Firewell
Well-Known Member
NOT! lol
My 5yr old TB got quite a nasty cut on his back leg about a week and a half ago. While I was clinging on to sanity at the sight of blood pouring out of my precious ponys leg he was standing, tied up and calmly munching a haynet while the vet flushed out the wound, injected the leg and stiched it up... without any sedation.
Tonight I dragged him in from the field, tied him up.. the only horse on the yard. I went to get a haynet and when I came back the vet had already taken out the stiches. The vet made a point of saying its a rare thing to have a young horse that does not need any sedation to have a wound stiched.. I mean blimey I would need sedating!! You should see me having a blood test!
My last horse was a nightmare with the vet, she wouldn't even let the vet look at her without rearing and lashing out like an 8 legged spider having a fit. She was a nightmare with the farrier and needed a tube of sedaline just to get the farrier to touch her. I had nightmares trying to load her. It took me 2 hours once just to spray her leg with purple spray...
I think you only truely appreciate the easy ones when you have had a difficult one.
Yes he can have his 'moments' but its always in the form of him being sharp when he is spooked (he is a young tb after all!!). He always jumps the jump, always concentrates and always tries his best.
Here is a pic of him when he was 4 at his very first ever dressage show (he looks a lot more muscled up and better now
):-
as you can see he is a nut job
. I'm nervously chewing my glove but I needn't have worried as he hacked round quietly as a mouse. He then went in the indoor arena having never seen flowers or boards and got me a rosette.
I needn't have worried at our first jumping either when he had never seen a course or a filler. He jumped round clear and put a massive grin on my face. Every time out he has exceeded all my expectations and has given me ooodles of fun and confidence.
Not bad for a chestnut, throroughbred, youngster and an ex-racer!! The only thing he isn't is a mare lol.
Its not all going to be plain sailing, life doesn't work that way, we will have our ups and downs like everyone does but I just had to share how much I love my horse and how much I appreciate his honesty and willingness to please.
J you said to me you wouldn't let me down and you really don't do you, even when it hurts.
Thank you for giving me a million smiles xxxxxxx
My 5yr old TB got quite a nasty cut on his back leg about a week and a half ago. While I was clinging on to sanity at the sight of blood pouring out of my precious ponys leg he was standing, tied up and calmly munching a haynet while the vet flushed out the wound, injected the leg and stiched it up... without any sedation.
Tonight I dragged him in from the field, tied him up.. the only horse on the yard. I went to get a haynet and when I came back the vet had already taken out the stiches. The vet made a point of saying its a rare thing to have a young horse that does not need any sedation to have a wound stiched.. I mean blimey I would need sedating!! You should see me having a blood test!
My last horse was a nightmare with the vet, she wouldn't even let the vet look at her without rearing and lashing out like an 8 legged spider having a fit. She was a nightmare with the farrier and needed a tube of sedaline just to get the farrier to touch her. I had nightmares trying to load her. It took me 2 hours once just to spray her leg with purple spray...
I think you only truely appreciate the easy ones when you have had a difficult one.
Yes he can have his 'moments' but its always in the form of him being sharp when he is spooked (he is a young tb after all!!). He always jumps the jump, always concentrates and always tries his best.
Here is a pic of him when he was 4 at his very first ever dressage show (he looks a lot more muscled up and better now
):-
as you can see he is a nut job
. I'm nervously chewing my glove but I needn't have worried as he hacked round quietly as a mouse. He then went in the indoor arena having never seen flowers or boards and got me a rosette. I needn't have worried at our first jumping either when he had never seen a course or a filler. He jumped round clear and put a massive grin on my face. Every time out he has exceeded all my expectations and has given me ooodles of fun and confidence.
Not bad for a chestnut, throroughbred, youngster and an ex-racer!! The only thing he isn't is a mare lol.
Its not all going to be plain sailing, life doesn't work that way, we will have our ups and downs like everyone does but I just had to share how much I love my horse and how much I appreciate his honesty and willingness to please.
J you said to me you wouldn't let me down and you really don't do you, even when it hurts.
Thank you for giving me a million smiles
xxxxxxx
I had a similar feeling about Len today 
