Behind the Scenes - photos and descriptions

Behind the scenes (2010) at Rose Cottage Riding School ... Or, 'Seeing our kitchen before you dine'!

Behind the scenes at any riding school there's always a lot going on that visitors and customers don't or cannot, ordinarily see. The animals' welfare is a priority for us of course, whether they're our working horses, ponies, stallions, donkeys or our dogs. On this, our page devoted to the 2010 season, (and in our separate 2007, 2008 and 2009 season pages - see links below) we highlight, usually with a few photographs, the day to day things that take place here, whether they be happy or sad, news about our animals and even show you some of our people and animals that you, the ordinary visitor, perhaps do not get to see.

To speed up the time to open this page we have split all of our Behind the Scenes reporting into annual archives roughly based on the each year's riding season. This season's Behind the Scenes articles are on this page, scroll down to the end for links to see earlier seasons' articles.

Few other riding schools will show you all this, we hope you enjoy "Seeing our 'kitchen' before you dine"! The order on all of the pages is oldest at the bottom, newest at the top...

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Our dogs are Behind the Scenes too and they now have their own page. See Mia being shown and Gazza, our new Tri colour Merle Border Collie...
Interested? Click here

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Here are some more wintery pictures of Patrick and friends taken in January 2010 in the Malin Head overwintering field. The set here includes two distant shots of his Mum, Domino and a few that we have seen or taken before but which are collected here for completeness. Patrick's turning into quite a nice looking boy after seeming a little out of proportion when he was younger and is he much more friendly that he was, even now approaching humans without running away*. Whether he has yet acquired his Mum's passion for mints, carrots and apples is not yet clear. Thanks to Chloe for these phone-cam pictures.

* You can see a short video clip of how he was last year on our Patrick and Music page. He would come up, interested but then immediately turn away

Not necessarily in any sort of chronological sequence but to mark Kate's February birthday (!) here we show a few of her own pictures taken recently - though not necessarily in 2010.

Chloe's February Pictures! Here are some of the pictures that Chloe took around the yard in February. Thanks Chloe. The season is really starting now and it's lovely to ride in the early part of the year.

Rebecca took these recent horsy pictures. Thanks Rebekah. Here, for example, are the first pics received for the web site of Zeva! Zeva is Chino's full sister, we got her as Chino is such a great wee man with a great temperament and full of cheek!! When Zeva's former owner rang to say he was selling her we went up and bought her unseen.. They are really alike though Zeva is very pretty and ladylike. We're looking forward to showing them both this year in coloureds and young stock classes. As well as Zeva we have a few other pictures from Rebekah's collection which show a bit more of of the life Behind the Scenes at Rose Cottage Riding School..

November to January is the quiet season for Rose Cottage Riding School and the weather can often be difficult. Nevertheless we sometimes get the chance to take a few shots of the horses. Here are a few from before Christmas 2009 through to January 2010.

Want to see our earlier entries? Our 2007, 2008 and 2009 season snippets of Behind the Scenes have been moved to their own page in order to make this part of our site quicker to load and therefore easier to view by those with slower Internet connexions. But, clicking on the 2009 link below you can still see:

The quiet season
Domino back with Patrick
Our 'overworked' donkeys!
Bailey and Jacob (Jake)
Alice and her foal Rosie
Valco enjoying himself
Hamlet in the field
Domino has a visitor
Patrick and Music aged two!
Harvey at the gate
Knikki and Biggles being tacked up the first time
Domino in the sun
Whisper has her foal - Angel!
More of Óisín
Knikki and Ben
Hamlet's 'funny turn'
Say Hello to Knikki and Sonny.
The dentist calls...
Clio has her foal Óisín
The sad news of Mario's death
Zuko and Chino taking exercise
Domino arriving at her ovewintering accommodation

and of course even more by going to the 2008 or 2007 archives!

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05/03/2010