[Hacker]

This was a holiday day with a bit of a difference. To give you some background Jan is hoping to start an equine breeding programme and young horse livery to produce sports horses, this will obviously not happen overnight as need to find some land, brood mares etc.

A few weeks ago, through some contacts, we ended up rescuing a Cremello Warmblood year old youngster from Eastern Hungary near the Ukrainian border (don't ask, it's a long story!) and she was transported via Germany to a temporary home in Devon. Cremellos are an unusual looking horse in that they are white with blue eyes and are used (with the right stallion) to breed Palominos and Dunns. This day out was to be our first time seeing her, we had seen photos of her in a pretty sorry state although we were not prepared for how badly she had obviously been treated, we were going to spend just a couple of hours there but we ended up working with her for most of the day and Jan went back later in the week to treat her further.

Marci actually photographs quite well and looks a lot worse in the flesh as she is suffering from rain scald and numerous other ailments which a bit of TLC will take care of, she is also very nervous due to how she has been treated. She should be coming to us at the beginning of September and in a few months she should look a lot better.


Allow me to introduce Marci.....






No, it's not sensor dust but horse flies.....









Harry being sniffed by an inquisitive horse....



One of the other foals:




Baby's got blue eyes....




The boys getting a lift back down, it was a long way up carrying the gear and the return trek was just a bad, by the time I got to the bottom my already knackered knees were killing me!

[fionaB]

i think you have a cracker on your hands there...... what a gorgeous face she has, very honest and intelligent..... great photos by the way!
keep us posted on her progress!

Fi

[P-E]

Certainly is an unusual looking horse.....hope all goes well

[Dave]

Being an avid animal lover , it's great to hear of people going to these lengths ....good on ya Colin & missus

[Hacker]

Thanks guys, we are in the process of trying to get her moved close to home so Jan can work her magic, with a bit of luck it might be in the next ten days or so.

[Ali]

A beautiful girl. Hoping that she soon comes on in leaps and bounds with the tlc she will be getting now.

[Markulous]

A worthy challenge ahead! Good luck!