Shady
Well-Known Member
everybody here has or has had that special horse, special in that he took you where you wanted to be competitively, special in that he makes your heart sing just to look at him or you feel on top of the world just gently hacking through the woods, they are all amazing in some way.
for me, my lovely horse got me home in the middle of an unbelievable storm when i was half blind, confused and un co-ordinated after having had a stroke in the middle of no where. if you have a minute i'd love to tell you about him.
i learnt to ride late in life and was still very much a novice when i bought my first horse, everybody told me not to buy him..' you can't learn to ride on an Arab' was the general opinion of all except his owner who told me i would never find another horse like him and that he would look after me in all ways. i had my suspicions that he would be like 'that new anti- wrinkle' cream that you had such hopes for , great packaging, marketing but in the end total cr*p . his name is Shadow and yes he is grey and yes he was owned by a teenager( god love them for their naming of horses!) he was amazing from day one, gentle , calm, he viewed life like a hippy with a joint, all the world loved him and he gave it back, quads, bikes, lorries ,dogs, hunters, all could pass him by and he just floated along , heaven to ride but you had to RIDE him, not drift off, he would not just follow the horse in front.
i had had a headache for weeks after a friends horse knocked me down and i fell badly , i didn't know till later that it had made a tear in my caratoid artery and it had been bleeding into my brain slowly, typical that the one day i went further than normal was the day it finally 'got' me.
i suddenly went dizzy and blind in one eye, i was cantering slowly but fell off , i felt really confused and to make matters worse it started raining hard, i found myself lying in the rain, crying and really scared,i couldn't seem to co ordinate myself , it was awful. Shadow was next to me and i made myself get back on him but suddenly being half blind was terrible and by now thunder and lightening had joined the rain . Shadow was amazing , he just started walking slowly back the way we had come with me a useless lump on his back, it took 2 hours and he never spooked, even with lightening crashing down near us , he got me home.
i spent 2 weeks in hospital, 4 months before i was allowed to ride again and i stayed half blind in one eye and a bit more ditzy than i was before, my lovely boy continues to look after me, i think he's pretty special, perhaps you have one like him? i would love to know
for me, my lovely horse got me home in the middle of an unbelievable storm when i was half blind, confused and un co-ordinated after having had a stroke in the middle of no where. if you have a minute i'd love to tell you about him.
i learnt to ride late in life and was still very much a novice when i bought my first horse, everybody told me not to buy him..' you can't learn to ride on an Arab' was the general opinion of all except his owner who told me i would never find another horse like him and that he would look after me in all ways. i had my suspicions that he would be like 'that new anti- wrinkle' cream that you had such hopes for , great packaging, marketing but in the end total cr*p . his name is Shadow and yes he is grey and yes he was owned by a teenager( god love them for their naming of horses!) he was amazing from day one, gentle , calm, he viewed life like a hippy with a joint, all the world loved him and he gave it back, quads, bikes, lorries ,dogs, hunters, all could pass him by and he just floated along , heaven to ride but you had to RIDE him, not drift off, he would not just follow the horse in front.
i had had a headache for weeks after a friends horse knocked me down and i fell badly , i didn't know till later that it had made a tear in my caratoid artery and it had been bleeding into my brain slowly, typical that the one day i went further than normal was the day it finally 'got' me.
i suddenly went dizzy and blind in one eye, i was cantering slowly but fell off , i felt really confused and to make matters worse it started raining hard, i found myself lying in the rain, crying and really scared,i couldn't seem to co ordinate myself , it was awful. Shadow was next to me and i made myself get back on him but suddenly being half blind was terrible and by now thunder and lightening had joined the rain . Shadow was amazing , he just started walking slowly back the way we had come with me a useless lump on his back, it took 2 hours and he never spooked, even with lightening crashing down near us , he got me home.
i spent 2 weeks in hospital, 4 months before i was allowed to ride again and i stayed half blind in one eye and a bit more ditzy than i was before, my lovely boy continues to look after me, i think he's pretty special, perhaps you have one like him? i would love to know
