abina
Well-Known Member
Having spent Wednesday clipping and trimming the horses due to go out hunting Saturday and with it being the Opening meet firmly in my mind ( this equates to Christmas ! ) spent all day yesterday , bathing, final trimming, major tack clean , brass buckles all polished, best saddle cloths installed under clean and fab saddles, Manes all plaited up in the most amazing row of plaits, tails dampened down and ready for plaiting early Sat am. Coats collected from Dry Cleaners, Boots polished, hip flasks filled every detail thought of. Early start Sat, check plaits, re shampoo white legs, wipe off poo stains and plait tails - load up car , organise riders and get to the meet in plenty of time ....... have to tie / re tie seven stocks of other hunters , unload my gleaming beasties mount up riders, get the baby wipes out to clean the last of the 'Travel' stains off and join the field ......ONLY to see at least 20% of the field not plaited ( surely they can't all be farmers ! ) several horses with unwashed tails, terrible plaits in some, very dirty un white , white bits, shoddy looking grubby tack, even one horse with burrs in his tail and mud still on his hocks ..... just left me disappointed and wonderng why the hell didi I bother !!