Bettyboo222
Well-Known Member
Ill start by saying that this is going to be a very long post so I suggest you get comfy 
For the past few months Ive been digging and digging about Bs past and over the last week I have upped my efforts.
As I find out new things from her past Ill add them in.
In April in 1967 a little black welsh was born, She was sold to a man for his children (Owner 1) when she was about 10 months old however due to financial and time difficulties he ended up leaving B in a shed in an allotment type yard. B spent the 8 months with Owner 1, then Owner 2 rescued B from this man and paid £20 for her. Owner 2 didnt have B for long, she kept B in a field behind her house. Owner 3 (K) who was a teenager at the time was riding past owner 2s house on her Shetland pony, Owner 2 shouted out of the house to K and asked her whether she would swap her shettie for B. After K went home and talked it over with her parents they decided to do exactly that.
So at 18 months of age B went to go stay with K. Inbetween the ages of 18months and 3 years I struggled to find out anything of consequence about B or any pictures unfortunately. She was broken in by K at 3.
I do have a picture of her as a 3 year old though
Beauty did a lot of showing as a youngster, She has 4 handy pony trophies as well as bags and bags of rosettes. She did a lot of showjumping as well, I am attempting to track down photos and I will add them if I get any
She started to grey out more and more as she got older
6 year old
10 years old
Then in 1979 she slipped on the road and had to go to an equine hospital (we think Leahurst but K cant remember) but the xrays found nothing and she had some corn cut out of her frog.
Beauty had 2 foals, both of them were accidents as K was told that the two horses has been gelded and they obviously hadnt!
She had the first foal Afellow (it was Othello however his new owner changed it) 26th of Feb in 1880
As a baby
And then she had the second foal Appollo 11th of March, He was a very poorly foal and it was horribly cold. The vet said he wouldnt make it so he was handreared by K and B had to be milked. By this time K had 2 children (6 and 8). Apparently B was so calm she would let the children sit under her and milk her!
I haven;t managed to find any foal photos of him
B did a bit of moving around then and ended up on the farm where we are now. It all goes a bit quiet here and apparently B didnt really do much.
Apart from sulking about being wet!
And then on the 14th June 2012 I saw an advert that was showing a part bred arab for loan and the last line of the advert was who ever loans this pony will also be responsible for my veteran mare I responded to the advert and asked if I could just look after the mare!
So we agreed for me to go see her on the 20th and I posted this thread
Initially I was told she was about 39 years, Managed to get a true age eventually.
On the 13th of July I managed to work up the courage to post pictures of her See thread
Then on the 14th October 2010 we had a minor scare
Then just after Christmas we had a major scare and I thought I would lose her
And B was back to her thug-like ways!
This was the first walk ever posted
Winter matchy matchy
Weekly walk thread
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Football
B turned 45
B got very mucky
Another weekly Walk
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9 (the last ever walk)
Thank you for sitting through all of these, I will add more info as I find it
For the past few months Ive been digging and digging about Bs past and over the last week I have upped my efforts.As I find out new things from her past Ill add them in.
In April in 1967 a little black welsh was born, She was sold to a man for his children (Owner 1) when she was about 10 months old however due to financial and time difficulties he ended up leaving B in a shed in an allotment type yard. B spent the 8 months with Owner 1, then Owner 2 rescued B from this man and paid £20 for her. Owner 2 didnt have B for long, she kept B in a field behind her house. Owner 3 (K) who was a teenager at the time was riding past owner 2s house on her Shetland pony, Owner 2 shouted out of the house to K and asked her whether she would swap her shettie for B. After K went home and talked it over with her parents they decided to do exactly that.
So at 18 months of age B went to go stay with K. Inbetween the ages of 18months and 3 years I struggled to find out anything of consequence about B or any pictures unfortunately. She was broken in by K at 3.
I do have a picture of her as a 3 year old though
Beauty did a lot of showing as a youngster, She has 4 handy pony trophies as well as bags and bags of rosettes. She did a lot of showjumping as well, I am attempting to track down photos and I will add them if I get any
She started to grey out more and more as she got older
6 year old
10 years old
Then in 1979 she slipped on the road and had to go to an equine hospital (we think Leahurst but K cant remember) but the xrays found nothing and she had some corn cut out of her frog.
Beauty had 2 foals, both of them were accidents as K was told that the two horses has been gelded and they obviously hadnt!
She had the first foal Afellow (it was Othello however his new owner changed it) 26th of Feb in 1880
As a baby
And then she had the second foal Appollo 11th of March, He was a very poorly foal and it was horribly cold. The vet said he wouldnt make it so he was handreared by K and B had to be milked. By this time K had 2 children (6 and 8). Apparently B was so calm she would let the children sit under her and milk her!
I haven;t managed to find any foal photos of him
B did a bit of moving around then and ended up on the farm where we are now. It all goes a bit quiet here and apparently B didnt really do much.
Apart from sulking about being wet!
And then on the 14th June 2012 I saw an advert that was showing a part bred arab for loan and the last line of the advert was who ever loans this pony will also be responsible for my veteran mare I responded to the advert and asked if I could just look after the mare!
So we agreed for me to go see her on the 20th and I posted this thread
Initially I was told she was about 39 years, Managed to get a true age eventually.
On the 13th of July I managed to work up the courage to post pictures of her See thread
Then on the 14th October 2010 we had a minor scare
Then just after Christmas we had a major scare and I thought I would lose her
And B was back to her thug-like ways!
This was the first walk ever posted
Winter matchy matchy
Weekly walk thread
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Football
B turned 45
B got very mucky
Another weekly Walk
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9 (the last ever walk)
Thank you for sitting through all of these, I will add more info as I find it
looking back through them photos she deffiently lived up to her name! Absolutly beautiful and sounds like a very sweet mare.
