Shameless cribbing of Nickib's post!!

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Ok...now I'm intrigued, after seeing Nickib's STUNNING mare, and how fantastic she's looking at her age, I'd love to see what you all think of my wonderful boy. As with Nickib, don't look at my other posts! I'll give you the whole story in a bit.....

Rather bad one of him, but most recent one taken sideways, taken two days ago....

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and one 'cause he's BEAUTIFUL.

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Starzaan said:
Sorry! I've just seen that it's Nikicb, not Nickib....oops!
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Didn't notice it was wrong - all the letters are there, just in a different order!!

I'd say very early 20s, but really just because you are asking in context of my post. If I'd seen him out an about I would probably say younger. Hope that's about right, just trying to think back to when my mare was around that age. He's lovely btw!!
 
Cor blimes people, you're rather good at this!

He is my 24 year old horse of a lifetime, and has had two months off work due to a string of injuries, hence the lack of the lovely topline I spent 5 years perfecting. :(

He is an extremely poor doer, and I have spent the last 5 years working out a routine and feeding plan that works for him - which would probably kill most horses!

He got me back in the saddle when I had decided that I would never, ever sit on a horse again following an horrific accident in which my darling Cadbury flipped over a jump into water, broke his neck and landed on me. He was put down at the scene, and I was so delerious (sp?) from being trapped under water for nearly five minutes with all sorts of broken bits, that when I woke up in hospital, I had to be told that my beautiful boy was gone, and reminded of what had happened.

After that I was so frightened to get on a horse, that I would stand on the mounting block next to my mother's lovely coblet, sobbing and having horrendous nosebleeds from the stress! I didn't ride for a year, and resigned myself to the fact that I was never going to ride again and feel happy about it, until I sat on Roy.

I felt so safe on him, and got such butterflies when I galloped him for the first time that I came back shaking and laughing out loud. I have no idea why I felt so safe on him - he was a nappy little sod, and the complete opposite of my calm, lazy oaf Cadbury - but it was like we were meant to be together. He was painfully thin, being looked after by a complete arse who knew nothing about horses, and I was in love in seconds.

I've had a really tough 5 years, have moved around a lot, and cried a lot of tears, and my Roy boy has been there for me through all of it, always ready with a whinny and a cuddle when I need him most. I researched his history, and found out that my dream horse was in fact rather more of a dream that I first thought. He was originally a Grade A showjumper and puissance horse in Holland, completed the Hickstead Derby, and then came over to England and competed at PSG level dressage! So much for the skinny, dirty waif I rode on that first day, he's a true horse of a lifetime.

He does everything I ask of him - hunting, eventing, sj, polo (rather hard when you're 17.2hh and blind in one eye!), hacking about etc and is incredibly naughty when he knows he can be, which I find hilarious! He has taught me piaffe, passage, and canter pirouettes, restored my love of jumping and hunting, and he takes my breath away every day. He's the sort of horse that I can just jump on from the gate of the field, and take for a little hack in the sunshine bareback, in a headcollar, and trust entirely to look after me if I've forgotten that he's covered in showsheen!

At 24 he's still going strong, and we have discussed the fact that he's going to go doing what he loves most - hunting. I have other horses, but Roy is my best friend in the whole world, and I'm sure it was fate that we found each other. Galloping on him still makes me laugh out loud for the sheer joy of it, and every time I look at him I think how lucky I am to have the sort of horse that takes peoples breath away...
 
Wow what a stunning horse. You can tell he's special, he has that presence to him. I would have said he looked 12-14 only because of his White coat. He could of been any age though he looks so well. He reminds me of my mums late event horse. He was a once in a lifetime grey too, similar character from the sounds of it.
Lucky girl! He's fab!!
 
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