Soaking Sonny

I traveled back from France to Geraldton for a little R&R with the family and we took a drive out to where the young gun is growing up. The property is about 25km outside of Geraldton in an area called Chapman Valley, close to the town of Nansun. Interestingly, my mother grew up in that town and we drove past all their old stomping grounds on the way to the property of Sue and Mark.

We landed in Geraldton right as three cold fronts came sweeping into town, and just managed to see Sonny before the rain came pelting down. Without a doubt Sonny and the rest will be soaked through by the end of this front.

He's looking great. Nice tight looking gelding with plenty of strength in the shoulders and the rump. There is not much to say more than all is well with him.

Sue and Mark confer that he is a well mannered youngster. He eats up well. Does not get into any mischief, and likes a romp around early in the morning and at feed time. I did spot the tell-tale "chew" marks on one of the posts and asked about sucking. When he first arrived, he was sucking and Sue painted the post with some pepper-laced post paint. He just moved down to a new post! They then put another horse in the yard next to him and since then his sucking has stopped.

Nothing to concern ourselves with, but it is an annoying trait for Clive.

We took a few pictures with the kids out there, which is a testament to his well natured character.

Sonny on his way to 15.3

Video shot at Kevin's

Sonny - Behaving Right

Video shot at Kevins

Sonny on Camera

This is a video Gavin shot of Sonny in mid May 2008.