On Saturday morning, I had to get up quite early, because I had to go by bus to our meeting point for this day. Normally, I would have gone by bicycle, but Ezgi, with whom I always go to school, had had a puncture the evening before so that she had to leave her bike in the city centre and we had to take the bus this morning. We had not gone by bus before, so it was rather challenging to get to the meeting point in the city centre, but we managed to get there on time.
Finally, we got on the bus to Newmarket, in a group of around 15 people, and arrived there after a -nearly 40-minute-ride. Newmarket is a cute town with approximately 15.000 inhabitants and is very famous for their horses. First, we visited a training ground, on which the riders could practice and there were lots of jockeys practising because there was a horserace this afternoon, and the horses passed by with an enormous speed.
After that, we had to hurry to catch the bus to the National Stud of Newmarket, which is very famous, too. There, we had a guided tour by bus and watched the mares being outside with their foals, and the stallions in their stables. These fastest and most successful stallions are treated like kings, which means that e.g. their hooves are lacquered and they get everything they want. Many horse-owners also want their mares to be covered by those strong stallions, which costs around 10’000 £. We also watched one of these coverings, which took place in a big stable, called “the honeymoon suite”, and last for up to two minutes, which was pretty annoying to us.
In the end, we left the stud and had to wait for nearly an hour until we got a bus back home. We got something to eat in a fast-food-restaurant which was really awful, and afterwards I went home and later on the evening had dinner with my host-mother and two of her friends.
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