On Saturday I attended the Scottish Equine Breeders Association Seminar at Oatridge College. I can't believe that it was a year ago since the last seminar, but there you go, time flies by.
Once again, an interesting selcetion of Verterinary speakers, scaring us all to death, and making us wonder how our foals ever manage to survive conception, birth and adulthood! The odds are certainly against any foal survivng - nature is a strange and wonderful beast.
Something that I learned at the seminar, which I think may be of interest and I have tried to illustrate with the photos of Maud taken yesterday, is that horses cannot see the colour red. It is not in their visible colour range, and what they can see has is slightly washed out when comparing our own colour vision.
I shan't bore you with anymore information about the seminar.
So the weekend after next, I have entered Maud into her first Riding Club Dressage Competition. Not really my "scene", but I have to educate her, and dressage is an important part of that. I'll let you know how she does, but first I have to learn the test - not too difficult, Prelim 1, for those in the know.
P.S. The spell check isn't working agian!
