How long have you owned your horses for

Quite a long and distressing list, sorry to lower the tone:

Goldie aged 11, owned 3 months, sold on as a brood mare
Biggles aged 14, owned 2 yrs 10 months, pts due to accident on fun ride, had 3 ops under GA inside 3 weeks but unable to be saved due to non- healing injury
Mikki, aged 6, owned 11 months, broke leg in field, got call at work
Billy, aged 11, owned 2 yrs 8 months, heart attack/brain hemorrhage died in his field, got call at home
Rommy, aged 10yrs, owned 2 yrs 6 months, pts wobblers/CVM, unable to be saved - totally destroyed me
Bailey aged 24, owned nearly 17yrs, pts navicular disease
Lari, aged 12, owned 1 yr 10 months, retired with pre existing physical issues, at retirement home having fun 🥰
 
Sunbeam: 4yrs to 29yrs PTS old age
Indiana from 5 yrs to 10 yrs sold back to breeder
Spottie from 3 yrs to present day, now 26
Winnie owned for 4 3/4 years to present day.
 
Just about 3 years! Finally got my own horse☺️
Got Judy when she was 19 she’s 22 now
I actually think she somehow looks younger? Even with her cute little grey hairs
 

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My first pony is still going, he’s a few months older than me & was retained when my grandparents stud closed down - for whoever I turned out to be 🙈 so technically ive owned him my whole life +3 months approx 😂
My mare 4 years and my gelding 1.5 years 😇
 
The Appy was given to me in May 2015 (& I deserve a long service medal there!). The Ardennes joined her a few months later and sadly left this world September 2022.

Microcob was a lockdown project around April 2020. Supposed to be sold but she's a bit broken and too cute.

Baby cob April last year
 

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I've owned my 21yo since she was born (owned her dam for 29 years having bought her as a 4yo), my 6yo for almost 2 years and my 3yo since he was born.
 
I only had my first horse for six years, but then he was quite old when I got him. I had my pony for 19 years, and his companion has been on loan to me for 14 years. I have another pony on loan now to keep that one company, he belongs to a neighbour and has been around for 20 years so I know him very well.
 
Archie 18 years - the longest of all my horses, Wiggy just over a year. I never thought I'd have a horse longer than I did Ebony - he was with me from 13 to 27 (for both of us) but I owned him for 10 - but Arch has somehow done it. I never thought he'd make it to 29, I was told when he was 14/15 I'd be doing well to get him to 20 with his feet issues and melanomas! I still think of Eb as my horse of a lifetime - probably because Arch never hit the ridden heights due to his issues - but the closer I get to the end with Arch the more he's right there too. My friend owned Monty for 21 years. I was there the whole time for that and shared him officially for about 10 of those years. As much as I adored him and he's the best horse I've ever ridden, there was always something holding me back slightly from having that connection with him, knowing he wasn't 100% mine. Losing him was hard enough, god knows what I'l be like when I lose Arch.
 
I thought I'd just pop this here for anyone who's reading this thread feeling they've failed by not being able to keep their horses alive for longer.

 
I thought I'd just pop this here for anyone who's reading this thread feeling they've failed by not being able to keep their horses alive for longer.

That was sobering, thank you.
 
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