A moments reflection....

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on how much I do actually value my horse.

Just got thinking randomly really, and had time to reflect on just how much I owe to my horse really. I mean, I've not even had him a year yet, but I've expected a bloody lot of him bless him. I use him to lead out the majority of the rides when peeps take some of our others out for hacks...and we go in front, on a loose rein most the time, lead past almost every scary object we encounter [tractors, scarecrows, combines, oil tankers, DEER [lol], etc], go through water, take leads over jumps out hacking, take out youngsters, etc. I can then go for a flat out gallop [proper 6th gear flat out] and pull up on the buckle now after and then proceed to walk normally and mooch with no jogging or sillyness etc. Took him to our first show last year and nannied another horse there too, to which he kept his head completely throughout [though not as well behaved at the fun ride the other week! :p ]. Imean,he can be a spooky horse...but he does just pullhimself together if I ask him to.
And then have jumped him over everything and granted, we're not naturaljumpers and the poles come down more than they do stay up...BUT he's never looked twice at one thing I've ever aimed him at to jump and will always go for it on the whole. Think he was the only horse I wasn't bothered about jumping the gate on for the first time!
And I'll hack him out myself and do everything with him etc and he's the same throughout pretty much. Whether stabled 24/7....ridden everyday or after time off...He does just try his heart out bless him.

I think it's quite easy to forget how much your horse actually means to you when you get caught up in day-to-day runnings and jobs....just a few comments made me realise again tonight, that whilst he may not be the most perfect conformation wise, or the most talanted showjumper in the world....he is worth his weight in gold to me really and suits me down to a tee!

Any my other mare, who's out on loan now, she was my first pony and completely green as grass. My first complete project of my own and she got me through absolutely everything. Jumping 4ft+ courses, every XC jump, confidence and got me through my later teenage years, where face it, you need something to get you through!!!

So just a post for you to relfect on your horses and post how much they mean to you! After all...having them should be because we love them at the end of the day! :D
 
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Yup, we owe a lot of our horses everything :D

I know Dizz can be a bat, but she's never tried to get me off (I'd be off in a flash if she did), that and she's is fairly unflappable - we were stood in the school talking to the instructor the other week, when two of the yard geese started an argument to the side and behind her. They came flapping past, wings outspread, squarking like mad, and Dizz didn't bat an eye. Instructor jumped though lol.
 
What a lovely post.

Lucy is my whole world. She is the most important person in my life and she always comes first. I can't bare the thought that one day she won't be around anymore. We have been through so much together and helped eachother get through some prity tough times. She doesn't have a nasty bone in her body anymore (not that it was her fault in the first place) and can be trusted to look after the smallest jockey.
No matter what life throws at her she comes out fighting and with a huge smile on her face, even if i'm falling appart. Like today i was in tears and on the phone to the vet leading Lucy home and all she wanted to do was wipe her bloody nose on my jumper and give me a cuddle. (Jumper now has big red patches on it.) I'm shore she was just trying to tell me it was all going to be ok.
Lucy is worth so much more than her weight in gold and i'm so proud to call her mine.
 
I like this post :) Interestingly this fits well with a conversation my sister, a friend of ours and me were having this weekend. The current Appy, is a spook monster, but is absolutely bombproof in traffic, she led the lead rein ride at Easter, with about 17 assorted ponies behind her, with no spook at all. She is a speed walker, but waits nicely for slower horses and ponies. She didn't turn a hair, or even pull a face when a rude pony kicked out and caught my ankle and her tummy :eek:. She will go like a rocket if allowed to, but will also behave beautifully in a show ring. She is the biggest flirt in the world, but manages to contain herself if under saddle :D Friend has a bolshy gelding, who would carry her over hot coals, he is so loyal to her. Her two little boys share a 14hh pony, who will trot on with the older boy, off the lead rein (she has been theirs for about 8 weeks!) she carries the younger boy as if he were an egg :) Sister has softest 16.3 mare, who always makes me think of a larger lady wearing twin set and pearls :D (think PC district commissioner). They are all so different, but they all do the job each rider/owner requires of them, and we KNOW we owe them all so much :)
 
Very true. I felt bad tonight as had to get after my pony as napped in the exact same spot 2 nights running leaving the yard but he's always a bit off at this time of year as gets very gassy on the grass and very bothered by the pollen hacking out so doesn't want to do anything of an evening. Then when we got back as it had been hot and he'd got sweaty I had to give him a quick sponge bath which he hates too! I felt my whole evening with him was negative and it was all going No! Stand! though I do praise him when he's being good. And I know he's a horse but I wish I could convey to him just what he means to me as he makes me laugh and smile every day and not much else in my life does that.
 
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