My Mum

Well, guess what?

I have a Mummy after all! I knew it all along. Her name is Holly and now I have found out who she is it means I am a fully registered Exmoor pony!

At the moment I am away staying on a farm being backed. I have a saddle on now and it won't be too long before I am being ridden. The only strange thing about being here, other than wearing a saddle, is that none of my Exmoor fiends are with me any more. Luckily though, I have made a good friend in a nice Dales pony so I have someone to talk to.

I thought you might like to know about some of my other friends all doing what Exmoors like doing best- eating with lots of other Exmoors- none of the Exmoors that belong to the Moorland Mousie Trust are on their own- we are social animals and like being together in a herd.

Lance and some of his girls- he is really called Shandyman II- are all out grazing on a reclaimed open cast site in County Durham which is lovely and covered in wildflowers and grasses.

He has got one foal in his herd so far this year, a little colt. He also has a lovely filly foal called Marigold who is living in the wood across the road from me with her Mum, Rosefinch.