The mare is Tolanka, who was kind of a cool pony. (Sorry about the picture quality – scanned in photo.) She was a bit of a shark – loved food a bit too much, y’know? But she was perfectly OK with me climbing into the round pen with her and brushing her down while she ate and her babies investigated me.

The little chestnut is her second foal, Nigel. For something so picture-perfect as a baby:

He roaned out pretty quickly and ended up looking like this:

He was always a stand-off-ish little boy, and he wasn’t much better as an adult, but I always had a soft spot for him because I had the chance to know him as a baby.

This is his half-brother, Stuart:

He was much sweeter, and I did get to see him as a baby, too, although I don’t have baby photos for some reason. He was always basically this color, although I seem to recall his blanket was a bit better-defined when he was younger than he is in this picture.