Boggle- USA bound!

I lost track a bit.... is he a Morgan? If so, my Morgan was very short backed when he was young but then he grew (I didn't really notice as I saw him all the time but the farrier kept telling me!) and now he has ended up quite long backed. Mine also puts himself into a pleasing frame when trotting (as long as he isn't tense and running about with his head up). Atlas does seem to have lots of character!!
 
daydreamer said:
I lost track a bit.... is he a Morgan? If so, my Morgan was very short backed when he was young but then he grew (I didn't really notice as I saw him all the time but the farrier kept telling me!) and now he has ended up quite long backed. Mine also puts himself into a pleasing frame when trotting (as long as he isn't tense and running about with his head up). Atlas does seem to have lots of character!!
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Yes he is! Was your morgan 3, when he was short backed though haha?

Thank you for the info!
 
DressageCob said:
My friend’s Morgan was 15hh and needed to be broken in a 15.5inch saddle 😄 after being turned away for the winter he was still 15hh but fitted a 17 inch. He’d only grown lengthwise, not upwards. Funny horses
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Yikes! I've decided not to even worry about sitting on him until next spring, where I guess I'll need to go through the saddle faff thing. Feels pointless to do it now if he changes a fair bit in 6 months.
 
I swear my retired 14hh mare jumped a 5 bar gate (probably from a standstill)
I’d brought her buddy in (others still out around her) and it became clear as we walked away that she wasn’t going to settle so I planned to March back, quickly put her buddy away then grab her in.
One minute she was one side of the gate, the next minute she was the other.
I inspected it and couldn’t find any way she could have gone through or round.
She had been retired 4 years at this point and even during her ridden career I doubt we’d jumped 90cm!
 
little_critter said:
I swear my retired 14hh mare jumped a 5 bar gate (probably from a standstill)
I’d brought her buddy in (others still out around her) and it became clear as we walked away that she wasn’t going to settle so I planned to March back, quickly put her buddy away then grab her in.
One minute she was one side of the gate, the next minute she was the other.
I inspected it and couldn’t find any way she could have gone through or round.
She had been retired 4 years at this point and even during her ridden career I doubt we’d jumped 90cm!
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I had this very unprepossessing unathletic looking yearling
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Get from one side of this gate to the other somehow (fur on top of posts implied over not opened and closed behind him)
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To get in with this velociraptor 😳🦖
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Horses make weird life choices sometimes.
 
My 24 year old semi retired boy jumps out for fun. You name it, he’s jumped it - 5 bar gates, top height electric fencing, double layer fencing, a corner of the fencing onto the bridleway… I’ve learned to just accept it now, although it can be really annoying!
 
So Atlas has been putting his head through the wooden posts and I saw him pop the top rail. I was worried about it so was making plans for getting the kit to electrify the whole thing etc with a strand of rope on the inside. Idiot me I shouldn't have thought I could leave it another day, I thought I'd be ok as long as I made sure there was tons of hay in the main pasture they were in which is pretty bare, so that he didn't go looking for grass. Nope.

Today he popped both rails to set them all free. Why would he take down the second rail too, when the top rail was all he needed to get to the grass he was aiming for? However upon setting the older boys free he went off on his own adventure up a steep rocky hill whilst the others went on a bar crawl around the area, helping themselves to people’s front gardens and having a grand old time. They visited many houses. I can tell you getting THAT text whilst on a work call is not fun.

It’s a 25 min drive and by the time I get there all we’re caught and there was a lot.. and I mean a lot of neighbours having a good chat. Apparently Boggle was horrendously behaved to capture thinking it was the best game EVERRRRRR. All boys were very sheepish in their stalls by the time I got there. Atlas was not sweaty, because he didn't go on the crawl he just went rock climbing locally. What kind of 3 year old doesn't follow his friends who went so far they were completely out of sight???? And chooses to scale a steep hill instead?

Supervised turnout until thursday when my friends can come help with a drill to string electric rope.

Also, Bog has some scurfy skin so I decided to bath him with the medication shampoo I bought given he was sweaty. He protested about this a lot in the cross ties and then (unnoticed by me) did a poo, making the undrained water- because of course my drain stopped draining- poo water. I thought I was just standing in normal water and was like whatever, in my stupid little canvas trainers, but no. It was Bog poo water and it was very green and very smelly.

Anyone want to come pick up Atlas because he really has been an absolute pain in the arse for the last 7 days.
 
Michen said:
Anyone want to come pick up Atlas because he really has been an absolute pain in the arse for the last 7 days.
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Careful what you wish for, there will be a line forming.
I think many of us can commiserate about escaping ponies. Luckily mine never got ‘out out’ just out of her paddock and wound up the horses in the other paddocks.
That is stressful enough.
 
I still remember the night 50 years ago when my three got out and went tap dancing on the bank managers lawn, they even used his lines of raspberry canes and fruit bushes as jump schooling. Even worse was one horse was named after the bank manager who had enabled him to be purchased and I had an appointment with him two days later.
 
rabatsa said:
I still remember the night 50 years ago when my three got out and went tap dancing on the bank managers lawn, they even used his lines of raspberry canes and fruit bushes as jump schooling. Even worse was one horse was named after the bank manager who had enabled him to be purchased and I had an appointment with him two days later.
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One of mine escaped and went for a jolly on the army cricket pitch where we were stationed 😮
 
My new pony is testing my boundaries, literally. 3 times in the last fortnight she has escaped her very well fenced paddock for one with more grass in it
Im currently scratching my head trying to come up with a solution, but as I honestly dont know how shes getting out I dont know what I need to fix :)
 
Many years ago, ( when it was not quite so "smart" as it is now) my parents lived near Wentworth golf course.....they received an irate phone call from the groundsman at the golf club asking them to remove their ponies from the eighteenth green!
Luckily no-one in the family played golf, so we weren't able to be thrown out!
 
quizzie said:
Many years ago, ( when it was not quite so "smart" as it is now) my parents lived near Wentworth golf course.....they received an irate phone call from the groundsman at the golf club asking them to remove their ponies from the eighteenth green!
Luckily no-one in the family played golf, so we weren't able to be thrown out!
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Oh my goodness the great and the good there must have been furious!😂
 
Erm, ok, maybe thats why Bog likes him, he knows a kindred trouble maker 🤣🤣

My sisters old 13hh pony used to jump out of his field, fence was 3'3, to go join the mares foe a bit and / or would take himself back to his stable. We used to just leave the door open and if he ended up in there close it as we walked past....he also jumped outnof his stable one day to go hang with the groom 🤷‍♀️
 
Ok well escaped pony stories makes me feel slightly better. I’m annoyed at myself for still turning out before I sorted electric and I am just relieved that Boggle is ok, he could have really hurt himself (I know Helo is sensible enough to not).

It’s bizarre that Atlas didn’t go with them. Here’s the bank he hung out at the top of. Basically he set them free but then stayed at the barn!

And here they are exchanging stories over some hay (Helo was done with the both of them by this point). It’s so funny because Bog squeals and puts his ears back when Atlas comes near his pile (and Atlas does have his own pile) but it’s totally hot air and Atlas just gently comes in anyway and Bog is like yehhhh ok. It’s very cute.

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