Monday, 9 December 2013

 
 
COLIN & KIM JOIN US AT LILYPAD
 
COLIN EDWARDS AND HIS WIFE KIM HAVE JOINED US AT VILLAGE FARM AND QUICKLY ADDED TO THEIR NUMBERS. THEY CAME TO US WITH MISS POPPY SOCKS (WHO RAN AT DONCASTER) AND THEN PURCHASED FARLOE BASHFUL (FAWN)  FROM US AFTER A VERY SAD EPISODE INVOLVING A SAPLING OF THEIRS.

COLIN & KIM VERY KINDLY GAVE EX-LONG DISTANCE QUEEN MIDWAY SKIPPER A HOME WHEN HENRY CHALKLEY DECIDED IT WAS TIME SHE PUT HER FEET UP. MISS POPPY SOCKS HAILS FROM SKIPPERS FIRST LITTER AND COLIN & KIM ALSO PURCHASED FROM HER SECOND CROP BY KINLOCH BRAE. THEY HAD A LOVELY DOG REARED BY JANE HOUGHTON AT DUNHAM AND WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO HIS RACING CAREER. UNFOTUNATELY, FREDDY AS HE WAS KNOWN, CONTRACTED PNEUMONIA A FORTNIGHT AGO AND SADLY PASSED.

THE EDWARDS (DESPITE BEING HEARTBROKEN) REMAINED PHILOSOPHICAL AND COMMITED TO THEIR LOVE OF THE DOGS AND THE SPORT AND WE WERE DELIGHTED WHEN THEY STEPPED IN TO BUY FARLOE BASHFUL. LIZ AND I WISH THEM THE BEST OF LUCK ... THE SPORT NEEDS MORE PEOPLE LIKE COLIN & KIM!!