Hovis_and_SidsMum
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Can I have a prayer this afternoon for my boy?
Sid (my older lad) has been retired since he broke his leg in the field 6 years ago.
The place he is retired at rang yesterday and said he was struggling very badly on one of his back legs. In the vets view there was an old injury there and time and probably not taking his weight completely evenly has taken it's toll.
He's being pts this afternoon.
I'm going to say goodbye this morning.
He was the biggest mistake we ever made. He was a skinny wreck of a horse with no fur on his face and a failed vetting. The dealer actually came and took him away but I turned the lorry round on the A1 and made them bring him back.
He'd been passed from one dealer to another, was covered in injuries and we should have run a mile. But we didn't. We got him to full weight and health, a 17.2hh hanovarian black as midnight and uttery stunning looking. And god was he talented.
You could lunge him on voice alone, no line nothing, he'd turn when you asked and lunge the other way. He loved his jumping although always was most affronted it was only low level stuff. We later found out he'd been a hell of a show jumper and his dad was a puissance jumper.
The kick in the field at broke his leg should have been the end but we battled on and got him ready to start work again then he went lame again. He had a rare joint problem in his hoof which had probably been there since birth and standing on box rest all that time had made it worse. Again we battled and eventually got him happily field sound.
To see him in the fields with his friends, with that great big expressive trot, that flwing cater you'd never have known bad he was.
So you had 6 years longer than everyone thought you should have big guy but now enough is enough.
I promised I'd look after you to the end and I have tried so hard to do that.
I love you and I always will. You taught me everything and Hovis is the horse he is because I swore he'd never go through what you had been through.
run free gorgeous. I'm coming to see you one last time and dad will be there wi you this afternoon, just like he always has been.
Sid (my older lad) has been retired since he broke his leg in the field 6 years ago.
The place he is retired at rang yesterday and said he was struggling very badly on one of his back legs. In the vets view there was an old injury there and time and probably not taking his weight completely evenly has taken it's toll.
He's being pts this afternoon.
I'm going to say goodbye this morning.
He was the biggest mistake we ever made. He was a skinny wreck of a horse with no fur on his face and a failed vetting. The dealer actually came and took him away but I turned the lorry round on the A1 and made them bring him back.
He'd been passed from one dealer to another, was covered in injuries and we should have run a mile. But we didn't. We got him to full weight and health, a 17.2hh hanovarian black as midnight and uttery stunning looking. And god was he talented.
You could lunge him on voice alone, no line nothing, he'd turn when you asked and lunge the other way. He loved his jumping although always was most affronted it was only low level stuff. We later found out he'd been a hell of a show jumper and his dad was a puissance jumper.
The kick in the field at broke his leg should have been the end but we battled on and got him ready to start work again then he went lame again. He had a rare joint problem in his hoof which had probably been there since birth and standing on box rest all that time had made it worse. Again we battled and eventually got him happily field sound.
To see him in the fields with his friends, with that great big expressive trot, that flwing cater you'd never have known bad he was.
So you had 6 years longer than everyone thought you should have big guy but now enough is enough.
I promised I'd look after you to the end and I have tried so hard to do that.
I love you and I always will. You taught me everything and Hovis is the horse he is because I swore he'd never go through what you had been through.
run free gorgeous. I'm coming to see you one last time and dad will be there wi you this afternoon, just like he always has been.
