working for phillip stokes!

hey guys, its wednesday 4th july and im just in phillips office!
tuesay morning i got up at 6 am to get ready to catch my flight from perth to adelaide.  the flight was good.  i got to adelaide around 1.30 their time.  its really strange how the clock seems to change all the time!! my body clock is all over the place.  perth is two hours behind melbourne and adelaide is an hour and half infront of perth! ill get there in the end! 
katie my friend from ireland picked me up from the airport and took me back to the stable to meet the team.  i hadnt planned this very well because i was already on my way to perth when peter moody rang to say i should go to phillips for a few days so i didnt have any of my work gear with me.  i only hand hand luggage!! not ideal!
so i came back to the yard in my boots, skirt and a jumper!! not the best look in the world to be working with horses!
katie ran next door to get some trianers from her friend so i could swim horses. ha ha! so there i was in some old trainers and a skirt with a high vis jacket! looking the part i must say!
its only a small team here compared to moodys yard.  25 in training and handfull of staff.  phillip and his wife would work on the yard full time, mucking out and riding ect.  katie would be full time. theres two lads that work mornings only with another girl thats in uni but comes in weekends and holidays.
katie and phillip would ride maybe 10 horses each morning.
its similar system to moodys really, where they swim everything after work and they have a sand roll, they go off the pony day before they race and the day after and the day after they gallop!  they dont get tied up in the stable to get mucked out.
3.30 wednesday morning i started work, im staying in a house on the yard which is great! i went in and mucked out.  they dont have bins nor wheel barrows but they do have buckets which they empty in the skip! i mucked out 5/6 whilst phillip put few horses on the walker.  they change their rugs from their night rugs into their woolen rugs and head collars on. the car is loaded with saddles bridles pads scrapers ect and taken up to the track. 
phillip does a works list every night, much the same as peter moodys. that is taken up to the track and one is left on the yard so everyone knows whats happening.  phillip walkes two horses up the the track and ties them up and tacks them up.  katie takes two and i take one.
i took a horse that came back yesterday from japan. he went for a roll in the sand and then went for a swim and then back into the tie ups, scraped off and dried with a towel with his woolen rug back on.  he stayed there in till something else could go home with him to keep him company!
the track is similar to melbourne but probably not in the same condition.  it looks more professional over there! i might be wrong!
once theyve been riden they get rolled, swam and rugged up and taken home, two per person and then they swap over and bring another two back up!
when they get back to the stable they go on the walker for a while before they get put away in their boxes with their hay and feed.  they get groomed in their stables!
they all go on the walker in the afternoon and they also swim.  the pool is a different shape and size to moodys.  its got two straight bits.  they have to walk a good bit up to the track where the pool is.  down a street and up the road. 
theyve also got a horse water walker here! i used it this morning a horse thats had a knee op went on it for ten min.  ( i need to hurry on now as im off racing with katie)
ill update soon!
ill update pictures when i get back to my house!