just heard some very sad news :o(

Oh I've just found the posts on Telford Horse Sales apparently it was a 12hh grey pony they recovered but no-one has posted any info about the rider
 
Oh this is just terrible. So heartbreaking. I'm not religious but am praying for the rider being found alive.

RIP horse, run free to rainbow bridge xxx
 
sophiebailey said:
Oh I've just found the posts on Telford Horse Sales apparently it was a 12hh grey pony they recovered but no-one has posted any info about the rider
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Was it definately tacked up? It sounds like a child's pony. If a child was missing surely it would be on the news by now?

Nothing comes up on any news items re google. Let's hope that that means the poor rider is safe. If there was still a search going on you'd think the news would be on the internet by now wouldn't you?
 
sophiebailey said:
Oh I've just found the posts on Telford Horse Sales apparently it was a 12hh grey pony they recovered but no-one has posted any info about the rider
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OH my! It will be a child then. Surely the parents would have reported them missing and it would be all over the national news, so I expect they are probably safe. Fingers crossed.

Poor little pony. What a horrible way to go.
 
So 12hh either means small petite adult or small child/teen. I'm hoping the rider is older than younger..my worry now is, were it a child, the news would be far & wide if a child had not got home..so could pony have bolted before being mounted?I hope to God it was just the one poor pony and this doesn't unravel into something far far worse if the pony was ridden in company. Mother nature can be so so cruel.Lets have some positive news soon please x
 
I'm getting conflicting information now :( people on facebook saying it was a grey pony in riding tack and the police have told my friend it was a brown/bay pony in a harness and trap and so the search for a rider is called off !

Hoping its the latter to be honest :(
 
It makes me shudder but does anyone remember about 6 months ago, people pushing a pony in harness into a lake to drown it, all strapped up to the cart? I think they found it to be local travellers, it happened twice in the same place within a few weeks of each other.

I obviously hope its not the same sort of thing, just sounded a little too much like that incident though
 
Oh I hope that's not the case! Somebody else has commented on facebook that pony was in full tack for pulling a cart but no sign of a cart and no-one has reported a pony missing.

Not sure why they'd stop searching for a driver if they hadnt found the cart/owner? :(
 
Its on Telford Horse Sales on Facebook. Apparently the pony was 12.2 and in full driving tack, no sign of owner yet :-(
 
Looking at the Telford sales comment, one of the posters OH was called out to the job. She later stated the pony was in driving tack..but no trap or signs of rider. I would presume pony became detatched from trap and rider either bailed out/went in/or was never intending on staying with pony if it was similar to the others mentioned 6 months previously..none of it is easy to think about...I just hope it is all resolved and either a happy ending or an arrest..I'd prefer a happier ending. :(
 
No sorry still just speculation. I'm not going to post anymore until somethings published in the news as I don't want to be seen to be gossip mongering.

If any 'official' statement is issued i'll be sure to post it here. I haven't been able to concentrate at work all morning I just feel so terrible for the poor pony and whoever it's owners may be... for some reason it always makes you feel more upset when it's close to home :(

xx
 
i havnt stopped thinking about this since i read it at 8am,i hope its not the same as mentioned what happen 6 mths ago iit just makes it even worse to think about :(
 
Our stables were flooded out too, river overflowed and covered our whole bottom fields, we had a lame horse that the vet was attending to when field started to flood ( quickly ) vet and owner had to turn horse out.
the rest of field is uphill onto flat open fields 35+ acres so horses can well get out of way, only poor vet and owner had to wade through the water to get their cars out of the way, just so scary and fast.
That poor pony R.I.P x
 
There was nothing in our local paper that I could see, although it does just cover north of the county, possibly something in the issue covering OPs area.
 
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