Hello there, I'm Grace, or Helga as my mum sometimes calls me (i can't think why!!). I'm not letting mum write this because she calls me silly names like 'Graciemoo' and 'Hoggycob'. I am what you humans like to call "Cobs", my mother was actually a Clydesdale cross Thoroughbred and my father was a Fell (or was it the other way around?!). I am black and i like to think of myself as Black Beauty although i have to admit that I'm not quite as shiny as he was, I'm a bit muddy just now....but it's not my fault!! Honest!! I had this REEEEEEALLY big itch and i couldn't get to it standing up so i had to have a roll and because it was raining the field was all muddy. Anyway, mum has just told me to get on with my introduction and stop going "off track". Well, i am 4 years old and in July i will be 5, my date of birth is the 21st of July 1999. I was born on a cow farm somewhere north of where i live now, a lady bought me when i was 10 months old because she felt sorry for me, she wasn't very nice though so i barged about and made her cry a lot. Mum says i shouldn't have done that and that i was being a very bad girl but i thought it was fun! That lady who i pushed about kept me for a whole 3 years, until i was almost 4! Then she put me up for sale because i got very big and she couldn't handle me....mwahahahaha!! I got sold to a lady called Anna, she was very strict. She made me do lots of hard work and wouldn't let me be naughty :( It wasn't much fun but mum says that Anna turned me into a lovely young lady and i was to stay that way. Anna had to sell me because I wasn't big enough for her, I'm only 15 hands, she thought i would grow to be 15.2 hands.. After Anna I came to mum. I don't know why mum bought me, i wasn't very well behaved when she came to ride me for the first time, i bucked and gave her evil looks but she says that i was "The One", i don't know what that means but i think it's a good thing. I've got to go now, mum wants the computer and i don't like messing with her because she'll go in a bad mood and go "grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" at me, it's very scary...