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To mention something you are grateful for regarding horses.
No bitching about each other, just something you are glad to have or be able to do.

Im glad that I have my horses near to my home so I can ride whenever I want to, or just spend time with them in their stables, listening to them eat and building a bond.


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I'm glad I let myself fall in love with another horse after losing my milieu. Didn't mean to but it healed my heart like nothing else could have :)

Nice thread OP x
 
:) I'm really happy that I took my courage in hand 20 months ago and started taking riding lessons. I'm truly thankful to the wonderful, and the not so wonderful horses, that I have had the opportunity to ride. I am really heartily grateful to my favourite RS horse, who I love very much, for turning me into a competent and confident rider. :) and I'm very sorry for the excessive bumping on their backs while I was getting the hand of trotting and canter. :D
 
After rising at 5am, a 120 mile round trip to work and a hectic day I am grateful for the time I manage to steal to lean on my pony's stable door and watch him rugged up on a bed of deep shavings munching his hay

It makes it all worth it
 
I'm incredibly grateful to have mine, she's so brilliant. And even more grateful she looks & acts half her age.
Also grateful that daughters pony is such a perfect match for her. She was purely an impulse sympathy buy with zero intention of having her for my daughter. However, I would struggle to find one that is so suited to my child. Pony is tiny, opinionated, whizzy & very determined, & truthfully not what most people would want for a 7yr old. But for us, she's just right.
 
I'm thankful to YO most of all. Had she not gone to the sales that day, with a trailer and broken her usual "Think with head, not heart" rule, I wouldn't know Neddy, on the brink of becoming a horse-mum and he would be dead.
Without her forcing me on him and telling me to "Just bl88dy well get on with it!!" I wouldn't have fallen in love with him and he probably would have been sold on, which is what he was bought for. Essentially, she kept him for me :)
She's such a wonderful woman and I'm going to miss her so much.
 
I freely admit that I owe the best of my fun to horses........To quote Wyatt Melville.
Some of our best days have been due to the exploits of our horses / ponies over the years. Even if it was coming 2nd in an egg and spoon race!
Our best moment was our family trained pointer, emerging from a heavy sea fog at Stafford Cross (where he had galloped 3 miles and we had not seen a thing) to head off a professionally trained horse to win on the line, ridden by our son! All we saw was our colours bursting out of the mire - we will never have another day like it, or feel so proud! In his next race he battled on to be third in a hugely competitive race, and broke down (joy one momnet, disaster the next......). He came sound, and now has a lovely life as top dog in the yard, and still gives us some lovely days in the hunting field.
I have had young feral ponies straight off the moors, that the first time they come up to you to eat out of your hand is a triumph.
I could start a new thread on the tribulations too - and the mix is usually more down then up - but being able to clip a horse, that previously needed doping up to the eyeballs, or picking the feet out of a youngster, or loading something that was previously bad, or just getting a horse to stand still at the mounting block.....all mini occassions in their own right.
At the moment, I just love it when we have done evening stables, we give them their feeds, and heads down, all is happy in their world, and we can swithch the lights off and go to bed - only to start it all again in the morning!
 
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