Boodle
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Well, bit of back ground. Back in 2004 to 2006 we looked after two yearling TB's. We cleaned them out, turned them out, brought them in, fed them etc everyday.
Their owner, in return paid livery fees for two of our horses. It was a great set up.
Eventually the two boys went off to be trained to race, that was late 06 and since then we haven't heard much of them.
Our YO (she has two horses, Blue an ancient chestnut arab who we have and do look after for the past 12 years and who she hasn't looked at since he couldn't be ridden anymore and a little 12.2hh mare for her daughter who she has had for the summer and it already has laminitis (i've known the pony for 5 years and it never had lami before her and her incompetent horsemanship kicked in.)). Anyway... she let us know that one if the TB's would be coming to her as her horse to ride. It is 4 yr old and raced twice - she hasn't ridden in years and even then it was light hacking on a bombproof plod.
We were kind of happy, but also worried for the horse, we would be told to look after it no doubt, and it would be too much for her too ride. She has asked myself and my sister to ride it which is nice.... or so we thought.
I was up riding Sooty today when a boy who works at the yard came up and was chatting away to me about how she is getting this horse. He said that she had said she had looked after it for 2 years whilst it was at her place (BOLLOCKS) and she had handled them daily (she never went near them!). I mentioned how we were a bit sad as the owner (who we were very close with) hadn't thought to ask us if we wanted it. I was then informed that the owner had intended on phoning us and offering us the gelding as we had worked with it when it was a baby... but my YO had stepped in and said she wanted it and that he shouldn't offer it to us as she needed a horse to ride and that we wouldn't want/need another.
She knows fine well that I have been looking for horses to ride/school and she knows very well we had to sell Rocco back in March because at that point I wasn't working and since then I have been looking out for anything to ride/school/jump.
I am devastated that she'd undermind us like this. Over the years we have cared for her 2 horses, stood by one of them when it was put to sleep after she had made this 24yr old mare suffer for 12 hours with colic as she didn't want to lose her hacking horse. We've paid her good money for livery for years when all we get is poor grazing. We feed her cats, walk her dog and feed it, all out of our own pockets. We let her child ride Trixie until they took advantage of this and I caught the daughter cantering Trixie round and round in circles for atleast 10 minutes. I was mad.
We have given this woman everything we have and kept horses with her for 10 years and this is how she repays us, going behind our backs and taking something which she knows we would have loved forever.
After finding this out, I walked Sooty back up the field, when I got a rushed phonecall from my Mum saying my little sister had been taken into hospital.
She occasionally rides her friends horse, though isn't really that interested. The horse had spooked and she gone over it's head. She was wearing a hat and was in the sand school but she had still dented her hat and she could not remember anything or what happened.
I don't kno how she is now, im waiting for my Dad to let me know. I'm very worried about her and i'm sure this will have put her off riding altogether.
So please, vibes for my little sis, and hope that it's nothing serious.
I'm meant to be going to a 60th bday party at 5... ha. 8 if they're lucky.
A deflated, angry, sad and worried, Kirsty.
x
Their owner, in return paid livery fees for two of our horses. It was a great set up.
Eventually the two boys went off to be trained to race, that was late 06 and since then we haven't heard much of them.
Our YO (she has two horses, Blue an ancient chestnut arab who we have and do look after for the past 12 years and who she hasn't looked at since he couldn't be ridden anymore and a little 12.2hh mare for her daughter who she has had for the summer and it already has laminitis (i've known the pony for 5 years and it never had lami before her and her incompetent horsemanship kicked in.)). Anyway... she let us know that one if the TB's would be coming to her as her horse to ride. It is 4 yr old and raced twice - she hasn't ridden in years and even then it was light hacking on a bombproof plod.
We were kind of happy, but also worried for the horse, we would be told to look after it no doubt, and it would be too much for her too ride. She has asked myself and my sister to ride it which is nice.... or so we thought.
I was up riding Sooty today when a boy who works at the yard came up and was chatting away to me about how she is getting this horse. He said that she had said she had looked after it for 2 years whilst it was at her place (BOLLOCKS) and she had handled them daily (she never went near them!). I mentioned how we were a bit sad as the owner (who we were very close with) hadn't thought to ask us if we wanted it. I was then informed that the owner had intended on phoning us and offering us the gelding as we had worked with it when it was a baby... but my YO had stepped in and said she wanted it and that he shouldn't offer it to us as she needed a horse to ride and that we wouldn't want/need another.
She knows fine well that I have been looking for horses to ride/school and she knows very well we had to sell Rocco back in March because at that point I wasn't working and since then I have been looking out for anything to ride/school/jump.
I am devastated that she'd undermind us like this. Over the years we have cared for her 2 horses, stood by one of them when it was put to sleep after she had made this 24yr old mare suffer for 12 hours with colic as she didn't want to lose her hacking horse. We've paid her good money for livery for years when all we get is poor grazing. We feed her cats, walk her dog and feed it, all out of our own pockets. We let her child ride Trixie until they took advantage of this and I caught the daughter cantering Trixie round and round in circles for atleast 10 minutes. I was mad.
We have given this woman everything we have and kept horses with her for 10 years and this is how she repays us, going behind our backs and taking something which she knows we would have loved forever.
After finding this out, I walked Sooty back up the field, when I got a rushed phonecall from my Mum saying my little sister had been taken into hospital.
She occasionally rides her friends horse, though isn't really that interested. The horse had spooked and she gone over it's head. She was wearing a hat and was in the sand school but she had still dented her hat and she could not remember anything or what happened.
I don't kno how she is now, im waiting for my Dad to let me know. I'm very worried about her and i'm sure this will have put her off riding altogether.
So please, vibes for my little sis, and hope that it's nothing serious.
I'm meant to be going to a 60th bday party at 5... ha. 8 if they're lucky.
A deflated, angry, sad and worried, Kirsty.
x
