SS.89
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Ive just got back from the stables from hacking 4 year old Toby out the liccle (17hh) ex racer with his new next door neighbour stable buddy caramac the 12hh welshy (they looked hilarious together!)
But I just wondered if anyone else's youngster or ex racers really do surprise them sometimes.
Basically our yard is brilliantly plonked right next door to a speedway ... when I say next door you can see the smoke from the stock cars above the trees as they whizz round at 100mph and is louder than thunder !!
They were having fireworks tonight so all horses had to be in by 4 so I decided to take tobe out at around 2.30 so we were back for 3.30. To my joy the racing started at 2, so off we went walking past the stadium like nothing was even there ?!
Then all of a sudden he PLANTED himself at a wheelie bin which was hiding behind the hedge !! Luckily caramac walked forward and off he followed snorting at the scary wheelie bin hoping it would vanish.
Going round the hack we were just plodding along - which is what he normally does until he absolutely had a coronary at a plastic bag flapping in the trees ... I could physically feel him shake and he did his best attempt to spin round but luckily I kept him straight ... so once again caramac goes in front and ginge goes behind.
On the home we could hear the stock cars from about a mile away and the closer we got the more apparent it obviously became to the horses. Not silly behaviour but on their toes slightly.
We got out of the last gate right next to the speedway and you would not believe the noise ... their were hoards of people, fog horns, engines, sirens and even the commentator who was doing my swede in ! But to amazement toby did not bat an eyelid !! The smoke came right across the bridle path and he didn't even break into a jog I was completely bewildered.
Got him back in sorted his stable and rugs etc out and though hmmmm I'll just stay down here for the fireworks and see how the horses are. So at about 5 the first firework went off and every single horse in the barn (all 23 of them !!) shot to the stable door. One of them the poor thing went a little bit crazy as he's only been on the yard 3 days so it wasn't nice
but I didn't want to interfear as I thought it would be best to leave him. Aside from a few that were doing a few paces round the boxes all the others were whinning to each other or pawing the ground.
However, I turn round to tobe's stable who is actually EATING HIS HAY like ''yeah whats all the fuss about'' ?!
I know ex racers may be used to more busier suroundings and different things to what say a horse raised up on a farm would be used to but to just stand there when the others are going mad, and to literally walk right next to the noise on the way home is just extrodinary I find.
Does anyone elses have funny quirks like that? I must also mention he HATES dock leaves?! I find the horses mind a very silly one !
SS x
But I just wondered if anyone else's youngster or ex racers really do surprise them sometimes.
Basically our yard is brilliantly plonked right next door to a speedway ... when I say next door you can see the smoke from the stock cars above the trees as they whizz round at 100mph and is louder than thunder !!
They were having fireworks tonight so all horses had to be in by 4 so I decided to take tobe out at around 2.30 so we were back for 3.30. To my joy the racing started at 2, so off we went walking past the stadium like nothing was even there ?!
Then all of a sudden he PLANTED himself at a wheelie bin which was hiding behind the hedge !! Luckily caramac walked forward and off he followed snorting at the scary wheelie bin hoping it would vanish.
Going round the hack we were just plodding along - which is what he normally does until he absolutely had a coronary at a plastic bag flapping in the trees ... I could physically feel him shake and he did his best attempt to spin round but luckily I kept him straight ... so once again caramac goes in front and ginge goes behind.
On the home we could hear the stock cars from about a mile away and the closer we got the more apparent it obviously became to the horses. Not silly behaviour but on their toes slightly.
We got out of the last gate right next to the speedway and you would not believe the noise ... their were hoards of people, fog horns, engines, sirens and even the commentator who was doing my swede in ! But to amazement toby did not bat an eyelid !! The smoke came right across the bridle path and he didn't even break into a jog I was completely bewildered.
Got him back in sorted his stable and rugs etc out and though hmmmm I'll just stay down here for the fireworks and see how the horses are. So at about 5 the first firework went off and every single horse in the barn (all 23 of them !!) shot to the stable door. One of them the poor thing went a little bit crazy as he's only been on the yard 3 days so it wasn't nice
but I didn't want to interfear as I thought it would be best to leave him. Aside from a few that were doing a few paces round the boxes all the others were whinning to each other or pawing the ground.However, I turn round to tobe's stable who is actually EATING HIS HAY like ''yeah whats all the fuss about'' ?!
I know ex racers may be used to more busier suroundings and different things to what say a horse raised up on a farm would be used to but to just stand there when the others are going mad, and to literally walk right next to the noise on the way home is just extrodinary I find.
Does anyone elses have funny quirks like that? I must also mention he HATES dock leaves?! I find the horses mind a very silly one !
SS x
