poiuytrewq
Well-Known Member
Sadly I don’t have many great photos!
After deciding to retire Ziggy and having made the decision that my TB was having a nice spoilt last summer if I couldn’t improve his soundness (I can’t) and 10 years + of awful luck with horses, I found myself at a bit of a x road. Did I call it a day, stop riding all together or try again one last time.
I wasn’t keen on spending big money, although Mr P had offered, they all go wrong on me anyway and I figured loosing £10,000 would be even more devastating!
So, I went down the freebie x racer/pointer route……. Well she cost me the promise of photographs emailed every so often to the guy who owned her the past 5 years!
And I absolutely adore every single little bit of her! My first mare.
Picked her up about 6 weeks ago now. She had run her last race badly, two weeks prior and been out in the field since.
So she was shod still and good to get on and ride.
Picked her up for a few weeks to try her out
Ideally I’d have given her a few months off but realistically I have zero grass and the flies and heat are horrid so we have just very quietly gone straight to her new normal.
She is just hacking away quietly. The first few weeks were slightly hair raising at times. She then had a few weeks off and has come back ten times more chilled.
She has just led an older more experienced horse round a busy village, past lorries including a huge one with no fuss at all. She has learnt she’s ok to leave her friend and hack home alone, scary the first few times now she gets a long rein and strides back home. (Listening to be blubbering on about how amazing and beautiful she is!)
She’s not perfect, nothing is and there are things we need to work on.
I honestly think as long as my curse doesn’t catch up with us this could potentially be my best horse.
After deciding to retire Ziggy and having made the decision that my TB was having a nice spoilt last summer if I couldn’t improve his soundness (I can’t) and 10 years + of awful luck with horses, I found myself at a bit of a x road. Did I call it a day, stop riding all together or try again one last time.
I wasn’t keen on spending big money, although Mr P had offered, they all go wrong on me anyway and I figured loosing £10,000 would be even more devastating!
So, I went down the freebie x racer/pointer route……. Well she cost me the promise of photographs emailed every so often to the guy who owned her the past 5 years!
And I absolutely adore every single little bit of her! My first mare.
Picked her up about 6 weeks ago now. She had run her last race badly, two weeks prior and been out in the field since.
So she was shod still and good to get on and ride.
Picked her up for a few weeks to try her out
Ideally I’d have given her a few months off but realistically I have zero grass and the flies and heat are horrid so we have just very quietly gone straight to her new normal.
She is just hacking away quietly. The first few weeks were slightly hair raising at times. She then had a few weeks off and has come back ten times more chilled.
She has just led an older more experienced horse round a busy village, past lorries including a huge one with no fuss at all. She has learnt she’s ok to leave her friend and hack home alone, scary the first few times now she gets a long rein and strides back home. (Listening to be blubbering on about how amazing and beautiful she is!)
She’s not perfect, nothing is and there are things we need to work on.
I honestly think as long as my curse doesn’t catch up with us this could potentially be my best horse.
. I hope you have many wonderful adventures with her.
