come in that all our tests and deep guttural swabs for carriers are clear. The five foals and foal auntie Pepsi are cleared totally. We can start moving ponies again. Even more excited than us are probably the foals that have been in isolation for so long. They have all been kept together in one stable block and although they have been free to move around within this block, they haven’t been allowed outside. We couldn’t endanger the other 58 horses and ponies in the sanctuary. Whilst they were being kept in though, they have been given grass picked freshly every day by their carers. We are very pleased with ourselves, our vets and staff, all of whom have worked tirelessly to keep this very infectious disease from spreading. So we are now out of quarantine and free to take horses and ponies to their new homes and to take in those that have come back from their loan homes. Some of the ponies that had to come back have had to have been stabled with friends and staff on a temporary basis and these included three new Arabians, a mare and her two progeny – a yearling filly and a six month old colt. Simon is putting a video together of the quarantined foals being released in the fields, you will see that none of them have lost any condition and are looking surprising well. Edit: The videos are available here Click to watch the video Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:33:32 +0000