14th September

We have returned home from a fantastic wedding and honeymoon as Mr and Mrs Ip (yes, you are reading the surname correctly!).  Here are a few photos of our special day….Daydream Island was wonderful!!

The wedding date was set for August to avoid the commencement of foaling in late September, but things didn’t quite go to plan!  More than a month before her due date, DP Debut caused much stress for Jane and Tara by waxing up and looking like she was about to deliver her baby way undercooked.  Thanks to a fantastically supportive team at home, she was quickly onto Regumate and antibiotics and is still carrying the foal, now just two weeks off her due date.  I was sure that she would have the foal before Jason and I returned from our honeymoon, but she held on for us.  Unfortunately this means that we have yet to sleep in our own bed as a married couple!  It was straight into the “foalwatch hut” (a small tent on the top of the hill!) for us and we are now just waiting for the arrival of her much-anticipated Royal Hit foal.

We would like to make an extra special public thanks to Jane Clegg (Heather’s mum) and Tara Campbell (fantastic friend and Cooramin’s number 1 supporter), who willingly gave so much time and energy to the Cooramin horses (Debut in particular) while we were away.  This included not only feeding up the masses, but milk testing and medicating Debut and two nights of foalwatch before our return home.  An enormous THANK YOU Jane and Tara!!

Watch this space for news on the birth of our first 2008 foal very soon!