I had to make him go out on a circle , so i lightly rested the whip on his rear end , oh my !!! you would have thought he had been bitten by a snake , he shot off side ways and i just managed to keep hold of him , after half an hour he just got it !!! but was running around me so fast in small circles he got as dizzy as i did , so no control yet but he gets it , that is a far as we have got to date , i am loving doing this , i hope you all have a great time sharing it with me , check the blog in a day or so and we will have done more , it would be great if you blog back . Charlotte .
The plan was to get him to lunge , lunge line on and lunging whip in hand , i tried to push him out to start a circle – no chance , me not really knowing what i was doing and him having no clue , i have spent months getting him to come to me , now i am chasing him away !! after 15 mins in the heat i was red in the face and he was so confused he rooted all four feet to the sopt and refused to move , i called for mum to help , even she couldnt move him
Dear All , i was sat on a horse before i was sat on a potty , as a young child the back of our car was full of bags of feed , halters, assorted tack , and feed buckets , somewhere in the middle was me , i never minded one bit unlike my sister who would freak if she got a bit of straw in her hair .
Charlotte & Jo
From as young as i can remember i have had a deep love or horses , i can remember my mother standing in my bedroom door way with hand on hips demanding to know if i had done my homework , ” yes ” i would reply as i quickly hid the picture i was drawing of a horse under my bottom .
Although we have always had horses i was not allowed to take it for granted , i grew up watching my mum train young Arabian colts that seemed to spend most of their time on two legs , i have to say this made me a bit unsure around young colts , the stallions were good boys but could still be a handfull around mares .
I dreamed of the day i would own my very own horse paid for with my own money , my darling, my friend and my teacher was our Gypsy Vanner Stallion Rom Rye , i have always been very aware around stallions and i have to say i was not the most confident rider , so it came as a shock to all that know me that the first horse i ever rode out on my own was a Stallion bareback , this dear gent looked after me all of the time , i never once felt unsafe , i would invite my friends to come along , we took him to stream and swam with him , he was just one of us, i cried for nights when he left for the USA , but we have a Rye baby due to be born at any moment , this Gyspy Vanner baby is going to be mine ( i will blog as soon as he/she is born )
My very own horse came in the shape of Jo , i saw him as a foal and left a deposit on him as i could not pay for him at the time , i asked his owners not to do anything with him as i wanted to do it all myself , when he first came he had not been handled , the first time i planted a kiss on his nose he shot to the rear of the stable as if he had an electric shock , he knows what cuddles and kisses are now so aged two his education has started , i thought it would be fun to share this with you as he is the first horse i have ever done on my own , my aim is to educate him without fear of humans , i want him to become a horse that will fit into any family with manners and a solid education – so here goes .
As i have said Gypsy MVP will be at Appleby this year, if you wish for us to look out for that special horse for you please contact us .
At Gypsy MVP we only bring back what we think are the very best , Gypsy Warlock is one such horse .
It was during one of Doug Kneis visits to Appleby we found him , Doug had been waiting in a long line for his lunch , traditional Fish and Chips , he was almost getting service after a wait or around 20 mins by this time we were very hungry and very hot , i had gone outside for some air when i saw the crowds on the road part , this was my first glimpse of Gypsy Warlock , he was been driven , feathers flying , long mane flowing about his tiny pony head , that was it !!! i ran into the Fish and Chip shop as Doug was just about to be handed his long awaited for food , i almost dragged him out telling him he had to buy this one !!! , i think he thought i had gone mad as what i was telling him to buy was hard to see .
Within seconds of Warlock stopping people crouded around him , this is where the bidding starts , you have to be brave and get in quick , after much hand slapping he was a Gypsy MVP horse .
As cash was asked for Doug then had to go to every Bank in Appleby to get the money , each one had a limit for the day, it was a real pain but oh so worth it !! .
Warlock then came to spend time with me in the UK , he had wonderfull conformation , we wanted to make sure he was also the perfect gent , if we said a grandmother could ride him with four kids behind her , this is what he had to be, come the time it was so very hard to part with him as it is with them all .
Warlock went to NY to a Millionaires Auction and sold for what we think ? might have been the highest sold in the USA , he made the Bloomberg News.
His owners have decided to part with him , so he is back in the ownership of GYPSY MVP, i am going to be honest , if i could bring him back to the UK i would .
If you are seriously looking for a good stallion , and a family friend , go and see him on Gypsy MVP , i have just received photos of one of his sons , he is his fathers son , i cant recomend this horse enough . Anne
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Not Mr Wobbles now exept after a full tummy of milk , learnt to show off his stride in true Gypsy horse style , gets very eager when we go to see him , dashes back and forth in a canter whilst bucking , just waiting for those naughty foal hooves to come our way , oh boy !!! he will have a shock when he does , if within seconds i can return the favour with a loud verbal telling of i will , some folas wont try it again , but given he is a little boy i am sure as with most males he will try it again.
I am at work for the next two days so he has time to plan how to play games with the human , he is so funny now i am sure we will get great fun pictures , i could proberbly u -tube it as foals behaving bad , well time will tell , Gypsy Cobs are known for their kind nature , tell this to a young colt !! We /i hope he will become a good examlpe of the type of horse we offer on Gypsy MVP , well grounded and a family friend , a horse we can tell you all about .
This boy is due to fly out soon with his mother , even though he is a new baby we all love him , even people that walk their dogs passed the land know him , this is going to be a very hard one to wave goodbye to .
back to tell you more in a days time as i have to work in a busy ER room , my camera is going to be clicking like mad , this is proper education day !! hope you all like this , there are so many Gypsy Vanners , Gypsy horses , or Gypsy cobs , thought it would be fun to share , i am not working friday my time , wooooo here comes the scarey halter ,i just know he will throw himself over backwards , they all do , all you can do is be kind , once they know what pressure means they come around , Ha !!!! not sure he will be with me on this one !! lets see how it goes , look for photos friday . Anne x
We are all off to Appleby as a family , we go each year and have made many friends , we will come back with lots of photos and news about this years fair, look forward to sharing it with you all
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You will see from the last photos we all love him , every time i try so hard not to do this , but it is sooo hard , all things in moderation is the key , too much of these close cuddles can store probs for later on as they start to see you as one of them and if they have a strong will , you will be lower than them in order.
There has to be a line drawn at some stage , day two , still Mr Wobbles , wants to be with us , touching him all over , tried to trot today , how funny , he gave up as he kept falling over .
Day three , wants to jump all over us , took him out for a walk with his mother , went exploring and then realised he had lost his way , poor little man scremed for us and mummy , dont think he will do that in a hurry again , has learnt to canter and buck on the spot due to a fly he could not reach , getting more brave !! trying to pull away and rear if you want to hold him , my , how quick the flight instinct kicks in , i think tomorrow a soft halter is coming his way . 
Attitude 2 days old .
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We thought it might be fun to share our new baby with you , his education from day one , we all do things our own way and no two foals are the same .
This young man is three days old today , we were not sure when his mother was due to foal , she had full teats for 4 weeks but never looked big enough to foal , as we all do when her teats became very big at the back end went soft over night – we were all on foal alert , after a week of this checking all night , going to work looking and smelling like a Zombie we gave up , the night before she foaled did the usual checking for waxing -still nothing , thought it might be another week or so .
During the night the stork that brings all of our babies must have had a spare slot in his diary , the next morning there he was.
I was woken by a call saying Rosie has had her baby , a lovely little girl !!! as always, i rang the whole world telling them we had a new baby girl !! then came the bit i love , you walk towards the stable wondering what it will look like , more black ? more white ? one head or two .
The answer was more white than Black , a baby beard Santa would die for , two blue eyes hence “Sinatra” then little wobbles stood up , it soon became clear that the little pink bottom had no girls bits even after i had tried to part pink skin and nearly made one .
he is so very cute we all love him , i have taken lots of photos to share with you , i am off to try to upload them now . The next post will be about from one day old , today is day three and he is already becoming a real little boy . Anne .
6 hrs old
sleepy new baby
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what a super boy ,we would like to share his story , the blog is young we are going to go and find a few people we know so we can all get together and have a good chat about the horses we all love ,we are going to Appleby in the next few weeks so will have all the news and photos for those of you thst have never been .
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What a great way to start a new Blog .
Rosie on the site had her baby with us today in the UK, he is a darling boy and at 8hrs old we are all totaly in love with him , posting pics tomorrow , looking forward to chatting to you all , it is late here and bed is calling . Warm regards the Bevan family .
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