Horse Trading

Morning All, yesterday Mike and me stopped at Hothfield Common again. We had a map app that we wanted to try out. We left Sue reading her book and set off onto the common.

Just inside

As we followed the path chatting away as you do we came across a hoof print and thought that someone was riding  but no more thought of it.

Hoof print

We carried on wandering and saw one of the rangers Land Rovers and headed towards it, hoping that they could tell us where the horses were.

There was nobody in it so we started to wander off when Mike said look! There at the top of the hill were the horses. As we walked up there was a shout "we are bringing them through there". I was the rangers. We stood to one side as the horses moved down the trail. They all stopped and so did the rangers.

Got any food Mr

We had a chat with the ranger who had a bucket of pellets to bribe the horses with and she told us that they had got out and that they were being rounded up . We had quite a chat and took loads of pictures while this was going on.  The horses were trying to pinch the pellets while she was talking to us, so she got one of the other to take the bucket back to the Land Rover, guess what, the horses followed.

There's food in there

 

Now the last time we saw these horse I am sure that they were pregnant but there were no other horses around.

After this we carried on with out walk and found that the App was working well and is showed all of the trails through the common.

We took other pictures but you will have to wait another day.

Thanks for looking.