Met with a trainer for Bran­nagh on Sat­ur­day and was very excited and pleased. Tried my best to not be the horse mom that says ‘how won­der­ful’ her horses are and leaves out all the ‘silly quirks’. I think I made it out worse than it was of course, but made sure I gave as much infor­ma­tion as pos­si­ble. The more knowl­edge a trainer has, the bet­ter they can be pre­pared for what to expect in train­ing, I say... 

Had a lovely after­noon then back at the sta­bles hav­ing some much needed *Bran­nagh Time* and boy did she really want the loves! She’s got Ry’s num­ber lately, but boy did she stand still and curl her lip for me in th…e cross ties when it came time to curry comb! Took me a while to work out the fairy braids, but out they did come! We rubbed and scritched and brushed out and looked pretty and nuz­zled some more. She had a moment of danc­ing and being goofy, but I was *expect­ing* her to behave and behave she did very well.  That girl is WAY too smart for her own good. Hope­fully, after train­ing this sum­mer, my friend Jaime will set­tle in from her wed­ding hula­baloo (been there, done that, not doing it again!!!) and work with Bren over the winter…if she takes to it, hope­fully it won’t take much con­vinc­ing for Jaime to work with her to do the drill team.

Bran­nagh is look­ing so beau­ti­ful these days,that it makes me sad to see Sor­cha hav­ing such a hard time with the preg­nancy. I’ve made the deci­sion that no one is going out for preg­gers this year…Bran is going for train­ing and Sor­cha is going out to play with the girls and fat­ten up once the baby is weaned. She is on a nice calcium-rich sup­ple­ment now to give her a boost (along with lots of other good vitamin-schtuffs  ). When I had the vet out to pal­pate and check for swim­ming (tee hee) baby, she pulled a fecal and blood work as well and glad to say she is right as rain so that’s a big relief. The corn oil and pel­let grain did her good in the meantime…seems her first baby is just stress­ing her out! She’s got her foal­ing stall all set up and she’s lov­ing the extra space. Her butt mus­cles have relaxed a bit, so it shouldn’t be long now for her. *VERY* ner­vous and excited at the same time.