Ashfields Horse Driving Trials

Karen with one of her new horses, Blackie, at Ashfields Horse Driving Trials.  Although he hesitated when he first went into the water, he was fine for the rest of the obstacle.

Horse Drawn Hearse at Derby Cathedral

Hagrid and Egor with the horse drawn hearse at Derby Cathedral today.  Grenville was driving his Aunt Doreen to her funeral.  See http://karenbassett.co.uk for more photos.

Horse Driving Trials

As Karen has 2 new young horses in her competition team, she will only be taking them to a few horse driving trials for practice.  The photo shows the new boys getting their feet wet.  She has been offered the drive of Ray Aziz's pony team for the season.  See her website for photos http://www.karenbassett.co.uk. 

Kora enjoys stealing the attention from her three friends at a horse drawn funeral and making them jealous.

Horse Drawn Hearse

Egor and Hagrid flying the flag at a horse drawn funeral.

Warwick and Windsor

Warwick and Windsor, two of the grey horses that pull the horse drawn hearses, had a day out yesterday.  They went to Lancashire to help out as team leaders pulling a wedding carriage and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.  http://www.karenbassett.co.uk/

Awi the Funeral Horse

Hi.  I'm a carriage horse and I work for Karen Bassett pulling her horse drawn hearse with my partner Kora.    I'm a 10 year old black,16.2 hh Silesian horse and have lived with Karen since I was 5.  She found me in Poland when she was looking for horses for a client.  It was a very windy day when Kora and I came into the farmyard and we just stood right next to some flapping polythene without batting an eyelid.  Karen instantly decided we would make wonderful funeral horses and bought us.  My one weakness is that I need Kora as my security blanket and cannot go anywhere without her.  I also like to canter all the hills we go up, even if The Boss says there is no need, as it is just a slope!  For more photos of me, check out Karen's website http://www.karenbassett.co.uk/.