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Shammy Davis 
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 Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 1:49am |
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Chesapeake Bay Retriever Pups at Buffalo Station Farm, VA.
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Shammy Davis
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 2:07am |
 Ran better at Grade 3 and allowance until retired. Sadly, we lost him to colic several years back.
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Shammy Davis
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 2:22am |
Got your recommended book by AKA Nino Culotta, but just haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Too busy and exhausted from riding the tractor and getting hay in for the winter. Don't know if anyone in OZ was aware of this, but every entrant in 2025 Kentucky Derby had the great VA bred SECRETARIAT in their pedigree. Absolutely amazing, as many, including me, thought he was a failed sire.
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furious
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 10:41am |
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SD its the same with many of the Aussies now residing in stakes pedigrees. They didn't even get big books of mares or win championships but now Carbine, Trenton and Darebin are in every pedigree out there. While plenty of others join them. I'm glad the big red horse is also still making his presence felt. THe champs that speak to our souls should live on in the breed.
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Shammy Davis
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 11:27am |
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Furious: Agree. Now retired, we still have three pensioned mares well into their twenties and very healthy and youthful. One is the the 5th granddaughter to SECRETARIAT'S full sister SYRIAN SEA. She never produced anything of any racing consequence other than some sturdy hurdlers, but her ancestry continues to be an over the fence conversation starter for us. She bares a remarkable resemblance to the great distaff granddam and producer Something Royal though her sire came by AMERICAN CHANCE that was a small sturdy sprint line of HAIL TO REASON. One of my treasured books is WINNING TRAINERS - Their road to the top, by Australian Ross Staaden, B.V.Sc. published back 1991. His interviews with Tommy TJ Smith and Fred Kersley are very enlightening. D. Wayne Lukas is the only trainer still surviving of the four interviewed in the book. The shame of U. S racing, other than Kentucky, is that it has not be able to sustain its ancestral character like Australia and the UK and is expressed in Staaden's book. Your trip to Ascot must have been a real delight, especially by the fact that the Queen was present.
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oneonesit
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 11:54am |
 Lovely girl
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And The Boys Light Up.... !
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Whale
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 12:02pm |
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Was going to ask whose house he was home sitting
So true. I am the messiest person alive, my housekeeper(wife) is tghe tidiest.
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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furious
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 1:06pm |
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Doesn't mean all women at tidy. I'm a tad messy!
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furious
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 1:10pm |
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It was Shammy and even better as the people we shared the trip with were delightful. Still in touch with one couple in particular. Really I pinch myself thinking did we really do that.
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slowdown
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Posted: 22 Jun 2025 at 11:56pm |
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The Spirit of Zero resuming. Raymond(Midnight) Resuming next week. Lulu (Rising) spelling. Alli - Spelling. Jeffrey spelling. Ambi Boo spelling. Sh'bourne Angel spelling.
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acacia alba
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 12:13am |
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Slowdown, is that Ambi or Lulu ? Not real good at picking them apart
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animals before people.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 12:15am |
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thats Ambi Boo
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The Spirit of Zero resuming. Raymond(Midnight) Resuming next week. Lulu (Rising) spelling. Alli - Spelling. Jeffrey spelling. Ambi Boo spelling. Sh'bourne Angel spelling.
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acacia alba
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 12:20am |
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Thought so but I struggle to pick them if you dont tell me. Ponies, this is the Harry Angel filly is going to put us on the map .
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animals before people.
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furious
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 9:28am |
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Good luck with her. Hope your not freezing down there. Would you believe Emma got out yesterday and decided the river was the place to be. Wet dog and daughter! Not the right weather for it.
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furious
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 9:29am |
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That should read Gemma. Honestly I don't know why this tablet changes so many words
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brave_ponies
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 9:44am |
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She’s a cracking filly, slowdown and aa! I really hope I can get in with your gang one day! (Just need to stop acquiring paddock ornaments and retirees
)We’ve had frost every morning for the past week, furious - not good swimming weather!
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furious
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:25am |
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furious
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:39am |
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That's a picture of my three dogs prior to Elvis. Smokey as a youngster and the part heeler at the back is Coal (the childrens pet when growing up - he rounded them up on multiple occasions) and the red setter Baron we only had for four years before a throat cancer killed him. Each had a personality. Baron was goofy but when my eldest wandered the fields up on the farm he was with her. She'd disappear and I'd look out the window and there she would be off on an adventure with Baron by her side. He also bought up some wild kittens who ended up the gentlest cat I ever knew. A case of nurture over nature.
Coal we got after coming to the city again. He was very much my husbands dog. The poor boy was very much my childrens guardian. He also used the heel snap to keep them in line. The number of times one would come in and say Coal bit me - without a sign of blood on there heels - he was very careful about it. His favourite place was on top of the trampoline. He'd grab a bit of wood from the BBQ in the backyard and sit up there chewing while I'd be hanging out the washing. I never forget the day he flew past me and took a flying leap and went straight through the mesh. He'd burnt a few holes grabbing some still warm embers for a previous chew. The next day he had forgotten and took a flying leap onto nothing (we'd taken the cover off of course the previous day). He landed stiff legged and looked at me with such a questioning look I spent the rest of the day laughing. This was my Christmas present the year he'd died so I spent a lot of time in tears with Michelle thinking she'd done the wrong thing! But it was the best present ever until the year Chris was dying they gave me a quilt (made by a friends Mum) with pictures of our life together all over it. That sent me off again!
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furious
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:44am |
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furious
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:46am |
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Pip (Kats dog prior to Gemma) and Smokey at the back and Gooba and Bella at the front. The family dogs visited with their owners. Gooba and Bella are still alive although both are closing on 14 years one.
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furious
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:48am |
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furious
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:50am |
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Smokey as a pup with old boy Coal. THis would happen quite alot. Smokey loved to nip Coal on his hind legs and Coal would put him in his place - the old kennel.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 10:53am |
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Elvis has been know to sleep in odd positions. How can that be comfy.
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Whale
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:48am |
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It's a hard life Elvis
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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acacia alba
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 2:10pm |
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Some animals get lucky in life. I always feel so sad for the ones that dont have a life like these ones.
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animals before people.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 2:16pm |
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Here's my crazy cat lady video, I cant get the youtube to load direct so you have to click the link!
volume up to hear the purrs.
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https://skiboots.wixsite.com/cats
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oneonesit
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 3:33pm |
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Got your hands full there VSP
Lovely little fellas
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 3:46pm |
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I love the markings on the one beside you on the seat.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 4:46pm |
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Another day in Paradise.
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Declaration of Independence, signed after The Civil War. Trump said so.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025 at 5:43pm |
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At least your girl is awake! Mine is out on a walk with his boy. He's pulled me over one too many times!
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