Late great old boy finally gets his picture published in H&H mag

[Tiddlypom]

We got ourselves onto the H&H affiliated dressage results listings a few times in the 80s, competing up to medium level, but never got our pic published.

My late great old boy, (he’s been gone 30 years), has finally got his pic into Horse and Hound . He’s the horse in the bottom left of the page prancing about in the snow whilst wearing an old fashioned canvas New Zealand rug.

The picture editor spotted this photo after I posted it on the forum a while ago, and asked if she could use it to illustrate the feature on rugs.

I was happy to oblige, I am properly chuffed.

 

[dogatemysalad]

What a superb photo. I'd be well chuffed too.

 

[EngageDressage]

Oh wow that’s a lovely pic!!! Congratulations what a wonderful thing to add to his memory

 

[Baywonder]

Aaaawww that's a lovely photo.

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

I read that article and thought what a spunky wee fella that horse looked all proud in his NZ rug ?

 

[MidChristmasCrisis]

Lovely horse and picture!

 

[Tarragon]

I would be chuffed too! One to keep.

 

[babymare]

Definitely one to keep ?

 

[Archangel]

That's lovely.

 

[SussexbytheXmasTree]

How lovely ?

 

[Tiddlypom]

I must have just turned him out when I took that pic, as the rug is still sitting properly on him and not hanging off to the side like those old NZ rugs always used to do .

 

[Xmasha]

thats a lovely memento. id be chuffed to bits too. He was gorgeous

 

[shamrock2021]

He was a lovely looking horse ?

 

[Cutgrass]

What a beautiful lad, how lovely to have him pictured there.

 

[Pippity]

What a lovely picture of a lovely horse, and how fantastic for him to have made it to H&H.

I still remember being a 13yo working for rides at my local livery yard. My favourite horse to deal with most of the year was a lovely big lad called Yapyun. Come winter, when I had to manoeuvre a heavy, wet NZ rug on and off him, he rapidly became my least favourite!

(And, wow, look at that forge in the top picture. Bit different to the Renault Trafic my farrier turns up in!)

 

[Equi]

What a fab photo!

 

[J&S]

He deserves his place in H & H history!

 

[PapaverFollis]

That's lovely! What a smart boy.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

What a lovely memory of him ?

 

[Rowreach]

A lovely memory and what a gorgeous horse

 

[thefarsideofthefield]

Fab photo - he looks stunning ( he knew his time would come one day !) . And isn't it odd how photos always look even better 'in print ' .
One of my horses and I once featured in a massive full page photo in Horse and Hound in 2000/2001 . The photographer from H+H came all the way to our yard in the NW especially to take it . The title of the article was ' Does Size Matter ? '

 

[Tiddlypom]

Thanks all for your lovely comments . He really was a grand lad.

This is one of my favourite pics of him, it’s rather blurry but it shows us setting on the first fun ride of the autumn season, he is marching on with a glint in his eye. He’d just done three months of consecutive affiliated dressage competitions every weekend, upgrading himself in the process, and this was his ‘let your hair down‘ fun time.

We always had lots of forwardness in his tests, it was harnessing the forwards into useful impulsion that was the challenge .

 

[thefarsideofthefield]

Oh now you're just fishing ! Admit it - you're hoping that H&H will pick your photo up for their ' The Horsebox Revolution ( Remember When We All Used To Drive Wooden Wagons That Looked Like Breeze Blocks ) ' article .

 

[Tiddlypom]

Bedford TKs unite .

 

[PeterNatt]

What a lovely photo!

 

[Spotherisk]

I actually saw that pic in H&H and thought he looked like a lot of fun!

 

[kathantoinette]

How lovely ?

 

[Orangehorse]

Is that a Kiwi rug?

 

[cindars]

When I read your post I immediately turned to the page in H&H he looks a lovely chap.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

What a lovely thing to happen, all these years on.